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%% The LaTeX Companion, 3ed
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%% Example 3-5-3 on page I-206 in "Using standard footnotes".
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%% Copyright (C) 2022 Frank Mittelbach
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%% It may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions
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%% 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{183.0pt}
\setlength\textheight{10\baselineskip}
%StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{footmisc}
%StopShownPreambleCommands

\begin{document}
\noindent Main text \ldots
\begin{center}
 \begin{minipage}{.8\linewidth}
 Footnotes in a minipage are numbered using
 lowercase letters.\footnote{Inside minipage}
 \par This text references the previous
 footnote.\addtocounter{mpfootnote}{-1}%
          \mpfootnotemark{}
 And another\footnote{Inside as well} note.
 \end{minipage}
\end{center} \ldots{} main text \ldots
\end{document}

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