#### 7.3.2 Mapping legacy names to defined formats

Create a format definition for each of the output format names your project might need. Then you can manage their output appearance in a format template that is integral to your DITA2Go project, and that can be shared across many such projects.

To map your names to DITA2Go default format names:

    [FormatAliases]
    ; format name = another format name; for example:
    CellHeading = CellHead

You can use this section to specify properties for the format named on the left as though [FirstFormat]based=SecondFormat (see §7.4.5 Basing format properties on other formats). Make sure that SecondFormat is defined somewhere in the format template chain.

When DITA2Go looks up format definitions, DITA2Go replaces each format name listed on the left with the name assigned to it on the right. This process is not recursive; if you assign format names a=b and b=c, when DITA2Go needs a definition for a, instead DITA2Go looks for a definition of b, not c.

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