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%% The LaTeX Companion, 2ed (second printing August 2004)
%%
%% Example 9-3-34 on page 565.
%%
%% 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{231.0pt}

\StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage[french,english]{babel}
\StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
\begin{minipage}[t]{4cm}
  Some text with a list.
  \begin{itemize} \item item 1
     \item item 2  \end{itemize}
  And some text following.
\end{minipage}
\quad \selectlanguage{french}
\begin{minipage}[t]{4cm}
  Some text with a list.
  \begin{itemize} \item item 1
     \item item 2  \end{itemize}
  And some text following.
\end{minipage}
\end{document}