This element specifies the font pitch of the current font. This information may be used as defined in font substitution logic to locate an appropriate substitute font when this font is not available. This information is determined by querying the font when present and shall not be modified when the font is not available.

If this element is omitted, then its value shall be assumed to be default.

[Example: Consider the following information stored for a single font:

<w:font w:name="Courier New">
<w:pitch w:val="fixed" />
…
</w:font>

The pitch element specifies via its val attribute value of fixed that this is a fixed width font. end example]

Parent Elements

font (§2.8.2.10)

Attributes

Description

val (Value)

Specifies the font pitch for the font.

[Example: Consider the following information stored for a single font:

<w:pitch w:val="variable" />

The val attribute value of variable specifies that this is a variable width font. end example]

The possible values for this attribute are defined by the ST_Pitch simple type (§2.18.73).

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

</complexType>