[texhax] Control blank area at beginning of chapters

[Lars Madsen]

Thomas Dukleth wrote:
> Thank you very much.  Apparently, I will need to upgrade to memoir 
> 1.61803 to use the new easy customisation commands which have been
> included in the style suggestions from Lars Madsen.
> 
> I expect I will acquire the upgraded memoir automatically when I replace
> my current Debian GNU/Linux etch stable packaged version of TeX Live 2005
> with the new standard TeX Live 2008 distribution.  I already had needed to
> upgrade LaTeX completely to avoid upstream LaTeX line breaking bugs
> involving fonts for some punctuation which have been trapped in Debian
> etch from the point when Debian etch package development was frozen in
> preparation for stable release.
> 
> I will wait until upgrading in a couple of weeks or so to read more about
> the new memoir commands.
> 

if you have the space you can have both TL2005 and TL2008 side by side.

I have to say that the new TL2008 is very cool, including online update.

TL2005, is VERY old.

/daleif