dimarcom wrote:As for the Koma/memoir packages: is there one better than the other ?
The best class is the one that suits your needs best. Memoir offers much greater flexibility than the KOMA classes and is more monolithic, whereas the KOMA classes follow the LaTeX approach with several distinct packages that can be quite freely combined. What is better depends on your needs. My reasoning is as follows: Typography is not a way to make documents look good (this is an arbitrary and unscientific condition), but to make them as readable for the audience as possible. To be able to do that, one needs a lot of knowledge and experience. As Till Tantau puts it, "The only mistakes in typography are things done in ignorance." So memoir lets me change everything, but unless I know exactly what I'm doing, I should refrain from changing things just because I think it looks nicer. So what I need is a document class that doesn't have to offer the amount of flexibility that memoir offers, but nevertheless should be configurable to some extent, and, more importantly, should provide reasonable default settings apt for European typography traditions. And I think that KOMA-Script is an acceptable choice for me. But those are my requirements, yours can be totally different.