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With books, you want lots of control over page size and headers and the styling of section breaks and so on. Often that leads you down the path of importing six
by capnrefsmmat 7y ago
With books, you want lots of control over page size and headers and the styling of section breaks and so on. Often that leads you down the path of importing sixteen different packages to try to get the control you want.
The memoir document class, on the other hand, combines everything you’d need for a book into one place with a consistent interface and excellent documentation. Want to do a book in LaTeX, I think it’s memoir that would make it easy.
- fiddlerwoaroof 7y agoYeah, I’ve done a bunch of program-style booklets in Latex (including some with side by side translations) and it’s really a nice environment for that sort of thing. It’s a bit tricky figuring out all the moving parts but, once you have, it’s straightforward to just drop the text in, edit it a bit, and print out something that looks professional.