Change font size for composing (version 17.0.6)

Jon

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May 18, 2013, 8:48:17 PM5/18/13

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My font size for composing is way too small. I went to tools> options>
composition and set it to large, clicked "send options" chose "send in
both plain text and HTML" clicked OK, exited Thunderbird, reopened it
but nothing changed.

What am I missing here?

Ron K.

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May 18, 2013, 9:09:36 PM5/18/13

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Jon on 5/18/2013 8:48 PM, keyboarded a reply:

Your having a Display issue, right city, wrong ball bark. Use the
Display tab and click the Advanced button. I'll not comment on all the
items, the two to get you started. First id the top dropdown bix. This
is for setting up fonts for each of the encodings. Pick an encoding and
then pick fonts in the middle section.

Second focus is on Min Font Size. This defaults to none which is fine
for the FF browser since web pages usually manage display size. Not so
great for TB. I usually set Min to 14. Probably want to set this for
each encoding to reduce variances when sender uses a different encoding.

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Mike Easter

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May 18, 2013, 9:22:06 PM5/18/13

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Jon wrote:
> My font size for composing is way too small.

Do you want to compose in html or plaintext?

> I went to tools> options> composition and set it to large, clicked
> "send options" chose "send in both plain text and HTML" clicked OK,
> exited Thunderbird, reopened it but nothing changed.

Sending both plaintext and html version control doesn't affect what you
are talking about.

> What am I missing here?

Tb developers are inclined to think in terms of people wanting to use Tb
for a mail agent and do things in html. We need to figure out if you
are going /with/ the grain or /against/ the grain.

Those of use who want to use Tb as a news agent and in plaintext are
clearly going against the design grain.

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Chris Ilias

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May 19, 2013, 1:21:38 PM5/19/13

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1. Go to Tools-->Options-->Display-->Formatting, then click on
[Advanced], which should open the advanced font options panel.
2. Beside "Monospace" there should be a "Size" setting. Set that to
whatever size you want.
3. Click [OK].
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WaltS

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May 19, 2013, 1:45:29 PM5/19/13

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Along with the other suggestions, users will be happy to know (or
not)that zoom functionality will be available in the compose window for
the next mainstream, and ESR version 24.0.

Available now if you want to use/test Thunderbird beta.

<http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/all-beta.html>

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Mike Easter

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May 19, 2013, 2:05:02 PM5/19/13

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Chris Ilias wrote:
> On 2013-05-18 8:48 PM, Jon wrote:
>> My font size for composing is way too small. I went to tools> options>
>> composition and set it to large, clicked "send options" chose "send in
>> both plain text and HTML" clicked OK, exited Thunderbird, reopened it
>> but nothing changed.
>>
>> What am I missing here?
>
> 1. Go to Tools-->Options-->Display-->Formatting, then click on
> [Advanced], which should open the advanced font options panel.
> 2. Beside "Monospace" there should be a "Size" setting. Set that to
> whatever size you want.
> 3. Click [OK].

And realize that that section's settings have a different configuration
setting for every possible item in the top menu called 'Fonts for:'

For example, in this message, my (outgoing mail) encoding is set to
Unicode, but I am currently replying to Chris's message which is encoded
with iso 8859-1 which causes my compose encoding to be 8859-1 which
means that if I don't have my Monospace for 8859-1 configured for a
particular size font (because I set it with Unicode in the top menu).

IMO the Tb font management maze is Byzantine -- meaning overly complex
and intricate (or even devious) and non-intuitive (as opposed to the
font resembling the text-type).

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Mike Easter

Jon

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May 19, 2013, 7:25:13 PM5/19/13

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I fully intend to compose both email and newsgroup messages in plain text.

Jon

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May 19, 2013, 7:27:38 PM5/19/13

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On 5/19/2013 12:21 PM, Chris Ilias wrote:
> On 2013-05-18 8:48 PM, Jon wrote:
>> My font size for composing is way too small. I went to tools> options>
>> composition and set it to large, clicked "send options" chose "send in
>> both plain text and HTML" clicked OK, exited Thunderbird, reopened it
>> but nothing changed.
>>
>> What am I missing here?
>
> 1. Go to Tools-->Options-->Display-->Formatting, then click on
> [Advanced], which should open the advanced font options panel.
> 2. Beside "Monospace" there should be a "Size" setting. Set that to
> whatever size you want.
> 3. Click [OK].

I have it set on 14 but when composing it is more like 2 or 3.

Mike Easter

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May 19, 2013, 7:38:24 PM5/19/13

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Jon wrote:

> Chris Ilias wrote:

>> 1. Go to Tools-->Options-->Display-->Formatting, then click on
>> [Advanced], which should open the advanced font options panel.
>> 2. Beside "Monospace" there should be a "Size" setting. Set that to
>> whatever size you want.
>> 3. Click [OK].
>
> I have it set on 14 but when composing it is more like 2 or 3.

You are encoding as ISO 8859-1 here. That corresponds to the concept of
'Western'.

Put your top menu 'Fonts for:' on Western and configure a size for the
mono and see if that helps.

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Mike Easter

Jon

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May 19, 2013, 10:08:33 PM5/19/13

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I just went in to do that and found that it already is on Western.