Emacs 21.2: How to get extra bright tty colors for faces

[Daniel Shane]

 Hi, 
 
I am using emacs 21.2 on RedHat 7.3 (i386) and I am a bit puzzled over 
the fontification of the buffer name zone in the modeline on the bottom 
(where you can see the text *scratch* on initial startup).  
 
Here is what happens. I am trying to have very bright colors in Emacs, 
however, the closest I have been able to get is to set a light color to bold. 
This give a "good" result, however it could be even better.  
 
I know that it is possible to get "extra" bright colors however there are no 
"make-face..." nor are there any color that are "extra" bright. This is 
probably cause by the fact that the extra brightness is an attribute, like 
bold.  
 
Never the less, when I start emacs and change the default face to red, I 
can clearly see that the buffer name zone in the modeline is in "extra" 
bright red and is not bold. Hurray... however I have been unable to find the 
function that will allow me to set this kind of brightness on perticular faces. 
 
By looking in the site-lisp/term I see that there is a msdos definition for 
terminal colors that include "extra" bright colors, but I do not know how to 
use them in a face definition.  
 
I also see in tty-colors that the base listing contains only 8 terminal colors 
and that every colors gets rounded down to these 8. Could it be possible 
that this is why I cannot get tty colors greater than 16 even if they are 
describes in the term directory? 
 
Thanks in advance for your help! 
Daniel Shane 
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GNU/Linux Developer 
IroSoft (www.irosoft.com)