Comment 31 for bug 380860

As a reasonable temporary workaround in Lucid, I downloaded the latest version of latex.xml from svn (http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdelibs/kate/syntax/data/latex.xml?view=markup) and copied it into ~/.kde/share/apps/katepart/syntax/
It still has trouble with macro-parameters and backward quotes, but at least most LaTeX commands will be properly recognised as such. Especially if you only use on-the-fly spellchecking, it is quite usable this way...