diff --git a/doc/handbook/0_listingstyle.tex b/doc/handbook/0_listingstyle.tex
index 205b320e195b04d7430e23ee00cc3c28d0612723..f4b36a051af53f3dd82f7b1aea21cd1d36f42b51 100644
--- a/doc/handbook/0_listingstyle.tex
+++ b/doc/handbook/0_listingstyle.tex
@@ -87,11 +87,6 @@
   keywordstyle=\color{dumuxBlue}\ttfamily\let\textcolor\textcolordummy,
   stringstyle=\color{BrickRed}\ttfamily\let\textcolor\textcolordummy,
   commentstyle=\color[gray]{0.35}\ttfamily\itshape\let\textcolor\textcolordummy,
-  emph={NEW_TYPE_TAG, NEW_PROP_TAG, UNSET_PROP, TTAG, PTAG,
-       SET_PROP, GET_PROP, GET_PROP_VALUE, GET_PROP_TYPE,
-       SET_BOOL_PROP, SET_STRING_PROP, SET_SCALAR_PROP, SET_TYPE_PROP, SET_INT_PROP,
-       GET_BOOL_PROP, GET_STRING_PROP, GET_SCALAR_PROP, GET_TYPE_PROP, GET_INT_PROP,
-       GET_PARAM, GET_PARAM_FROM_GROUP, GET_RUNTIME_PARAM, GET_RUNTIME_PARAM_FROM_GROUP},
   emphstyle=\color{OliveGreen}\let\textcolor\textcolordummy,
   directivestyle=\color{Brown}\ttfamily\let\textcolor\textcolordummy,
 }
diff --git a/test/common/propertysystem/test_propertysystem.cc b/test/common/propertysystem/test_propertysystem.cc
index efd222777ffad67f569702b44c3852afe110bfe3..e173328427e9e43e6d8f6bc7689748bcadd66e1f 100644
--- a/test/common/propertysystem/test_propertysystem.cc
+++ b/test/common/propertysystem/test_propertysystem.cc
@@ -34,10 +34,10 @@
 namespace Dumux {
 namespace Properties {
 
-// create some Properties (equivalent to old macro NEW_PROP_TAG(...))
+// create some properties:
 // the first type tag is the actual TypeTag for which the property will be obtained
 // (can be used to make properties depend on other properties),
-// the second type tag is for parital specialization (equivalent to old macro SET_PROP(...), see below)
+// the second type tag is for partial specialization
 // the default property should be always undefined to produce a good error message
 // if the user attempt to get an unset property
 template<class TypeTag, class MyTypeTag>
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ template<class TypeTag, class MyTypeTag>
 struct UseTpfaFlux { using type = UndefinedProperty; };
 
 namespace TTag {
-// create some TypeTags (equivalent to old macro NEW_TYPE_TAG(..., INHERITS_FROM(...)))
+// create some type tags:
 // the tuple is sorted by precedence, the first one overwriting the following
 struct Base { };
 struct Grid { };
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ struct OnePTest { using InheritsFrom = std::tuple<OnePModel, BoxDisc>; };
 
 } // end namespace TTag
 
-// set and overwrite some properties (equivalent to old macro SET_PROP(...){};)
+// set and overwrite some properties
 template<class TypeTag>
 struct Scalar<TypeTag, TTag::Base> { using type = float; };