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%% The LaTeX Companion, 3ed
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%% Example 3-1-15 on page I-141 in "lettrine --- Dropping your capital".
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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{183.0pt}
\sloppy % to fit in small book columns
%StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{lettrine}
%StopShownPreambleCommands

\begin{document}
\lettrine{L}{et us suppose} that the noumena have
nothing to do with necessity, since knowledge of
the Categories is a posteriori. Hume tells \ldots
\end{document}