The Fonts ... option enables you to specify fonts, font styles, and font sizes for your buttons, labels, text fields and lists. You can make font selections in a dialog window and interactively apply them to see how a font or font style looks in your Ishmail application. You can change and reapply your changes as often as you like.
The custom resource file to which your changes are applied is $HOME/.ishmailrc. You can also edit this file outside of the Ishmail program. See the chapter entitled Ishmail Resources for information about editing the $HOME/.ishmailrc file.
To specify fonts for Ishmail buttons, labels, text fields and lists, click the Fonts ... option. The Edit Fonts window appears.
The Edit Fonts window contains text fields in which you can specify the following:
You can either type your font selection into the appropriate text field in the Edit Fonts dialog window or click the "..." button to the right of any of the Edit Fonts text fields and make your selection from Font Chooser's list of fonts, styles, and sizes.
When you click the "..." button to the right of Edit Fonts text field whose font you want to change. The Font Chooser Window dialog window appears. It contains a list of Courier, Helvetica, and other available fonts that you can use to customize your Ishmail windows.
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The Font Chooser dialog window contains three columns of font information including:
Below the font columns are check boxes and radio buttons that enable you to select fixed-width fonts and proportional-width fonts, and to show font sizes either in pixels or points.
The Sample text field and Font name field enable you to type a sample of the font and to see the name font resource.
To select a font from the Font Chooser window:
You can select fonts for one or all four of the Edit Fonts text fields.
Apply or cancel your changes using the row of buttons across the bottom of the window. See Applying Your Changes.