Hello again! Thank you very much for your help!
I was not aware about the switch. This clarified things and solved my problems. Greetings! Ph. 2014-04-25 14:43 GMT+02:00 Jürgen Spitzmüller <[email protected]>: > 2014-04-25 13:34 GMT+02:00 "Philipp Gröne": > >> Hello! >> >> I'm trying to write a letter using the DIN-Brief-template provided with >> LyX. >> >> My system locale is EN, the letter is supposed to be German. >> >> The trouble is that the layouts "MyRef" and "YourRef" produce unwanted >> (or even wrong) outputs, i.e. >> "Ihre Zeichen, Ihre Nachricht von" and "Unsere Zeichen, unsere Nachricht >> von". >> >> This is plural, while it should be singular, i.e. "Ihr Zeichen, Ihre >> Nachricht von" and "Mein Zeichen, meine Nachricht von". > > > Reading the dinbrief.cls documentation, I see that there is an old version > of the norm (dating to 1976), which uses plural, and a new version, which > uses singular. The class provides a switch \enabledraftstandard to enable > the new version. The new version also gets automatically enabled if you use > "writer". > > >> >> Also, the Layout "Writer" should read "Sachbearbeiter" and not >> "Bearbeiter". >> >> How can I change that? > > > Copy this into the preamble: > > \renewcommand*\signmsgnew{Mein Zeichen, meine Nachricht vom} > > \renewcommand*\yourmailmsg{Ihr Zeichen, Ihre Nachricht vom} > > \renewcommand*\writermsg{,\ Sachbearbeiter} > > >> >> >> Is this a bug in the template, or something on my end? > > > This is how these strings are defined in the LaTeX class (dinbrief.cls), LyX > does not change anything here. So if you think there is something wrong with > these strings (I do not have the norm here to check myself), you should > probably contact the LaTeX class maintainer. > > Jürgen > >> >> >> I'm running LyX 2.0.6 on Debian Sid. >> >> Thanks in advance! >> Ph. > >
