Re: [Evolution] How to display an email in a fixed-width font?

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 12:57 +0000, Graham Murray wrote:
> Running Evolution 3.2.3 on Gnome 3.2.1, there is an Evolution preference
> (under mail preference) to set the fonts used for 'Standard' and 'Fixed
> Width', but how do you view an email using the fixed width font? Some
> emails include tables etc that are spaced for a fixed width font and do
> not line up with a 'standard' font. I have looked in the 'view' menu,
> but cannot see anything appropriate.

The fixed width font is used to display plain text emails - i.e. those
with either no content type or a content type of text/plain.  HTML
emails (i.e. those with a content type of text/html) will be displayed
using the proportional font (unless the HTML says otherwise).

If you have multipart/alternative encoding, then by default the most
content rich version possible will be displayed.

There is a plugin called "Prefer Plain Text" - if this is enabled, then
with a multipart/alternative email the text/plain version, if it exists,
will be chosen in preference to the text/html version.

As far as I know though, there is no way of choosing the version
displayed on a per-message basis, nor is there a way of forcing the
displayed text to be fixed-pitch.

P.