Re: [Serna] Changing the font size in the editing pane

Each independent document type supported in Serna sets its own base font
information early in the XSLT stylesheet reading order for that DTD/Schema.
You could parameterize the value actually passed to that declaration using
the XSLT Parameter Sets control mechanism. Insofar as the stylesheets are
designed to inherit that base font everywhere (or adjust its size
relatively), the overall effect of increasing that size should apply
universally within the same page size. I think that is what you want.

But let me speculate further that it might be nice to actually set a
SERNA_BASE_FONT_SIZE universal value in the sdt file that would be used as
the initial override value of that base font declaration in all stylesheets
conforming to that document type (or family of schemas, such as all options
in DITA 1.1). Then the font size could be selectable from Serna's Tools >
Preferences dialog, which is where I would prefer to change my personal
base font size for all documents that I am working on.  This approach
avoids having to retool the stylesheets just to set up a personal base font
preference as an XSLT Parameter Set option.  Does this implementation
suggestion work for you, before we suggest it for Serna's developers?

Regards,
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             Hedley Finger                                                 
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                                       [Serna] Changing the font size in   
                                       the editing pane                    

Is it possible to change the font size in the editing window?  I find
it just a bit small for these fading eyes.  Zooming the view is no
good because then you have to keep scrolling sideways.  The View >
XSLT Parameters does not seem to list any font-size
parameters.  Anybody got any ideas is this another one for the
enhancements list?

Regards,
Hedley

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