How to make italics the default typing font in Apple Mail ?

2009-02-08 Thread Steven Knowles
I can't seem to get italics to reflect in the default font which is used by Apple Mail when typing an email. I assume this must be done via Apple Mail Preferences Fonts Colours Message Font Select... I can get the font type itself to change, but when I select italics, using for

Re: How to make italics the default typing font in Apple Mail ?

2009-02-08 Thread James / Hans Kunz
italics is not a font, it's a font effect and normally you type in verdana then select the block to make it italics, then as i mentioned in a earlier posting, if the receiver has not verdana (or the same font set installed as you) then the letter/webpage/word doc/ pdf file will appear

Re: How to make italics the default typing font in Apple Mail ?

2009-02-08 Thread Steven Knowles
Thanks James. If however I launch Entourage, I can go into Entourage Preferences General Preferences Fonts, then for the field HTML messages (proprtional) I can select Verdana Italic. Then if I create a new message with Entourage and start typing, I'm typing in italics. This also

Re: How to make italics the default typing font in Apple Mail ?

2009-02-08 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
On 08/02/2009, at 10:14 PM, Steven Knowles wrote: If however I launch Entourage, I can go into Entourage Preferences General Preferences Fonts, then for the field HTML messages (proprtional) I can select Verdana Italic. Then if I create a new message with Entourage and start typing,