[clug] how to set font in thunderbird

[Donovan J. Edye]

Eyal,

 > And the text is still variable pitch, not what I am after.
Follow the meu/tab/group box to ultimately get to the checkbox you need:

Tools > Options > Display > Formatting > Advanced > Font Control > Use 
Fixed Width Font for plain text messages

--Donovan J. Edye

On 02/06/2010 9:41 PM, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
> Thanks, but are you sure? When I do this I get an HTML mode panel.
>
> I think that the Shift key gives the "other" mode. My default is text
> composition so I get HTML, you probably have HTML default
> so you get text.
>
> And the text is still variable pitch, not what I am after.
>
> cheers,
> Eyal
>
> On 02/06/10 21:35, Andrew Loughhead wrote:
>> Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
>>> I like to read and compose mail in a fixed pitch font. I had no trouble
>>> telling tb to *read* mail using such a font.
>>>
>>> However I did not find a way of telling it to compose mail (text, no
>>> html
>>> please) in a similar font.
>> For a reply, at least, you can hold down shift while clicking Reply, and
>> thunderbird will open a plain text compose window with a fixed pitch
>> font.
>