How to make fonts bigger in **plain tex** math mode?

[Carlos]

On Fri, May 05, 2023 at 11:26:46AM +0200, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
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> 
> > I suppose that due to HTML calling for
> > multiple spaces to be "compressed" into one space (am I right about that?),
> 
> Yep.
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> > Why HTML was (presumably) designed that way in the first
> > place is a bit of a mystery to me.
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> For the same reason TeX does it: It is the most appropriate behaviour for a markup language targeting regular human readable text. Now HTML does have provisions for preserving multiple spaces in code, originally using the <pre> element with other mechanisms added later.
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> > My wife uses Thunderbird (and probably has not customized it much). I got
> > her to send me an email with two consecutive spaces, and Thunderbird
> > "helpfully" (*cough*) converted the first space into a non-breakable space.
> > […]
> > Has this horse been sufficiently flogged?
> 
> Just to get in one more lash before we bury the poor creature, the original email was actually not a pure HTML mail. Its content type is multipart/alternative. The non-breaking spaces are indeed found in the text/html part, but they are also in the text/plain part. And for that, I can think of no excuse.
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> (It might be interesting to see if Thunderbird does the same thing if set to just produce text/plain.)
> 
> – Harald

Hello Harald. Hello Jim:

This was an interesting thread altoghether. I don't come here often,
not even sure if I'm subscribed now, but , it just caught my attention
that over (most likely) an unescaped = on the content transfer encoding
it just happened 

\font\tenrm=3Dcmr10 scaled \magstep 2<br>
\font\sevenrm=3Dcmr7=C2=A0 scaled \magstep 2<br>
\font\fiverm=3Dcmr5 scaled \magstep 2<br>
\font\teni=3Dcmmi10=C2=A0 scaled \magstep 2<br>
\font\seveni=3Dcmmi7=C2=A0 scaled \magstep 2<br>
\font\fivei=3Dcmmi5 scaled \magstep 2<br>
\font\tensy=3Dcmsy10 scaled \magstep 2<br>
\font\sevensy=3Dcmsy7 scaled \magstep 2 <br>
\font\fivesy=3Dcmsy5 scaled \magstep 2<br>
\font\tenex=3Dcmex10 scaled \magstep 2<br>
\font\tenbf=3Dcmbx10=C2=A0 scaled \magstep 2<br>
\font\sevenbf=3Dcmbx7 scaled \magstep 2 <br>
\font\fivebf=3Dcmbx5 scaled \magstep 2<br>
\font\tensl=3Dcmsl10=C2=A0 scaled \magstep 2<br>
\font\tentt=3Dcmtt10=C2=A0 scaled \magstep 2<br>
\font\tenit=3Dcmti10=C2=A0 scaled \magstep 2<br>

But I'm here to defend Philip above all, regardless, whether it makes
sense or not. :) 

Seriously, but this is just an oversight on the mailing list itself. 
I don't have an idea how mailman works, but there must be a way to
configure it accordingly

the mailing list for the linux kernel among many other programs mostly handle
this problem through majordomo and as such 

usage of html is prohibited presumably because of the same reason 

http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Taboo things to be done when discussing at VGER lists
The Majordomo is configured with a set of filter rules which when triggered will send the email to "/dev/null".
(List owner actually, but they are overworked elsewere, and use "d" button usually...)

Usage of HTML in email -- even as an alternate format -- is considered to be signature characteristics of SPAM.
Ignore this at your own peril!
A collection of phrases/keywords which appear commonly at those bloody SPAMs -- in case it is a TEXT/PLAIN spam, and not HTML-SPAM...
Message size exceeding 100 000 characters causes blocking.

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