Library of Formatting Examples:Gesperrt/00A

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ablegen, was uns in unsern Verhältnissen Noth thut, und welche Staatseinrichtungen
und Gesetze unsern Bedürfnissen am anpassendsten sind.

<g>Nach unserer besten, innersten Ueberzeugung können wir
nur Eines finden, das uns in Deutschland zur Einheit und
zur Einigkeit zu führen vermag -- die Durchbildung eines
freien deutschen Verfassungslebens.</g> Nur das allen freien
Männern inwohnende Gefühl der Selbstachtung kann dem Deutschen
die Würde geben, die er in den schweren Kämpfen mit dem Auslande,

Overview of gesperrt

"Gesperrt" refers to spaced-out text, as shown in the middle of the example above. The rules for formatting gesperrt are the same as for boldface, including the placement of punctuation. If your eye isn't yet trained to recognize gesperrt, finding short occurrences of it will require extra care.

The fragment above was taken from a paragraph containing a mixture of gesperrt and normal Fraktur text. The entire paragraph is shown in the next example.

Gesperrt hardly ever occurs in English, since italics and boldface are available for emphasis, so it shouldn't be used unless the Project Comments/Discussion request it. (There are two examples later on of gesperrt in English; it was needed in both cases.) If you are unsure, ASK in the Project Discussion.

Spaced-out text in headings

Spaced-out headings should not be tagged as gesperrt unless only some of the letters in a heading are spaced-out. If you are unsure, ASK in the Project Discussion.

Spaced-out dashes

Also note that spaces around em-dashes are common practice in Fraktur projects containing gesperrt.

Fraktur and Antiqua

The Gesperrt section also contains examples of some other common issues with German texts, such as the use of Antiqua and other non-Fraktur fonts in Fraktur texts.

	Shared images. This page image appears in the following examples:
	Gesperrt/00A, Gesperrt/00B