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%% The LaTeX Companion, 2ed (second printing August 2004)
%%
%% Example 3-2-13 on page 119.
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%% Copyright (C) 2004 Frank Mittelbach, Michel Goossens,
%%    Johannes Braams, David Carlisle, and Chris Rowley
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%% It may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions
%% of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3
%% of this license or (at your option) any later version.
%%
%% See http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
%%

\documentclass{ttctexa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{207.0pt}
\setlength\textheight{6.5\baselineskip}
\addtolength\textwidth{-80pt}
\setlength\marginparwidth{72pt}

\StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage[side,ragged]{footmisc}
\StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
Some text\footnote{In the margin ragged
right often looks better.} with a footnote
A lot of additional text here to fill
up the space in the example. A lot of
additional text here to fill up the space
in the example.
\end{document}