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%% The LaTeX Companion, 2ed (second printing August 2004)
%%
%% Example 3-2-8 on page 117.
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%% 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{183.0pt}
\setlength\textheight{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}