Editing LaTeX Dissertation Formatting Tips (section)

=== Converting Articles into <code>Memoir</code> Chapters ===

As described above, I used the <code>\input</code> command to insert a <code>.tex</code> file for chapter into the main document. Each stand-alone article has its own LaTeX preamble, which begins with a <code>\documentclass</code> command and ends with <code>\begin{document}.</code> Since I built my dissertation as a single document, I stripped the preambles from each chapter file and added any dependencies from any of my projects to the preamble of the main file (<code>ETD_version.tex</code>). I also removed <code>\end{document}</code> and <code>\printbibliography</code> commands from the end of the file.

Finally, chapters don’t normally have abstracts, and the <code>\abstract</code> command doesn’t work to insert an abstract in each chapter. Fortunately, you can use the <code>\chapterprecishere</code> command provided by <code>memoir</code> to insert an abstract at the beginning of the chapters.