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Article #5358Re: "invention" of silent reading (McLuhan)
From: Michael Farris
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 14:25
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 14:25
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LEE Sau Dan <danlee@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> wrote in message > >>>>> "Peter" == Peter T Daniels <grammatim@worldnet.att.net> writes: > > Peter> Does Danish use spacing for emphasis, as in German? (German > Peter> uses "gesperrt" rather than "kursiv.") > > Have you seen this kind of emphasis in modern printing? They did use > spacing with the Gothic typefaces for emphasis. But with Roman > typefaces and modern publications, they emphasize by using italics or > san-serifs. I think Polish still uses s p a c i n g for at least some kinds of emphasis, though bold, quotation marks and italics are also found. No one ever mentioned spacing as emphasis to me so I had to figure it out on my own and often mistook it for poor typesetting. -michael farris
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