diff --git a/src/ChangeLog b/src/ChangeLog
index 5b32b815d8..0ab399626e 100644
--- a/src/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2006-03-10  Jürgen Spitzmüller  <j.spitzmueller@gmx.de>
+
+	* bufferparams.C (writeLaTeX): define \labelitemi with \def. Fixes LaTeX 
+	error if the class has not defined them yet (bug 2053).
+
 2006-03-10  Martin Vermeer  <martin.vermeer@hut.fi>
 
 	* BufferView.[Ch]:
diff --git a/src/bufferparams.C b/src/bufferparams.C
index 41abadeb94..8c4bed9e43 100644
--- a/src/bufferparams.C
+++ b/src/bufferparams.C
@@ -1005,7 +1005,7 @@ bool BufferParams::writeLaTeX(ostream & os, LaTeXFeatures & features,
 		if (user_defined_bullet(i) != ITEMIZE_DEFAULTS[i]) {
 			if (bullets_def.empty())
 				bullets_def="\\AtBeginDocument{\n";
-			bullets_def += "  \\renewcommand{\\labelitemi";
+			bullets_def += "  \\def\\labelitemi";
 			switch (i) {
 				// `i' is one less than the item to modify
 			case 0:
@@ -1020,7 +1020,7 @@ bool BufferParams::writeLaTeX(ostream & os, LaTeXFeatures & features,
 				bullets_def += 'v';
 				break;
 			}
-			bullets_def += "}{" +
+			bullets_def += '{' +
 				user_defined_bullet(i).getText()
 				+ "}\n";
 		}