[OS X TeX] weird indentation

Charilaos Skiadas cskiadas at gmail.com
Sun Feb 24 12:03:30 EST 2008 

For what it's worth, in my system I don't see any indentation when I  
compile what you've attached. I've appended my log file. Perhaps I  
have older versions of some packages, and that can help you narrow it  
down a bit.

Haris Skiadas
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Hanover College

On Feb 24, 2008, at 11:14 AM, Alain Schremmer wrote:

> I have not been able to figure out what is going on with the  
> following code (TeXShop 2.14 under 10.4.11):	
> 	
> 	\documentclass[11pt]{book}
> 	\usepackage{paralist}
>
> 	\usepackage{lmodern}	  		
> 	\usepackage{fink}
> 		
> 			           \setdefaultleftmargin{5mm}{6mm}{7mm}{8mm}{}{}
> 		        			% controls indents on compactitem
>
> 		\begin{document}
> 			\begin{compactitem}
> 			\setlength{\itemsep}{0mm}
> 				\item
> 					A
> 				\item
> 					B
> 			\end{compactitem}
> 		\end{document}
>
> As is, item A will be more indented than item B. Comment out  
> lmodern or fink (or the default margin) and item A will be flush  
> with item B.
>
> Obviously no big deal but it' s starting to get on my nerves.
>
> Hopeful regards
> --schremmer
>


This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)  
(format=pdflatex 2007.5.18)  24 FEB 2008 12:00
entering extended mode
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File: bk11.clo 2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX file (size option)
)
\c at part=\count79
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\c at paragraph=\count84
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\belowcaptionskip=\skip42
\bibindent=\dimen102
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Package: paralist 2002/03/18 v2.3b Extended list environments (BS)
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\pl at lab=\toks14
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LaTeX Font Info:    Overwriting math alphabet `\mathtt' in version  
`bold'
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Package: fink 2002/04/03 v1.2 Keep track of the current filename
)
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File: omslmr.fd 2007/01/14 v1.3 Font defs for Latin Modern
)
LaTeX Font Info:    Try loading font information for OMS+lmsy on  
input line 14.


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File: omslmsy.fd 2007/01/14 v1.3 Font defs for Latin Modern
)
LaTeX Font Info:    Font shape `OMS/lmr/m/n' in size <10.95> not  
available
(Font)              Font shape `OMS/lmsy/m/n' tried instead on input  
line 14.
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Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:
435 strings out of 94073
6183 string characters out of 1162984
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3781 multiletter control sequences out of 10000+50000
10235 words of font info for 18 fonts, out of 1200000 for 2000
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