Fonts question

[ryansmith]

Hi,

I was wondering if someone could offer some advice. Maybe I am totally overlooking something.

I recently upgraded from SP1 to SE and my users immediately began complaining about the font being smaller. I compared the sizes and font family names in the old template with the new template, and everything is the same that I can tell. Well, I took screenshots of the same message, once from the new board and once from the old, put them side by side, and found that the fonts weren't smaller, but the spacing between characters and lines were smaller. This is creating the "optical illusion" to my members that the font has changed. Any idea how to change that?

The only difference I found was this line:

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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
Also, when you set your browser's font display size to Larger or Largest (from IE's default, Medium), all of my board fonts increase in size except for the actual font that messages are displayed in. Curiously, this is also the font that seems "smaller" to people, the message/thread font. Any idea what I could have screwed up somewhere?

I will attach a pic. I lined up the first line of text from the message, you can see where on the new board it comes up short.

Ryan

[noodles2k5]

I'm guessing that the line-height is changed or something.  I can do that with HTML/CSS.  I'm not sure how PHP works though.

[Michele]

Check out this thread:

http://www.yabb.info/community/index.php?board=140;action=display;threadid=10786;start=0

[ryansmith]

Hi Moya,

Thanks so much for pointing me in the direction of that thread. I read the CSS website and decided to toy around with my board, and ended up changing all of the Font-Size tags in my template from "12px" to "x-small"... The members who complained that the font was small have now come forward to say it is "back to normal." I've also noticed on my screen that the spacing is back to the way it was in SP1. Whether or not this was the proper way to go about fixing the problem, I'm not sure--but as long as it works, I'm leaving it that way

Ryan

[Michele]

Technically it IS the right way to fix it, I just can't seem to convince the YaBB SE guys of that.

To be fair, a lot of forum software does the same thing, they hard-code non-scalable fonts into their templates and php files, so it's not just the YaBB guys (who are SO wonderful in oh-so-many other ways!).