X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["692" "Mon" "24" "March" "1997" "09:05:24" "+0100" "Soren Sandmann Pedersen" "sandmann@DAIMI.AAU.DK" nil "18" "Re: International documents" "^Date:" nil nil "3" nil nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from listserv.gmd.de (listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.1]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.8.5/8.8.4) with ESMTP id JAA25695; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 09:05:39 +0100 (MET) Received: from listserv.gmd.de by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <6.FFD2A3C7@listserv.gmd.de>; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 9:05:36 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 116870 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 09:05:24 +0100 Received: from humulus.daimi.aau.dk (humulus.daimi.aau.dk [130.225.16.6]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.7.6/8.7.4) with ESMTP id JAA24946 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 09:05:23 +0100 (MET) Received: (from sandmann@localhost) by humulus.daimi.aau.dk (8.8.2/8.8.2) id JAA02041 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 09:05:24 +0100 (MET) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <199703240805.JAA02041@humulus.daimi.aau.dk> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: <199703232040.VAA25736@puma.npc.de> from Joachim Schrod at "Mar 23, 97 09:40:38 pm" Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 09:05:24 +0100 From: Soren Sandmann Pedersen Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: International documents Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 1881 > >>>>> "MO" == Marcel Oliver writes: > > MO> It seems standard in German mathematical typesetting to use > MO> letterspacing for "emphasis" (e.g. for defining words), while italics > MO> are reserved for theorems and such. > > No, it's not standard. Emphasis is done with italics, as in every > civilized country. In fact, the typesetter of the book in question > should be calfatered, forced to listen a few days to Modern Talking, > or some similar punishment. I know of a Danish book from the eighties where letterspacing was used for emphasis. > But then, in the 30s and before, such crimes were quite common. -- Soeren Sandmann (e-mail: sandmann@daimi.aau.dk)