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%% The LaTeX Companion, 3ed
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%% Example 16-2-29 on page II-487 in "biblatex's approach to number-only references".
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%% Copyright (C) 2022 Frank Mittelbach
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%% It may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions
%% of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3c
%% of this license or (at your option) any later version.
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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{165.0pt}

% Use biber program
\setlength\parindent{0pt}

%StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage[style=alphabetic,minalphanames=2,
            maxalphanames=2]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{tlc.bib}
%StopShownPreambleCommands

\begin{document}
\textcite{Knuth-CT-a}, \textcite{Knuth:TB10-1-31} \\
\textcite{LGC97}   \\  \textcite{LWC99}
\end{document}
