Document Classes ⇒ Problem with the Memoir package

[Ant_222]

Hello all,

When using the memoir document class, I don't know where I should place the commands for setting up the layout (settypeblocksize, setlrmargins...).

If I call them from the preamble, LaTeX swears about a missing \begin{document}, and if I move them into the document environment, they start working fine but... with a side effect: some garbage is generated on the resulting document's first page.

Here's an example code:

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\documentclass[a4paper, 12pt]{memoir}
\usepackage[english]{babel} 
%yields missing \begin{document}:
\setstocksize{210mm}{148.5mmm} 
\begin{document}
  % yields garbage on first page
  %\setstocksize{210mm}{148.5mmm} 
\end{document}

Thanks in advance for help,
Anton

[Juanjo]

Look at this line:

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\setstocksize{210mm}{148.5mmm} 

You have written an extra "m" here: 148.5mmm. Just remove it.

[Ant_222]

Oh, LOL! Thanks...

But, unfortunately, the bug(?) seems more serious...

Here's the code where I'm setting all the layout options except trimmedsize, and which compiles without prolems:

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\documentclass[twoside, a5paper, 11pt, openany, russian]{memoir}
\usepackage[T2A]{fontenc}
\usepackage[cp1251]{inputenc}
\usepackage[russian]{babel}
\setlrmargins{20mm}{*}{*}
\setulmargins{20mm}{*}{*}
\setheadfoot{0pt}{8mm}
%\settrimmedsize{210mm}{148.5mm}
\settrims{0pt}{0pt}
\setstocksize{210mm}{148.5mm}
\settypeblocksize{153mm}{94mm}
\checkandfixthelayout
\begin{document}
Hello
\end{document}

But as soon as I uncomment this command, LaTeX reports this error:

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! LaTeX /b/c9/cError:/b/c0/c Missing \begin{document}.
See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
 ...                                              
                                                  
l.9 \settrims{0
               pt}{0pt}

which is very strange because the only change is that I uncommented that command! In the result LaTeX thinks a line break has been inserted in the middle of the following line. If I, for example, locate the settrimmedsize command just before I start the document, the error is this:

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l.13 \begin{d
             ocument}

— again, an unneeded line break...

Anton

[Juanjo]

The \settrimmedsize command has a third mandatory argument. You are missing it. This works:

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\settrimmedsize{210mm}{148.5mm}{*}

Check first the syntax of every command if you run again into problems.

[gmedina]

You are missing one mandatory argument in the \settrimmedsize command. (Page 53 in the memoir class documentation)

Edit: Juanjo has already given the same answer. I could not delete my message so I apologize.

[Ant_222]

Thanks again and sorry for bothering!

I'll have to get customed to it's not always reporting the real error...

Anton

[Ant_222]

I have one more question. As I understand, the paperwidth consists of spinemargin, textwidth and foremargin. So, I can thus distribute it among the three components:

148.5 = 100 + 15 + 33.5

So, why don't the following settings work?

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\setlrmargins{15mm}{*}{*}
\setulmargins{20mm}{*}{*}
\setheadfoot{0mm}{8mm}
\settrims{0pt}{0pt}
\setstocksize{210mm}{148.5mm}
\settrimmedsize{210mm}{148.5mm}{*}
\settypeblocksize{162mm}{100mm}{*}

Here's the error:

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! Class memoir /b/c9/cError:/b/c0/c \spinemargin and//or \textwidth and//or \foremargin are too
 large for \paperwidth by 7.10492pt.

Anton

EDIT: Hmmmm, although the manual says:

You can plan and specify your layout in any order that is convenient to you. Each
of the page layout commands are independent;

calling settypeblocksize before setlrmargins solves the problem...