Document Classes ⇒ Class for Book with multiple author?

[Matifou]

Hi

We are willing to publish a small book containing different articles from different authors. Thast is, each chapter should have title/author/abstract/.../bibliography

Would yo urecommend any laTeX class/package for this prupose?

Thanks!!

[meho_r]

I personally would use memoir document class and biblatex for bibliography (probably, but not as a must, with biber instead of bibtex as backend because biber supports UTF8). Both of these two are very versatile and allow a large number of customizations which makes them an ideal combination for any kind of work.

[Matifou]

Dear Meho

Thanks for your quick and complete answer!

I had a look at the description of package memoir, and indeed seems very exhaustive and flexible! I had not the time to go through the 500 pages docs, do you have by any chance any idea whether there is the possibility to have an author/abstract for each chapter? Which functions should be used?

Secondly, why do you recommend biblatex? Is it for the precise purpose to have the bibliography at the end of each chapter? Or some other reason?

Thanks!!

[meho_r]

I guess you can use the usual way: \title, \author, \maketitle, \begin{abstract}...\end{abstract} etc. or create your own environments/commands for this purpose if these aren't enough.

As for biblatex, it is much easier to use than BibTeX and much more customizable. Take a look at the files in the attachment which show a most basic use of biblatex together with memoir document class.

[Matifou]

Dear Meho

Thanks a lot for providing this example file, much appreciated!! It certainly helps me a lot! I don't understand all commands now but I will investigate it more thoroughly and eventually come back to you for some questions.

Thanks again

Mat