diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index 49f6fdc45..7099f3605 100755
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 2009-02-02  Carsten Dominik  <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
 
+	* org-export-latex.el (org-export-latex-emphasis-alist): Use = and
+	~ as verbatim delimiters.
+
 	* org-exp.el (org-export-html-format-image): New argument
 	PAR-OPEN.
 	(org-export-as-html): Pass par-open to
diff --git a/lisp/org-export-latex.el b/lisp/org-export-latex.el
index f4d3390b2..02aa4c05d 100644
--- a/lisp/org-export-latex.el
+++ b/lisp/org-export-latex.el
@@ -165,8 +165,8 @@ to represent the section title."
     ("/" "\\emph{%s}" nil)
     ("_" "\\underline{%s}" nil)
     ("+" "\\texttt{%s}" nil)
-    ("=" "\\verb|%s|" nil)
-    ("~" "\\verb|%s|" t))
+    ("=" "\\verb=%s=" nil)
+    ("~" "\\verb~%s~" t))
   "Alist of LaTeX expressions to convert emphasis fontifiers.
 Each element of the list is a list of three elements.
 The first element is the character used as a marker for fontification.