<altName> (Alternate Names for Font)

This element specifies a set of alternative names which may be used to locate the font specified by the parent element. This set of alternative names is stored in a comma-delimited list, with all adjacent commas ignored (i.e. a value of Name A, Name B is equivalent to Name A,,,,,,,,, Name B).

When an application cannot locate a font using the primary name stored on the @font attribute of the <font> element (§2.8.2.10), it should use each alternate name in term to attempt to locate the font, and use the first font for which is locates a match.

If this element is omitted, then no alternate names are present for the parent font.

example: 
<w:font w:name="SimSun">
  <w:altName w:val="Arial Unicode MS" />
  …
</w:font>

The <altName> element specifies that when no font with a name of SimSun (the primary font name) can be located, that applications should attempt to locate a font with the name Arial Unicode MS before doing substitution based on the font metrics. ]

Parent Elements

<font> (§2.8.2.10)

Attributes

Description

<val> (String Value)

Specifies that its contents will contain a string.

The contents of this string are interpreted based on the context of the parent XML element.

<w:pPr>
  <w:pStyle w:val="heading1" /> 
</w:pPr>

The value of the @val attribute is the ID of the associated paragraph style's styleId.

However, consider the following fragment:

<w:sdtPr>
  <w:alias w:val="SDT Title Example" />
  ...
</w:sdtPr>

In this case, the decimal number in the @val attribute is the caption of the parent structured document tag. In each case, the value is interpreted in the context of the parent element. ]

The possible values for this attribute are defined by the ST_String simple type (§2.18.89).

The following XML Schema fragment defines the contents of this element:

<complexType name="CT_String">
	<attribute name="val" type="ST_String" use="required"/>
</complexType>