--- font-latex.el.~5.191.~	2010-09-12 11:47:59.000000000 +0200
+++ font-latex.el	2010-11-23 22:15:54.000000000 +0100
@@ -841,6 +841,15 @@
 The form should be the same as in `font-lock-syntactic-keywords'.")
 (make-variable-buffer-local 'font-latex-syntactic-keywords-extra)
 
+(defun font-latex-propertize-verb-macro-with-braces (start end)
+  "Put syntax properties on a verbatim macro with braces.
+START is the position just behind the opening brace and END is
+the position just before the closing brace."
+  (if (= (- end start) 1)
+      (put-text-property start (1+ start) 'syntax-table (string-to-syntax "."))
+    (put-text-property start (1+ start) 'syntax-table (string-to-syntax "|"))
+    (put-text-property (1- end) end 'syntax-table (string-to-syntax "|"))))
+
 (defun font-latex-set-syntactic-keywords ()
   "Set the variable `font-latex-syntactic-keywords'.
 This function can be used to refresh the variable in case other
@@ -894,8 +903,9 @@
     (unless (= (length verb-macros-with-braces) 0)
       (add-to-list 'font-latex-syntactic-keywords
 		   `(,(concat "\\\\\\(?:" verb-macros-with-braces "\\)"
-			      "\\({\\).*?[^\\]\\(?:\\\\\\\\\\)*\\(}\\)")
-		     (1 "|") (2 "|")))))
+			      "{\\(.*?[^\\]\\(?:\\\\\\\\\\)*\\)}")
+		     (1 (ignore (font-latex-propertize-verb-macro-with-braces
+				 (match-beginning 1) (match-end 1))))))))
   (when font-latex-syntactic-keywords-extra
     (nconc font-latex-syntactic-keywords font-latex-syntactic-keywords-extra))
   ;; Cater for docTeX mode.