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%% The LaTeX Companion, 2ed (second printing August 2004)
%%
%% Example 3-5-14 on page 184.
%%
%% 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.
%%

\documentclass{ttctexa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{207.0pt}

% To help with narrow measure in the book:
\addtolength\columnsep{6pt}
\StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{multicol}
\StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
\begin{multicols}{3}
 Here is some text to be distributed over
 several columns. If the columns are very
 narrow try typesetting ragged right.
\end{multicols}
\end{document}
