[Novalug] Increasing font size problem again

jerry w jerrywone@gmail.com
Mon Jul 28 15:51:39 EDT 2014


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On Jul 28, 2014 3:24 PM, "James Ewing Cottrell III" <JECottrell3@comcast.net>
wrote:

> Once again, *why* would anyone advocate the use of any editor OTHER than
> VI(M) or EMACS?
>
> JIM
>
> On 7/28/2014 9:08 AM, Bonnie Dalzell wrote:
> > On Mon, 28 Jul 2014, Jay Hart wrote:
> >
> >> Charlie,
> >>
> >> An easier way for you to compose emails would be to create the document
> in a editor, edit to your
> >> hearts content, then paste the contents into squirrelmail and send it
> out.  This would stop all
> >> that forwarding to you, reedit, etc.
> >
> > a simple and useful plain text editor is gedit which may already be in
> > your installation.
> >
> > you can use the gedit preferences to change display font size in the
> > editor. this does not influence the font size for the rest of your
> > installation.
> >
> > i do a lot of editing in gedit and then just cut and paste the final
> > results into my e-mail application.
> >
> >>
> >> Jay
> >>
> >>> List,
> >>>
> >>> There is a problem with increasing rhe font size as John Franklin
> advises
> >>> me: the entire screen is out of whack.
> >>>
> >>> Is there a way of choosing a larger font size to begin with?
> >>>
> >>> As John points out, I use SquirrelMail. When I have a lengthy and
> closely
> >>> reasoned document to write, I start it, forward it to myself, add a
> bit,
> >>> rerepeat, until I get it to read the way I want it to read. Starting
> with
> >>> a font size I like would be a big help.
> >>>
> >>> Charlie
> >>> .
> >>>
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