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%% The LaTeX Companion, 2ed (second printing August 2004)
%%
%% Example 3-3-30 on page 151.
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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{135.0pt}
\sloppy % as the column in the book is so small
\StartShownPreambleCommands
\newcounter{notes}
\newenvironment{Notes}
    {\begin{list}{\textsc{Note} \arabic{notes}.}%
                 {\setlength\labelsep{10pt}%
                  \setlength\itemindent{10pt}%
                  \setlength\leftmargin{0pt}%
                  \setlength\labelwidth{0pt}%
                  \usecounter{notes}}}%
    {\end{list}}
\StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
\begin{Notes}
\item This is the text of the first note item.
      Some more text for the first note item.
\item This is the text of the second note item.
      Some more text for the second note item.
\end{Notes}
\end{document}
