# Elementname: `Italic`

## Description

The font face to be used when the user switches to italic.

Allowed attributes: fontface

Child elements: (none)

Parent elements: DefineFontfamily

### Attributes

fontface (text)

  The name of the fontface.

## Example

    <LoadFontfile name="Helvetica" filename="helvetica-regular.otf"/>
    <LoadFontfile name="Helvetica Bold" filename="helvetica-bold.otf"/>
    <LoadFontfile name="Helvetica Italic" filename="helvetica-italic.otf"/>
    <LoadFontfile name="Helvetica Bold Italic" filename="helvetica-bolditalic.otf"/>

    <DefineFontfamily name="text" fontsize="12" leading="14">
      <Regular fontface="Helvetica"/>
      <Bold fontface="Helvetica Bold"/>
      <Italic fontface="Helvetica Italic"/>
      <BoldItalic fontface="Helvetica Bold Italic"/>
    </DefineFontfamily>

## See also

Bold Regular I BoldItalic

# Commands

- A
- Action
- AddToList
- AtPageCreation
- AtPageShipout
- Attribute
- B
- Barcode
- Bold
- BoldItalic
- Bookmark
- Box
- Br
- Case
- Circle
- Color
- Column
- Columns
- Compatibility
- Contents
- Copy-of
- DefineColor
- DefineFontalias
- DefineFontfamily
- DefineTextformat
- Element
- Fontface
- ForAll
- Frame
- Grid
- Group
- HSpace
- Hyphenation
- I
- Image
- Include
- InsertPages
- Italic
- Layout
- Li
- LoadDataset
- LoadFontfile
- Loop
- Makeindex
- Margin
- Mark
- Message
- NewPage
- NextFrame
- NextRow
- NoBreak
- Ol
- Options
- Otherwise
- Output
- Overlay
- PDFOptions
- Pageformat
- Pagetype
- Paragraph
- PlaceObject
- Position
- PositioningArea
- PositioningFrame
- ProcessNode
- Record
- Regular
- Rule
- SaveDataset
- SavePages
- Sequence
- SetGrid
- SetVariable
- SortSequence
- Stylesheet
- Sub
- Sup
- Switch
- Table
- Tablefoot
- Tablehead
- Tablerule
- Td
- Text
- Textblock
- Tr
- Trace
- Transformation
- U
- URL
- Ul
- Until
- VSpace
- Value
- While

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