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%% The LaTeX Companion, 3ed
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%% Example 3-5-1 on page I-205 in "Using standard footnotes".
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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}
\setlength\textheight{3.2\baselineskip}
%StartShownPreambleCommands
\renewcommand\thefootnote{\fnsymbol{footnote}}

%StopShownPreambleCommands

\begin{document}
A line of text\footnote{The first}
with some\footnote{The second} footnotes.
\end{document}