@c @w is used below to prevent a bad page-break.
@vindex font-lock-beginning-of-syntax-function
+@cindex incorrect fontification
+@cindex parenthesis in column zero and fontification
+@cindex brace in column zero and fontification
Comment and string fontification (or ``syntactic'' fontification)
relies on analysis of the syntactic structure of the buffer text. For
the sake of speed, some modes, including C mode and Lisp mode,