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Have you tried creating an MWE? Usually when this happens to me I eventually find a seemingly unrelated error, like an extra }, a character like & in the middle of a caption, or something like that. I'd start with looking at whatever is on line 4 and see if you can spot a little mistake like that.

Ahhh, thanks! Why couldn't I seem to find that myself...?

I'm using the Memoir class for my thesis.

I have one very figure-heavy chapter, and in a few places figures appear on a page by themselves. But when they do, they are floating in the middle of the page. How can I force them to appear at the top of the page when this happens? Various combinations of ...

Another day, another google search, and a few dozen runs of makebst and various bits of cobbling and I think I have something that works well enough for me to call it good.

I re-ran makebst and chose the option to italicize the "a" and "b". Then I used this hack on my new bst file:


Start with a ...

I'm having a problem with "forthcoming" references that I haven't been able to solve. I'm using Memoir + natbib, with an author-date citation style and a custom .bst file I made using "makebst" years ago. I use the natbib variations on the \cite{} command (like \citep{} and \citeyear{} etc.) to cite ...

I was thinking about this today and managed to make a couple of amateur hacks to my latex.xml file which successfully change the highlighting of commands like \citep to be the same as \cite, and also to have the chapter titles etc. in a different color from the other text.

I posted an explanation ...

I've been using latex2rtf for quick and dirty conversions. It works more or less okay for my purposes but I don't have any equations in my document. Tables are not converted and pictures are ignored, but this may be in part because I have a custom command for including tables. Also, the citations ...

Many weeks of googling and some random coincidences later:

For the appendices, I found the pdfpages package will work just fine. In the preamble, I have added this:

\usepackage{eso-pic} %One of the packages required by pdfpages
\usepackage{everyshi} %One of the packages required by pdfpages ...

Are you just using your bibliography database as a single text file? Perhaps you should try something like JabRef.

I think you want a "chapter precis" command:

\chapterprecis{Example of a chapter precis. Our hero is introduced; family tree; early days.}

Put it after your chapter title in the text, and the text will be displayed in both the table of contents and under the chapter heading.