%%
%% The LaTeX Companion, 3ed
%%
%% Example 5-2-4 on page I-376 in "typearea --- A traditional approach".
%%
%% Copyright (C) 2022 Frank Mittelbach
%%
%% It may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions
%% of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3c
%% of this license or (at your option) any later version.
%%
%% See
https://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
%%
\documentclass{tlc3exa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{183.0pt}
\setcounter{page}{1}
\usepackage{layouts}
\newcommand\showpage{%
\setlayoutscale{0.27}%
\setlabelfont{\tiny}%
\printheadingsfalse
\printparametersfalse
\currentpage\pagedesign}
%StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage[a5paper,landscape,headlines=2.5,
headinclude,mpinclude]
{typearea}
%StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
% \showpage as previously defined
\showpage
\end{document}