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%% The LaTeX Companion, 2ed (second printing August 2004)
%%
%% Example 5-7-3 on page 273.
%%
%% 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.
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%% See http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
%%

\documentclass{ttctexa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{183.0pt}
\StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{multirow}
\StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{|l|l|l|l|}   \hline
\multirow{4}{14mm}{Text in column 1}
    & C2a & \multirow{4}{14mm}{Text in column 3}
                & C4a      \\
    & C2b &     & C4b      \\
    & C2c &     & C4c      \\
    & C2d &     & C4d      \\\hline
\end{tabular}
\end{document}