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%% The LaTeX Companion, 3ed
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%% Example 3-5-9 on page I-212 in "footmisc --- Various footnotes styles".
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%% Copyright (C) 2022 Frank Mittelbach
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%% It may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions
%% of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3c
%% of this license or (at your option) any later version.
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%% See https://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
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\documentclass{tlc3exa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{183.0pt}

  \setlength\textheight{6.7\baselineskip}

  \sloppy % examples are so small ...

%StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage[symbol]{footmisc}
\DefineFNsymbols{stars}[text]{* {**} {***} {****}}
\setfnsymbol{stars}
%StopShownPreambleCommands

\begin{document}
Some text\footnote{First.} with a footnote.
More\footnote{Second.} text. Even more
text.\footnote{Third.} And even\footnote{Fourth.}
more text. Some more text to finish up.
\end{document}
