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%% The LaTeX Companion, 3ed
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%% Example 4-3-11 on page I-340 in "paracol --- Several text streams aligned".
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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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%% 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}
\sloppy
  \usepackage{paracol}
  \setcolumnwidth{/0pt}  % here we cheat and make the first gap zero to
                         % fit the example into the space in the book

%StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{paracol}
%StopShownPreambleCommands

\begin{document}
\begin{paracol}{3} \setlength\parindent{0pt}
 \bfseries Number \switchcolumn English \switchcolumn
      German \normalfont \switchcolumn*[\vspace{5pt}]
100 \switchcolumn One hundred   \switchcolumn
    Ein\-hun\-dert \switchcolumn*[\dotfill\tiny sync]
 42 \switchcolumn Forty two     \switchcolumn
           Zwei\-und\-vier\-zig \switchcolumn*
  1 \switchcolumn One \switchcolumn Eins
\end{paracol}
\end{document}