# Elementname: `DefineFontalias`

## Description

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

Allowed attributes: alias, existing

Child elements: (none)

Parent elements: AtPageCreation, AtPageShipout, Case, Contents, ForAll, Include, Layout, Loop, Otherwise, Record, SavePages, 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>

## See also

DefineFontfamily

# Commands

- A
- Action
- AddSearchpath
- AtPageCreation
- AtPageShipout
- AttachFile
- Attribute
- B
- Barcode
- Bold
- BoldItalic
- Bookmark
- Box
- Br
- Case
- Circle
- Color
- Column
- Columns
- Compatibility
- Contents
- Copy-of
- DefineColor
- DefineColorprofile
- DefineFontalias
- DefineFontfamily
- DefineTextformat
- Element
- Fontface
- ForAll
- Frame
- Grid
- Group
- Groupcontents
- HSpace
- Hyphenation
- I
- Image
- Include
- Initial
- 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
- SetGrid
- SetVariable
- SortSequence
- Span
- Stylesheet
- Sub
- Sup
- Switch
- Table
- TableNewPage
- Tablefoot
- Tablehead
- Tablerule
- Td
- Text
- Textblock
- Tr
- Trace
- Transformation
- U
- URL
- Ul
- Until
- VSpace
- Value
- While

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