Version 5.9.1

# `DefineFontalias`

since version 2.7.12

Defines a font alias. When defining a font family, you can use the an alias for the fontname. Aliases are looked up recursively.

## Child elements

(none)

## Parent elements

`AtPageCreation`, `AtPageShipout`, `Case`, `Contents`, `ForAll`, `Include`, `Layout`, `Loop`, `Otherwise`, `Record`, `SavePages`, `Section`, `Until`, `While`

## Attributes

`alias` (text)
  New (equivalent) name of the font
`existing` (text)
  The name of the existing font family.

## Example

    <DefineFontalias existing="DejaVuSerif" alias="serif"/>
    <DefineFontalias existing="DejaVuSerif-Bold" alias="serif-bold"/>
    <DefineFontalias existing="DejaVuSerif-Italic" alias="serif-italic"/>
    <DefineFontalias existing="DejaVuSerif-BoldItalic" alias="serif-bolditalic"/>

Now you can define a font family with

    <DefineFontfamily name="title" fontsize="15" leading="17">
      <Regular fontface="serif"/>
      <Bold fontface="serif-bold"/>
      <BoldItalic fontface="serif-bolditalic"/>
      <Italic fontface="serif-italic"/>
    </DefineFontfamily>

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