%%
%% The LaTeX Companion, 2ed (second printing August 2004)
%%
%% Example 10-1-8 on page 598.
%%
%% Copyright (C) 2004 Frank Mittelbach, Michel Goossens,
%% Johannes Braams, David Carlisle, and Chris Rowley
%%
%% 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.
%%
%% See
http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
%%
\documentclass{ttctexa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{231.0pt}
\setlength\textheight{8\baselineskip}
% for the book examples we shorten the vertical spaces
\makeatletter
\renewcommand\section{\@startsection {section}{1}{\z@}%
{-2.5ex \@plus -1ex \@minus -.2ex}%
{1.3ex \@plus.2ex}%
{\normalfont\Large\bfseries}}
\makeatother
\addtolength\headsep{-12pt} % shortened for the book
\addtolength\footskip{-6pt} % shortened for the book
\StartShownPreambleCommands
\setlength\textwidth{180pt}
\setlength\textheight{7\baselineskip}
\pagestyle{headings}
\usepackage{fancybox}
\newcommand\sample{ Some text for our
page that is reused over and over again.}
\StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
\fancypage
{\setlength\fboxsep{10pt}\ovalbox}
{\setlength{\fboxsep}{8pt}%
\setlength{\shadowsize}{8pt}%
\shadowbox}
\sample \section{A Test}
\sample\sample
\end{document}