Re: problem with powerdot package with Miktex 2.9

Am Wed, 13 Jul 2011 12:04:02 +0100 schrieb David Griffel:

> I have used powerdot with MikTex 2.8, no problems.  Now I have
> upgraded to MikTex 2.9, and when there's a list, it fails to compile.
> Works OK as long as there are no list environments.
> 
> Minimal example:
> 
> \documentclass[style=simple]{powerdot}
> \begin{document}
> \begin{slide}{}
> Hello
> \begin{itemize}
> \item world
> \end{itemize}
> \end{slide}
> \end{document}
> 
> I compile using latex - dvips - ps2pdf - view pdf
> It fails with error message:
> 
> ! Undefined control sequence.
> <argument> enit@cw@\@enumctr
> l.12 \end{slide}
> The control sequence at the end of the top line
> of your error message was never \def'ed.
> 
> I asked about this on the powerdot mailing list, another user said it
> worked for him using the "sailor" style in powerdot but not with the
> "simple" style.  For me, it fails with the "sailor" style too.
> 
> Any help wd be appreciated.

You are in luck. That's "only" a enumitem bug. enumitem uses
\@enumctr in the argument of an \@ifundefined command. But as
\@enumctr is not defined in an (unnumbered) itemize list you get an
error. 

I have sent a bug report to the author. 

Try

\makeatletter
\providecommand\@enumctr{}
\makeatother

until enumitem is updated.

Btw: The newest enumitem has changed quite a lot internals. Most
importantly it no longer uses the standard \define@key and \setkeys
command from (x)keyval (to avoid compability problems with xkeyval).
As powerdot uses xkeyval, defines some additional keys for enumitem
and does a lot of key settings it is quite possible that this
changes will break something.


-- 
Ulrike Fischer 


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