The memoir class is for typesetting poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and mathematical works.

The normal font sizes range from 9 to 60pt. There is a range of page-styles and well over a dozen chapter-styles to choose from and methods for specifying your own layouts and designs. The class encompasses over thirty of the more popular packages.

The class has an associated patch file mempatch , which is automatically loaded by the class itself, and which is updated from time to time, between releases of the class itself. (The patch file still exists if there are no extant patches.)

Users who wish to use the hyperref package, in a document written with the memoir class, should also use the memhfixc package. Note, however, that current versions of hyperref actually load the package automatically if they detect that they are running under memoir.