On Sun, 2023-04-30 at 14:26 -0600, D. R. Evans wrote:
> I have looked everywhere I can think of, and have been unable to find
> an 
> answer -- among the ridiculous number of ways that fonts appear to be
> controlled in Thunderbird -- that works for this issue :-(
> 
> I recently changed to a larger monitor, and, after lots of twiddling,
> have 
> more-or-less got most programs looking reasonably sensible. But
> Thunderbird is 
> being recalcitrant.
> 
> I am using TB 102.10.0, which is the current version in the debian
> stable 
> repositories, on 64-bit debian stable.
> 
> Here is the issue:
> 
> When I open TB, I see three panes: one runs the full height of the TB
> window, 
> and is on the left of the screen. It contains a list of the TB e-mail
> folders. 
> The remaining space is divided into two panes, one vertically above
> the other. 
> The second pane, the top one of these two, shows the subjects of
> received 
> e-mails in whatever folder is selected in the first pane. The third
> pane, 
> below the second one, is where the contents of e-mails are displayed.
> 
> I have TB configured so as to display incoming e-mail as plain text.
> They 
> display correctly, BUT the font used to display the contents in the
> third pane 
> is too large on the new monitor. How *exactly* do I control the size
> of the 
> font used to display the contents of received plain text e-mails?
> 
> That is:
> 
> --------------------------------------
> >  |                                 |
> >  |                                 |
> >  |                                 |
> >  |---------------------------------|
> >  |                                 | <- how to control font size
> >  |                                 | <- in this pane??
> --------------------------------------
> 
>    Doc
> 


Hi, D.R.,

If I understand your question correctly, try this:

Click on the pane that shows the message contents, to select it. 
Then Ctrl + and Ctrl - let's you resize the contents of the pane,
bigger or smaller, respectively. 

Works on my Thunderbird, 102.10.0. 

HTH!



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