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%%  The LaTeX Graphics Companion, 2ed (first printing May 2007)
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%%  Example 2-2-7 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{183.83385pt}
\newcommand\HR{\rule{1em}{0.4pt}}
\StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{graphics} % or graphicx
\StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
\HR\fbox{\resizebox{\width}{.7\height}{%
 \parbox{14mm}{London,\\ Berlin \&\\Paris}}}\HR
\fbox{\resizebox{\width}{.7\totalheight}{%
 \parbox{14mm}{London,\\ Berlin \&\\Paris}}}\HR
\end{document}