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    Various translations of "space""

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    Various translations of "space""

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    I'm interested in the various ways that space can be translated. If you don't mind taking the time to read through the following list, I'd appreciate hearing how you would handle each of the following:

    1. When she smiled, you could see a space between her teeth.
    2. Please enter your name and address in the space below.
    3. When you type, you should leave one blank space, not two, after each sentence.
    4. When typing this manuscript, leave two lines of space after each paragraph.
    5. Starting with an empty canvas, the painter filled the space before him with bright colors.
    6. Russia is no longer sending astronauts into space.
    7. How does the human brain perceive time and space?
    8. Get rid of these big chairs, they take up too much space.
    9. A standard music staff includes 5 lines and 4 spaces.
    10. Refusing to look me in the eye, he stared into space.
    11. Downtown there's no space to park.
    12. His job at the newspaper is to sell advertising space.
    13. Indent the first line a few spaces.
    Author ion1122 (443218) 25 Sep 11, 14:34
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    Downtown there's no space to park.

    A further (slightly different) meaning:
    But I finally managed to find a parking space.

    Edit: Aren't 3 and 13 the same?
    #1Author Stravinsky (637051) 25 Sep 11, 14:51
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    #1 an indent is where the first letter on the first line at the beginning of a paragraph is set a little to the right (compared with the following lines)
    #2Authormikefm (760309) 25 Sep 11, 15:02
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    Ich mache einfach mal den Anfang...

    1. (Zahn-)lücke
    2. Feld (oder einfach nur "unten")
    3. Leerzeichen
    4. Leerzeilen
    5. das Bild/ die leere Fläche
    6. Weltraum
    7. Raum
    8. nehmen zu viel Platz weg
    9. ?
    10. er starrte ins Leere
    11. gibt es keine Parkplätze/keine Parkmöglichkeiten
    12. Anzeigenraum (oder: Er arbeitet in der Anzeigenabteilung)
    13. Leerzeichen/ Leerstellen
    #3Author Nicki (DE) (616721) 25 Sep 11, 15:10
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    9: fünf Linien und vier Zwischenräume (oder: Linienzwischenräume)

    13: you would simply speak of "einrücken" without specifically mentioning any spaces
    #4Author penguin (236245) 25 Sep 11, 15:20
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    Indent is "Einzug"
    #5Authormikefm (760309) 25 Sep 11, 15:51
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    yes, the indent is "Einzug", but "to indent" is "einrücken".

    Dictionary: to indent
    #6Author penguin (236245) 25 Sep 11, 15:53
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    yes sorry, should have said indent (noun)....
    #7Authormikefm (760309) 25 Sep 11, 15:56
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    Thanks everyone.

    Following up on my item 13, how would you translate the following sentence?

    14. Indent the first sentence of each paragraph exactly three spaces.

    You would use Leerzeichen or Leerstellen, right?
    #8Author ion1122 (443218) 25 Sep 11, 17:30
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    Leerzeichen / Leerstellen are the correct terms, but I would just press the tab key instead :-)
    #9Author penguin (236245) 25 Sep 11, 17:51
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    And for my No. 14 (#1): Parklücke.
    #10Author Stravinsky (637051) 25 Sep 11, 19:18
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    #8
    The computer is not a typewriter; so, if you are using a proportional font, you would probably have to say "em space".

    ("Em-Abstand"? I suppose that should really be "Geviert-Abstand".)

    You were looking for as many different expressions as possible, weren't you? (:-)
    #11AuthorMikeE (236602) 25 Sep 11, 21:27
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    In connection with typography, my dictionary (Collins-PONS) also mentions die Reglette and der Spatienkeil.

    In English I would be inclined to call these spacers rather than spaces.

    Years ago, when I was laying out letterpress frames, we had two different objects we could use to increase the spacing between paragraphs.

    There were little strips of wood one column wide that we called reglets. These were inserted by hand in between the lines of metal type produce by the Linotype machine.

    The alternative was lines of metal not quite as high as the lines containing letters. These smooth metal lines we called slugs.

    Spacers within a line we called quads, which I believe is short for quadrats. We used those only on the rare occasions when we set a line (for example a headline) by hand one letter at a time; otherwise the Linotype would take care of the spacing between letters in the line that it cast.
    #12Author ion1122 (443218) 25 Sep 11, 22:22
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    Picking up on #11, which of these things can you express using Abstand, and would you? I'm thinking I've seen that for spacing between lines or paragraphs, for example -- is that right?

    That is, in word processing and computerized typography, you would no longer speak of two lines in the sense of two carriage returns, since two ¶ characters after one paragraph will really annoy whoever does the layout nowadays, just like five individual spaces or a tab instead of one global indent will.
    #13Author hm -- us (236141) 25 Sep 11, 22:41
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    spacing between lines

    is (typographically speaking) leading (Durchschuß)
    #14Authormikefm (760309) 26 Sep 11, 08:45
     
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