The memoir class - The UK TeX Archive

APackages and macrosThe memoir class does not provide for everything that you have seen in the manual. I haveused some packages that you are very likely to have in your LaTeX distribution, and havesupplemented these with some additional macros, some of which I will show you.A.1 PACKAGESThe packages that I have used that you are likely to have, and if you do not have themplease consider getting them, are:• etex lets you take advantage of eTeX’s extended support for counters and such.• url [Ars99] is for typesetting URL’s without worrying about special characters or linebreaking.• fixltx2e [MC00] eliminates some infelicities of the original LaTeX kernel. In particularit maintains the order of floats on a twocolumn page and ensures the correct markingon a twocolumn page.• alltt [Bra97] is a basic package which provides a verbatim-like environment but \, {,and } have their usual meanings (i.e., LaTeX commands are not disabled).• graphicx [CR99] is a required package for performing various kinds of graphicalfunctions.• color [Car05] is a required package for using color, or xcolor [Ker07] is an enhancedversion of color.• latexsym gives access to some extra symbols.• amsmath for when you are doing anything except the simplest kind of maths typeseting.• fontenc for using fonts with anything other than the original OT1 encoding (i.e., forpractically any font).• pifont for typesetting Pifonts (i.e., Symbol and Zapf Dingbats)Apart from the packages that are supplied as part of the memoir distribution, the packagesthat I used and you most likely do not have are:• layouts [Wil03a]. I used it for all the layout diagrams. For example, Figure 6.2 andFigure 6.3 were drawn simply by:\begin{figure}\centering\setlayoutscale{1}\drawparameterstrue\drawheading{}\caption{Displayed sectional headings} \label{fig:displaysechead}379Chapter last updated 2013/04/24 (revision 442)