%%
%% The LaTeX Companion, 2ed (second printing August 2004)
%%
%% Example 3-5-17 on page 187.
%%
%% Copyright (C) 2004 Frank Mittelbach, Michel Goossens,
%%    Johannes Braams, David Carlisle, and Chris Rowley
%%
%% 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{183.0pt}

\StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{multicol,ragged2e}
\addtolength\columnsep{2pt}
\StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
\begin{multicols}{3}
\RaggedRight
\setcounter{unbalance}{1}
  Here is some text to be distributed over
  several columns. In this example ragged-right
  typesetting is used.
\end{multicols}
\end{document}