Razryadka (spacing)

[Frank Y Gladney]

Try "kerning".

F. Gladney

---- Original message ----
>Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 13:15:13 -0400
>From: Alina Israeli <aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU>  
>Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Razryadka (spacing)  
>To: SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU
>
>She is correct as far as typewriter typed text were printed as books.  
>For ex. a 1993 book "Sredstva vyrazhenija..." published in Alma-Ata  
>by Institut Jazykoznanija is such an example. There are three devices  
>for emphasis: spacing, underlining and curly underlining. In this  
>book the author or his assistant must have a fairly steady hand for  
>curly underlining. We used to do it using a comb. Too bad such a  
>skill is no longer needed.
>
>On the same subject: I cannot find a Russian translation to the  
>English term "curning" (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/curning), but  
>then the word is also absent from my Webster, Cambridge and Oxford  
>dictionaries.
>
>
>On Aug 1, 2008, at 12:37 PM, Kristen Harkness wrote:
>>   An older woman there told me it came about from having to do bold  
>> text by hand "back in the day" and just stuck as a typographical  
>> convention.   Whether or not she was correct, I don't know, but I  
>> have noticed it appears a lot less frequently in recently published  
>> books.
>>
>>
>
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