diff --git a/tex.nanorc b/tex.nanorc
index 50db5e0..76cc469 100644
--- a/tex.nanorc
+++ b/tex.nanorc
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 ## Here is a short example for TeX files.
 ##
 syntax "tex" "\.tex$" "bib" "\.bib$" "cls" "\.cls$"
+color yellow "\$[^$]*\$"
 icolor green "\\.|\\[A-Z]*"
-color magenta "[{}]$"
+color magenta "[{}]"
 color blue "%.*"
 color blue start="\\begin\{comment\}" end="\\end\{comment\}"