Or Safari...Chuck(G) wrote:I suppose I'll have to browse using Mozilla or Opera and zoom in on the text. Thanks,
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That's what the zoom function is for in your Web browser. In Safari, it's in the View menu, called "Make Text Bigger", or command-+. Hopefully, every browser has a keyboard command to easily increase the font size.Anonymous wrote:I noticed the possibility of text enhancement, but my point is the problem of readability of all posts.
The other option -- which I haven't yet seen in any discussion board software -- would be something in the user preferences page (Profile here) that allows a choice of default text size. Some boards have different styles for each user to choose to appear on their own computers, so maybe there's software somewhere that has this kind of option.
A bigger font would be a waste of space for me & my laptop, but I can understand wanting to see it larger.
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Give me some time to get into the new software. It supports themes which can be custom tailored, including colors and font sizes/types. I just need time to figure it all out, then you should have options on the appearance.Chuck(G) wrote:That's not exactly what I meant, Rick. What I'd like to see is a general way to increase the default size of the text that everyone else has used. Honestly, on IE on my system, the default font size looks to be about 8 points.Rick F wrote:Changing the size of the text is easy.
When you click on the 'post new topic' or 'post reply' buttons, you're given a new screen. On that new screen are pull downs for color changing and font size. This size of this typing is 10 point, and looks to be the default. If you want to increase the size of your post, highlight the text, click on the pulldown till you see large or huge.
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I suppose I'll have to browse using Mozilla or Opera and zoom in on the text.
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This was me saying it... just somehow didn't end up logged in...Anonymous wrote:To say the least, I think this is a good move, Sean. I've been an avid reader of another board that is strikingly similar to this one (www.drumcorpsplanet.com) and have felt for some time this has been one of those kinds of formats you should consider. Me being a small voice, however, I felt that I had no place making such a suggestion.
The one thing that does make me disheartened is how you've made the For Sale items in their own catagory totally eliminating the monthly who's got things for sale post that I personally liked doing. But one can't get what one always wants. Go figure.
I'm looking forward to this format and the future of Tubenet in this setup.
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It ain't the font size of my posts I want to increase; I already know what I wrote. It's the size of all you young'uns who don't realize that 1.) I have a laptop display that is 1600x1200 and only 15", and 2.) I'm old and need special glasses to read the dang computer.Rick F wrote:Changing the size of the text is easy.
It could be worse, though. I could be as old as Chu...no I won't say it.
I wandered in and out of a forum using this same basic software a while back. That forum had so many new users all the time that it became impossible to follow the flow of the forum. I hope we don't have the same trouble. I'd bet there is a way to see what's been posted in a single page, and I'm gonna start looking for it.
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LOL. Yeah, I see what you all mean. It's true that you can't change the size of the fonts 'already posted'... at least in IE when trying to change the size of the fonts, it doesn't work with phpBB postings.Rick Denney wrote:It ain't the font size of my posts I want to increase; I already know what I wrote. It's the size of all you young'uns who don't realize that 1.) I have a laptop display that is 1600x1200 and only 15", and 2.) I'm old and need special glasses to read the dang computer. <snip>Rick F wrote:Changing the size of the text is easy.
As Sean has already said, he will address this issue as soon as he has time. I just got new glasses myself last week. The type all of a sudden looks bigger,
I do like this new format.
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Rick F wrote: It's true that you can't change the size of the fonts 'already posted'... at least in IE when trying to change the size of the fonts, it doesn't work with phpBB postings.
Try Firefox (from the folks at mozilla.org) or some other browser that has a way to increase font size, even as a setting for every page (I should know it works, since I just tested it).
IE sucks, but it's not the fault of anyone here.
On the front page, check out the "View posts since last visit" function in the upper right. It's not a button like the New Topic command -- it looks like a text link. I've copied the link here:Rick Denney wrote: I'd bet there is a way to see what's been posted in a single page, and I'm gonna start looking for it.
View new posts since last visit
It's the first thing I click whenever I get to this site.
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I resemble that remark!Rick Denney wrote:It could be worse, though. I could be as old as Chu...no I won't say it.
I've found that using Opera (or Firefox Mozilla, but I like Opera better), I can simply press Ctrl and zoom in using the mouse wheel. No big problem.
Still, it takes longer to browse the topics than on the old system, but hey, it's Sean's board, so I can live with it.