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%% The LaTeX Companion, 2ed (second printing August 2004)
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%% Example 10-3-6 on page 630.
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%% 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.
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\documentclass{ttctexa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{207.0pt}
\newcommand\HR{\rule{1em}{0.4pt}}
\StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{graphics} % or graphicx
\StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
\HR\begin{tabular}{lll}
       K\"oln & Lyon    & Oxford \\
       Rhein   & Rh\^one & Thames
 \end{tabular}\HR\par\bigskip
\HR\resizebox{2cm}{.5cm}{%
    \begin{tabular}{lll}
      K\"oln & Lyon    & Oxford \\
      Rhein  & Rh\^one & Thames
    \end{tabular}}\HR
\end{document}