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%% The LaTeX Companion, 3ed
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%% Example 4-4-2 on page I-363 in "lipsum and friends --- Generating text samples".
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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{279.0pt}

%StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{kantlipsum}
%StopShownPreambleCommands

\begin{document}
\small
\kant*[1][1]¶   % 1 sentence
\kant*[2][1-2]¶ % 2 sentences
More text \dots
\end{document}