Colour customization in LaTeX mode

[vanad]

Has there been any progress on allowing colour preferences
in 21.2.1 ? I acquired 21.2.1 as part of RH9. I've been using
20.7.1 under RH7.2 and had colours in LaTeX mode selected 
so as to give light foreground colours on a dark background. 
I have weak eyes, need a full screen window, and find the 
white background too dazzling. I'm not particularly worried 
which colours go with math, display, environments, etc,
except that grey for comments seems sensible. Below is the
personal part of my ~/.emacs file. I also have a lot in
~/.Xdefaults.

All comments will be greatly appreciated!

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;personal from here on

(setq-default latex-mode t)
(setq-default transient-mark-mode t)
(setq default-major-mode 'latex-mode)
; (add-hook 'latex-mode-hook 'turn-on-font-lock)
; (add-hook 'tex-mode-hook 'turn-on-font-lock)
; next line added 27-05-03, see p146
(setq european-calendar-style 't)
; next line added 01-08-03, see info file
(setq cal-tex-diary t)
; next line added 01-08-03, see p265
(setq tex-dvi-print-command "dvips")
; next two lines added 13-4-01. See p64
(setq-default case-fold-search nil)
(setq-default case-replace nil)
; next line added 27-07-01 from FAQ 29
(setq frame-title-format "%b")
(desktop-load-default)
(desktop-read)
(custom-set-variables)
(custom-set-faces
 '(font-lock-comment-face ((((class color) (background dark)) (:foreground 
"Grey"))))
 '(font-lock-string-face ((((class color) (background dark)) (:foreground 
"Green")))))