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%%  The LaTeX Graphics Companion, 2ed (first printing May 2007)
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%%  Example 11-2-6 on page 724.
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%%  Copyright (C) 2007 Michel Goossens, Frank Mittelbach, Denis Roegel, Sebastian Rahtz, Herbert Vo\ss 
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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{207.83385pt}
\setlength\parindent{0pt}
\StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{color}
\StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
\setlength{\fboxrule}{6pt}%
\setlength{\fboxsep}{10pt}%
\colorbox{yellow}{Fun with color}\qquad
\fcolorbox{red}{yellow}{Fun with color}
\par\bigskip\par
\setlength{\fboxrule}{2pt}%
\setlength{\fboxsep}{5pt}%
\colorbox{green}{Fun with color}\qquad
\fcolorbox{red}{green}{Fun with color}
\end{document}