Page Layout ⇒ Problems with blank pages and Chapter spacing

[daniel.lassen]

Hi guys. Hope you can help me out with this one. I'm completely new to LaTeX, so don't assume that I am smart enough to have done anything correctly.

I'm writing a report for school in the memoir documentclass, and right now I'm stuck with to problems.

1. After my TOC there is a blank page. I want to remove it, but can't figure out how. I have figured out that it has to do with my document wants to start the 1st chapter on an odd page, but i already have the [openany] option on my documentclass, and it works fine for all other chapters but the first.

Here is the code:

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\input{formalia/forord}
\clearpage

\setlength\parskip{0ex}									\tableofcontents								\setlength{\parskip}{3mm}							
\mainmatter									

\input{kontekst/indledning.tex}	

2. My other problem is about the spacing above the chapters. Above every chapter the is a blank space about 2,5 inches tall. On all other pages this space is only about 1 inch.

I want to make it 1 inch on the first page of a chapter as well.

Any help would be great.

[daleif]

(1) please post full minimal examples, not sniplets which are not compilable.

(2) which version of memoir, with openany I cannot reproduce your problem with the blank page

(BTW: removing the paragraph indentation is not recommended)

(3) as for the other problem: read the memoir manual, especially how chapterstyles are handled, it will tell you about the length that controls the spacing above the chapter heading.

BTW2: judging by your example I can recommend the mailing list of the Danish TeX User group, tug.dk

[daniel.lassen]

Here is a part of our preamble, plus some text, to show the problem.

You should be able to copy-paste all of this into a tex file.

If you remove the \cleardoublepage command after the first chapter, you will see that the problem only occurs when I want the first chapter after the TOC to start on an even page.

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\documentclass[a4paper,11pt,fleqn,twoside,openany]{memoir} 
\usepackage{colortbl} 									

\usepackage[colorlinks]{hyperref}			
\hypersetup{pdfborder = 0}						
\hypersetup{													
    colorlinks = false,
    linkcolor = black,
    anchorcolor = black,
    citecolor = black
}

\definecolor{gray}{gray}{0.80}		

\definecolor{numbercolor}{rgb}{0.8,0,0}		
\newif\ifchapternonum

\makechapterstyle{jenor}{									
  \setlength{\beforechapskip}{-2pt}
  \setlength{\midchapskip}{-20pt}					
  \setlength{\afterchapskip}{11pt}	
  \renewcommand\printchaptername{}
  \renewcommand\printchapternum{}
  \renewcommand\printchapternonum{\chapternonumtrue}
  \renewcommand\chaptitlefont{\fontfamily{pbk}\fontseries{db}\fontshape{n}\fontsize{25}{35}\selectfont\raggedleft}
  \renewcommand\chapnumfont{\fontfamily{pbk}\fontseries{m}\fontshape{n}\fontsize{1in}{0in}\selectfont\color{numbercolor}}
  \renewcommand\printchaptertitle[1]{%
    \noindent
    \ifchapternonum
    \begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{X}
    {\let\\\newline\chaptitlefont ##1\par} 
    \end{tabularx}
    \par\vskip-2.5mm\hrule
    \else
    \begin{tabularx}{\textwidth}{Xl}
    {\parbox[b]{\linewidth}{\chaptitlefont ##1}} & \raisebox{-15pt}{\chapnumfont \thechapter}
    \end{tabularx}
    \par\vskip2mm\hrule
    \fi
  }
}		

\chapterstyle{jenor}											
\pagestyle{plain}

\begin{document}

\frontmatter										

\chapter{Forord}
balblalbalbl
\cleardoublepage

\phantomsection																							
\pdfbookmark[0]{Indholdsfortegnelse}{indhold}								
\setlength\parskip{0ex}																			
\tableofcontents*																						
\setlength{\parskip}{3mm}							
\mainmatter															
\chapter{Indledning}
blalalalal

\end{document}

Thank you very much. I'll check out the site

[daleif]

It is mainmatter, in twoside it will always start at the next odd page (via internal \cleardoublepage)

[daleif]

as a reader I like this, because \mainmatter marks that you are starting the important part of the document, and since you are runing in twoside mode, I as a reader would not like to have to look for the first chapter on the back of the ToC.

[exutable]

Has anybody figured out this problem yet??? The chapter spacing is borderline ridiculous with this style but the look is great.

[daleif]

Read the memoir manual, it is explained there, \beforechapskip

I like the extra space, it makes the chapter start more noticable. You are free to read the manual and change it if you do not like it.

[exutable]

Hey,

I read your little pdf manual but couldn't find a good example of using beforechapskip.

What is the syntax?

BTW, from Aalborg University

[daleif]

It is a length, thus change it with \setlength

[exutable]

Ah got it.

\setlength{\beforechapskip}{0.01pt}
\renewcommand\chapterheadstart{\vspace*{\beforechapskip}}


but, I can't get rid of as much spacing as I want.