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%% The LaTeX Companion, 2ed (second printing August 2004)
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%% Example 3-3-14 on page 135.
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%% Copyright (C) 2004 Frank Mittelbach, Michel Goossens,
%%    Johannes Braams, David Carlisle, and Chris Rowley
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%% 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{159.0pt}
\sloppy %as the column in the book is so small
\StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage[neverdecrease]{paralist}
\StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
Producing itemized lists with special labels is easy.
\begin{compactitem}[$\star$]
\item This example uses the package option
      \texttt{neverdecrease}.
\item Without it the left margin would be smaller.
\end{compactitem}
\end{document}
