Dear Jürgen To use powerdot with babel in french, simply use the following code (just add \frenchbsetup{StandardLists=true} in the preamble): \documentclass[ size=11pt, style=default, paper=a4paper, %% Try me! %% orient=portrait, %% mode=handout, display=slidesnotes, %% pauseslide, nohandoutpagebreaks, fleqn, hlentries=true, hlsections=true ]{powerdot} \usepackage{t1enc} \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} \usepackage[francais]{babel} \frenchbsetup{StandardLists=true} \begin{document} \begin{slide}[toc=]{test} \begin{itemize} \item Essai de slides \item en français \end{itemize} \end{slide} \end{document} Best regards, Patrice Mégret -----Message d'origine----- De : powerdot-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:powerdot-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] De la part de Jürgen Spitzmüller Envoyé : lundi 30 novembre 2009 14:35 À : powerdot@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Objet : [powerdot] [patch] fix powerdot w/ French Hi there, I figured that I need the following patch (against v. 1.3 of powerdot) in order to compile French documents with recent babel (frenchb.ldf >= 2.0): --- powerdot.cls.old 2006-07-15 00:42:30.000000000 +0200 +++ powerdot.cls 2009-11-30 14:15:56.000000000 +0100 @@ -1335,9 +1335,11 @@ \AtBeginDocument{% \@expandtwoargs\in@{,frenchb.ldf,}{,\@filelist,}% \ifin@ + \@ifundefined{frenchbsetup}{% \let\bbl@frenchindent\relax \let\bbl@frenchitemize\relax \let\bbl@frenchlistspacing\relax + }{\frenchbsetup{StandardLists=true}} \fi } \ifnum\pd@mode=\z@ Regards, Jürgen Important notification: In the context of the creation of the University of Mons, FPMs email address policy is changing from '@fpms.ac.be' to '@umons.ac.be' (or @student.fpms.ac.be to @student.umons.ac.be), please update your contact list accordingly. Note importante: Dans le cadre de la création de l'Université de Mons, la stratégie d'adresse de courrier électronique de la FPMs change de '@fpms.ac.be' à '@umons.ac.be' (ou @student.fpms.ac.be to @student.umons.ac.be), merci de mettre à jour votre liste d'adresses en conséquence.