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%% The LaTeX Companion, 2ed (second printing August 2004)
%%
%% Example A-2-16 on page 867.
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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.
%%

\documentclass{ttctexa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{207.0pt}
\StartShownPreambleCommands
\newcommand\sample{ Some text for our page
 that might get reused over and over again.}
\StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
\ldots \sample                    \par
\noindent\rule{\linewidth}{0.4pt} \par
A following paragraph. \sample
\end{document}