Razryadka (spacing)

[Hendriks, P.]

(First off: William Ryan's message quoted below is just one of the many
recent contributions on the topic of razrjadka. As I'm catching up with
my email after having returned from a holiday, this message is not an
immediate reaction to it.)

For what it's worth: the Russian graphic designer Artemij Lebedev
strongly discourages the use of razrjadka in modern publications. See
his section on the use of (among other things) bold and italic at
<http://web.artlebedev.ru/kovodstvo/sections/79>.

I don't always share Mr Lebedev's opinions convictions, but overall, his
'paragrafy o dizajne' are without exception well thought through and
highly informative. I highly recommend them.

Best regards,

Pepijn Hendriks

-- 
Pepijn Hendriks, MA
Leiden University Centre for Linguistics
Department of Slavic Languages and Cultures
http://website.leidenuniv.nl/~hendriksp1 

> ------------------------------
> Date:    Fri, 1 Aug 2008 14:38:30 +0100
> From:    William Ryan <wfr at SAS.AC.UK>
> Subject: Re: Razryadka (spacing)
> 
> 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

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