John,
Helpful. Thanks.
I discovered that I needed to copy the gtc-3.0 file to
users/owner/appdata/gnucash. That made the appropriate changes.
First try I made this change:
* {
font: bold 16px consolas, sans-serif;
}
That got me bold text that was about the same size as 15. Understanding it
is pixels not points was helpful. The bold was too much so I removed it from
the gtc-3.0 file using this syntax:
* {
font: 16px consolas, sans-serif;
}
However, that did not remove the bold text.
So, from the link to the CSS reference in your email I tried this:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
p.a {
font: 20px Arial, sans-serif;
}
That removed the bold from the font. Next. I tried to use the same syntax to
increase the font size and set it to 50. I didn't see any difference in the
size of the text in the journals. GnuCash loaded really fast like it wasn't
reading the gtc-3.0 file. Tried changing it to 100 and removing the first 4
lines of the text pluse the p.a. Still didn't seem to enlarge the text.
I'll have to restart my computer and see if that makes a difference. I'm
not familiar with pixels to measure text size. Could it be that the
difference between 50px and 100px is not that significant?
Thanks,
Roger
I am not sure what the p.a means at the beginning of the instructions. Below
that is a p.b
From: John Ralls <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2026 1:43 PM
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [GNC] Ways to make the journal more legible. Windows 11,
GnuCash version 5.14, build 5.14+(2025-12-20)
On Jan 23, 2026, at 10:35, Fred Bone <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]> > wrote:
On 22 January 2026 at 17:16, [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
said:
[...]
I had my hard drive replaced so had to reinstall everything. I did find
the file in users/roger/.gnucash/gtk-3.0. Not exactly the path I was
looking for but I found it. The text was the following:
* {
font: 15px consolas, sans-serif;
}
If I understand correctly, the font is set to 15 points. I could raise it
to 16 and see how it looks. How high could I go? Is there a way to bold
the font? I looked through the guide and did not find these instructions.
Also looked for the same in the Wiki, same. The old man is near blind and
not so programing gifted.
Pixels, not points.
I doubt if there's an upper limit, but you might find 15000px too large.
As for bolding, adding "bold" (without the quotes) could be worth a try.
(It would need to be before the list of fontnames).
This is CSS. There are numerous resources online explaining the syntax.
https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_font_font.php
is a good source.
The GnuCash GUI is CSS-light, see
https://docs.gtk.org/gtk3/css-properties.html. Reports are html so you have
the full range of CSS to play with using the Experimental CSS Stylesheet.
Regards,
John Ralls
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