The Tclkit DIN-Brief [L1 ] (available at [L2 ]) allows writing a well typeset TeX letter according to DIN 676 without the needs to hack some TeX markup.
male - 2006-04-07: Hhhm - TeX? I don't have TeX! What's about combining it with tcom and using the "remote access" to MS Word, or OpenOffice to generate the DIN letter?
Yes - I could try this out, but my knowledge about the COM interface of Word or OpenOffice is very limited and there are others, who can do this much easier than I.
Is there anybody out there to try to combine dinbrief with tcom?
RFox You can get TeX for free look for MikTeX for Win32 systems http://www.miktex.org
that's what I'm assuming you'd want since you talk about COMing to Word. TeTeX (http://www.tug.org/tetex/) is available for most unix like systems including OS-X. Most linux distros will, of course have pre-configured packages.
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