On Oct 11, 2011, at 6:56 AM, Brandon Kuczenski wrote: > I am trying to figure out what has changed about my system after a recent > major upgrade that has stopped my slideshows from building. It seems there > has been a change to the management of the key=value parser. > > ==== > ... > Because the new xkeyval is not compatible with enumitem, I infer that > Powerdot's dependency on both xkeyval and enumitem has forced powerdot.cls to > re-implement key-value parsing for list environments, with unfortunate > consequences. > > Is there a work around? or do I simply have to revise ALL my old slideshows? > > -Brandon > > I have tried your exhibit B on my machine, with TeXLive 2010, and it worked perfectly. I then installed TeXLive 2011 and it again worked perfectly. My guess is that something on your system is interfering. Maybe you have an old version of some package in your personal tex tree that is being used. Take a look at your log file; it should show you the versions of each package that are being used to typeset your document. For instance, for enumitem, mine says: (/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/enumitem/enumitem.sty Package: enumitem 2009/05/18 v2.2 Customized lists \enit@toks=\toks24 \labelindent=\skip48 \enit@outerparindent=\dimen138 \enitdp@desc=\count130 ) and for xkeyval: (/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/latex/xkeyval/xkeyval.sty Package: xkeyval 2008/08/13 v2.6a package option processing (HA) (/usr/local/texlive/2011/texmf-dist/tex/generic/xkeyval/xkeyval.tex \XKV@toks=\toks15 \XKV@tempa@toks=\toks16 \XKV@depth=\count86 File: xkeyval.tex 2008/08/13 v2.6a key=value parser (HA) HTH Luis Sequeira