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Chapter 6: Font Formats, Glyph Sets, and Font Tools
e 15 hint dictionaries of the Adobe-Japan1-6 character collectionTable 6-26.
Hint dictionary name Number of glyphs Description
AlphaNum 1,700 Annotated alphanumeric glyphs
Alphabetic 223 Full-width Greek, Cyrillic, and Latin glyphs
Dingbats 1,053 Miscellaneous glyphs
DingbatsRot 38 Prerotated version of Dingbats
Generic 190 Half- and full-width generic glyphs
GenericRot 78 Prerotated version of Generic
HKana 179 Half-width kana glyphs
HKanaRot 179 Prerotated version of HKana
HRoman 175 Half-width Latin glyphs
HRomanRot 175 Prerotated version of HRoman
Kana 1,769 Kana glyphs, including annotated forms
Kanji
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14,943 Kanji glyphs, including annotated forms
Proportional 1,034 Proportional Latin glyphs
ProportionalRot 1,034 Prerotated version of Proportional
Ruby 288 Ruby glyphs
When 16 hint dictionaries are used, the Kanji hint dictionary is split into two hint dictionaries: Kanji and KanjiPlus. The Kanji hint dictionary a.
includes 10,216 glyphs, and KanjiPlus includes 4,727 glyphs.
As Table 6-26 demonstrates, the hint dictionary arrangement for Adobe-Japan1-6 eec-
tively separates or divides its glyphs according to glyph class. All of the kana glyphs, for
example, are in the Kana hint dictionary. Note how the prerotated glyphs are in their own
hint dictionaries, separated from their unrotated counterparts. is is done because the
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