Book (memoir)

What’s inside

• Starter files
• main.tex1.8 KB

  \documentclass[11pt,oneside]{memoir}
  
  \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
  \usepackage{microtype}
  
  \chapterstyle{ell}
  \setlength{\epigraphwidth}{0.6\textwidth}
  
  \title{An Example Book}
  \author{Your Name}
  \date{2026}
  
  \begin{document}
  
  \frontmatter
  
  % ---- Half title ----
  \begin{titlingpage}
    \begin{center}
      \vspace*{0.3\textheight}
      {\Huge\bfseries An Example Book}
    \end{center}
  \end{titlingpage}
  
  % ---- Title page ----
  \begin{titlingpage}
    \begin{center}
      \vspace*{0.25\textheight}
      {\Huge\bfseries An Example Book}\\[2\baselineskip]
      {\Large Your Name}\\[6\baselineskip]
      \vfill
      {\large Your Publisher \\ 2026}
    \end{center}
  \end{titlingpage}
  
  \tableofcontents*
  
  \mainmatter
  
  \chapter{The First Chapter}
  
  \epigraph{The beginning is the most important part of the work.}
    {Plato, \textit{The Republic}}
  
  A book set with the memoir class controls its own design: chapter
  styles, page layout, headers, and front matter are all configurable
  from the preamble without extra packages. This chapter opens with an
  epigraph, set with memoir's built-in \verb|\epigraph| command.
  
  Body text is ordinary \LaTeX. Memoir provides book structure out of the
  box: \verb|\frontmatter| for the unnumbered preliminary pages,
  \verb|\mainmatter| for the arabic-numbered chapters, and
  \verb|\backmatter| for appendices and indexes.
  
  \section{Design from the preamble}
  
  The chapter opening you see here is the \texttt{ell} chapter style; swap
  the \verb|\chapterstyle| line for \texttt{veelo}, \texttt{dash},
  \texttt{bianchi}, or any of memoir's other built-in styles to change
  the look of every chapter at once.
  
  \section{Starting your book}
  
  Replace the half title, title page, and this chapter with your own, or
  ask the agent in the chat alongside this document to draft chapters,
  adjust the design, or typeset your manuscript for you.
  
  \end{document}
  

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