g-brief is a document class for LaTeX to write German standard letters. I like this document class very much and prefer it much over the Microsoft Word letter templates.
But on some machines I get the following error message when compiling the document using the MiKTeX packages:
LaTeX Error: Command \Telefon already defined.
There is a simple solutions to resolve this error. You can just patch the package. Somewhere below the LaTeX directory you should find the marvosym.sty file. Open this file with a text editor of your choice an search for a line like this:
\newcommand\Telefon{\mvchr{84}}
There you can change the name of the command \Telefon to something like \Telefonsymbol or the even better way (but I did not test this one): replace \newcommand with \def and leave Telefon as it is.
Another g-brief tip: you can define the following three elements on your document to turn on these various features:
\fenstermarken
\faltmarken
\trennlinien
March 3rd, 2009 at 6:13 pm
Thanks!
May 8th, 2009 at 12:59 am
Thanks, by the way, if anyone needs to change the language of the form, you can edit gbrief.cls and after \DeclareOption{american} block add your language, e.g. for greek:
\DeclareOption{greek}{
\def\sprache{greek}
\def\telefontex{{\footnotesize THLEFWNO\/:}}
\def\telefaxtext{{\footnotesize THLEOMOIOTUPO\/:}}
\def\telextext{{\footnotesize THLEGRAFOS\/:}}
\def\emailtext{{\footnotesize HLEKTRONIKO TAQUDROMEIO\/:}}
\def\httptext{{\footnotesize HTTP\/:}}
\def\banktext{{\footnotesize TRAPEZIKOS LOGARIASMOS\/:}} \def\blztext{{\footnotesize
code}} \def\kontotext{{\footnotesize acct}}
\def\betrefftext{{\normalsize Subj.:}}
\def\ihrzeichentext{\footnotesize\textsc{PRWTOKOLLO SAS}}
\def\ihrschreibentext{\footnotesize\textsc{EPISTOLH SAS}}
\def\meinzeichentext{\footnotesize\textsc{PRWTOKOLLO MOU}}
\def\unserzeichentext{\footnotesize\textsc{ANAFORA MOU}}
\def\datumtext{\footnotesize\textsc{HMEROMHNIA}}}
April 16th, 2010 at 12:31 am
Hi,
I am using the g-brief package and want to reduce the space between the address of the company and the date. I have looked into the g-brief-cls and tried changing almost anything, but I cannot reduce the space.
Can anybody give me a hint as to which parameter to change?
Thanks,
-Louise