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%% The LaTeX Companion, 2ed (second printing August 2004)
%%
%% Example 3-3-13 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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%% It may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions
%% 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.
%%

\documentclass{ttctexa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{159.0pt}
\sloppy %as the column in the book is so
                                   %small
\addtolength\textwidth{-24pt}

\StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage[neveradjust]{paralist}
\StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
With this option the label is pushed into the margin.
\begin{enumerate}
\item An item in a normal\\ \texttt{enumerate}.
\end{enumerate}
\begin{compactenum}[{Task} A)]
\item Same left indentation in \item this case.
\end{compactenum}
\begin{compactenum}[1)]
\item And the same indentation \item here.
\end{compactenum}
\end{document}