Re: text properties in tex mode

[Kostas Oikonomou]

> Does Edit->Text Properties->Background Color->Other and then
> entering yellow (or another color) works ?

I should have clarified this earlier: this works fine 
(including yellow, or any other color) if the buffer is in 
fundamental mode, shell mode, emacs-lisp mode, and a bunch 
of other modes.
The only mode in which it doesn't work is TeX/LaTeX mode, 
and that's what I am having problems with.
Sorry for not making this clear earlier.

> Do you have something like (:background yellow)
> in your init file ? It should be (:background "yellow")

No.

> Consider launching emacs with emacs -q and try again, to see
> if the problem has to do with your config file. 

emacs -q makes no difference in TeX/LaTeX mode.  Problem is 
still there.

> If not, I guess that the problem has to do with your installation.