MT-NW Font Size

In article <MeetMe-FEBD56.12310221052009 RemoveThis @newsclstr03.news.prodigy.net>,
Gerry <MeetMe RemoveThis @Three.com> wrote:

> In article
> <arkayREMOVE-7C363A.13563721052009 RemoveThis @news.houston.sbcglobal.net>,
> aRKay <arkayREMOVE RemoveThis @qsl.net> wrote:
>
> > I subscribe to several groups using MT-NW 3.5.3b3 and Font and Size
> > is different for some groups. I was under the impression the Preference/
> > Fonts applied to All groups.
> >
> > How can i correct the one or two with the non standard Font and font
> > size?
>
> Most of the times the font size change is due to one of the posters to
> the newsgroup using a foreign language font, if you select that posting
> and mark it as read, close and reopen the group the standard size font
> will return.

I have that in MT-NW 3.5.2 frequently. I wish there was a setting to
override the foreign language font as well, so I didn't have to follow
the above work-around...

In article
<arkayREMOVE-7C363A.13563721052009.TakeThisOut@news.houston.sbcglobal.net>,
aRKay <arkayREMOVE.TakeThisOut@qsl.net> wrote:

> I subscribe to several groups using MT-NW 3.5.3b3 and Font and Size
> is different for some groups. I was under the impression the Preference/
> Fonts applied to All groups.
>
> How can i correct the one or two with the non standard Font and font
> size?

Solved!!! I figured it out myself. I Unsubscribed from the newsgroup
with the tiny font, saved then quit MT-NW. On the next start I subscribed
to the newsgroup again, marked all read, saved and quit again. The next
time everything was back to normal.

Problem solved!

In article
<arkayREMOVE-A6C9E7.20172821052009.DeleteThis@news.houston.sbcglobal.net>,
aRKay <arkayREMOVE.DeleteThis@qsl.net> wrote:

> Solved!!! I figured it out myself. I Unsubscribed from the
> newsgroup with the tiny font, saved then quit MT-NW. On the next
> start I subscribed to the newsgroup again, marked all read, saved and
> quit again. The next time everything was back to normal.

Not really solved. The problem was a given post (or posts) was in a
different language. All the unsubscription/restarting stuff you mention
was just leading to you marking the given post read, thus taking it out
of the list next time.

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In article <workitout-B8A47D.22474524052009 RemoveThis @mara100-84.onlink.net>,
David J Richardson <workitout RemoveThis @davidj.richardson.name> wrote:

> In article
> <arkayREMOVE-A6C9E7.20172821052009 RemoveThis @news.houston.sbcglobal.net>,
> aRKay <arkayREMOVE RemoveThis @qsl.net> wrote:
>
> > Solved!!! I figured it out myself. I Unsubscribed from the
> > newsgroup with the tiny font, saved then quit MT-NW. On the next
> > start I subscribed to the newsgroup again, marked all read, saved and
> > quit again. The next time everything was back to normal.
>
> Not really solved. The problem was a given post (or posts) was in a
> different language. All the unsubscription/restarting stuff you mention
> was just leading to you marking the given post read, thus taking it out
> of the list next time.

You are correct. The small fonts are back again and I do not
detect any non English postings. The tiny font makes MT-NW
almost useless.

Help... how can I regain normal font size?

In article
<arkayREMOVE-663879.19174725052009 RemoveThis @news.houston.sbcglobal.net>,
aRKay <arkayREMOVE RemoveThis @qsl.net> wrote:

> In article <workitout-B8A47D.22474524052009 RemoveThis @mara100-84.onlink.net>,
> David J Richardson <workitout RemoveThis @davidj.richardson.name> wrote:
>
> > In article
> > <arkayREMOVE-A6C9E7.20172821052009 RemoveThis @news.houston.sbcglobal.net>,
> > aRKay <arkayREMOVE RemoveThis @qsl.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Solved!!! I figured it out myself. I Unsubscribed from the
> > > newsgroup with the tiny font, saved then quit MT-NW. On the next
> > > start I subscribed to the newsgroup again, marked all read, saved and
> > > quit again. The next time everything was back to normal.
> >
> > Not really solved. The problem was a given post (or posts) was in a
> > different language. All the unsubscription/restarting stuff you mention
> > was just leading to you marking the given post read, thus taking it out
> > of the list next time.
>
> You are correct. The small fonts are back again and I do not
> detect any non English postings. The tiny font makes MT-NW
> almost useless.
>
> Help... how can I regain normal font size?

Why not just go into MT-NewsWatcher Preferences > Fonts > Screen Fonts,
and set the same font and size for every possible language there?

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aRKay <arkayREMOVE RemoveThis @qsl.net> wrote:

> > Not really solved. The problem was a given post (or posts) was in a
> > different language. All the unsubscription/restarting stuff you mention
> > was just leading to you marking the given post read, thus taking it out
> > of the list next time.
>
> You are correct. The small fonts are back again and I do not
> detect any non English postings. The tiny font makes MT-NW
> almost useless.
>
> Help... how can I regain normal font size?

That's already been answered in this thread.

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In article
<arkayREMOVE-663879.19174725052009.TakeThisOut@news.houston.sbcglobal.net>,
aRKay <arkayREMOVE.TakeThisOut@qsl.net> wrote:

> In article <workitout-B8A47D.22474524052009.TakeThisOut@mara100-84.onlink.net>,
> David J Richardson <workitout.TakeThisOut@davidj.richardson.name> wrote:
>
> > In article
> > <arkayREMOVE-A6C9E7.20172821052009.TakeThisOut@news.houston.sbcglobal.net>,
> > aRKay <arkayREMOVE.TakeThisOut@qsl.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Solved!!! I figured it out myself. I Unsubscribed from the
> > > newsgroup with the tiny font, saved then quit MT-NW. On the next
> > > start I subscribed to the newsgroup again, marked all read, saved and
> > > quit again. The next time everything was back to normal.
> >
> > Not really solved. The problem was a given post (or posts) was in a
> > different language. All the unsubscription/restarting stuff you mention
> > was just leading to you marking the given post read, thus taking it out
> > of the list next time.
>
> You are correct. The small fonts are back again and I do not
> detect any non English postings. The tiny font makes MT-NW
> almost useless.
>
> Help... how can I regain normal font size?

I don't see this happening very much, but I remember noticing once
that the Edit>Decode as> menu had an odd font choice. Selecting one
of the "Western ..." fonts worked, IIRC.

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In article <jollyroger-66FD44.21030925052009 DeleteThis @news.individual.net>,
Jolly Roger <jollyroger DeleteThis @pobox.com> wrote:

> In article
> <arkayREMOVE-663879.19174725052009 DeleteThis @news.houston.sbcglobal.net>,
> aRKay <arkayREMOVE DeleteThis @qsl.net> wrote:
>
> > In article <workitout-B8A47D.22474524052009 DeleteThis @mara100-84.onlink.net>,
> > David J Richardson <workitout DeleteThis @davidj.richardson.name> wrote:
> >
> > > In article
> > > <arkayREMOVE-A6C9E7.20172821052009 DeleteThis @news.houston.sbcglobal.net>,
> > > aRKay <arkayREMOVE DeleteThis @qsl.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Solved!!! I figured it out myself. I Unsubscribed from the
> > > > newsgroup with the tiny font, saved then quit MT-NW. On the next
> > > > start I subscribed to the newsgroup again, marked all read, saved and
> > > > quit again. The next time everything was back to normal.
> > >
> > > Not really solved. The problem was a given post (or posts) was in a
> > > different language. All the unsubscription/restarting stuff you mention
> > > was just leading to you marking the given post read, thus taking it out
> > > of the list next time.
> >
> > You are correct. The small fonts are back again and I do not
> > detect any non English postings. The tiny font makes MT-NW
> > almost useless.
> >
> > Help... how can I regain normal font size?
>
> Why not just go into MT-NewsWatcher Preferences > Fonts > Screen Fonts,
> and set the same font and size for every possible language there?

Ah! I hadn't realised you could set for each language separately when
I first looked at that pane.

It would still be nice if MT-NW would use the appropriate font and size
for each article in the group list window _individually_, so that a
stray chinese spam or three would not result in all the Western encoded
articles being listed in a different font/size to my specified defaults!

In article <jollyroger-66FD44.21030925052009.TakeThisOut@news.individual.net>,
Jolly Roger <jollyroger.TakeThisOut@pobox.com> wrote:

> Why not just go into MT-NewsWatcher Preferences > Fonts > Screen Fonts,
> and set the same font and size for every possible language there?

I think we all tried that a while back, and it doesn't help with some
encodings. This has been a persistent nagging "bug" in Newswatcher for
years.
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In article <robertaw-754C2F.21503925052009 DeleteThis @news.individual.net>,
"Robert A. Woodward" <robertaw DeleteThis @drizzle.com> wrote:

> In article
> <arkayREMOVE-663879.19174725052009 DeleteThis @news.houston.sbcglobal.net>,
> aRKay <arkayREMOVE DeleteThis @qsl.net> wrote:
>
> > In article <workitout-B8A47D.22474524052009 DeleteThis @mara100-84.onlink.net>,
> > David J Richardson <workitout DeleteThis @davidj.richardson.name> wrote:
> >
> > > In article
> > > <arkayREMOVE-A6C9E7.20172821052009 DeleteThis @news.houston.sbcglobal.net>,
> > > aRKay <arkayREMOVE DeleteThis @qsl.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Solved!!! I figured it out myself. I Unsubscribed from the
> > > > newsgroup with the tiny font, saved then quit MT-NW. On the next
> > > > start I subscribed to the newsgroup again, marked all read, saved and
> > > > quit again. The next time everything was back to normal.
> > >
> > > Not really solved. The problem was a given post (or posts) was in a
> > > different language. All the unsubscription/restarting stuff you mention
> > > was just leading to you marking the given post read, thus taking it out
> > > of the list next time.
> >
> > You are correct. The small fonts are back again and I do not
> > detect any non English postings. The tiny font makes MT-NW
> > almost useless.
> >
> > Help... how can I regain normal font size?
>
> I don't see this happening very much, but I remember noticing once
> that the Edit>Decode as> menu had an odd font choice. Selecting one
> of the "Western ..." fonts worked, IIRC.

I have Western ISO Latin 1 selected

In article <0014f9b3$0$18130$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com>,
Warren Oates <warren.oates.DeleteThis@gmail.com> wrote:

> In article <jollyroger-66FD44.21030925052009.DeleteThis@news.individual.net>,
> Jolly Roger <jollyroger.DeleteThis@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> > Why not just go into MT-NewsWatcher Preferences > Fonts > Screen Fonts,
> > and set the same font and size for every possible language there?
>
> I think we all tried that a while back, and it doesn't help with some
> encodings. This has been a persistent nagging "bug" in Newswatcher for
> years.

Thanks..... looks like I will just have to live with it. Can't really
tell what message is messing up listing.

On Thu, 21 May 2009 14:35:14 -0600, David Stone wrote
(in article <no.email-434EC8.16351421052009.TakeThisOut@news1.chem.utoronto.ca>):

> In article <MeetMe-FEBD56.12310221052009.TakeThisOut@newsclstr03.news.prodigy.net>,
> Gerry <MeetMe.TakeThisOut@Three.com> wrote:
>
>> In article
>> <arkayREMOVE-7C363A.13563721052009.TakeThisOut@news.houston.sbcglobal.net>,
>> aRKay <arkayREMOVE.TakeThisOut@qsl.net> wrote:
>>
>>> I subscribe to several groups using MT-NW 3.5.3b3 and Font and Size
>>> is different for some groups. I was under the impression the Preference/
>>> Fonts applied to All groups.
>>>
>>> How can i correct the one or two with the non standard Font and font
>>> size?
>>
>> Most of the times the font size change is due to one of the posters to
>> the newsgroup using a foreign language font, if you select that posting
>> and mark it as read, close and reopen the group the standard size font
>> will return.
>
> I have that in MT-NW 3.5.2 frequently. I wish there was a setting to
> override the foreign language font as well, so I didn't have to follow
> the above work-around...

The only work-around I've found is to use Hogwasher



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In article <no.email-434EC8.16351421052009.TakeThisOut@news1.chem.utoronto.ca>,
David Stone <no.email.TakeThisOut@domain.invalid> wrote:

> In article <MeetMe-FEBD56.12310221052009.TakeThisOut@newsclstr03.news.prodigy.net>,
> Gerry <MeetMe.TakeThisOut@Three.com> wrote:
>
> > In article
> > <arkayREMOVE-7C363A.13563721052009.TakeThisOut@news.houston.sbcglobal.net>,
> > aRKay <arkayREMOVE.TakeThisOut@qsl.net> wrote:
> >
> > > I subscribe to several groups using MT-NW 3.5.3b3 and Font and Size
> > > is different for some groups. I was under the impression the Preference/
> > > Fonts applied to All groups.
> > >
> > > How can i correct the one or two with the non standard Font and font
> > > size?
> >
> > Most of the times the font size change is due to one of the posters to
> > the newsgroup using a foreign language font, if you select that posting
> > and mark it as read, close and reopen the group the standard size font
> > will return.
>
> I have that in MT-NW 3.5.2 frequently. I wish there was a setting to
> override the foreign language font as well, so I didn't have to follow
> the above work-around...

If you don't care to read the foreign languages, just change all of the
font settings for each of the 12 languages in the Fonts section of the
preferences to the same font and size (e.g. Lucida Grande 14 or whatever
is your preferred size.)

Alan