Razryadka (spacing)

[William Ryan]

I think it is less used than it once was but it certainly has not 
disappeared - in reference works in particular it is still often used as 
one level in the hierarchy of emphasis. The fairly recent  five-volume 
Slavianskie drevnosti: etnolingvisticheskii slovar' (1995-2004), for 
example, uses bold caps for headwords, bold cap and l.c. for 
cross-references to headwords, razriadka for expansions of headwords and 
subentries, and italic for foreign words and words cited as dialectal or 
terminological. In this sort of publication the availability of an extra 
level of typographical emphasis clearly has editorial advantages.
Will Ryan


Richard Robin wrote:
>  I thought it disappeared with
> the advent of desktop printing (making italics an easy alternative) and the
> demise of гарнитура литературная (literaturnaya font - which still can send
> a wave of nostalgia through me when I see it) as the workhorse font of
> Soviet typography.

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