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%% The LaTeX Companion, 2ed (second printing August 2004)
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%% Example 3-3-9 on page 133.
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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}
Item~\ref{bad} shows what can go wrong:
\begin{asparaenum}[Example a:]
\item On the first item we will not notice it
but \item the second item then shows what
happens if a special character is mistakenly
matched. \label{bad}
\end{asparaenum}
\end{document}