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Is there a way to define a different footer for the page that starts a Chapter and the rest of the document in memoir and customise both easily - possibly something like \makechapfoot?

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  • Possible, I think, but do you have some code to provide or shall we make educated guesses? –  Dec 27 '15 at 21:35
  • I was able to make both the same using this:`\usepackage{xpatch}

    \xpatchcmd{\chapter}{% \thispagestyle{chapter}}{% \thispagestyle{standard}% }{% }{}` - there must be a better way to edit the style of Chapter footer?

     – spokus Dec 27 '15 at 21:39
  • As far as I know the \thispagestyle{...} statements are hardcoded. You can do the patch (there's nothing bad with that!) or change the definition of the chapter pagestyle depending on the first chapter page etc. Patching is easier, I think –  Dec 27 '15 at 22:02
  • Chapters use the chapter page style, which is just an alias for plain. Make a new page style, give it your own name and alias the chapter style to it. – daleif Dec 27 '15 at 23:01

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You can easily customize the page styles (header or footer) with a <page style> in memoir using

\makeevenhead{<page style>}{<left>}{<centre>}{<right>}
\makeoddhead {<page style>}{<left>}{<centre>}{<right>}
\makeevenfoot{<page style>}{<left>}{<centre>}{<right>}
\makeoddfoot {<page style>}{<left>}{<centre>}{<right>}

Note that the above requires <page style> to exist. The following exists by default (see section 7.2 Page styles in the memoir basic user manual):

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Your specific interest lies with the chapter page style - associated with \chapters - and the headings page style - the remainder of the document.

Therefore, to change the footer of the chapter page style is easy:

\copypagestyle{chapter}{plain}
\makeoddfoot{chapter}{Left}{Centre}{Right}

Copying the page style is only needed because chapter is actually an "alias" of the plain page style. Alternatively, you can modify the plain page style directly: \makeoddfoot{plain}{Left}{Centre}{Right}

For the remainder of the document body, you can modify the headings page style

\makeevenfoot{headings}{Left}{Centre}{Right}
\makeoddfoot{headings}{Left}{Centre}{Right}
Werner
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Just in case anyone finds her/himself having the same problem, there is no trivial way of doing this, but some methods have been posted here:

Why doesn't \pagestyle{empty} work on the first page of a chapter?

Also see the comments on the question.

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  • I don't understand why you mention "there is no trivial way of doing this" when using something as simple as \makeoddfoot{plain}{..}{..}{..} does what you want. – Werner Dec 28 '15 at 01:40