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For my thesis I am using the Memoir class \documentclass[12pt,extrafontsizes,twoside,openright]{memoir} and \chapterstyle{ell}, which produces a nice chapterhead with some sans-serif font.

However, the lower divisions like \section and \subsection etc. use the text font - just enlarged - which does not at all fit the font of the chapter headline. I am using the text memmen.pdf for instructions, but I cannot find a \sectionstyle or similar, nor do I know what font the chapterstyle{ell} uses to make my own \sectionstyle. Short: the question is: where can I find the code of the ell chapterstyle? Any idea is welcome! Angelika

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  • Never mind, I found it! My answer is here: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1455/how-to-set-the-font-for-a-section-title-and-chapter-etc – Fuzzy Apr 16 '20 at 16:18
  • I have added an answer as I didn't find your referenced answer particularly helpful with respect to your question. – Peter Wilson Apr 16 '20 at 17:22

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\chapterstyle{ell}, as it says in the manual (texdoc memoir or texdoc memman) is a sanserif font. Which particular one used is dependent on the font family used in your document.

memoir does not have a \sectionstyle, instead it provides individual commands for changing the layouts of \section, etc., titles (see section 6.6 in the manual). For a section heading font matching the ell style try along the lines:

\setsecheadstyle{\Large\sffamily}

Here is an MWE

% memellprob.tex SE 538923

\documentclass{memoir}

% you could call for a different font family here

\chapterstyle{ell}
\setsecheadstyle{\Large\sffamily}

\begin{document}

\chapter{The first}

\section{First section}

\subsection{First subsection}

\end{document}

Note that I haven't changed the \subsection font. It's up to you how you want the various sectional heading to look.

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