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%% The LaTeX Companion, 3ed
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%% Example 6-2-11 on page I-442 in "Typesetting narrow columns".
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%% Copyright (C) 2022 Frank Mittelbach
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%% 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.
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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{159.0pt}
%StartShownPreambleCommands

%StopShownPreambleCommands

\begin{document}
\fbox{\parbox{11mm}{Characteristics}}%
\hfill
\fbox{\parbox{11mm}{\hspace{0pt}Characteristics}}
\end{document}