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%% The LaTeX Companion, 3ed
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%% Example A-3-18 on page II-668 in "Rule boxes".
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%% Copyright (C) 2022 Frank Mittelbach
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%% of this license or (at your option) any later version.
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%% See https://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
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\documentclass{tlc3exa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{207.0pt}

\newcommand\sample{ Some text for our page
 that might get reused over and over again.}
%StartShownPreambleCommands
% \sample as before
%StopShownPreambleCommands

\begin{document}
\ldots \sample

\vspace{6pt}\hrule\relax\vspace{6pt}
A following paragraph.
\vrule height 12pt width 2pt\relax \
\sample
\end{document}
