On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 08:49:10AM -0500, mike polniak wrote: > The tiny fonts in Netscape arise because X interprets font sizes to > be about 2 points smaller than windows does. So Netscape type in linux appears > smaller compared to windows (which most sites use). This is not too bad at > large > font sizes but it becomes too small as the fonts get smaller.
Um, you sure it's not because Netscape is brain-damaged? Look at your Netscape.ad files and see what Netscape does when you have HTML with <FONT SIZE="-1">.... ! There are 7 font sizes, 1 thru 7. The default font is 3, and the others ! are based on this. The default increment is 20%, which means that the 4 ! is 20% larger than the 3, the 5 is 40% larger, and so on. ! *documentFonts.sizeIncrement: 20 Yes, that means that "-1" is a 20% change in the size of a font. A nice crisp font quickly becomes unreadable when it gets cut by 20% at each step, or insanely huge when it grows by 20% for each step. Add this to ~/.Xresources: Netscape*documentFonts.sizeIncrement: 5 Then do 'xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources'. (This should be done automatically on future logins, but why bother logging out of X just to fix Netscape?) Now, restart Netscape and it should be MUCH more legible. (And, no, I have no idea why the 20% default other than massive drug use.) -- CueCat decoder .signature by Larry Wall: #!/usr/bin/perl -n printf "Serial: %s Type: %s Code: %s\n", map { tr/a-zA-Z0-9+-/ -_/; $_ = unpack 'u', chr(32 + length()*3/4) . $_; s/\0+$//; $_ ^= "C" x length; } /\.([^.]+)/g;