BTW - further play with this revealed a small problem with an occasional word sometimes being missing along the right edge in some of the log entries in game - it only happened occasionally and I never could figure out exactly why it was happening, BUT a small tweak to the numbers in my post above seems to have eliminated the problem, at least as far as I've been able to tell so far.
I had posted above to change (among other things) the following line in the menu_1024_768.ini file:
[G35 I19]
Zone= 613 553 445 480 4 1 0x35060000 0.5 -0.5 0x35040000 -0.5 0.4 -5 -10
If you change the third number from 445 to 455, so the line now reads:
[G35 I19]
Zone= 613 553 455 480 4 1 0x35060000 0.5 -0.5 0x35040000 -0.5 0.4 -5 -10
all the words seem to show up where they didn't before, at least in my tests so far. The other pages (radio messages and mission objectives) didn't seem to need a similar change so I haven't messed with the numbers I previously posted for those other lines yet. Of course, as previously stated, these numbers are all for 1024x768 and you may need to adjust them accordingly if you run a different resolution and don't like the way these numbers work for that resolution.
A sample of my latest patrol log in game, after this tweak/fix, is shown below:
Enjoy!