[MlMt] How to increase the font size of a received email?

[Bill Cole]

On 18 Aug 2019, at 13:42, Roger Bohn wrote:

> I have been trying and asking for years. It is possible to change 
> fonts of metadata like subject and the interface. But I have not found 
> a way to enlarge the text itself. With my eyes, that is a major 
> annoyance.

The command-key and menu commands somehow work for me, given 2 
subtleties:

1. The body area is active, i.e. it's the last region clicked.
2. The body is not a rendering of an HTML part that specifies a font 
size.

#2 is not an unreasonable design choice. There's no universal need to 
specify font size in HTML. It is perfectly reasonable and common in mail 
software to compose HTML mail without an explicit font size, as MailMate 
does when generating HTML, so when an HTML message does specify a font 
size it is a sign that the font size is important and should be honored.

That makes rational sense, although it is not compatible with how some 
composers of HTML behave. Unfortunately,  messages with overspecified 
HTML also tend to have inadequate plain text alternative parts or none 
at all, so while "Prefs->Viewer->Message View->Prefer plain text" will 
usually make it possible to adjust font size. as a practical matter that 
is likely to be inadequate. Hopefully at some point Benny will replicate 
what Safari does to zoom text to have mercy on old guys like me...


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Bill Cole
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