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%% The LaTeX Companion, 3ed
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%% Example 4-1-46 on page I-290 in "tasks --- Making horizontally oriented lists".
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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{213.0pt}
\sloppy

%StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{tasks}
%StopShownPreambleCommands

\begin{document}
\begin{tasks}(4)
 \task One \task two \task Three
 \startnewitemline   \task[?)] Go
 \task \dotfill \task* \dotfill
 \task![\alph{task})\textsuperscript{!!}]
 \stepcounter{task}
        Specially constructed label
 \task*(2) Spanning 2 columns
 \task  No column span
 \task! Another task spanning all columns
 (therefore column 4 above stays empty)
\end{tasks}
\end{document}
