G Tod wrote:
Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
G Tod wrote:
Received e-mail messages, it seems just the html- type, have really
small fonts, too tiny to read, really. It's also some ugly serifed font
that I can't stand. I can't seem to find any way to change
this....help?
A couple of things you can do:
1) Use CTRL-mouse wheel to vary the zoom to your liking, CTRL-0 to
return to the default setting;
2) In Edit | Preferences | Appearance | Fonts, choose your favorite
typefaces for various languages, and set minimum sizes if that's
important to you. You may also want to uncheck the box, "Allow documents
to use other fonts." The "monospace" setting at bottom applies to
plain-text messages like this one.
HTH
Thanks for the info, but:
1) a temporary work around, I suppose, but it makes some of the text in
these e-mails huge! Also, I did not have this problem before. Oops,
forgot to mention, I'm on SM 2.10 and Windows 7, if that makes any
difference.
If you go one click at a time with the mouse wheel, you have finer
control. But of course the proportions are maintained, so if you start
with 6-point type mixed with 12-point type and double that, you get 12
and 24...
2) I did choose my typefaces in Edit | Preferences | Appearance | Fonts,
but why for various languages? I only speak English. I have the
minimum font size at the bottom of this set to 16. I did uncheck the
box "Allow documents to use other fonts." The monospace setting I have
set to Lucida Console, which is what I see as I am typing this, however,
the incoming news messages are appearing with another font, looks like
Verdana to me, which is my setting for "Sans Serif". I have no serifed
fonts selected, but that's what's appearing in these received e-mails.
The program doesn't know anything about your wetware, only about the
incoming message. If the message header specifies that it's in Chinese,
the program looks at the settings for Chinese. For your purposes,
Western is probably the one you want to focus on -- that covers English
and most European languages. If you don't get foreign messages, you can
ignore the other settings.
The Proportional setting has four subsettings (serif, sans-serif,
cursive, fantasy), but the one size setting covers all four. If you want
Lucida Console for all four, then set all four that way and leave "Allow
documents to use other fonts" unchecked.
The most important setting if your incoming mail looks too small is the
minimum font size. The basic size setting applies when the HTML document
(message or web page) doesn't specify a size; the minimum kicks in if it
does specify a size smaller than the minimum. I use a 14 pt minimum,
which is adequate for my needs, YMMV. But I find that I need a larger
size for less familiar languages: русский текст читаю неплохо, а 한국말
을 잘 못합니다.
Also be aware that some web designers specify the sizes of boxes and
other text regions in pixels, so a too-large minimum setting means not
all the text in those regions is visible. Best practice, of course, is
to allow such boxes to expand as needed, but not all designers think
that way. Many seem to assume that the entire world has the same display
settings and visual acuity as they do.
So, it almost appears that my outgoing mail and news messages are using
the settings in Edit | Preferences | Appearance | Fonts, but most of my
incoming is ignoring these settings...?
If you're composing in plain text, you can't specify a font or size.
Your recipient sees whatever font and size /his/ settings specify, and
you see whatever font and size /your/ settings specify.
If you're composing in HTML, you can choose from a variety of fonts in
the pull-down list on the toolbar at the top of the message composition
window, but just as you did above, the recipient can overrule these
requests. Remember these are only requests; you can't force anyone to
see anything unless you convert your message to a graphic.
--
War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.
--
Paul B. Gallagher
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