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Chapter 7: Typography

More information about inline note composition can be found in the JIS X 4051:2004

standard. Adobe Illustrator version 7.0 and later supports inline notes.

Other Annotations

In addition to annotating ideographs or other characters with readings or meanings, it is

also possible to add annotations that simply serve to add emphasis, comparable to the use

of an underline in Western text. In Japanese, these marks are called boten ( bōten),

and appear above, in horizontal writing, or to the right, in vertical writing, of the char-

acters to which they add emphasis. ese marks are sometimes referred to as kenten (

 kenten).

Table 7-56 illustrates the most common type of boten mark used in Japanese, which is a

simple black dot, along with an alternate type, which is sometimes called a sesame dot,

both of which are typeset using Adobe Systems’  Pr6N H (KozMinPr6N-Heavy)

typeface.

Standard and alternate Japanese boten marksTable 7-56.

Boten style Glyph string

Standard

このサンプルは重要

44

です。

Alternate

このサンプルは重要

00

です。

Some page-composition systems, such as QuarkXPress, minimally support these two

types of boten marks. Adobe InDesign and Canon EDICOLOR provide nearly a dozen

types of these glyph annotations, and also permit the user to dene and use their own

in case the supplied set is deemed to be too limited for the intended use. Table 7-57 il-

lustrates the 10 ...