L.1.9.2 Font Reference Types

In the example above, two attributes were present, both referring to the font face with primary name Arial Black. This simple case illustrates the ability for a WordprocessingML document to store up to four fonts which can be used on the contents of a run, as follows:

ASCII font High ANSI font East Asian font Complex Script font

Each of these font faces is used to format the characters in the run that fall under their purview:

The ASCII font formats all characters in the ASCII range (Unicode character values U+0000–U+007F). This font is specified using the ascii attribute on the rFonts element.

The East Asian font formats all characters that belong to Unicode sub ranges for East Asian languages. This font is specified using the eastAsia attribute on the rFonts element.

The complex script font formats all characters that belong to Unicode sub ranges for complex script languages. This font is specified using the cs attribute on the rFonts element.

The high ANSI font formats all characters that belong to Unicode sub ranges other than those explicitly included by one of the groups above. This font is specified using the hAnsi attribute on the rFonts element.

For example, consider a run of text defined as follows:

<w:r>
  <w:rPr>
    <w:rFonts w:ascii="Arial Black" w:hAnsi="Arial Black" w:cs="Arial"
      w:eastAsia="SimSun"/>
  </w:rPr>
  …
</w:r>

The rFonts element specifies that the contents of this run are formatted as follows:

Complex script characters used the Arial font East Asian characters used the SimSun font All other characters used the Arial Black font