Linnea Miller wrote >> If you haven't visited Rod's PD List page recently, you MUST!! Check out >> his GREAT bibliographies of PD books, journals, newspapers, genealogies - >> all referencing the PD heritage & people!! It's great to have these all >in >> one place!! Thanks a lot, Rod!! >> >> -Linnea >> >> P.S. The URL is: <http://members.aol.com/PennaDutch/pennadutch.html> At 01:46 AM 9/1/97 -0500, Mary Russell wrote: >Linnea , I went to Rods page and was disappointed again as I have been >several times in the last few days when I've tried looking at pages. I have to agree with Linnea, these pages are really quite good! It would be a shame for you to miss them. Are you a Netscape user? If so: Click on the "Options" menu and select "General Preferences." This will pop up a box that will allow you to make some changes. At the top of the box are several labeled tabs. Click on the one labeled "Fonts." You will then see "Choose the proportional font" and "Choose the fixed font", with buttons to the right of these phrases. You can change both of these by clicking on the buttons labeled "Choose Font", but I do NOT recommend that you click on the "For the encoding" button. When you click on "Choose Font," a new window will open, and I think you just want to set the "size" to a higher number. I would do it for both Proportional and Fixed, I think. When you have changed both fonts, you can change the colors by clicking on the "Colors" tab immediately to the right of the "Fonts" tab you used earlier. With bigger fonts, the colors may not matter as much, but if they do, you can set all colors to custom colors that you define, and over-ride the settings on all the web pages you view. There is nothing wrong with experimenting here, so just keep fiddling with it until you have something you like. When you are finished and want to try out the new settings, click "OK" at the bottom of the box. I fear that I have made it sound much more complicated than it is! If I have done nothing more than confuse you, feel free to e-mail me and take me to task for it. Perhaps I can do better on a second try. >I can't see well. I am probably not the only person using a computer who >can not see well. No, you are not. If you are using a Microsoft operating system on your computer (Windows, most likely), you can get free of charge additional software from Microsoft to help address the vision barriers. This has worked quite well for my Mom, who has some pretty severe vision problems herself. If you are using a Macintosh, I believe there are similar extensions that can be had from them. If this is the case, contact me by private e-mail, and I will do what I can to get you in touch with the right people. >I suppose >people making these pages for us can't think of everything Well, you have brought up an interesting point. My own pages would probably not be too friendly to you, either. I will be thinking of a way to mount a 'large print' version. >Rod, I know this is off topic for the list , sorry. Well, now I am off-topic too. Perhaps as an Obligatory Penna-Dutch Reference I can reiterate for the newer subscribers my willingness to do lookups in Fretz Family History (the 1890 edition) to anyone who asks. -- Jeffrey S. Medkeff _|_ If a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, Sierra Vista, | where is the man who has so much as to Arizona | be out of danger?