The man page for "textstyle" lists a couple of possibilities, but not inverse video. The keywords "inverse" and "reverse" don't seem to apply to text. -- Victor Eijkhout <eijkhout at cs.utk.edu> tel: 865 974 9308 (W), 865 673 6998 (H), 865 974 8296 (F) http://www.cs.utk.edu/~eijkhout/