Forms of Address

A "form of address" is the first line of a letter, for example "Dear Mr. Smith,". Forms of address differ amongst languages and according to gender. Gender here is a more general concept than male/female - one may wish to have a special form of address for couples, for companies or for people whose gender you don't know.

One should define a form of address for each language/gender combination.

When defining a form of address, one uses special symbols to tell KVS where to insert the person's name and title. You can use the following symbols:

Example: If you want the following line to appear on a letter to Mr. John Smith

    Dear Mr. Smith,

you would enter the form of address

    Dear *t* *ln*,

This assumes that you enter "Mr." as title for every male person in the address window. You can avoid this by entering the form of address as follows:

    Dear Mr. *t* *ln*,

Then you only need to enter exceptional titles such as Dr., Prof., etc in the title field of the address form.