On Friday 24 July 2009 19:08:43 Rich Shepard wrote: > On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, Steve Litt wrote: > > Worse, this isn't the first time. Every time I lay down a new OS, my > > memoir derived book fails. > > Steve, > > Perhaps this is a clue to stick with a single distribution. :-) > > > I'm not saying Memoir doesn't have its place. The person who uses Memoir > > for every book and is intimately familiar with its idiocyncracies will > > have little trouble with it. But that's not me. > > I tried the Memoir class a couple of times but it did not work as > expected. So now I stick with the KOMA-Script book class and it's easy to > do the few tweaks I want. > > > One thing's for sure -- I'll never use Memoir for a new book again. > > I have been told by Those Who Know that it's common for a new version of > Microsoft Word to refuse to open a document created with an earlier > version. And people still pay money for this! Imagine what fun will occur > in another decade with legal documents in Word-3, -4, -5, or -6 format if > they cannot be opened in whatever version is sold by then. Whew! > > Now and then I find old documents prepared by OpenOffice.org-1.0.0 (or > earlier) and all of them open without any problems in the current -3.0.0. > > Try KOMA-Script. Works well and the documentation is thorough and well > written (in LaTeX, of course). > > Rich
If I'm not mistaken, the doc class for "Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist" was derived from Koma. I'll keep you informed :-) SteveT
