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%% The LaTeX Companion, 3ed
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%% Example 8-2-2 on page I-588 in "Scaling a \protect \LaTeX {} box".
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%% Copyright (C) 2022 Frank Mittelbach
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%% 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{207.0pt}
%StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{graphics} % or graphicx
%StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
\fbox{\scalebox{2.2}{%
\parbox{.5in}{America \& \\ Europe}}}
\fbox{\scalebox{2.2}[1]{%
\parbox{.5in}{America \& \\ Europe}}}
\end{document}