spaced type in LyX/ LateX?

[J�rgen Spitzm�ller]

Is there a Latex-command to emphasize text as spaced type (in german: 
"Sperrdruck")? I don't know if this is typographically bad, but I have it in 
a lot of books, and when I want to cite a passage, I have to adapt it - or, 
what I'm doing at the moment, add a comment: "italic passages are spaced in 
the original" -which is not very elegant.

Juergen