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I'm designing a book collection using the memoir class. I want chapter titles to have a page for themselves (before the chapter proper). I'm using the following code for that:

\makechapterstyle{renaccs}{%
\chapterstyle{default}
\def\chapterheadstart{\hbox{}\vspace{6\onelineskip}}
\renewcommand*{\chaptitlefont}{\huge\scshape\bfseries\centering}
\renewcommand{\afterchaptertitle}{\vfill\cleartorecto}
}

The problem is that most other book divisions (TOCs, LOFs, etc.) also get this formatting---as expected. Is there a way for me to only get this results for chapter titles proper, and not for TOCs, LOFs, etc.? (I mean, I could change the formatting locally and manually at the outset of every chapter, but I will to have a class setting for this.) Cheers!

Mico
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NVaughan
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1 Answers1

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A simple example, based on my earlier comment:

\documentclass[12pt]{memoir}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\makechapterstyle{renaccs}{%
\chapterstyle{default}
\def\chapterheadstart{\hbox{}\vspace{6\onelineskip}}
\renewcommand*{\chaptitlefont}{\huge\scshape\bfseries\centering}
\renewcommand{\afterchaptertitle}{\vfill\cleartorecto}
%\renewcommand{\afterchaptertitle}{\vfill\clearpage}% <-- another possibility
}

\begin{document}

% Front matter
\frontmatter
\chapterstyle{plain}

\chapter*{Preface}
\lipsum[1]

% Main matter
\mainmatter
\chapterstyle{renaccs}

\chapter{The First Chapter}
\lipsum[1]

\chapter{The Second Chapter}
\lipsum[1]

% Back matter
\backmatter
\chapterstyle{thatcher}

\chapter{An Appendix}
\lipsum[1]

\end{document}

Try commenting out the \frontmatter, \mainmatter, and \backmatter to see the difference.

jon
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  • Thanks. This actually works. I thought I could manage that only with the (one) chapter style definition. – NVaughan Apr 26 '12 at 16:58