On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 21:51:15 -0500, Ed Mullen
<ejobviouslyrem...@edmullen.net> in mozilla.support.seamonkey wrote:

>EE wrote:
>> Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
>>> Rob wrote:
>>>> jim <j...@earthlink.com> 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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