<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>For the sake of completeness, here my reply to Uwe Lück's kind reply.</div><div>--------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">Dear Uwe,</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">many thanks for your
reply, I appreciate it a lot and I don't take it for granted at all.</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">> Why don't you ask
the package authors?</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"> </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">I wanted to address a
more general audience first because I wanted to avoid the possibility that
there is an article out there on the topic that I simply missed.</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">Moreover, the user
documentation of lineno (ulineno.pdf) in my TeXlive distribution 2011 is rather
old (2001) so I wasn't sure whether package maintenance is still active.</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">But now that I look at
lineno.pdf I realize that the package author... is you! ::blush::prostrating::</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"> </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">>> (except for
another person asking the same question</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">>> without getting
an answer).</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"> </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">>Where was that?</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"> </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://compgroups.net/comp.text.tex/Using-lineno-with-twocolumn-trying-to-get-line-numbers-only-in-center">http://compgroups.net/comp.text.tex/Using-lineno-with-twocolumn-trying-to-get-line-numbers-only-in-center</a></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"> </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">The question seems to
cover the exact same idea that I would like to implement, but it's two years
old and I couldn't find a reply.</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"> </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">>Although Stephan
applied a trick to achieve compatibility</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">>with multicol, a
little trying after another request indicated</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">>that multicol
columns cannot be numbered with lineno.</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"> </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">I'm not completely sure
if I understand you correctly.</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">The packages lineno and
multicol work together in the following minimal example (but maybe this is just
a case of getting lucky and it might no longer work if more packages are
loaded).</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">In any case, some of the
options did not show the expected behaviour when I used multicol (such as
[columnwise]).</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">\documentclass{memoir}</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">\usepackage{lipsum}</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">\usepackage{lineno}</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">\setlength{\columnsep}{4em}%necessary
to have enough space for</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">%the line numbers
between the columns</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">\usepackage{multicol}</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">\begin{document}</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">\begin{multicols}{2}</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">\begin{linenumbers}</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">\lipsum</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">\end{linenumbers}</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">\end{multicols}</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">\end{document}</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"> </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">>I have received a
little grant from the TeX Development Fund</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">>for updating lineno
and something more, let's see what I can </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">>do with this (when I
am not busy with customers).</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"> </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">Great!</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"> </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">>Did Word number the
lines?</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"> </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">Actually, I'm told now,
it wasn't Word but WordPerfect. And apparently the line numbering was added by
means of a script.</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">>An idea (I may try
myself a little later):</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">>1. Use packge
options [columnwise,switch*] (unfortunately, package options</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">>seem not to be dealt
with in a salient way in TFM, see Section 6.4),</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">>or use
\columnwiselinenumbers and \switchlinenumbers*.</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">>The order of the
commands may matter, those tricks are too much for me</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">right now.
Without the dirty trick following, such tricks should produce</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">>right-hand line
numbers for the left-hand column and left-hand line numbers</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">>for the right-hand
column.</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"> </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">Thanks for that idea! I
didn't know the starred switch option. It already gets devilishly close to what
I would like to achieve, but the line number is still added twice.</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"> </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">>2. Dirty trick:
\let\makeLineNumberLeft\relax.</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">I think that's the hint
I needed.</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">No change is apparent
when I add this line (neither before nor after \begin{document}), though. I
assume it is meant to suppress the left column line numbers, right? But it does
not do the trick, for some reason.</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">However, when I use
\let\makeLineNumberEven\relax I do get the right effect.</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"> </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">>3. Adjust
\linenumbersep for "centering" the line numbers.</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"> </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">\setlength{\linenumbersep}{15pt}
seems to be just about right (the two line numbers are exactly on top of each
other if I leave \let\makeLineNumberEven\relax away).</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"> </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">\documentclass[twocolumn]{memoir}</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">\usepackage{lipsum}
%just for blindtext</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">\usepackage[columnwise,switch*,modulo]{lineno}</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">\setlength{\columnsep}{4em}</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">\setlength{\linenumbersep}{15pt}
%15pt seems to be the centering value</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">%\let\makeLineNumberLeft\relax
%no effect</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">\let\makeLineNumberEven\relax
%does the job</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">\begin{document}</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">\thispagestyle{empty}
%no headers when a new letter starts</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">\twocolumn[\section{A}]\par
%new letter starts</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">\begin{linenumbers}</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">\lipsum\lipsum\lipsum
%creates some blindtext</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">\end{linenumbers}</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">\end{document}</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"> </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">Problem solved, thank
you very much!</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"> </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">Best wishes,</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">Dieter</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:black"> </span></div>
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