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5 years ago निरंजन

I am using memoir class with twocolumn option. I want to print the bibliography on the same page. I tried this, but this doesn’t work as expected.

What is the proper way of doing it?

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5 years ago samcarter

The bibliography would normally be inserted as an unnumbered chapter, including the page break that comes with the chapter.

A simple workaround to avoid the page is break is to use another sectioning level, for example an unnumbered section:

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(depending how long the bibliography is, one might want to also set the header)

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निरंजन — Tuesday, 8th Sep 2020 15:42

Okay, let’s see if somebody can help

samcarter replying to निरंजन — Tuesday, 8th Sep 2020 15:40

No, everything is possible in tex. I just don’t know how to.

निरंजन — Tuesday, 8th Sep 2020 15:37

Do you mean it’s not possible in memoir?

samcarter replying to निरंजन — Tuesday, 8th Sep 2020 15:33

In any other class, I’d just use titlesec and temporarily redefine the font, but memoir being memoir …

निरंजन replying to samcarter — Tuesday, 8th Sep 2020 15:28

Okay, I won’t do that, but now the heading looks too small. I want it to appear like a chapter, but without a pagebreak.

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samcarter replying to निरंजन — Tuesday, 8th Sep 2020 14:54

No, that’s just the same. Depending on the use case, there are a zillion things that can break. For example wrong spacing, problems with bookmarks, headline etc.

निरंजन replying to samcarter — Tuesday, 8th Sep 2020 14:45

Is \section{{\LARGE Bibliography}} fine? What kinds of problems may arise? Can you give examples?

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samcarter replying to निरंजन — Tuesday, 8th Sep 2020 13:54

Using formatting commands inside macros like \section can cause trouble, use this at your own risk

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निरंजन replying to samcarter — Tuesday, 8th Sep 2020 13:18

Sorry I forgot to mention that the bibliography should be printed on the same page. I have edited the question. On a side-note I tried your idea, it works great! I didn’t know about this optional parameter. I made a newcommand like this for my convenience.

As this solves my problem, I would request you to post this as a solution 😃

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samcarter — Tuesday, 8th Sep 2020 10:26

(stuff like adding to the toc etc can of course be done)

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samcarter — Tuesday, 8th Sep 2020 09:42

@निरंजन, re: your question, Do you actually need the bibliography to have a chapter title? Otherwise you could try

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