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%% The LaTeX Companion, 3ed
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%% Example 4-1-29 on page I-277 in "Hooking in code".
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%% Copyright (C) 2022 Frank Mittelbach
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%% of this license or (at your option) any later version.
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\documentclass{tlc3exa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{117.0pt}

  \addtolength\textwidth{18pt} % manual adjustment for the display in the book

%StartShownPreambleCommands
 \usepackage{ragged2e,enumitem}
 \renewlist{quote}{itemize}{4}
 \setlist[quote]{label=,rightmargin=\leftmargin,
   before=\RaggedRight,first=\item,listparindent=1em}
%StopShownPreambleCommands

\begin{document}
 \noindent \ldots\ some text before.
 \begin{quote}
   Some text in our redefined \texttt{quote} environment. \par
   Paragraphs are indented and the text is set ragged right.
 \end{quote}
 \ldots\ and some text following \ldots
\end{document}