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%% The LaTeX Companion, 3ed
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%% Example 4-3-28 on page I-353 in "Manually breaking columns".
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%% Copyright (C) 2022 Frank Mittelbach
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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{159.0pt}


   \setlength\parskip{3pt plus 4pt} % allow for enough stretch so that \columnbreak[3] would work

%StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{multicol,ragged2e}
%StopShownPreambleCommands

\begin{document}
\begin{multicols}{2}  \RaggedRight
  A short first para.\par    Here is some text to
  be distributed over several \columnbreak columns.
  With the help of \verb=\columnbreak= you can
  force a column break at a specific point.\par
  Another short first para.
\end{multicols}
\end{document}