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%% The LaTeX Companion, 2ed (second printing August 2004)
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%% Example 3-3-15 on page 136.
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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.
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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{paralist}
\StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
Do you like inline description lists? Try them out!
\begin{compactdesc}
\item[paralist] A useful package as it supports
 \begin{inparadesc} \item[compact\ldots] environments
  that have zero vertical space, \item[aspara\ldots]
  environments  formatted as paragraphs, and
  \item[inpara\ldots] environments as inline lists.
 \end{inparadesc}
\item[enumerate] A package that is superseded now.
\end{compactdesc}
\end{document}
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