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%% The LaTeX Companion, 2ed (second printing August 2004)
%%
%% Example A-2-7 on page 863.
%%
%% 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{255.0pt}
\StartShownPreambleCommands

\StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
\parbox{.3\linewidth}{This is
 the contents of the left-most
 parbox.}
\hfill CURRENT LINE \hfill
\parbox{.3\linewidth}{This is
 the right-most parbox.
 Note that the typeset text
 looks sloppy because \LaTeX{}
 cannot nicely balance the
 material in these narrow
 columns.}
\end{document}