%%
%% The LaTeX Companion, 3ed
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%% Example 4-3-33 on page I-358 in "Balancing control".
%%
%% 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.
%%
%% See https://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
%%

\documentclass{tlc3exa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{183.0pt}

  \addtolength\columnsep{2pt}

%StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{multicol,ragged2e}
%StopShownPreambleCommands

\begin{document}
\begin{multicols}{3}
\setcounter{unbalance}{1}
  \RaggedRight
  Here is some text to be distributed over
  several columns. In this example ragged-right
  typesetting is used.
\end{multicols}
\end{document}