Hello! I'm returning to the problem I reported using equations in the itemize environment. The use of the amsmath package solves the problem when using \begin{equation} ... \end{eqnation}, but doesn't address the problem in the eqnarray environment: \begin{eqnarray} ... \end{eqnarray} will still have the problem of the active equation number colour even when inactive, which, I think, is because this environment is not defined in the amsmath package. However, a quick (and elegant I think) fix that solves this problem and does not require the amsmath package is to redefine \@eqnnum to exclude \normalcolor from its definition (I feel silly now that I didn't think of this earlier:-). \documentclass{powerdot} \makeatletter \def\@eqnnum{{\normalfont (\theequation)}} \makeatother \begin{document} \begin{slide}{test} \begin{itemize}[type=1] \item 1\pause \item \onslide*{2}{\color{red}} \begin{equation} 2 \end{equation}\pause \item 3 \end{itemize} \end{slide} \end{document} This way, the basic LaTeX equation environments can be used. The original LaTeX definition of \@eqnnum is \makeatletter \def\@eqnnum{{\normalfont \normalcolor (\theequation)}} \makeatother which indicates how stupid I was. :-) So, forget the fix I offered earlier using the \onslide commands, use this. Best regards, Luis Costa