%%
%% The LaTeX Companion, 3ed
%%
%% Example A-2-10 on page II-655 in "Vertical space".
%%
%% 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{159.0pt}
\setlength\textheight{16\baselineskip}
\addtolength\textwidth{-25pt}
% Next definitions are only to squeeze example
% into the book, so this is all faked
\renewcommand\normalsize{\fontsize{6}{8}\selectfont}
\renewcommand\LARGE{\fontsize{10}{12}\selectfont}
\setlength\topsep{.2\topsep}
\newsavebox\titlebox
\renewenvironment{titlepage}{\begin{lrbox}{\titlebox}%
\begin{minipage}[c][.98\textheight][s]{.9\linewidth}}
{\end{minipage}\end{lrbox}\noindent\fbox{\usebox{\titlebox}}}
%StartShownPreambleCommands
\newcommand\HR{\noindent\rule{\linewidth}{1.5pt}}
%StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
\begin{titlepage}
\vspace*{\stretch{1}}
\HR
\begin{flushright}
\LARGE Geoffrey Chaucer \\
The Canterbury Tales
\end{flushright}
\HR
\vspace*{\stretch{2}}
\begin{center}
\textsc{London 1400}
\end{center}
\end{titlepage}
\end{document}
