[Gloucs] Type faces.

[GEOFF BAGLEY]

See below.

--- On Wed, 23/11/11, Bob Henson <robert.h.henson at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Bob Henson <robert.h.henson at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Gloucs] Type faces.
> To: gloucs at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Date: Wednesday, 23 November, 2011, 17:04
> On Wed, 2011-11-23 at 15:06 +0000,
> GEOFF BAGLEY wrote:
> > I am playing with Debian Icedove.
> > 
> > Who determines the received type font of a
> message,  the sender or
> > the recipient?
> 
> The recipient determines the displayed font.
> 
> > I am hoping to inclease the size and boldness of
> incoming mail.
> 
> If Icedove is exactly the same as the Thunderbird on which
> it is based,
> the settings are under Edit > Preferences > Display
> > Formatting >
> Advanced. You may need to set different settings depending
> on the
> inbound character encoding - there's a tab at the top of
> the page to
> select different encodings. Thunderbird very confusingly
> calls them
> "languages" not encodings - most are self explanatory, but
> I recall you
> need to set "Other Languages" to cope with UTF-8. It has
> always been
> very difficult in Thunderbird/Icedove.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Bob

Thanks Bob.

I am now getting some of the received mail lines in bold but others
still thin/feint .  
I am still trying.

A problem is my ignorance of all the terminology, particularly the names of all the type faces/encodings/languages.

Thanks anyway.

Geoff
> 
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