## 7. Configuring output formats

This section shows how to specify output styles and display characteristics for all paragraph, character, and table output formats assigned to elements in your DITA document, as well as to page layouts for RTF output. Topics include:

§7.1 Understanding the purpose of output formats

§7.2 Working with format configuration files

§7.3 Creating aliases to existing format names

§7.4 Understanding how to define output formats

§7.5 Understanding text output formats

§7.6 Configuring text output formats

§7.7 Configuring table output formats

§7.8 Configuring page layouts for RTF output

§7.9 Inserting line, column, and page breaks in output

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Parent Topic: I. How to set up and use DITA2Go

Sibling Topics:

1. Getting started with DITA2Go

2. Converting DITA documents

3. Editing configuration files

4. Setting basic conversion options

5. Modifying output appearance

6. Mapping elements to output formats

8. Configuring format components

9. Specifying conditional processing

10. Including content by reference

11. Defining element sets and properties

12. Creating and deploying user variables

13. Processing related and associative links

14. Generating lists and indexes