[The following applies to XEmacs 21.0.66 under IRIX 6.5:] Using menu item Customize -> Faces... to bring up the *Customize Faces* buffer, then open the "Bold" face or any other face using a bold font, as in: The Attribute "Bold" is inactive and set to off, even though the face appears as bold. This face is being derived from the default, as there are no .emacs or resource settings explicitly specifying the bold face. The same lack of Customize properly indicating "boldness" seems to happen even with mode-specific faces that use make-face-bold to set the bold attribute for their faces. -- John