Markdown text size too small by default. Would like ability to change font size of markdown rendering

[IanMatthewHuff]

Was playing around a bit, and didn't see a way to set this. Both Editor Font Size and Markdown Preview Font Size didn't look to change it. Per chat with @rebornix this might be a few feature to add.

Note: "this is a normal line" is the markdown cell.

[miguelsolorio]

I would consider this a "bug" since the markdown.preview.fontSize setting says:

Controls the font size in pixels used in the Markdown preview.

@mjbvz is there an ETA on when this would be added to an iteration? I keep seeing this come up in user feedback.

[DonJayamanne]

There's also a feature request #123149
Different font sizes for output (not just markdown)

[mjbvz]

Not in favor of reusing that setting for notebooks. I believe we should add a new setting for notebook markup/outputs

What do people want this setting to do? Scale everything? Or just the body text?

[miguelsolorio]

I think the same way the current setting scales everything. I think having separate settings is fine, same for output as long as it inherits from the notebook default.

[aschoettler]

@mjbvz

What do people want this setting to do? Scale everything? Or just the body text?

It would be nice to have a setting to scale everything (headers/text/etc) so that when editor.fontSize is larger for visibility, all the rendered markdown can be independently scaled up so that the markdown & code cells look proportional. For example, this would allow scaling the markdown so that rendered code blocks / inline code match the scale of actual code cells.