Font formatting in the editor is a mess - can't specify font size in pt
I'm increasingly disappointed with the formatting issues in the mail editor, as it is all over the place.
I can't set a default font size in pt (why?) - small, medium, large etc settings are meaningless. They look different at the receiving end than in my editor, they keep changing with each line, they don't easily override the text copied and pasted in, the arbitrary text increase/decrease is unreliable and unpredictable.
An email I sent just now finally looked ok - but when I saw it in the SENT folder - the lines were all in different size!! I send mainly professional (business) emails and simply cannot afford such a mess with text all over the place.
The font type again, is unreliable and changes unpredictably.
I've had the formatting issues with pretty much every email I have sent over the past week or so. With so much hassle, extra time and ongoing corrections with my emails, I'm seriously considering moving back to Outlook, in spite of spending several hours on setting up TB.
Could someone explain please why the most important element of the email client - the message editor - is so poorly designed, after so many years? Why there is no font setting in point size, like in all other email clients?
Изменено Wayne Mery
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To be breif, if you need font size in pt then you'll want to find a different mail client.
I can't say with 100% certainty, but I'm not aware that it will be improved in next year's version. And I'm certain it won't be in this year's version 102.
Never mind about updating it to a different unit or changing the name. You could call it "monkey heads" for all I care.
The key question here is why is the current font size formatting so ambiguous, unreliable and unstable?
Why do I need to correct it several times in my email before I can send it out, and it still received in different sizes all over the place at the other end?
THAT is the question.
With the hassle I have with every single email - I just can't cope with it and spend so much time,
What is really strange is that in my comprehensive online research into TB reading reviews etc over several days before downloading it - I have NEVER come across even one comment about the font and style formatting being such a mess. Surely, I'm not the only one having these issues. if I did - I would have NEVER downloaded TB.
So now have to do all this work again, resending my emails back to Outlook and activating it again.
just a horrible waste of my effort and time. If anyone asks me for a review of TB - I know what to say.
You're possibly missing a major strength of Thunderbird: it is designed to allow the receiver to control much of what is displayed. You can never go wrong if you let font size be defined by the receiver. I routinely receive HTML messages where the font is too small or too large, and that should be my call, not the senders. TB's default to medium font causes NO font size to be sent, just as variable-length font choice causes NO style to be sent.
On formatting, the font stays consistent for composing, but is subject to changing when responding to others because their email client may have changed the formatting. It is not unusual when I respond to an HTML message to find that my text is in a different font. That's part of the HTML curse.
I concur with Wayne Mery: if you insist on HTML and insist on a specific pt size, then you should switch to another client. Thanks for sharing ( and I do regularly see posts with requests for assistance in fonts and styles, mostly because of the extended flexibility). Best wishes.