Question

Having upgraded to 4.2 and tweaked default PatternSkin fonts and sizes a bit most users are very happy with the new look. Some users, however are adamant they want smaller fonts.

Is there a sensible way to set a variable (DEFAULT_OVERALL_FONT_SIZE for example) that users could then vary in their preferences and have it picked up in the patternPage section of pub/TWiki/PatternSkin/style.css?

(My naive attempts of creating the variable and giving it a value (in TWiki/TWikiPreferences) and substituting %DEFAULT_OVERALL_FONT_SIZE% for 105 do not appear to work.

Any suggestions?

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-- IanCollier - 07 May 2008

Answer

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After digging even further realised we could use USERSTYLEURL

-- IanCollier - 07 May 2008

A TWiki variable inside an attached file won't work. But you can create a simple css file where you set the size, and let the variable USERSTYLEURL link to that file. See PatternSkinCssCookbook for info.

-- ArthurClemens - 07 May 2008