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The DIN 5008:2005 (the current version comes from May 2005) specifies writing and organization rules for the text processing. It belongs to the fundamental standards for work in the office and management.

The definitions and recommendations for the PC text processing and typing specify punctuation mark, character for words, operational sign, formulas, number arrangements, tables as well as the arrangement of texts to arrange in order to give a guidance, documents appropriate and clear.

Until 1996 became during the definition of the DIN standard 5008 without exception typewriters considered, since the revised version from 1996 in particular also PC text processing programs became during the definition of the standard considered. This more still applies all to the revised versions in the years 2001 and 2005.

On 18 January 2005 of German Institut for standardization changes of the DIN 5008:2001 were decided and published in May 2005. This is the conversion in July 2004 of the suggested draft DIN 5008/A1: 2004-07 and are to improve the machine-readableness of documents; one of the substantial changes is that now with the postal address all blank lines been void and the land contraction may not be set for no more before the postal zip code.

Standards

In Germany, in Austria and in Switzerland in former times the standard DIN applied 1355 (see DIN paperback 102 of 1989). In this standard "v. Chr became "and/or "n. Chr "obligatorily prescribed. In the meantime the format of date is fixed in the European standard EN 28601 from 1992 on the form "year month day", which is without reservation valid for Germany and Austria (derived from ISO 8601 from 1988). In it to a dating relative before or after Christ is not no more entered. (ISO 8601 in the version from the year 2000 plans one year zero and annual details with minus sign.)

Professor problem

Occupation and office designations are written usually beside "woman "and "gentleman ", academic degrees against it directly before the name. Since "professor is "a job title, in November 2001 in the DIN 5008 it was gotten straight that due to this "problem" "Professor "should be written always directly before the name. Since it is not recognizable with the word a professor in the recipient indication whether it became around an office designation or an academic is now uniformly regulated acts, that "Professor" stands always directly before the name - thus also for the case of the office designation (2005-05-17).

Regulations in detail

This standard with a comprehensive regulation of the correspondence is world-wide singular. In other countries there is quite also recommendations regarding the organization of formal letters, it gives international recommendations for example *WTO too *Datumsformat or *Schreibweise of the time, in order to facilitate the data traffic, the letter as a whole regulation concerned as in the German DIN 5008 existed in no other country. An overview of the most important regulations is represented in *DIN 5008 - the specimen letter.

Literature

Writing and organization rules for the text processing. Special edition by DIN 5008:2005. Hrsg. DIN German Institut for standardization registered association Beuth publishing house. May 2005. ISBN 3-410-15993-2