Jan Vroonhof <vroonhof(a)math.ethz.ch&gt; wrote: Yes, and IMO this is a broken concept. That's why I said it is "hacky". However, this: is perfectly fine. All faces can have a background[-pixmap] or whatever. What is hacky is that you have to make a special case (and treatment) of the default face background[-pixmap] because it is used as a background attribute for something which is not related to characters. We should have a background[-pixmap] specifier. -- / / _ _ Didier Verna http://www.inf.enst.fr/~verna/ - / / - / / /_/ / EPITA / LRDE mailto:didier＠epita.fr /_/ / /_/ / /__ / 14-16 rue Voltaire Tel. +33 (1) 44 08 01 77 94276 Kremlin-Bicêtre cedex Fax. +33 (1) 44 08 01 99