Re: [Pan-users] Re: New messages different colour from old?

[Chris L. Mason]

On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 04:27:58 -0700, Duncan <address@hidden> wrote:
> Chris L. Mason posted <address@hidden>,
> excerpted below,  on Sat, 15 Jan 2005 16:03:30 -0400:
> 
> > In previous versions of pan, whenever I loaded new articles, they would
> > show up in bold, where the old articles wouldn't be, so it was very easy
> > to see what was new (note this has nothing to do with messages being read
> > or not).
> >
> > I can't seem to figure out how to do this in the current version of pan.
> > Can someone help?
> 
> The feature is still there as it has been.  I am guessing, however, that
> for whatever reason your fonts have changed.  Some fonts don't have bold,
> and thus won't be shown in bold.  Others have /only/ bold, and thus
> everything displayed in them will be "bold".  In either case, PAN can't
> display the difference because there isn't a difference to display.
> Change your font prefs to something else with both roman (regular) and
> bold font faces, and you should again have those distinctions.
> 

Yes, that was it!  I hadn't even thought to check my fonts.  Thanks a lot.


Chris