font size

Textkit Community Open Board
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I just downloaded the Gentium font and now the font size on these boards is all of a sudden uncomfortably small.
Can I change that? If so; How?
Thanks.

2

I’m not sure… but the fonts are tiny and courier for me too, not sure how to fix that…

3

Bert,
Do you use Firefox? If so, and if the problem just appears on webpages, you can make the font bigger by holding down the ctrl key and rolling the mouse wheel. I use this all the time because I often encounter pages where the type is very small.
Ed

4

Thanks. That did the trick.
I didn’t have Firefox installed yet but with Firefox I can adjust the font size the way you said.
I don’t know why it takes Gentium automatically.
I need it for one program but I don’t think it is as clear as the font my computer used for Textkit before I had Gentium.

5

I would like to know why Textkit picks up Gentium automatically, too. The tip Ed gave is a good workaround, but I would like to fix it once and for all.

I just set a preference in my browser to never go below font size 12. That helps a bit.

6

When I helped Jeff with enabling Unicode, I provided for post contents this CSS font-family tag -

font-family: arial unicode ms, gentium, palatino linotype, georgia greek, cardo, galilee unicode gk, vusillus old face italic, Doulos SIL, Arial, Helvetica, serif;

Thus, if your browser is configured NOT to ignore web page fonts, i.e., it will honor the CSS values, then it will render our posts using the first font (reading from left to right) that it finds on your system.

Cordially,

Paul

7

Thanks for the info. Now I have to try and find a way to tell my browser (Safari) that. If any Mac user already knows? The Safari Help and Google didn’t turn up anything (yet).

8

Do you not have Arial Unicode MS installed? It’s a nifty little font and I recommend it.

9

supposedly it comes with XP but it doesn’t seem to be working for me (in firefox).

10

Try this in Firefox (I am using 2.0.0.2):

a. Tools → Options
b. in the resulting dialog, click the ‘advanced’ button in the middle fieldset entitled ‘fonts and colors’
c. ensure that the checkbox labelled ‘allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections above’ is checked
d. OK-button your way out of the dialogs

This approach should allow the aforementioned CSS settings (with Arial Unicode MS first) to govern.

Let me know if this doesn’t help.

Cordially,

Paul

P.S. - when you say “it doesn’t seem to be working for me,” what are the phenomena; what do you see?

11

that box is already checked…

i see tiny, courier font. really hard to read.

12

As a Mac user, I find that if I don’t use Lucida Grande, Polytonic Greek will not display properly. I’ve tried all the (dozens of) other fonts that came with OS X, and using any other one, I always get the dreaded boxes. Which is too bad, because Lucida Grande is a sans-serif font I’m not crazy about in Roman.

13

Hi,

What release of Firefox? Use Help → About Mozilla Firefox.

Thanks.

-pb

14

2.0.0.3

15

Klewlis,

Can we try another approach? Let’s prevent web pages from specifying their own fonts and, instead, try to force a font of our choice. Thus, in 2.0.0.3:

  1. Tools → Options → Content
  2. Click Advanced under Fonts & Colors
  3. UNcheck the box labelled “Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections above.”
  4. In the topmost fieldset labelled “Fonts for” against the select list labelled “Proportional” choose “Sans Serif”
  5. In the same fieldset against the select list labelled “Sans-serif” choose, say, Arial Unicode MS, or another Greek-capable font.
  6. If need be, adjust “Minimum font size” as well
  7. OK your way out of the dialogs.

Let me know if this helps.

Cordially,

Paul

16

yeah I set it all to verdana, so now it’s better. :slight_smile: