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

[leo]

> Thanks for the enlightening discussions from everyone. I will try more 
> methods on recalcitrant emails.

You won’t believe it, but that’s exactly what I did with the email 
in question - I read it in Emacs!

On 20 Aug 2019, at 0:34, Roger Bohn wrote:

> And Of course, I can always copy the text into a word processor and 
> read it there. [/sarcasm]
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Aug 18, 2019, at 9:11 PM, Bill Cole 
>> <mmlist-20120120 at billmail.scconsult.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 18 Aug 2019, at 19:17, leo wrote:
>>>
>>> The two sutblties you mention are correct. But I disgree with your 
>>> assesment that it is not unraseable to leave html as is. Even 
>>> browsers can change the overall size of standard HTML!
>>
>> So can MailMate, as long as the composer of the HTML has not 
>> specified sizes. If they have provided a reasonable plaintext 
>> alternative part, MM can also display that in the font and size of 
>> your choice.
>>
>> As for reasonability of handling HTML mail, I admit I'm a biased 
>> judge. By calling the current lack of flexibility "reasonable" I only 
>> mean that it makes sense in the context of HTML mail with specified 
>> font sizes.
>> I don't believe HTML mail should exist at all or that 
>> device-dependent presentation details like absolute font sizes have 
>> any place in a markup language.
>>
>>> It would be ***very*** helpful for people with *slightly* 
>>> deteriorating eye-sight to be able to nudge up the font sizes in an 
>>> email without resorting to underlying accessibility features of the 
>>> OS.
>>
>> Yes. As I said:
>>
>>>> Hopefully at some point Benny will replicate what Safari does to 
>>>> zoom text to have mercy on old guys like me...
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Bill Cole
>> bill at scconsult.com or billcole at apache.org
>> (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses)
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