Lars Madsen submitted an update to the

memoir

package.

Version: 3.8.2 2024-01-26
License: lppl1.3c

Summary description: Typeset fiction, non-fiction and mathematical books

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From the README

Changes (2024/01/26)

o memoir v3.8.2

-- In v3.8 I forgot to add some internal testing code related to
\@startsection. The code experiment has now been added, but is not
enabled by default.

-- Axel Sommerfeldt suggested a useful macro abstraction for
sidecaption and sidecontcaption that simplifies his adjustments
whenever the caption package is loaded.

-- Fixed a small (but important) typo in my maintainers note (Peter started
memoir in 2001, not 2021)

-- The Nov-2023 kernel update gave issued with our version of \verb.
Now fixed by un-embedding the verbatim package. Issue first
reported by Andrew Swann.

-- Fixed a typo in \m@make@footnotetext where ##1 got interpreted as a
macro name, not contents. Reported by Richard Zach.

-- Replaced the embedded copy of the shortvrb package by loading the
package instead.

-- Replaced the embedded and modified copy of the verbatim package by
just loading the package.

Have chosen to *not* patch in the modification back in. Primarily
because they are (1) disabled by default, (2) unknown how many
users actually use them, (3) the implementation had errors.

\setverbatimfont and the system to make comment-like envs of course
stayed.

The features removed are

- marking tabs using several spaces
- wrapping webatim text at white space

Macros disabled

- \tabson (\tabsoff redef to do nothing)
- \wrappingon (\wrappingoff redef to do nothing)

No longer used

- \verbatimbreakchar
- \verbatimindent

Removing the embedded verbatim copy also fixes the issue with
\verb+a b+ behaving like \verb*+a b+.

Many of the other verbatim-like creations have had tabs support
removed

-- In verbatim 1.5x the macro \verbatiminput* has been altered
slightly such that it also marks tabs as spaces (just like \verb*
now also does via a kernel update). If 1.5x has not been released
yet, we automatically apply that patch.

-- Updated \readverbatim* with the same patch as \verbatiminput* so it
also marks tabs as spaces.



o memhfixc v1.22

-- The change Axel S. suggested in memoir removes the need for
memhfixc to redefine \endsidecaption and \endsidecaption, thus
those redefinitions have been removed.

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Lars Madsen submitted an update to the

memoir

package.

Version: 3.8.3 2025-03-06
License: lppl1.3c

Summary description: Typeset fiction, non-fiction and mathematical books

Announcement text: ----------------------------------------------------------------------

From the README:

Changes (2025/03/06)

o memoir v3.8.3

-- A few places we loaded package using \usepackage, now changed to
\RequirePackage. Plus under very large font sizes, don't auto load
`fontenc` under Xe- and LuaLaTeX.

-- Has started marking some macros and envs as deprecated, to be
removed at a later date (2026). Each will give a warning at their
first use. The macros/envs include:

-- \addtodef(*), \addtoiargdef(*) and \patchcommand They have better
alternatives in the etoolbox and xpatch packages (which we already
load). Additionally these macros does not preserve robustness, the
macros from xpatch does.

-- \newloglike, \provideloglike
Users should use \DeclareMathOperator from amsopn (amsmath)

-- The redefinitions of \title, \author, \date, \thanks now done via
\xpretocmd and \xapptocmd instead of \addtoiargdef which did not
preserve robustness.

-- The provided code for \counterwithin/out and \@removefromreset has
fininally been removed. All three macros have been in the
LaTeX-kernel since 2018.

-- Internal code cleanup regarding macros that are not used

-- Reimplemented how verse numbers are added thus fixing
<https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/609802/3929>

This is a slight change in behavior, as now line numbers are always
added at the start of the line and not the end. Old implementation
added the numbers at the end, and thus they are aligned with the
last line of a line broken line.

-- Changed the implementation for \cftinserthook. It can have some
ordering issuses when \include is used, \cftinserthook* should now
help.

Note that it may force a \clearpage so should only be used between
\include's

-- Changed \settocdepth in a similar fashion to \cftinserthook.

-- Memoir will now warn if the fancyhdr package is loaded. Users
should use the build in interface instead.
Additionally warn against titlesec and titlepos

-- Chose different defaults for \partmark and \bookpagemark.

Problem reported in <https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/737771/3929>

-- Breaking change: Changed the code for the "article" chapter
style. \chapterheadstart was changed to use \addvspace (like
\section) instead of \vspace. This will lead to a (small) difference in
vertical spacing when the "article" chapter style is used, fx under
the "article" class option.

Problem reported in <https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/732129/3929>

-- changed \cftchapterbreak so it now also contains the vertical skip
(similar to what \part and book does). Unsure why it did not
already

Note that this may affect existing documents if users have
redefined \cftchapterbreak in order to change the penalty

-- refactored \cftbookbreak, \cftpartbreak and \cftchapterbreak such
that the penalty used is now configurable as \cftbeforebookpenalty,
\cftbeforepartpenalty and \cftbeforechapterpenalty.

They all have the same default value of -\@highpenalty

-- In \cftchapterbreak and in all toc entries generated by
\newlistentry the macro that executes \cftbeforeXskip has now been
factored out into a macro that can be set using

\setcftvspacecmd{\macro}

The default is still \vskip, but users might want to change it to
\addvspace for new documents.

Issue reported in private email.

One can argue that \addvspace would be the best choice going
forward, but this also means slightly shifting upwards the first
page of the toc for all memoir docs that uses \tableofcontents. For
now this has been deemed undesirable.

-- no longer load the mparhack package in twocolumn mode. There are
packages there are incomparible with it, thus better for the user
to explicitly load it themself if they need it.

Issue reported in private email.


o memhfixc v1.23

-- renamed Hpagenote counter to mem@Hpagenote to avoid hyperef warning.

-- added \bookautorefname support for french, requested in private email.

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Lars Madsen submitted an update to the

memoir

package.

Version: 3.8.3b 2025-03-10
License: lppl1.3c

Summary description: Typeset fiction, non-fiction and mathematical books

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-- there was a bug in how \mem@cft@vspace@cmd was used inside
\newlistentry, so it would fail if we used
\setcftvspacecmd{\addvspace} in a document that had, say,
\tableofcontents and \section. This should now be fixed.

Reported in private email.

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The package’s files themselves can be inspected at
https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/memoir/

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