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%% The LaTeX Companion, 3ed
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%% Example 3-5-24 on page I-219 in "perpage --- Resetting counters on a \enquote {per-page} basis".
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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.
%%

\documentclass{tlc3exa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{95.40097pt}
\setlength\textheight{5\baselineskip}
\sloppy % because the examples are so small ...
%StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage[symbol]{footmisc}
\usepackage{perpage}
\MakePerPage[2]{footnote}
%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 final text.
\end{document}