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Hebrew script layout requirements
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Hebrew emphasizing text via bold font or spaces added between letters #2

Open r12a opened 7 years ago

r12a commented 7 years ago

[from @tomerm]

Different types of entities mentioned in a text (people names, concepts, terms etc.) are emphasized either via bold font (image below illustrates how people's names are emphasized with bold font):

emphasis_boldfont

or via extra spaces added between letters of word(s) which need to be emphasized (image below illustrates such emphasis of medical terms in an encyclopedia article) :

emphasis_spaces

r12a commented 7 years ago

@tomerm is this emphasis (eg. what you'd expect to see when adding em in HTML), or just a way to highlight things like proper nouns (eg. what you'd expect to use u for in HTML)? (see the HTML explanation)

By the way, this kind of tracking is used in German for emphasis.

lkemmel commented 7 years ago

I believe these are pretty interchangeable (with bold probably used more commonly), and are rather to emphasize things. Different font faces / sizes / colors can also be used for this purpose.

BTW letter spacing is also used in Russian for emphasizing.

r12a commented 7 years ago

Here's a very interesting video about bold, italicisation, and tracking in Hebrew.

Liron Lavi Turkenich: Go bolder, just slant it—secondary styles in Hebrew https://www.typotalks.com/videos/go-bolder-just-slant-it/

r12a commented 4 years ago

I added information from this thread to the requirements document.