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Article #5363Re: "invention" of silent reading (McLuhan)
From: Torsten Poulin
Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 17:04
Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 17:04
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Torsten Poulin wrote: > Peter T. Daniels wrote: >> Does Danish use spacing for emphasis, as in German? (German >> uses "gesperrt" rather than "kursiv.") > It used to, but you hardly ever see it anymore. The Danish term > is "spatiering" or "sp�rre(de typer)". Back when Danish was > typeset using fraktur (or whatever; they seem simply to have > been referred to as Danish letters), it was the standard way of > indicating emphasis. In those days, it was also common to typeset > certain Latin words� in a roman typeface, much in the same way > italics are sometimes used in English. The above could have been clearer. The use of spacing for emphasis continued well into the 20th century, but modern typography uses italics. The Latin/Roman typeface used for foreign words were referred to as "antikva". The fraktur-style typefaces are also called "gotisk". -- Torsten
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