Razryadka (spacing)

[Alina Israeli]

I am holding a volume of The Language and Verse in Russia. Even  
though it is in UCLA Studies Series it is published in Moscow in  
1995. It certainly has a lot of italics, maybe more than would have  
been the case in pre-computer days (this is an eye-ball statement),  
but in some articles, by Toporov and Zholkovsky, for ex. there is  
plenty of razrjadka. This way there is a distinction between examples  
which are italicized and author's emphasis.

In a book by Vorotnikov "Slovo i vremja" 2003 "Nauka" there are  
razrjadka's for emphasis, bold script for (new) terms and italics for  
examples.

On Aug 1, 2008, at 7:32 AM, Richard Robin wrote:

> A feature I frequently see in Russian texts that is generally not  
> used in
> the West is s p a c i n g   o u t   e m p h a s i z e d   t e x t.
>
> I haven't seen разрядка used in a long time. 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.
>

Alina Israeli
LFS, American University
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Washington DC. 20016
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aisrael at american.edu




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