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Use tag dinbrief for questions related to writing letters following German norm DIN.

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`\endgroup` error with {dinbrief} and XeLaTeX [duplicate]

First, let's consider this minimal working example: \documentclass{dinbrief} \begin{document} \begin{letter} test \end{letter} \end{document} This document compiles sortof fine with PDFlatex and ...
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Incompatibility between dinbrief and pdfpages?

The combination of class dinbrief and package pdfpages is not compiling for me. Here's the MWE (well, minimum non-working example in this case): \documentclass[]{dinbrief} \usepackage[demo]{pdfpages} \...
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G-Brief 2 verändern

I used the g-brief document class. Now I would like to move the footer a little further down and shorten the line under the return address. Is this possible? I'm still new to LaTeX, maybe someone can ...
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Undefined control sequence with dinbrief and pst-barcode

minimal example: \documentclass{dinbrief} \RequirePackage{auto-pst-pdf,pst-barcode} \begin{document} This is a test. \end{document} running xelatex from texlive 2021 results in >>> Loading ...
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The dinbrief class with hyperlinks (hyperref) in the address field fails

The following minimal example fails to compile, unless one removes the \href link from the address field. How can one have links in the address field of a dinbrief letter? \documentclass{dinbrief} \...
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Use Dinbrief without addresses (LyX)

How to remove the From and To area in Dinbrief using LyX?
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Hide fold marks in dinbrief

Can I remove fold marks from dinbrief letter documents? The solutions in scrlettr2: How to remove side marks? don't help with dinbrief. Looking at Dinbrief manual (archive wayback link of originally ...
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margin below of the footer differs about 1cm in dinbrief than in moderncv

I simply want my moderncv document have the same foot margin as my dinbrief document. However, when i print both and measure the gap between the footer and the end of the paper, the gap differs in ...
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How to use dinbrief to create a letter that fits with the window of a DIN envelope?

I am trying to use the dinbrief package to create a standard German letter for a DL envelope with a window. Supposedly, by using this class, I will get a letter conformant with DIN 5008 that should ...
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How can I include the address in the letter text?

I want to include the address, as defined in \address{My address here} at a certain point in the text of the letter. I am using dinbrief 1.73.
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fontspec+polyglossia... lack of spaces before punctuation marks (French) in standalone and dinbrief

I fail to get Lualatex to properly typeset punctuation marks for French when using the classes standalone or dinbrief. In this minimal example I would expect to see spaces before the colon and before ...
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datatool: why does \DTLifstringeq not work in the address part of a bulk letter

I'm trying to create a bulk letter using the package dinbrief and datatool. I created the whole letter and except from one problem everything works fine (that's why I don't want to change any major ...
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How to stop my letterhead from increasing dinbrief top margin?

I have a letterhead macro created with tikz that I'm using with dinbrief but it pushes the entire content of the letter down by 15mm. This would not be a big deal but when I print it out it no longer ...
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