MCBastos wrote:
Interviewed by CNN on 01/04/2014 23:23, Mort told the world:
I get the same problem of changing fonts willy-nilly, but only when
replying to someone's e-mail. When I compose an original e-mail, this
never happens.
Hmmm, a possible reason: maybe you _don't have_ the same font that was
originally used to write the message. (You can check by looking at the
source code of the original message).
I didn't test this, but a reasonable hypothesis for what is happening
would be:
- Message asks for a font you dont't have (say, Helvetica, which is
rarely available on Windows or Linux but not uncommon in Macs)
I have 5 Arial fonts in Windows XP and one in W7 Pro. Standard
out-of-the-box installation, not add-on fonts.
- Netscape displays message using a substitute font (like, for instance,
Arial) -- there are font substitution tables to handle common cases like
this, replacing fonts with roughly similar ones.
- You open message for replying. E-mail HTML editor can't find the
original font.
- HTML editor falls back to _your default_ font, which may be different
from the substitute font it used for display.
--
Ed Mullen
http://edmullen.net/
"That's a hell of an ambition, to be mellow. It's like wanting to be
senile." - Randy Newman
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