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! _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
