Minimum Font Sizes in Gnus

Minimum Font Sizes in Gnus

[Jay Kamat]

Hi all,

I'm trying to use gnus for mail and I'm loving it so far! However, I have one
bug/question that I would like to discuss.

When I read plaintext emails, I can read emails perfectly, however, when I open
html formatted emails, the font size is too small to comfortably read.

One way to 'work around' this is to disable the new html formatting in shr:

(setq shr-use-fonts nil)

However, I would like to preserve the fonts if possible. Does anyone know if
there is a 'minimum font' size option for gnus/shr? Most web browsers come with
a minimum font size option.

I took a quick look at shr.el, but I could not find anything. Does anyone have
any ideas?

Thanks,
-Jay

Re: Minimum Font Sizes in Gnus

[Mario Castelán Castro]

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On 24/08/17 10:56, Jay Kamat wrote:
> I took a quick look at shr.el, but I could not find anything. Does anyone have
> any ideas?

Delete HTML mail on sight.

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Re: Minimum Font Sizes in Gnus

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Jay Kamat <jaygkamat@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2017 11:56:04 -0400
> 
> When I read plaintext emails, I can read emails perfectly, however, when I open
> html formatted emails, the font size is too small to comfortably read.
> 
> One way to 'work around' this is to disable the new html formatting in shr:
> 
> (setq shr-use-fonts nil)
> 
> However, I would like to preserve the fonts if possible. Does anyone know if
> there is a 'minimum font' size option for gnus/shr? Most web browsers come with
> a minimum font size option.
> 
> I took a quick look at shr.el, but I could not find anything. Does anyone have
> any ideas?

AFAIK, shr.el uses the 'variable-pitch' face to display HTML text.  So
you should be able to avoid the small font by customizing that face
and asking for it to use a larger font.

Re: Minimum Font Sizes in Gnus

[Jay Kamat]

> AFAIK, shr.el uses the 'variable-pitch' face to display HTML text.  So
> you should be able to avoid the small font by customizing that face
> and asking for it to use a larger font.

works perfectly for me, thanks!

-Jay