On Sun, 18 Aug 2013, Ed Vance wrote to mark lewis:

 ml> for writing:
 ml> Tools->options->composition
 ml>   HTML section
 ml>     font -> size

 ml>     i use OCR-A Extended size medium here...

 EV> I use Courier New and size 14, since all of the characters
 EV> take the same amount of space like it did on the Teletype
 EV> Machines I used when I was in the Navy long ago.

that is explicitly why i use OCR-A Extended ;)

 EV> Porportional looks nice but I guess I'm just an old
 EV> "Q-BASIC" type guy that likes everything to line up,
 EV> like when I look at a ASCII/ANSI Graphic.
 EV> Porportional Fonts just wouldn't work out for those,
 EV> would they?

exactly right... proportional blows mono-spaced ASCII drawings apart...

[...]

 ml> FWIW2: you should also be able to hold your CTRL key and scroll
 ml> your mouse wheel to make the size larger or smaller... CTRL-0
 ml> (zero) to return to normal... if the mouse wheel thing doesn't
 ml> work, i think CTRL-1, CTRL-2, etc will make the fonts larger as
 ml> you go...

 EV> WOW!!!!!, That was exactly what I was looking for! Thanks a 
 EV> bunch!   It works!, and it also allows Finer Increments as
 EV> I scroll the Mouse Wheel than CTRL + and CTRL - does.

i forget where i read it some years back... it is similar to the web sites
that have the clickable links for increasing or decreasing the fonts on
them... i prefer to use this, though...

[...]

 EV> It got me thinking of turning on the 486 Win3.1 box and see if
 EV> Netscape Navigator 3 could use that trick,
 EV> OH, That's Right, I don't have a Scroll Wheel on my 3 Button
 EV> Honeywell 3HW53-9E "WHEEL" Mouse.   DUH.

yeah... forget that... it is way too old for anyone to have even thought
about a feature something like this...

 EV> I just looked at Netscape Navigator 3 on the Windows 3.1 box and
 EV> found out the CTRL key PLUS/MINUS key trick doesn't
 EV> do anything.  At least I tried.

 ;)

 EV> Thanks for the Tip Mark.

you are welcome :)

)\/(ark