line spacing, standard font-type, font-size

[kam]

Hi,

1. if we set the line spacing to 'very thin', the line will not be smaller;

2. Other Problem is we can't set the STANDARD font-type of an E-Mail (it's only Times new Roman);

3. Last, the "Standard" font-sizes (very thin, thin, normal etc.) are very unspecified for our needs (p.ex. 'very thin' is to small, 'small' is to great for a special signature of us)
-> maybe it's simple to integrate simple font-sizes (6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 ...) and not .'very thin', 'thin', small etc.

Thx.
A.

[StR]

I am sure Kostya will respond to your questions  soon. I just wanted to provide some thoughts (as a recipient of messages.
The sender never knows what device and program the recipient will be using to read that message. That's why hardcoding a specific size of the font is a bad practice.That applies to email and webpages as well.
Specic font sizes make sense for "fixed" media: printed materials and on screen presentations. (Even the screen presentations are not as "fixed", so it helps to know the room setting where the presentation is given.)

The initial idea of HTML formatting was to make the client program (web browser)  to interpret "relative" (and hence more flexible) formatting in the optimum for the device way.The same logic should apply for emails.

PS.  That's why I usually rely on plain text emails. When I need formatted text, I send a Pdf file.

[Kostya Vasilyev]

1 - yes it's a bug

2 - yes you can, in app settings -> composing and sending, Sans Serif, Serif, Mono, Colibri, Georgia

The font names are "generic" because:

(1) Android does not have Microsoft Windows fonts and

(2) better compatibility (with other Android devices, but not only, there are Macs out there too, which also do not have Arial or Verdana...)