Just registering my agreement on this. It would be great to be able to make the 
text in individual HTML messages bigger.

> On Aug 18, 2019, at 7:17 PM, leo <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> The two sutblties you mention are correct. But I disgree with your assesment 
> that it is not unraseable to leave html as is. Even browsers can change the 
> overall size of standard HTML!
> 
> It would be very helpful for people with slightly deteriorating eye-sight to 
> be able to nudge up the font sizes in an email without resorting to 
> underlying accessibility features of the OS.
> 
> Leo
> 
> On 19 Aug 2019, at 5:07, Bill Cole wrote:
> 
> On 18 Aug 2019, at 13:42, Roger Bohn wrote:
> 
> I have been trying and asking for years. It is possible to change fonts of 
> metadata like subject and the interface. But I have not found a way to 
> enlarge the text itself. With my eyes, that is a major annoyance.
> 
> The command-key and menu commands somehow work for me, given 2 subtleties:
> 
> 1. The body area is active, i.e. it's the last region clicked.
> 2. The body is not a rendering of an HTML part that specifies a font size.
> 
> #2 is not an unreasonable design choice. There's no universal need to specify 
> font size in HTML. It is perfectly reasonable and common in mail software to 
> compose HTML mail without an explicit font size, as MailMate does when 
> generating HTML, so when an HTML message does specify a font size it is a 
> sign that the font size is important and should be honored.
> 
> That makes rational sense, although it is not compatible with how some 
> composers of HTML behave. Unfortunately, messages with overspecified HTML 
> also tend to have inadequate plain text alternative parts or none at all, so 
> while "Prefs->Viewer->Message View->Prefer plain text" will usually make it 
> possible to adjust font size. as a practical matter that is likely to be 
> inadequate. Hopefully at some point Benny will replicate what Safari does to 
> zoom text to have mercy on old guys like me...
> 
> 
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