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Fonts

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To me the biggest improvement to Thunderbird would be making fonts WYSIWYG.

Copying and pasting text into Thunderbird is a guessing game or laborious exercise to match fonts with the default one has chosen. Only unformatted text is adapted to the default font.

Meaning: pasting in an (e.g.) Calibri 12 from a Word doc might have the result of Calibri 20 in Thunderbird. Or Calibri 8. So size is not honoured.

So equally pasting in a different font, the size from the originating source can be radically different from the size that appears in Thunderbird.

Which brings up another issue. If one tries to change the font size using the T⯅ and T⯆, results are rather unpredictable. This is particularly true for pasted text, trying to match it to the default text. There is no graduation. Ideally Thunderbird fonts should be as graduated and under control as a Word Processor fonts for control over appearance and reading effect.

Thanks for considering these thoughts!

To me the biggest improvement to Thunderbird would be making fonts WYSIWYG. Copying and pasting text into Thunderbird is a guessing game or laborious exercise to match fonts with the default one has chosen. Only unformatted text is adapted to the default font. Meaning: pasting in an (e.g.) Calibri 12 from a Word doc might have the result of Calibri 20 in Thunderbird. Or Calibri 8. So size is not honoured. So equally pasting in a ''different '' font, the size from the originating source can be radically different from the size that appears in Thunderbird. Which brings up another issue. If one tries to change the font size using the T⯅ and T⯆, results are rather unpredictable. This is particularly true for pasted text, trying to match it to the default text. There is no graduation. Ideally Thunderbird fonts should be as graduated and under control as a Word Processor fonts for control over appearance and reading effect. Thanks for considering these thoughts!

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Word is an MS product so it's highly possible anything other than an MS product would be able to completely use all the html which is copy pasted with the text.

Also Word still uses pt (points) for font size and Thunderbird uses px (pixels). So 12pt= 16px

Hence why it is advised to Paste without Formatting, so you can apply appropriate formatting.

It is also advised not to dictate actual font size because the recipient may not be able to read it. It's also advised to use fonts that are more likely to be installed on other computers as not everyone has the same fonts installed and that can also vary between OS.

In Settings > Composition > HTML Style It is recommended you use Font Size : Medium

so anything which is Medium on your view will also be a Medium on the recipients computer. That does not mean it would be the same size. It's designed to use the settings the recipient requires as set up on their computer to facilitate viewing.

Settings > General > Language & Appearance > Advanced button shows 'Fonts & Encodings'

If you choose eg: 14 (pixels) then that would be set up as your medium font. The increase or decrease would go up/down a level based on that option. The minimum font dictates what minium font size Thunderbird would allow.

I've set up a minimum of 12, so even if you sent me an email with a smaller font size of eg: 10, my view would override it.

If you want the user to read exactly as shwon in a Word document then attach the document so the user can use the appropriate software to read the contents.