%%
%% The LaTeX Companion, 2ed (second printing August 2004)
%%
%% Example 3-3-18 on page 137.
%%
%% Copyright (C) 2004 Frank Mittelbach, Michel Goossens,
%%    Johannes Braams, David Carlisle, and Chris Rowley
%%
%% 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.
%%
%% See http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
%%

\documentclass{ttctexa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{135.0pt}
\sloppy %as the column in the book is so small
\StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{paralist}
\setdefaultenum{1)}{a)}{i)}{A)}
\setdefaultleftmargin{\parindent}{\parindent}
                     {\parindent}{}{}{}
\StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
\begin{compactenum}
\item All levels get a closing parenthesis in this example.
  \begin{compactenum}
  \item Lowercase letters here.
    \begin{compactenum}
    \item Roman numerals here. \item Really!
    \end{compactenum}
  \end{compactenum}
\end{compactenum}
\end{document}