Page number on first page of chapters (memoir class)
José Carlos Santos
I am typesetting a book using the memoir class. I want that:
1) the first page of a chapter may be both on odd-numbered and
even-numbered pages;
2) on any page, the page number is located at the footer and,
furthermore, at the left on even-numbered pages and on the right
otherwise.
However, I am unable to have success concerning the second item on the
first pages of chapters. Consider the following file:
\documentclass[openany]{memoir}
\chapterstyle{section}
\makeevenfoot{chapter}{\thepage}{}{}
\makeoddfoot{chapter}{}{}{\thepage}
\pagestyle{empty}
\begin{document}
\mainmatter
\chapter{Begin}\thispagestyle{empty}
One\newpage Two
\end{document}
On page one, the page number is centered. The memoir package
documentation says that "\chapter calls \thispagestyle{chapter}" and
that's why, in order to solve my problem, I added the lines
\makeevenfoot{chapter}{\thepage}{}{}
\makeoddfoot{chapter}{}{}{\thepage}
but I still get the page number centered at the first line. What
should I do?
Best regards,
Jose Carlos Santos
Lars Madsen
hmm, your example show no headers or footers at all.
the chapter pagestyle is not a pagestyle on its own, it is an alias for plain,
and as such changing it does not always work
this normally works
\copypagestyle{chapter}{plain}
\makeevenfoot{chapter}{\thepage}{}{}
\makeoddfoot{chapter}{}{}{\thepage}
the copy line makes chapter into a 'real' pagestyle that can then be changed
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José Carlos Santos
> hmm, your example show no headers or footers at all.
Sorry. I forgot to add the lines
\makeevenfoot{empty}{\thepage}{}{}
\makeoddfoot{empty}{}{}{\thepage}
to the preamble of the document.
> the chapter pagestyle is not a pagestyle on its own, it is an alias for
> plain, and as such changing it does not always work
>
> this normally works
>
> \copypagestyle{chapter}{plain}
> \makeevenfoot{chapter}{\thepage}{}{}
> \makeoddfoot{chapter}{}{}{\thepage}
>
> the copy line makes chapter into a 'real' pagestyle that can then be
> changed
Great! It worked.