[MlMt] Zoom and HTML messages
Bill Cole
mmlist-20120120 at billmail.scconsult.com
Mon Apr 21 18:18:10 EDT 2025
On 2025-04-21 at 17:41:20 UTC-0400 (Mon, 21 Apr 2025 14:41:20 -0700)
John Cooper <mailmate at lists.freron.com>
is rumored to have said:
> I use a 4K monitor that I prefer to run at native resolution, which
> often means adjusting text-based interfaces to make them more
> readable. For example, my browser remembers that two news sites I
> visit display at 130% and 150%.
>
> In MailMate, text and markdown messages display as I would wish, but
> HTML messages (usually sent by corporations and mailing lists other
> than this one) are mostly way too small. There's one list in
> particular in which I have to press MailMate's "Zoom In" ten times to
> reach a preferable size.
Indeed, HTML is a terrible fit for email, which gets rendered in so many
different tools that it always looks terrible for someone.
> Two questions:
>
> In MailMate, is there any way to specify the default magnification of
> HTML formatted messages?
Not that I am aware of.
There IS a "Minimum Font Size" set in the Viewer pane of Settings.
> Is there any way to zoom the contents of a message without zoom the
> message window headers (i.e., MailMate-provided headers) too? They are
> comically big after I zoom the message text.
No way that I am aware of.
I expect that making that work would require Benny to refactor the
message viewing part of MM yet again.
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