BIll Spikowski wrote: > Paul B. Gallagher wrote: >> BIll Spikowski wrote: >>> Paul B. Gallagher wrote: >>>> BIll Spikowski wrote: >>>> >>>>> Paul B. Gallagher wrote: >>>>>> BIll Spikowski wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Actually, all I really want is to be able to set a minimum font size >>>>>>> for plain text emails and not have it automatically apply to the >>>>>>> browser. (Maybe that's a tall order, I wouldn't have any way of >>>>>>> knowing.) >>>>>> >>>>>> Actually, by definition plain text has no font specification. You can >>>>>> set your prefs to use a particular font style and size: >>>>>> Edit | Preferences | Appearance | Fonts | Monospace... >>>>>> but the incoming message itself has no font specification. >>>>>> >>>>>> So for example if you set Monospace to 20 pt Courier and Minimum font >>>>>> size to 14, your browser will obey the 14 point spec (because HTML pages >>>>>> do specify font styles and sizes) but your plain text emails will appear >>>>>> in 20 point Courier. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> In your example, how does the mail client know to use 20 pt instead of >>>>> 14 pt? >>>> >>>> I'm gonna guess that it assumes plain text is fixed-width (monospace). >>> >>> >>> Whatever the reason -- that works for me in the "Compose" window, but >>> not in the preview pane, or after double-clicking incoming messages. >>> >>> That's my biggest problems -- scanning huge numbers of incoming emails >>> on a high-resolution monitor, without having to put my face right >>> against the screen! >>> >>> Is there some way to make this work for incoming emails? >> >> Strange, it works fine for me, except of course for HTML messages. > > > OK -- as long as I know it SHOULD work, I'll see if I can make it work > that way here. It would resolve a long-standing problem for me!
I'm experimenting on three different machines and the results are inconsistent. Setting a "monospace" font and font size always results in that font and size being used in the Compose windows, but I can't figure out why it's so inconsistent as to the preview pane. I understand that this setting won't affect incoming emails that were composed in HTML, but it's inconsistent even on what I believe are plain-text emails. How can I tell which are in plain text for sure? One idea is that some incoming emails might look like plain text because they appear in Courier New, my choice of monospace font, but actually be HTML. On one machine, all incoming plain-text emails appear in Charter BT font, which I recognize because it's the default font I use for word processing documents. However, the only instructions I've given SM regarding Charter BT is to use it as the serif font, which if I'm understanding how all this is supposed to work, shouldn't affect plain-text emails but should apply to websites that don't specify a serif font. In researching this further on-line, the SM font dialog box seems to be inherited from Firefox, which is a surprise to me because I had never been able to find how to set fonts in Firefox. That could explain why SM doesn't provide any documentation of this feature and why confused users posting to this group advise each other around in circles, never truly figuring out how this is supposed to work! Thanks Paul for offering the most knowledgeable advice to date. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
