diff --git a/font-latex.el b/font-latex.el
index 7873a4a5681..0908d78e8a0 100644
--- a/font-latex.el
+++ b/font-latex.el

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@

;;; font-latex.el --- LaTeX fontification for Font Lock mode. -*- lexical-binding: t; -*-

-;; Copyright (C) 1996-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

+;; Copyright (C) 1996-2026 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

;; Authors: Peter S. Galbraith <psg@debian.org>

;; Simon Marshall <Simon.Marshall@esrin.esa.it>

@@ -1091,6 +1091,10 @@ have changed."

(add-to-list

'font-latex-syntactic-keywords

`(,(concat "\\\\\\(?:" verb-macros-with-delims "\\)"

+ ;; Since LaTeX release 2020-10-01, spaces after \verb

+ ;; macro are gobbled like with other macros (see

+ ;; ltnews32.pdf), so deal with them:

+ "[ \t]*"

;; Some macros take an optional argument. This is

;; the same line as above for environments.

"\\(?:\\[[^][]*\\(?:\\[[^][]*\\][^][]*\\)*\\]\\)?"

@@ -1109,6 +1113,8 @@ have changed."

(add-to-list

'font-latex-syntactic-keywords

`(,(concat "\\\\\\(?:" verb-macros-with-braces "\\)"

+ ;; Spaces are allowed after macros as usual:

+ "[ \t]*"

;; Some macros take an optional argument. This is

;; the same line as above for environments.

"\\(?:\\[[^][]*\\(?:\\[[^][]*\\][^][]*\\)*\\]\\)?"

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@

;;; font-latex-test.el --- tests for font-latex -*- lexical-binding: t; -*-

-;; Copyright (C) 2020-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

+;; Copyright (C) 2020-2026 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

;; This file is part of AUCTeX.

@@ -115,6 +115,7 @@ $a$")

\\section{Macros}

Inline verbatim test: \\verb|x|

+Inline verbatim test: \\verb* |x|

Inline math test: $x$, \\(x\\)

Marginpar test: \\marginpar{x}

Sedate macro test: \\sedate

@@ -215,6 +216,9 @@ x

(search-forward "\\verb|")

(should (font-latex-faces-present-p 'font-latex-verbatim-face))

(end-of-line)

+ (search-forward "\\verb* |")

+ (should (font-latex-faces-present-p 'font-latex-verbatim-face))

+ (end-of-line)

;; Test for inline math:

(search-forward "$")