And here is the reply that I received from the mailing list.
 Unfortunately, when using quick reply, you don't get the new larger font,
only on new messages.  I will work on applying the css to that text area as
well. If there was a way to do JS injection, I think I could solve this
darn  cursor key not working until you tab and shift tab back
<tab-shift-tba> (just tab used to work a week ago, damn you "new look ) to
the text area.

It's a little large, so I won't abuse email and post it inline, but you
will clearly get the idea that it is the right size, and is also clearly
not a monospaced font.

Oh, keep in mind, many of you may not have "Consolas" and "DejaVu Sans
Mono" is sort of the "Monaco" of windows from what I gather.  If you want
Consolas, which is a wonderful programmers font, and has taken over Monaco *for
me*, ( I know, the *blasphemy*, but it is *that* good ).  Over 15 years of
Monaco, not a simple decision for sure.

It is made by Microsoft ( Don't freak out just yet :) ) It was designed for
programmers, for easy readability at small sizes – it meets those
standards. If you have Office installed, which I hope you don't, then you
have Consolas.  Since you are cool and don't have Office installed, you can
download it from here:
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=17879

Enjoy!

-- 
Scott



On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 5:08 AM, Scott Haneda <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello fello MailPlane users,
>
> This is a test to show that you can in fact make the type larger just in
> the <textarea> where you type.  I have mine set to a  monospaced font since
> I sometimes write code to others and it looks better to me.
>
> My aging eyes were asking for this, but I didn't like the idea of bumping
> up the entire screen and blowing out the entire layout, though google does
> a pretty decent job pf scaling up to a point.
>
> The other nice thing about this, is the recipient is none the wise, this
> is just a display font issue, which you can see in the received screen shot
> that I will reply to this email form as soon as google groups delivers is.
>
> The css to make this happen is:
>     .lw-avf {
>         font: 1em/1.25em Consolas, Monaco, "DejaVu Sans Mono", monospace
>     }
>
> I went css shorthand to keep it clean.  You can change the fonts logically
> – the 1em/1.25em is the font-size/line height.  google seems to use 1.0em
> as a baseline for all fonts, probebly the result of a css reset
> implementation.
>
> Hope this helps some of you have an easier time typing on smaller screens
> like this aging 13" MacBook.
>
> * Installation - Copy and paste the css from
> ( http://pastie.org/2903152 ) or use this email, though there may be
> issues with line breaks.
>
> Put it in a a text file if you don't already have a MailPlane css file in
> use.  Store it somewhere appropriate, I store mine in:
> /Users/scott/Library/Application Support/Mailplane/custom.css
>
> Open your MailPlane preferences and check off the "Use Custom Style
> Sheets" option.
>
> [image: Screen Shot 2011-11-22 at 5.02.17 AM.png]
>
> If you have any questions or suggestions, please let me know.  As soon as
> googles "New Look" settles down, and I get a grasp on how their css works,
> I will make a Safari Extenstion that coverts this.  I just hope it can be
> used somehow in MailPlane.  However, I head there new new things on the
> horizon with 3.0.
>
> The extension would allow me to add fields were users can simply enter in
> values.  If the extensions is not an option, I will just make a very simple
> GUI that writes out a text file, stores it somewhere, and toggle the
> defaults.write commands to enable the custom css setting.
>
> Then I can have control over ads, fonts, disabling the display of certain
> text style buttons that I never use such as align-center, size, and smiley
> faces.  I could offer an option to remove the "plain text" feaster, or at
> least make is smaller along with check spelling and get it to all fit on
> one line. All this is about space minimization for us poor 13" users
> who don't have all the screen real estimable in the world.
>
> Screen shot coming up to show this is only cosmetic, and doesn't effect
> the recipient.  Hope you enjoy, or if not, hope you know someone who will,
> and if not, I hope you learn that MailPlane isa  pretty damn flexible app.
>
> Thats all, have a good day.
>
> --
> Scott
>

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