48123 - plaintext editor quoted text much smaller than typed text

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: Editor, defect, P3)

Description

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

There is a huge, destracting size difference between the text that you type in
the plain text editor and text that you see as quoted.  The quoted text is the
right size but the typed text is huge.  I would love to know how to fix it.

I'll attach a screenshot in a second.

Comment 1

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

Attachment: image

Comment 2

[Akkana Peck]

I'm fairly sure that this is cross platform, but I'll wait for that to be
verified rather than marking it so without checking to be sure.

I find this annoying as well, and have looked for the CSS which controls it, and
have talked to UI, mailnews and layout people about it, but no one seems to know
where the style for the white-space moz-pre text comes from.  It seems to be
Courier for me rather than my preferred fixed-width font of "clean", and is
larger than my normal fixed-width size (though not "huge" on my system, just
larger than I'd like).  There's another bug on it somewhere, but I haven't been
able to find it and I don't think anyone's looked at it recently so I'm glad you
filed a new one.
My hunch is that it's coming from something compiled in to the font remapping
code or to layout, since I haven't been able to find it in a css file.

I don't know who the right person is to own this bug -- probably someone
involved with font mapping in gfx, or with default CSS fonts, since it's not
coming from editor code and certainly not from mail compose code (but cc'ing
ducarroz anyway since it affects him) -- but I find it sufficiently annoying
that I'd like to fix it if we could get some help from someone who knows
something about how the CSS default style font mapping works.

Comment 3

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Although I see the bug (quotes have font size as sat in prefs, normal text is
larger), my font preference (also "clean") *is* honored.

Comment 4

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

I'm not sure whether it is the same font or not in my case.  They both appear to
be fixed width fonts but I'm not sure if they are the same font or not.

Comment 5

[rubydoo123]

Marc, I'm not sure if this is you or maybe Pierre -- do you have any ideas?

Comment 6

[Marc Attinasi]

Pierre is much more familiar with the font mapping code than I am - assigning to 
him to look at.

Comment 7

[Pierre Saslawsky]

This was fixed a long time ago, I guess.

Comment 8

[James Baxter]

verified on 8-21 build