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%% The LaTeX Companion, 2ed (second printing August 2004)
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%% Example 3-3-11 on page 134.
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%% Copyright (C) 2004 Frank Mittelbach, Michel Goossens,
%%    Johannes Braams, David Carlisle, and Chris Rowley
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%% of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3
%% of this license or (at your option) any later version.
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%% See http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
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\documentclass{ttctexa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{183.0pt}
\sloppy %as the column in the book is so small
\StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{paralist}
\StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
The left margin may vary if we are not careful.
\begin{enumerate}
\item An item in a normal \texttt{enumerate}.
\end{enumerate}
\begin{compactenum}
\item Same left margin in \item this case.
\end{compactenum}
\begin{compactenum}[i)]
\item But a different one \item here.
\end{compactenum}
\end{document}