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%% The LaTeX Companion, 2ed (second printing August 2004)
%%
%% Example A-2-12 on page 865.
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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{135.0pt}
\StartShownPreambleCommands
\newcommand\HR{\rule{.5em}{0.4pt}}
\StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
\HR\begin{minipage}[b]{12mm}
      A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A \end{minipage}\HR
\begin{minipage}[b]{30mm}  \begin{minipage}[t]{12mm}
     B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B gg jj
  \end{minipage} xx
  \begin{minipage}[t]{12mm}  C C C C C C C  \end{minipage}
  \par\vspace{0mm}
\end{minipage}\HR
\end{document}