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         SECTION 5.7                                                          Font Descriptors




                               TABLE 5.22 Glyph classes in CJK fonts
CHARACTER COLLECTION   CLASS             GLYPHS IN CLASS

Adobe-GB1              Alphabetic        Full-width Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic glyphs
                       Dingbats          Special symbols
                       Generic           Typeface-independent glyphs, such as line-drawing
                       Hanzi             Full-width hanzi (Chinese) glyphs
                       HRoman
                                         Half-width Latin glyphs
                       HRomanRot
                       Kana              Same as HRoman but rotated for use in vertical writing
                       Proportional      Japanese kana (katakana and hiragana) glyphs
                       ProportionalRot   Proportional Latin glyphs
                                         Same as Proportional but rotated for use in vertical writing

Adobe-CNS1             Alphabetic        Full-width Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic glyphs
                       Dingbats          Special symbols
                       Generic           Typeface-independent glyphs, such as line-drawing
                       Hanzi             Full-width hanzi (Chinese) glyphs
                       HRoman
                                         Half-width Latin glyphs
                       HRomanRot
                       Kana              Same as HRoman but rotated for use in vertical writing
                       Proportional      Japanese kana (katakana and hiragana) glyphs
                       ProportionalRot   Proportional Latin glyphs
                                         Same as Proportional but rotated for use in vertical writing

Adobe-Japan1           Alphabetic        Full-width Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic glyphs
                       AlphaNum          Numeric glyphs
                       Dingbats          Special symbols
                       DingbatsRot       Same as Dingbats but rotated for use in vertical writing
                       Generic
                                         Typeface-independent glyphs, such as line-drawing
                       GenericRot
                       HKana             Same as Generic but rotated for use in vertical writing
                       HKanaRot          Half-width kana (katakana and hiragana) glyphs
                       HRoman            Same as HKana but rotated for use in vertical writing
                       HRomanRot         Half-width Latin glyphs
                       Kana              Same as HRoman but rotated for use in vertical writing
                       Kanji             Full-width kana (katakana and hiragana) glyphs
                       Proportional      Full-width kanji (Chinese) glyphs
                       ProportionalRot
                                         Proportional Latin glyphs
                       Ruby
                                         Same as Proportional but rotated for use in vertical writing
                                         Glyphs used for setting ruby (small glyphs that serve to annotate
                                         other glyphs with meanings or readings)

Adobe-Japan2           Alphabetic        Full-width Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic glyphs
                       Dingbats          Special symbols
                       HojoKanji         Full-width kanji glyphs

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