%%
%% The LaTeX Companion, 2ed (second printing August 2004)
%%
%% Example A-2-18 on page 868.
%%
%% 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{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                     \par
\vspace{3pt}\hrule\relax\vspace{3pt}
A following paragraph. \sample     \par
\end{document}
