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%% The LaTeX Companion, 3ed
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%% Example 4-3-20 on page I-346 in "paracol --- Several text streams aligned".
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%% Copyright (C) 2022 Frank Mittelbach
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\documentclass{tlc3exa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{183.0pt}

  \usepackage{microtype} % to improve h&j

%StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{paracol}
%StopShownPreambleCommands

\begin{document}
\begin{itemize} \item A few more typesetting terms.
\columnratio{0.55}\begin{paracol}{2}
\item An ellipsis is a character consisting of
    usually 3 dots. \switchcolumn
\item Face: the part of a physical letter that
  gets printed.
\end{paracol}
\item The hyphen (‐) is a punctuation mark.
\end{itemize}
\end{document}