For the mode line, you can diddle the font size etc by customizing the variables mode-line and mode-line-inactive. Dunno about the echo area. Hope this helps. Cheers. Fil On 5 April 2011 15:10, Johnny wrote: > Hi list members, > > I have been looking around for a way to resize the text displayed in the > echo area. I found that for the buffer, C-x + and C-x - does the sizing > for the buffer alright, but I haven't found how to do this for the echo > area / mode line? > > Ideally, if there is a clever way to automatically increase the default > text size in the echo area and buffer when changing input mode (to > chinese-tonpy)? > > Thanks! > -- > Johnny > > -- Filippo A. Salustri, Ph.D., P.Eng. Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Ryerson University 350 Victoria St, Toronto, ON M5B 2K3, Canada Tel: 416/979-5000 ext 7749 Fax: 416/979-5265 Email: salustri@ryerson.ca http://deseng.ryerson.ca/~fil/