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%% The LaTeX Graphics Companion, 2ed (first printing May 2007)
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%% Example 2-2-6 on page 38.
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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}
\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}