html editor widget in new Site Builder is still not able to vary the font size

I know that the "fontsize= " (etc.) can be laboriously manually entered into the source code for a text, but most text editors designed for public writing allow us to adjust the font size with a simple drop down menu.

For anyone wishing to use Jamroom to present written content, being able to adjust the font size is a must. This is a bigger priority than having multiple heading options.

Heading choices are not suitable for adjusting the text size in the body of a text. Conversely, well designed headings and subheadings can easily be produced using a combination of bold/italic/underline choices and font size choices.

I hope that eventually the editor widget that is used as standard in Jamroom can be one that is user-friendly for both authors and readers.

What would other users of Jamroom prefer?


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PJ Matthews, Kyoto
Migrated from Ning 2.0. Now at Jamroom 6 beta and using Jamroom Hosting for The Research Cooperative (researchcooperative.org)
updated by @researchcooperative: 12/22/16 11:55:59AM

I've added a font size selector in for the next core release. Note that it's typically a bad idea to adjust font size individually though (as you indicate) - this makes it much harder to change design or styles down the road.


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Brian Johnson
Founder and Lead Developer - Jamroom
https://www.jamroom.net

If I choose to use a single font size from a range of options (e.g. 12 point rather than 10 point) would this create the future problem?

Should we sacrifice the present readability of a site because of a future technical difficulty?

I don't understand this...

In any case, thanks very much for working on it.


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PJ Matthews, Kyoto
Migrated from Ning 2.0. Now at Jamroom 6 beta and using Jamroom Hosting for The Research Cooperative (researchcooperative.org)

The idea is that you control the size of text on your site by elements (i.e. h1, h2, p, etc.) instead of by specific font size - this then allows you to CHANGE the font-size site-wide with a simple change in your CSS. If you choose to use a specific font size in a post using the HTML editor, that font size is "stuck" at that size until you manually change it. So if you want to make ALL your site wide h1 tags be 30pt font, you could not do that if you specifically set an h1 tag to a font size in the editor.


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Brian Johnson
Founder and Lead Developer - Jamroom
https://www.jamroom.net

OK... that half explains it. But only with the "paragraph" setting (in the current html editor) can we produce text that is not in bold. All the h1, h2, settings turn the text bold, but this cannot be changed back to non-bold using the bold control in the text editor.

We seem to have a choice here between a fixed size in non-bold, or variable sizes in bold. This is not very useful for text layout purposes.

Thanks