paragraph spacing
I am struggling trying to get a consistent format in Thunderbird. First of all let me say that I am happy with the default use of paragraph style and if I want to have occasional single spacing I can use shift-enter instead of enter. Most queries on formatting seem to be about getting single spacing all the time. That is not my issue. That means that if I compose an email from scratch everything is just the way I want it, using the default settings. The problem arises when I reply to an email. The settings then seem to be ignored. For instance the line spacing can be fixed to single spacing whether I select paragraph or body text and no matter what I do I can't get it to follow the default behaviour. Also, I noticed that the font goes to "sans-serifArial" instead of the usual "Variable Width". In fact if I try to select "Variable Width" in the Format menu it is just ignored. How do I get the default composition settings when I reply to an incoming email?
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I would like some help here! Is this a bug or should I be able to get the paragraph style to revert to its default settings when I am replying to a message?
Does that also happen in Troubleshoot mode (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/safe-mode-thunderbird)? If so, you could report it as a possible bug at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi/.
It does happen in Troubleshoot mode. When I reply to a message, it seems that the formatting defaults to whatever the sender used and I have no way of changing it.
Odd. Try this:
- go to TB menu > Settings > General > Language & Appearance > Fonts > Advanced button
- at the top, set 'Fonts for:' to Latin if it isn't already
- change Proportional and Monospace fonts/sizes
- set Minimum font size to None
- at the top, change set 'Fonts for:' to Other Writing Systems
- repeat the process of changing fonts/sizes
- at the bottom, make sure 'Allow messages to use other fonts' is disabled if desired > OK > close the popup
- set TB menu > Settings > Composition > HTML Style to Variable Width and Medium font
Ed, thanks for the suggestion. It didn't solve the problem. It seems that if someone sends me a message using "body text" format then when I reply to it my "paragraph" format becomes the same as "body text". They both have single line spacing and I can find no way of getting back to the default "paragraph" format (until I start a completely new email).
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