Huge fixed-width fonts on web mailing list archive

[Randy Pratt]

On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 15:52:53 +0200
Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:

> On 2005-11-04 12:49, Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen at fabiankeil.de> wrote:
> > Marc Fonvieille <blackend at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > > It's a recurrent issue with the new layout:
> > > http://people.freebsd.org/~blackend/announce.png
> > >
> > > Maybe Emily could look at this problem.
> >
> > The problem seems to be caused by global.css:
> >
> > pre {
> >   font-family: monospace;
> >   font-size: 1.4em;
> > }
> >
> > Deleting the font-size line should be enough.
> >
> > I think there is no reason to increase pre's font size above the
> > default.
> 
> You're absolutely right.  Thanks for tracking this down :)
> 

Yep.  That seems to be the problem I'm seeing.  I really
appreciate this getting resolved.

I also did find a semi-workable font configuration in Opera but I
preferred my original.

Thanks for looking at this!

Randy

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