Document Classes ⇒ Memoir - Chapters & Headers

[Julian_S_Moore]

I know this is a tedious question, but one can only read a manual so many times before admitting I just don't get this (It doesn't help that I'm now working to a deadline... I'm even dreaming LaTeX )

I want to put the title of a chapter on the 1st page of a chapter, and to repeat the chapter title in both (at least) one header.

Using \chapter{MyChapterTitle} what command do I use to get "MyChapterTitle" into the header. Does it matter whether I define the pagestyle before the \makechapterstyle?

Thanks...

[localghost]

A minimal working example (MWE) would have been nice that shows your recent efforts. For the present you can start with a small paper written by the maintainer of the memoir class [1]. This should answer the most questions.

[1] The PracTeX Journal - Lars Madsen: Page Styles on steroids (or, memoir makes page styling easy)


Best regards
Thorsten¹

[meho_r]

The first page of a chapter automatically use chapter pagestyle in memoir class. You can use \aliaspagestyle to assign a different custom header to the first page of a chapter too. Here's an example:

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\documentclass{memoir}

\usepackage[english]{babel}

\usepackage{blindtext}

\makepagestyle{myheadings}
\makeevenhead{myheadings}{\thepage}{\leftmark}{}
\makeoddhead{myheadings}{}{\rightmark}{\thepage}

\pagestyle{myheadings}

\makepagestyle{chapfirst}% Just for the first page of a chapter
\makeoddhead{chapfirst}{}{\leftmark}{\thepage}

\aliaspagestyle{chapter}{chapfirst}% customizing chapter pagestyle

\begin{document}

\blinddocument

\end{document}

EDIT: Thanks for the link, localghost.