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Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> wrote:
> Alang wrote:
> > On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:53:37 +0000, Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Alang wrote:
> >>> Still need a news reader.
> >>> Tried again with Pan and installed Tbird too.
> >>> Tbird has problems with text size. My eyesight isn't too good. I
> >>> can set the body text in agent to a readable size. Can't do it in
> >>> Tbird because it sets quoted text at different sizes. Makes the
> >>> message all but unreadable without constantly altering text size.
> >> You can do this in TB. Have a look in Edit -> Preferences ->
> >> Display tab -> Formatting Tab
> >>
> >> Under the Fonts & Encodings section you can set whatever font and
> >> size you like. I've just changed my fixed width font (my preferred
> >> font) to 14pt and it works fine.
> >
> > I think that was what I did anyway. I know I tried different
> > font/sizes. The quoted text came out in different sizes. Made it
> > difficult to read.
>
> Ah, that'll be the drop-down boxes for 'Style' and 'Size' in the
> 'Plain Text Messages' section. The size box only has options for
> 'Bigger' and 'Smaller'. Is that the one you tried? I must say it is
> an odd feature...
>
> The one I meant was the one below that where you can actually specify
> the actual font size.
As well as it sometimes wanting to use a variable width font instead of
fixed, HTML vs plain text etc, you can (or have to) also specify
different sizes for different encodings which is why it tends to display
different messages, and even different parts of the same message, at
different sizes.
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