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%% The LaTeX Companion, 3ed
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%% Example 16-2-26 on page II-486 in "biblatex's approach to number-only references".
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%% Copyright (C) 2022 Frank Mittelbach
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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{149.0pt}

  % Use biber program

  \addtolength\textwidth{-14pt}  % match nearby example

%StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage[style=ext-numeric-comp]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{tlc.bib} \DeclareOuterCiteDelims{cite}{(}{)}
\renewcommand\postnotedelim{\addsemicolon\addspace}
\renewcommand\multicitedelim{\addsemicolon\addspace}
%StopShownPreambleCommands

\begin{document}
Color support for \LaTeX{} is described in \cite{LGC97}
and the \texttt{hyperref} package in \cite[35-67]{LWC99}.
\par See also \cite{MR-PQ,Southall}.
\end{document}