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%% The LaTeX Companion, 2ed (second printing August 2004)
%%
%% Example A-2-19 on page 869.
%%
%% Copyright (C) 2004 Frank Mittelbach, Michel Goossens,
%%    Johannes Braams, David Carlisle, and Chris Rowley
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%% 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{183.0pt}
\StartShownPreambleCommands
\newsavebox{\myboxa}\newsavebox{\myboxb}
\StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
\sbox{\myboxa}{inside box a}
\savebox{\myboxb}[2cm][l]{inside box b}
  x1x \usebox{\myboxa} x2x \usebox{\myboxb} x3x
\savebox{\myboxb}[2cm][r]{inside box b}
  \par
  x1x \usebox{\myboxa} x2x \usebox{\myboxb} x3x
\end{document}
