%%
%% The LaTeX Companion, 2ed (second printing August 2004)
%%
%% Example 3-3-1 on page 128.
%%
%% 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{159.0pt}
\StartShownPreambleCommands
  \usepackage{pifont}
  \newenvironment{MYitemize}{\renewcommand\labelitemi
            {\ding{43}}\begin{itemize}}{\end{itemize}}
\StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
  \begin{MYitemize}
  \item Text of the first item in the list.
  \item Text of the first sentence in the second
        item of the list. And the second sentence.
  \end{MYitemize}
\end{document}
