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%% The LaTeX Companion, 2ed (second printing August 2004)
%%
%% Example 3-3-16 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{135.0pt}
\sloppy %as the column in the book is so small
\StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{paralist} \setdefaultitem{}{\textbullet}{$\star$}{}
\StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
\begin{compactitem}
\item Outer level is using the default label.
  \begin{compactitem}
  \item On the second level we use again a bullet.
    \begin{compactitem}
    \item And on the third level a star.
    \end{compactitem}
  \end{compactitem}
\end{compactitem}
\end{document}