Hi, There's been a long existing problem on Win32 with :overline face attribute. Namely it didn't appear due to a bug/type in w32term.c Here the patch. Please incorporate into the CVS as I'm not a member. Regards, Bela --------------- cut here ---------------- --- w32term.c Fri Aug 20 12:34:12 2004 +++ w32term.c.new Mon Aug 23 08:51:08 2004 @@ -2506,7 +2506,7 @@ } else { - w32_fill_area (s->f, s->hdc, s->face->underline_color, s->x, + w32_fill_area (s->f, s->hdc, s->face->overline_color, s->x, s->y + dy, s->width, h); } } --------------- cut here ----------------