Re: secondary font in email composition

2014-01-24 Thread Trane Francks

On 1/25/14 4:17 AM +0900, Ed Mullen wrote:

Trane Francks wrote:

On 1/22/14 12:02 PM +0900, jim wrote:

On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 21:51:15 -0500, Ed Mullen
 in mozilla.support.seamonkey wrote:


EE wrote:

Paul B. Gallagher wrote:

Rob wrote:

jim  wrote:

Seamonkey 2.9.1

that the email composition font is liable to change from your
setting
for
html messages to variable font mixed (i think that is what it is) is
not
longer something i beat myself up for as something "i am doing"
since i
find out it happens to other people (and even with thunderbird).  I
found
it several years ago and changed it form a serif (times roman or
courier
or similar) to match my primary arial composition font and size as
close
as possible and can not 'refind" it since i have made a recent
change in
my html font from "large" to extra large".

cutting to the chase: does anyone know where the setting for the
secondary
default font for email composition in Seamonkey is?

jim


Please note that once you change the font setting for mail
composition,
things become extremely buggy.  You will not be able to predict what
happens when you backspace, cut-and-paste, reply to part of a
message,
etc.  It worked okay in the past but it has been broken and
apparently
it is not going to be fixed.

It may work sort of reasonable in the extremely old version that you
use.


Strange you should say that; I've customized my font settings pretty
extensively and not had any trouble as a result. I certainly haven't
seen spaces vanish or characters move around without permission.

Like Ed, I don't know what a "secondary font" could be.


Probably it is the font used by the sender of the message rather than
the one you choose to display messages.



Well, until the OP chimes in we'll never know.


possibly "secondary default font" was a poor description.  I will quietly
drop the subject, i've only been using Netscape and then Son of Netscape
for twenty years.

cheers now,

jim


Me, too, and I haven't a clue what you mean, either. LOL

For what it's worth, I find that pasting into an HTML mail often gets
the font 'stuck' in preformat mode and I have to consciously change back
to body text. Maybe related?



Try right_click and choose Paste Without Formatting?


That's the preferred method when retaining formatting is undesired. 
There are situations where pasting with formatting is desirable. In 
those situations, I have to try to remember to pad my paste area with 
carriage returns so I can easily move from pasting back to writing in my 
original font.


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Re: secondary font in email composition

2014-01-24 Thread Ed Mullen

Trane Francks wrote:

On 1/22/14 12:02 PM +0900, jim wrote:

On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 21:51:15 -0500, Ed Mullen
 in mozilla.support.seamonkey wrote:


EE wrote:

Paul B. Gallagher wrote:

Rob wrote:

jim  wrote:

Seamonkey 2.9.1

that the email composition font is liable to change from your
setting
for
html messages to variable font mixed (i think that is what it is) is
not
longer something i beat myself up for as something "i am doing"
since i
find out it happens to other people (and even with thunderbird).  I
found
it several years ago and changed it form a serif (times roman or
courier
or similar) to match my primary arial composition font and size as
close
as possible and can not 'refind" it since i have made a recent
change in
my html font from "large" to extra large".

cutting to the chase: does anyone know where the setting for the
secondary
default font for email composition in Seamonkey is?

jim


Please note that once you change the font setting for mail
composition,
things become extremely buggy.  You will not be able to predict what
happens when you backspace, cut-and-paste, reply to part of a
message,
etc.  It worked okay in the past but it has been broken and
apparently
it is not going to be fixed.

It may work sort of reasonable in the extremely old version that you
use.


Strange you should say that; I've customized my font settings pretty
extensively and not had any trouble as a result. I certainly haven't
seen spaces vanish or characters move around without permission.

Like Ed, I don't know what a "secondary font" could be.


Probably it is the font used by the sender of the message rather than
the one you choose to display messages.



Well, until the OP chimes in we'll never know.


possibly "secondary default font" was a poor description.  I will quietly
drop the subject, i've only been using Netscape and then Son of Netscape
for twenty years.

cheers now,

jim


Me, too, and I haven't a clue what you mean, either. LOL

For what it's worth, I find that pasting into an HTML mail often gets
the font 'stuck' in preformat mode and I have to consciously change back
to body text. Maybe related?



Try right_click and choose Paste Without Formatting?


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Re: secondary font in email composition

2014-01-24 Thread Paul B. Gallagher

jim wrote:


On Wed, 22 Jan 2014 13:47:16 +0900, Trane Francks  in
mozilla.support.seamonkey wrote:


For what it's worth, I find that pasting into an HTML mail often gets
the font 'stuck' in preformat mode and I have to consciously change back
to body text. Maybe related?


When you paste something into your email, your next line will assume the
same font and attributes (if html email) of the paste object.

When i know i am going to paste a bit into the email, i often will type
"X" on several times and paste into the middle of that so that my font is
unchanged when i start keying the next line under the paste object.


Good strategy.

It seems to matter what formatting attributes are placed on the 
clipboard by the sending application. For example, I often work with MS 
Access and MS Word, and if I copy/paste field contents from Access into 
Word, they take on the attributes of the surrounding Word context. So I 
can paste the same bit of text in a bold context and get bolding, and 
then paste it in an italic context and get italics. Access apparently 
does not put any formatting attributes on the clipboard (except of 
course that when copying multiple cells fro a table, it includes the 
table structure).


For SeaMonkey/Composer, some source documents seem to provoke 
application of the Preformat paragraph style, while others do not. An 
easy way around this is to do Insert | HTML and paste or type your text 
into that dialog. Since it will contain no tags, the text will take on 
the formatting of its surroundings, and it will not affect the 
formatting of the following text.


Of course, if you want to retain the source document's format in the 
quoted text, your strategy is easiest.


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Re: secondary font in email composition

2014-01-24 Thread jim
On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 22:02:52 -0500, jim  in
mozilla.support.seamonkey wrote:

>On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 21:51:15 -0500, Ed Mullen
> in mozilla.support.seamonkey wrote:
>
>>EE wrote:
>>> Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
 Rob wrote:
> jim  wrote:
>> Seamonkey 2.9.1
>>
>> that the email composition font is liable to change from your setting
>> for
>> html messages to variable font mixed (i think that is what it is) is
>> not
>> longer something i beat myself up for as something "i am doing" since i
>> find out it happens to other people (and even with thunderbird).  I
>> found
>> it several years ago and changed it form a serif (times roman or
>> courier
>> or similar) to match my primary arial composition font and size as
>> close
>> as possible and can not 'refind" it since i have made a recent
>> change in
>> my html font from "large" to extra large".
>>
>> cutting to the chase: does anyone know where the setting for the
>> secondary
>> default font for email composition in Seamonkey is?
>>
>> jim
>
> Please note that once you change the font setting for mail composition,
> things become extremely buggy.  You will not be able to predict what
> happens when you backspace, cut-and-paste, reply to part of a message,
> etc.  It worked okay in the past but it has been broken and apparently
> it is not going to be fixed.
>
> It may work sort of reasonable in the extremely old version that you
> use.

 Strange you should say that; I've customized my font settings pretty
 extensively and not had any trouble as a result. I certainly haven't
 seen spaces vanish or characters move around without permission.

 Like Ed, I don't know what a "secondary font" could be.

>>> Probably it is the font used by the sender of the message rather than
>>> the one you choose to display messages.
>>>
>>
>>Well, until the OP chimes in we'll never know.
>
>possibly "secondary default font" was a poor description.  I will quietly
>drop the subject, i've only been using Netscape and then Son of Netscape
>for twenty years. 
 (for years seamonkey carried system files from one version to another
that still had the header "This Is a netscape file, do not edit" -- which,
of course, only meant to close the app before editing that file)
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Re: secondary font in email composition

2014-01-24 Thread jim
On Wed, 22 Jan 2014 13:47:16 +0900, Trane Francks  in
mozilla.support.seamonkey wrote:

>For what it's worth, I find that pasting into an HTML mail often gets 
>the font 'stuck' in preformat mode and I have to consciously change back 
>to body text. Maybe related?

When you paste something into your email, your next line will assume the
same font and attributes (if html email) of the paste object.

When i know i am going to paste a bit into the email, i often will type
"X" on several times and paste into the middle of that so that my font is
unchanged when i start keying the next line under the paste object.

Now, that may or may not have had anything to do with what you are talking
about.   :-)  

I made a poor description of my problem -- as i said the same thing occurs
in Thunderbird according to a friend in Ohio and this "first hit" on
google, and obviously on other OS platforms ---
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/+bug/584632

(reply expected saying that this is the Seamonkey forum.  LOL)

Cheers,

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Re: secondary font in email composition

2014-01-21 Thread Trane Francks

On 1/22/14 12:02 PM +0900, jim wrote:

On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 21:51:15 -0500, Ed Mullen
 in mozilla.support.seamonkey wrote:


EE wrote:

Paul B. Gallagher wrote:

Rob wrote:

jim  wrote:

Seamonkey 2.9.1

that the email composition font is liable to change from your setting
for
html messages to variable font mixed (i think that is what it is) is
not
longer something i beat myself up for as something "i am doing" since i
find out it happens to other people (and even with thunderbird).  I
found
it several years ago and changed it form a serif (times roman or
courier
or similar) to match my primary arial composition font and size as
close
as possible and can not 'refind" it since i have made a recent
change in
my html font from "large" to extra large".

cutting to the chase: does anyone know where the setting for the
secondary
default font for email composition in Seamonkey is?

jim


Please note that once you change the font setting for mail composition,
things become extremely buggy.  You will not be able to predict what
happens when you backspace, cut-and-paste, reply to part of a message,
etc.  It worked okay in the past but it has been broken and apparently
it is not going to be fixed.

It may work sort of reasonable in the extremely old version that you
use.


Strange you should say that; I've customized my font settings pretty
extensively and not had any trouble as a result. I certainly haven't
seen spaces vanish or characters move around without permission.

Like Ed, I don't know what a "secondary font" could be.


Probably it is the font used by the sender of the message rather than
the one you choose to display messages.



Well, until the OP chimes in we'll never know.


possibly "secondary default font" was a poor description.  I will quietly
drop the subject, i've only been using Netscape and then Son of Netscape
for twenty years.

cheers now,

jim


Me, too, and I haven't a clue what you mean, either. LOL

For what it's worth, I find that pasting into an HTML mail often gets 
the font 'stuck' in preformat mode and I have to consciously change back 
to body text. Maybe related?


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Re: secondary font in email composition

2014-01-21 Thread Ed Mullen

jim wrote:

On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 21:51:15 -0500, Ed Mullen
 in mozilla.support.seamonkey wrote:


EE wrote:

Paul B. Gallagher wrote:

Rob wrote:

jim  wrote:

Seamonkey 2.9.1

that the email composition font is liable to change from your setting
for
html messages to variable font mixed (i think that is what it is) is
not
longer something i beat myself up for as something "i am doing" since i
find out it happens to other people (and even with thunderbird).  I
found
it several years ago and changed it form a serif (times roman or
courier
or similar) to match my primary arial composition font and size as
close
as possible and can not 'refind" it since i have made a recent
change in
my html font from "large" to extra large".

cutting to the chase: does anyone know where the setting for the
secondary
default font for email composition in Seamonkey is?

jim


Please note that once you change the font setting for mail composition,
things become extremely buggy.  You will not be able to predict what
happens when you backspace, cut-and-paste, reply to part of a message,
etc.  It worked okay in the past but it has been broken and apparently
it is not going to be fixed.

It may work sort of reasonable in the extremely old version that you
use.


Strange you should say that; I've customized my font settings pretty
extensively and not had any trouble as a result. I certainly haven't
seen spaces vanish or characters move around without permission.

Like Ed, I don't know what a "secondary font" could be.


Probably it is the font used by the sender of the message rather than
the one you choose to display messages.



Well, until the OP chimes in we'll never know.


possibly "secondary default font" was a poor description.  I will quietly
drop the subject, i've only been using Netscape and then Son of Netscape
for twenty years.

cheers now,

jim



Uh, okay.  That was decidedly non-elucidating.

Color me non-plussed.


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Re: secondary font in email composition

2014-01-21 Thread jim
On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 12:29:15 -0500, "Larry S."
 in mozilla.support.seamonkey wrote:

>jim wrote:
>> Seamonkey 2.9.1
>>
>> that the email composition font is liable to change from your setting for
>> html messages to variable font mixed (i think that is what it is) is not
>> longer something i beat myself up for as something "i am doing" since i
>> find out it happens to other people (and even with thunderbird).  I found
>> it several years ago and changed it form a serif (times roman or courier
>> or similar) to match my primary arial composition font and size as close
>> as possible and can not 'refind" it since i have made a recent change in
>> my html font from "large" to extra large".
>>
>> cutting to the chase: does anyone know where the setting for the secondary
>> default font for email composition in Seamonkey is?
>>
>> jim
>>
>>
>Just wondering--might this be a Linux problem? The responses from 
>Windows users (admittedly,only a few) don't seem to mention the problem.
>
>Larry S.

A reasonable question Larry, i am using windows XP 32 bit.


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Re: secondary font in email composition

2014-01-21 Thread Ed Mullen

jim wrote:

On Sun, 19 Jan 2014 13:28:08 -0500, Ed Mullen
 in mozilla.support.seamonkey wrote:


jim wrote:

Seamonkey 2.9.1

that the email composition font is liable to change from your setting for
html messages to variable font mixed (i think that is what it is) is not
longer something i beat myself up for as something "i am doing" since i
find out it happens to other people (and even with thunderbird).  I found
it several years ago and changed it form a serif (times roman or courier
or similar) to match my primary arial composition font and size as close
as possible and can not 'refind" it since i have made a recent change in
my html font from "large" to extra large".

cutting to the chase: does anyone know where the setting for the secondary
default font for email composition in Seamonkey is?

jim




Not quite sure what you mean by "secondary font", Jim.  But, the font
settings are in:

Edit - Preferences - Appearance - Fonts.


Thanks for the reply, Ed.



You're welcome.

Still, what do you mean by "secondary font"???  Seems to be a 
non-standard term and no one replying to this thread seems to get it 
(including me!!!)



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Re: secondary font in email composition

2014-01-21 Thread jim
On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 21:51:15 -0500, Ed Mullen
 in mozilla.support.seamonkey wrote:

>EE wrote:
>> Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
>>> Rob wrote:
 jim  wrote:
> Seamonkey 2.9.1
>
> that the email composition font is liable to change from your setting
> for
> html messages to variable font mixed (i think that is what it is) is
> not
> longer something i beat myself up for as something "i am doing" since i
> find out it happens to other people (and even with thunderbird).  I
> found
> it several years ago and changed it form a serif (times roman or
> courier
> or similar) to match my primary arial composition font and size as
> close
> as possible and can not 'refind" it since i have made a recent
> change in
> my html font from "large" to extra large".
>
> cutting to the chase: does anyone know where the setting for the
> secondary
> default font for email composition in Seamonkey is?
>
> jim

 Please note that once you change the font setting for mail composition,
 things become extremely buggy.  You will not be able to predict what
 happens when you backspace, cut-and-paste, reply to part of a message,
 etc.  It worked okay in the past but it has been broken and apparently
 it is not going to be fixed.

 It may work sort of reasonable in the extremely old version that you
 use.
>>>
>>> Strange you should say that; I've customized my font settings pretty
>>> extensively and not had any trouble as a result. I certainly haven't
>>> seen spaces vanish or characters move around without permission.
>>>
>>> Like Ed, I don't know what a "secondary font" could be.
>>>
>> Probably it is the font used by the sender of the message rather than
>> the one you choose to display messages.
>>
>
>Well, until the OP chimes in we'll never know.

possibly "secondary default font" was a poor description.  I will quietly
drop the subject, i've only been using Netscape and then Son of Netscape
for twenty years. 

cheers now,

jim
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Re: secondary font in email composition

2014-01-21 Thread jim
On Sun, 19 Jan 2014 13:28:08 -0500, Ed Mullen
 in mozilla.support.seamonkey wrote:

>jim wrote:
>> Seamonkey 2.9.1
>>
>> that the email composition font is liable to change from your setting for
>> html messages to variable font mixed (i think that is what it is) is not
>> longer something i beat myself up for as something "i am doing" since i
>> find out it happens to other people (and even with thunderbird).  I found
>> it several years ago and changed it form a serif (times roman or courier
>> or similar) to match my primary arial composition font and size as close
>> as possible and can not 'refind" it since i have made a recent change in
>> my html font from "large" to extra large".
>>
>> cutting to the chase: does anyone know where the setting for the secondary
>> default font for email composition in Seamonkey is?
>>
>> jim
>>
>>
>
>Not quite sure what you mean by "secondary font", Jim.  But, the font 
>settings are in:
>
>Edit - Preferences - Appearance - Fonts.

Thanks for the reply, Ed.

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Re: secondary font in email composition

2014-01-20 Thread Ed Mullen

EE wrote:

Paul B. Gallagher wrote:

Rob wrote:

jim  wrote:

Seamonkey 2.9.1

that the email composition font is liable to change from your setting
for
html messages to variable font mixed (i think that is what it is) is
not
longer something i beat myself up for as something "i am doing" since i
find out it happens to other people (and even with thunderbird).  I
found
it several years ago and changed it form a serif (times roman or
courier
or similar) to match my primary arial composition font and size as
close
as possible and can not 'refind" it since i have made a recent
change in
my html font from "large" to extra large".

cutting to the chase: does anyone know where the setting for the
secondary
default font for email composition in Seamonkey is?

jim


Please note that once you change the font setting for mail composition,
things become extremely buggy.  You will not be able to predict what
happens when you backspace, cut-and-paste, reply to part of a message,
etc.  It worked okay in the past but it has been broken and apparently
it is not going to be fixed.

It may work sort of reasonable in the extremely old version that you
use.


Strange you should say that; I've customized my font settings pretty
extensively and not had any trouble as a result. I certainly haven't
seen spaces vanish or characters move around without permission.

Like Ed, I don't know what a "secondary font" could be.


Probably it is the font used by the sender of the message rather than
the one you choose to display messages.



Well, until the OP chimes in we'll never know.


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Re: secondary font in email composition

2014-01-20 Thread Dennis
Larry S. wrote:
> jim wrote:
>> Seamonkey 2.9.1
>>
>> that the email composition font is liable to change from your setting for
>> html messages to variable font mixed (i think that is what it is) is not
>> longer something i beat myself up for as something "i am doing" since i
>> find out it happens to other people (and even with thunderbird).  I found
>> it several years ago and changed it form a serif (times roman or courier
>> or similar) to match my primary arial composition font and size as close
>> as possible and can not 'refind" it since i have made a recent change in
>> my html font from "large" to extra large".
>>
>> cutting to the chase: does anyone know where the setting for the secondary
>> default font for email composition in Seamonkey is?
>>
>> jim
>>
>>
> Just wondering--might this be a Linux problem? The responses from 
> Windows users (admittedly,only a few) don't seem to mention the problem.
> 
> Larry S.
> 

Have never seen it here. Haven't heard anything about it from any of my
linux using friends either.

Dennis

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Re: secondary font in email composition

2014-01-20 Thread WaltS

On 01/19/2014 01:15 PM, jim wrote:

Seamonkey 2.9.1

that the email composition font is liable to change from your setting for
html messages to variable font mixed (i think that is what it is) is not
longer something i beat myself up for as something "i am doing" since i
find out it happens to other people (and even with thunderbird).  I found
it several years ago and changed it form a serif (times roman or courier
or similar) to match my primary arial composition font and size as close
as possible and can not 'refind" it since i have made a recent change in
my html font from "large" to extra large".

cutting to the chase: does anyone know where the setting for the secondary
default font for email composition in Seamonkey is?

jim





Did not know there could be a second default. Default in Computer 
Science is,



A particular setting or value for a variable that is assigned automatically by 
an operating system and remains in effect unless canceled or overridden by the 
operator:


REF: [default - definition of default by the Free Online Dictionary, 
Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.](http://www.thefreedictionary.com/default)


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Re: secondary font in email composition

2014-01-20 Thread EE

Paul B. Gallagher wrote:

Rob wrote:

jim  wrote:

Seamonkey 2.9.1

that the email composition font is liable to change from your setting
for
html messages to variable font mixed (i think that is what it is) is not
longer something i beat myself up for as something "i am doing" since i
find out it happens to other people (and even with thunderbird).  I
found
it several years ago and changed it form a serif (times roman or courier
or similar) to match my primary arial composition font and size as close
as possible and can not 'refind" it since i have made a recent change in
my html font from "large" to extra large".

cutting to the chase: does anyone know where the setting for the
secondary
default font for email composition in Seamonkey is?

jim


Please note that once you change the font setting for mail composition,
things become extremely buggy.  You will not be able to predict what
happens when you backspace, cut-and-paste, reply to part of a message,
etc.  It worked okay in the past but it has been broken and apparently
it is not going to be fixed.

It may work sort of reasonable in the extremely old version that you use.


Strange you should say that; I've customized my font settings pretty
extensively and not had any trouble as a result. I certainly haven't
seen spaces vanish or characters move around without permission.

Like Ed, I don't know what a "secondary font" could be.

Probably it is the font used by the sender of the message rather than 
the one you choose to display messages.


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Re: secondary font in email composition

2014-01-20 Thread Larry S.

jim wrote:

Seamonkey 2.9.1

that the email composition font is liable to change from your setting for
html messages to variable font mixed (i think that is what it is) is not
longer something i beat myself up for as something "i am doing" since i
find out it happens to other people (and even with thunderbird).  I found
it several years ago and changed it form a serif (times roman or courier
or similar) to match my primary arial composition font and size as close
as possible and can not 'refind" it since i have made a recent change in
my html font from "large" to extra large".

cutting to the chase: does anyone know where the setting for the secondary
default font for email composition in Seamonkey is?

jim


Just wondering--might this be a Linux problem? The responses from 
Windows users (admittedly,only a few) don't seem to mention the problem.


Larry S.
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Re: secondary font in email composition

2014-01-20 Thread Rob
Paul B. Gallagher  wrote:
> Rob wrote:
>> jim  wrote:
>>> Seamonkey 2.9.1
>>>
>>> that the email composition font is liable to change from your setting for
>>> html messages to variable font mixed (i think that is what it is) is not
>>> longer something i beat myself up for as something "i am doing" since i
>>> find out it happens to other people (and even with thunderbird).  I found
>>> it several years ago and changed it form a serif (times roman or courier
>>> or similar) to match my primary arial composition font and size as close
>>> as possible and can not 'refind" it since i have made a recent change in
>>> my html font from "large" to extra large".
>>>
>>> cutting to the chase: does anyone know where the setting for the secondary
>>> default font for email composition in Seamonkey is?
>>>
>>> jim
>>
>> Please note that once you change the font setting for mail composition,
>> things become extremely buggy.  You will not be able to predict what
>> happens when you backspace, cut-and-paste, reply to part of a message,
>> etc.  It worked okay in the past but it has been broken and apparently
>> it is not going to be fixed.
>>
>> It may work sort of reasonable in the extremely old version that you use.
>
> Strange you should say that; I've customized my font settings pretty 
> extensively and not had any trouble as a result. I certainly haven't 
> seen spaces vanish or characters move around without permission.

Yet there are several open bugs about this, and they all get blamed on
the evil composer that nobody wants to touch.
Users in our company get extremely irritated about it.  Fortunately
there is only 2.5 month to go to the Outlook switchover.
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Re: secondary font in email composition

2014-01-20 Thread Paul B. Gallagher

Rob wrote:

jim  wrote:

Seamonkey 2.9.1

that the email composition font is liable to change from your setting for
html messages to variable font mixed (i think that is what it is) is not
longer something i beat myself up for as something "i am doing" since i
find out it happens to other people (and even with thunderbird).  I found
it several years ago and changed it form a serif (times roman or courier
or similar) to match my primary arial composition font and size as close
as possible and can not 'refind" it since i have made a recent change in
my html font from "large" to extra large".

cutting to the chase: does anyone know where the setting for the secondary
default font for email composition in Seamonkey is?

jim


Please note that once you change the font setting for mail composition,
things become extremely buggy.  You will not be able to predict what
happens when you backspace, cut-and-paste, reply to part of a message,
etc.  It worked okay in the past but it has been broken and apparently
it is not going to be fixed.

It may work sort of reasonable in the extremely old version that you use.


Strange you should say that; I've customized my font settings pretty 
extensively and not had any trouble as a result. I certainly haven't 
seen spaces vanish or characters move around without permission.


Like Ed, I don't know what a "secondary font" could be.

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Re: secondary font in email composition

2014-01-20 Thread Rob
jim  wrote:
> Seamonkey 2.9.1
>
> that the email composition font is liable to change from your setting for
> html messages to variable font mixed (i think that is what it is) is not
> longer something i beat myself up for as something "i am doing" since i
> find out it happens to other people (and even with thunderbird).  I found
> it several years ago and changed it form a serif (times roman or courier
> or similar) to match my primary arial composition font and size as close
> as possible and can not 'refind" it since i have made a recent change in
> my html font from "large" to extra large".
>
> cutting to the chase: does anyone know where the setting for the secondary
> default font for email composition in Seamonkey is?
>
> jim

Please note that once you change the font setting for mail composition,
things become extremely buggy.  You will not be able to predict what
happens when you backspace, cut-and-paste, reply to part of a message,
etc.  It worked okay in the past but it has been broken and apparently
it is not going to be fixed.

It may work sort of reasonable in the extremely old version that you use.
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Re: secondary font in email composition

2014-01-19 Thread Ed Mullen

jim wrote:

Seamonkey 2.9.1

that the email composition font is liable to change from your setting for
html messages to variable font mixed (i think that is what it is) is not
longer something i beat myself up for as something "i am doing" since i
find out it happens to other people (and even with thunderbird).  I found
it several years ago and changed it form a serif (times roman or courier
or similar) to match my primary arial composition font and size as close
as possible and can not 'refind" it since i have made a recent change in
my html font from "large" to extra large".

cutting to the chase: does anyone know where the setting for the secondary
default font for email composition in Seamonkey is?

jim




Not quite sure what you mean by "secondary font", Jim.  But, the font 
settings are in:


Edit - Preferences - Appearance - Fonts.

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