Re: [Pan-users] Re: Bold Font in Header Pane

[Emily Jackson]

At 7:32 PM -0600 on Friday, March 12, 2004, Duncan <address@hidden>
wrote:

>Emily Jackson posted <address@hidden>,
>excerpted below,  on Fri, 12 Mar 2004 04:58:50 -0600:
>
>> I am using Pan 0.14.2.91 with Mac OS X 10.3.2 and Apple's version of X11,
>> and Pan has suddenly begun displaying group names and unread messages in
>> the header pane in a bold font. I haven't changed the font settings for
>> the header pane (use custom font in header pane: Sans 12). If I change the
>> font for the header pane to something like Geneva 12, the bold text goes
>> away. Is it *supposed* to do this?
>
>The group name has always been bold, here.  (I'm using custom fonts
>also.. Bitstream Vera Sans.. it appears from the prefs dialog.)
>
>PAN differentiates between new and unread messages in the display with the
>BOLD attribute. You don't mention new messages, but I'm assuming all those
>you are seeing this with are new.  IOW, if you leave some messages marked
>unread, then d/l new ones (and there are new ones to d/l), the new ones
>will all be bold while the old ones will switch from bold to Roman/Normal.

Yes, that is exactly what I am seeing--when I click on a group name that
has unread messages, Pan checks for new messages and then changes the
fonts as you describe. I've been using Pan for about 4 months, and
yesterday was the first time I've seen this behavior re bold fonts.

Thanks,

Emily