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APPENDIX D
Glossary
e following glossary entries provide denitions, explanations, and sometimes enter-
taining commentary for terms found throughout this book, so I suggest that you consult
it on an as-needed basis. It also makes for good reading if you have nothing else better to
do on a cloudy, rainy, or otherwise boring day.
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e answer to the Ultimate Question of Life,
the Universe, and Everything.
50 Sounds array
50 (gojūon hairetsu). e Japanese
keyboard array whose keys follow the ar-
rangement of the 50 Sounds Table. See also 50
Sounds Table.
50 Sounds order
50 (gojūon jun). A Japanese collation se-
quence that follows the ordering from the 50
Sounds Table. See also 50 Sounds Table.
50 Sounds Table
50 (gojūon hyō). A table made up of a
5×10 matrix whose total number of possible
sounds is 50. Kana characters are set into this
table.
A11Y
Abbreviation for accessibility.
AAT
Apple Advanced Typography. e newer
name for the font portions of Apple’s Quick-
Draw GX technology, which was used in con-
junction with ATSUI. See also ATSUI.
AD
Active Duty. Abbreviated form of advertise-
ment. Also, an abbreviation for the Latin
Anno Domino.
AFDKO
Adobe Font Development Kit for OpenType.
Adobe Systems’ suite of commercial-grade,
command-line font tools that were speci-
cally tailored to aid font developers to build
high-quality OpenType fonts.
AFM
Adobe Font Metrics. ...