The basic issue reported in comment #0 involves the attribution line being a different font face than the User configured body composition font.
"If the user backspaces in the first line all the way to the left, the newly typed text picks up the font style of this pre populated text." I quote this for two reasons. Esther is referring to the attribution line as "pre populated text". Then the back space action and resulting font change is a bug occurring because of a whitespace/end-of-line bug in the editor/composer code library. IIRC, it was TB12 had a sudden appearance of a bug that was being masked by the Editor whitespace bug. The essence of the bug was EOL was incorrectly handled as whitespace in some cases. With Editor patched, TB Devs patched their TB bug. We still have font face changing issues with TB and there are current bugs open. The different font face of the attribution is a bug itself and independent of this bug report. Speaking as a TB bug triage team member, I think this bug should be closed since the bug in Editor that was fixed has altered the code-base so the original conditions are changed. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to thunderbird in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/584632 Title: composer changes font mid email Status in Mozilla Thunderbird Mail and News: Confirmed Status in “thunderbird” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: thunderbird As I'm typing my emails in Thunderbird, I can see what appears to be a font size change on screen, normally in the second line of text. The second line appear smaller than the first. It's barely perceptible, so half them time I think I am imagining it. Well, I've started Bccing to myself to check, and the emails I am receiving from myself are not only a different size, they're also a different font. Composer starts in some default serif, and by the second line is sans. I'd bee glad to email someone viz thunderbird, and also send along a screenshot of how it looks while I am typing. Thanks. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/584632/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
