[MlMt] Change font size in new-message headers?

John D. Muccigrosso muccigrosso at icloud.com
Thu Jul 14 16:53:43 EDT 2016


On 14 Jul 2016, at 16:52, John D. Muccigrosso wrote:

On 14 Jul 2016, at 13:48, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 14 Jul 2016, at 18:49, John D. Muccigrosso wrote:
>
>> On 14 Jul 2016, at 11:52, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:
>>
>
>>> On 14 Jul 2016, at 16:22, John D. Muccigrosso wrote:
>>>
>
>>>> Is it possible to change the font size in the header section of new 
>>>> messages (where the to:, subject:, etc appear)?
>
>>>
>>> No, these are standard GUI elements. I believe the best way to 
>>> resize the interface in general is to use the Displays preferences 
>>> pane in System Preferences.
>
>>
>> That’s disappointing. I think they’re too small by a point or 
>> two, but don’t have a problem with the rest of the system settings, 
>> so I don’t want to change them.
>
> With “new messages” I assumed you meant the Composer. If that is 
> not the case then you can change the font like you do with other parts 
> of the GUI (click on the view to focus it and then use “Format ▸ 
> Show Fonts”). The size of the headers view is not updated until 
> after you change the selected message.

I do mean Composer (I guess). See the screen shot here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/xb9093jigejnw4l/Screenshot%202016-07-14%2016.48.06.png

>> But which pane is it? I don’t see the relevant info in Displays.
>
> I'm on a Retina machine now which provides a “Scaled” option in 
> the Displays preferences pane, but I'm not sure it's the same on 
> non-Retina. I cannot test that right now.

Well, I’ve got the option to scale the resolution, but that’s 
definitely not something I want to do.

John


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