--- Philip Hart <philiph at slac.stanford.edu> wrote: > Rilke's poetry has a fair amount (i.e., > 0) of added emphasis - when > he wants to lean on a word he writes it t h u s l y. No doubt this > is a question of the prevailing stylistic standards as well as one of > skill. Spaced-out type is a traditional way of emphasizing words in German text. -- Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoepist, and Philological Busybody a.k.a. -- Mark A. Mandel, proprietor, Cracks and Shards http://www.cracksandshards.com a Steven Brust fan website __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com