Version 5.5.8

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>