Oh, indeed -- the face is simply the font settings, the overlay has more
display flexibility (i.e images), right?
>
>
> It's a not-so-rare request. Thus, if Someone implements a minor mode
> adding overlays on these stars (or even a more general "beautify"
> minor-mode adding overlays on list items, todo keywords...), it could
> make a nice addition to contrib/.


Definitely. I thought it was already possible somehow. Anyway,  it's only
aesthetics, so not high priority, but would still be nice to have.

On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 4:36 AM, Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celoserpa@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I was wondering if it's possible to change the face of the asterisk used
> > for the bullet points. Using  a smoother UTF-8 character or even an image
> > would be neat. Is that possible?
>
> You can change the face of the asterisk, but it will still be an
> asterisk. So, that's not what you're looking after. You need overlays to
> visually change the symbol.
>
> It's a not-so-rare request. Thus, if Someone implements a minor mode
> adding overlays on these stars (or even a more general "beautify"
> minor-mode adding overlays on list items, todo keywords...), it could
> make a nice addition to contrib/.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Nicolas Goaziou
>