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%% The LaTeX Companion, 3ed
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%% Example 4-1-45 on page I-289 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.
%%
%% See https://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
%%

\documentclass{tlc3exa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{279.0pt}
\sloppy

%StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{lipsum,tasks}
%StopShownPreambleCommands

\begin{document}
\begin{tasks}(2)
  \task \lipsum[1][1]
  \task \lipsum[1][2]
  \task[!!!] \lipsum[2][1]
  \task \lipsum*[4][1-2]
\end{tasks}
\end{document}