[Tex/LaTex] Memoir class and textblock configuration for A4 paper

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I'm using the memoir class to write my master thesis that should be printed on A4 paper. Altough I'm quite happy with the configuration I did for many aspects of the document, I'm still confused with the settings concerning the page size and the textblock size.

Now I just kepts this:

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]

My main question is: what's the best way to configure the size of the textblock in memoir ?

Should I use the geometry package ? Is there a good resource where I can observe common settings ?

In addition I'm a bit confused what the effects of a4paper really is: the margins are so large that it didn't seem to really consider it is a A4 paper size.

At the same time I'm wondering if 11pt is a good choice for a long document (100 – 150 pages) that will be read mainly from paper (I guess the font size is less important when you read from the screen).

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Please read the memoir manual, it explaines all your questions. There is no need for the geometry package, memoir has its own macros for changing margins (the large default margins are LaTeX tradition)

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Add this after \checkandfixthelayout (might also be a good idea to add a \clearpage before changing the layout)

\setlength{\vsize}{\textheight}
\setlength{\columnwidth}{\textwidth}%
\setlength{\hsize}{\columnwidth}%
\setlength{\linewidth}{\hsize}

It is taken from geometry.sty

Edit:

\makeatletter
\ch@ngetext
\makeatother

should do the same. Not quite sure why this was not added to \checkandfix...

[Tex/LaTex] Memoir class and Bibtex

The memoir class enforces the use of proper font commands. The old two-letter commands such as \bf and \it, \sc, etc. are problematic and now very old. See

Will two-letter font style commands (\bf , \it , …) ever be resurrected in LaTeX?

Unfortunately, many older bibliography styles still use the old font commands, and since their code is not trivial to modify, you are kind of stuck with them. Luckily, memoir also provides an option to allow you to use the old font commands. So for your example you need to load the class with this option (described in Sec.1.4 "Other options" of the documentation for v3.7f):

\documentclass[oneside,oldfontcommands]{memoir}

Multiple options can be passed to a class or a package by putting them all inside one set of square brackets and separating them with commas.

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