#### 15.4.3.6 Providing aliases for paragraph formats

If you are generating DITA from an unstructured FrameMaker document, your document might use the same format for different purposes, each purpose requiring that format to be mapped to a different DITA element, or to be nested in a different hierarchy, or both; or you might have several formats that map to the same DITA element. Because DITA uses semantic tags, whereas FrameMaker uses presentational tags, in some cases you need alternate names for paragraph formats to clarify semantic use cases.

To specify an alternate name, or alias, for a paragraph format:

[DITAAliases]

; Frame paragraph format = Frame format name to use in place of that

; paragraph format for DITA purposes, or Mif2Go selection macro.

ParaFmtName = AlternateName

An alias works in any [DITA*] configuration section that uses format names. The alias can be the name of another paragraph format in your document, provided the two formats map to exactly the same element with all the same DITA settings; or, the alias can be a name you invent.

For additional aliases for the same format, insert a DITAAlias marker in each instance of the format that requires a different alias, with content the name of another alias. You can also use a DITAAlias marker to override an alias assigned in section [DITAAliases].

You can use as many different aliases for the same paragraph format as your document requires. If you are creating new alias names, be careful not to duplicate the name of a format that is already in the FrameMaker paragraph catalog.

| 15.4.3.5 Overriding element mapping for paragraph formats |  | 15.4.3.7 Mapping paragraph format aliases to different elements |