%%
%% The LaTeX Companion, 2ed (second printing August 2004)
%%
%% Example 3-5-13 on page 183.
%%
%% Copyright (C) 2004 Frank Mittelbach, Michel Goossens,
%%    Johannes Braams, David Carlisle, and Chris Rowley
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%% It may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions
%% of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3
%% of this license or (at your option) any later version.
%%
%% See http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
%%

\documentclass{ttctexa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{159.0pt}

\StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage[OldStyleNums,SeparatedFootnotes]{parallel}
\renewcommand\ParallelAtEnd{\vspace{7pt}\footnoterule}
\renewcommand\ParallelDot
             {\makebox[0pt][l]{\textperiodcentered}}
\StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
\begin{Parallel}[v]{}{} \raggedright
 \ParallelLText{This is text in the English
   language\footnote{We hope!} explaining the
   command \verb=\foo=.}
 \ParallelRText{Dies ist Text\footnote{Ein Satz.} in
   deutscher Sprache\footnote{Schlechter Stil!}, der
   das Kommando \verb=\foo= erl\"autert.}
\end{Parallel}
\end{document}
