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From: Elizabeth Churchett <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Font Size on Citation Detail
Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2004 15:24:51 -0600
References: <20042114326.598040@TERRY2>


I (obviously!) had forgotten that fonts in other windows do continue to
get resized and that the Preferences settings do not apply everywhere.
I'm with everyone else that it would be more user-friendly not to have
fonts shrinking and wildly expanding on us.

--Elizabeth

Terry Reigel wrote:

>On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 12:19:59 -0600, Elizabeth Churchett wrote:
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>>Robert,
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>>Are you proposing something over and above what is
>>already available in Preferences | Lists? There you can
>>set which font to use *as well as* the minimum and
>>maximum sizes of it. If you set the min and max to the
>>same size, then the font will not change size even when a
>>window is resized.
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>Elizabeth,
>
>That control only applies to "Lists" -- screens which contain list of
>items. They include the detail window Person View, and all the Master
>... Lists. But does not stop the resizing on data entry screens such
>as the Tag Entry screen, or in the screen under discussion here, the
>Citation screen.
>
>I agree with Robert -- I'd love to see the ability to set the font
>size in those screens and not have them change.
>
>Terry Reigel
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>>Robert Thorpe wrote:
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>>>I, for one, have been extremely frustrated with TMG's
>>>changing font size when the window size is changed. I'm
>>>sure people fall on both sides of this issue, but I
>>>would like to have the font size for any specific
>>>window remain constant no matter how I resize that
>>>window. I can determine far better than TMG what size
>>>font suits me best. A right-click in the window to
>>>bring up a preferences selection list for any window
>>>with font size being one of the picks would be most
>>>welcome. Then once chosen, don't let the program go
>>>mucking around with it automatically.
>>>
>>>I would like to see this approach in a future upgrade.
>>>
>>>
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