diff --git a/data/syntax/latex.xml b/data/syntax/latex.xml
--- a/data/syntax/latex.xml
+++ b/data/syntax/latex.xml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<?xml version="1.1" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE language SYSTEM "language.dtd">
 <language name="LaTeX" version="2" section="Markup" kateversion="5.0" priority="10" extensions="*.tex;*.ltx;*.dtx;*.sty;*.cls;*.bbx;*.cbx;*.lbx;*.tikz" mimetype="text/x-tex" casesensitive="1" author="Jeroen Wijnhout (Jeroen.Wijnhout@kdemail.net)+Holger Danielsson (holger.danielsson@versanet.de)+Michel Ludwig (michel.ludwig@kdemail.net)+Thomas Braun (thomas.braun@virtuell-zuhause.de)" license="LGPL" >
   <highlighting>
@@ -423,7 +423,7 @@
       <!-- end of math environment -->
       <context name="MathFindEnd" attribute="Normal Text" lineEndContext="#pop" fallthrough="true" fallthroughContext="#pop">
         <RegExpr String="\s*\{" attribute="Normal Text" context="#stay"/>
-        <RegExpr String="(equation|displaymath|eqnarray|subeqnarray|math|multline|gather|align|flalign|alignat|xalignat|xxalignat|IEEEeqnarray|IEEEeqnarraybox|smallmatrix|pmatrix|bmatrix|Bmatrix|vmatrix|Vmatrix|cases)\*?" attribute="Environment" context="#stay"/>
+        <RegExpr String="(equation|displaymath|eqnarray|subeqnarray|math|multline|gather|align(?!at)|flalign|alignat|xalignat|xxalignat|IEEEeqnarray|IEEEeqnarraybox|smallmatrix|pmatrix|bmatrix|Bmatrix|vmatrix|Vmatrix|cases)\*?" attribute="Environment" context="#stay"/>
         <DetectChar char="}" attribute="Normal Text" context="#pop#pop#pop#pop#pop"  endRegion="block"/>
       </context>