Typesetting a book with mostly unnamed, but numbered, chapters. Someone helped me make the below, but the errors I added myself. This is based on Memoir's "brotherton" style:
\documentclass[oneside]{memoir}
\newcommand{\numtodanishword}[1]{\ifcase\value{chapter}?\or first\or second\else ?\fi}
\usepackage{xpatch}
\makechapterstyle{matheson}{%
\xpatchcmd{@makechapterhead}
{\printchaptername \chapternamenum \printchapternum}
{\printchapternum \chapternamenum \printchaptername}
{}
{}
\chapterstyle{default}
\renewcommand{\printchapternum}{\chapnumfont
\ifanappendix \thechapter \else \large\MakeUppercase{\numtodanishword{\value{chapter}}}\fi}
\renewcommand{\printchaptername}{\centering\chapnamefont\large\MakeUppercase{chapter}}
\renewcommand*{\printchaptertitle}[1]{%
\chapnamefont\centering\large\MakeUppercase{##1}}
\setlength{\beforechapskip}{\baselineskip}
\setlength{\afterchapskip}{-10pt} % I think I done goofed here
}
\chapterstyle{matheson}
\begin{document}
\chapter{}
A numbered chapter.
\chapter*{test}
A starred chapter.
\end{document}
As you can see, the vertical spacing after the "regular" chapter is okay:
... But look at the starred chapter:
I think the error lies in the \afterchapskip line, as I have noted in the code. To make matters worse, I have already typeset a lot of pages -- so I'm looking to get the same spacing that the current code gives -- but I want it for starred chapters as well!
How to fix?
