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%% The LaTeX Companion, 2ed (second printing August 2004)
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%% Example 3-5-5 on page 179.
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%% Copyright (C) 2004 Frank Mittelbach, Michel Goossens,
%%    Johannes Braams, David Carlisle, and Chris Rowley
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%% of this license or (at your option) any later version.
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%% See http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
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\documentclass{ttctexa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{207.0pt}

\addtolength\textwidth{-30pt}
\newcommand\sample{ Some text to experiment
                 with line numbering.}
\StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{lineno}
\linenumbers
% \sample as defined before

\StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
\sample\linelabel{first}\sample\sample
\sample\linelabel{second}\sample

In the text on lines~\ref{first},
\lineref[1]{first}, up to and including
line~\ref{second} we see refererences to
individual lines \ldots
\end{document}