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%% The LaTeX Companion, 3ed
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%% Example A-2-10 on page II-655 in "Vertical space".
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%% Copyright (C) 2022 Frank Mittelbach
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%% It may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions
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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.
%%

\documentclass{tlc3exa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{159.0pt}
\setlength\textheight{16\baselineskip}
\addtolength\textwidth{-25pt}
% Next definitions are only to squeeze example
% into the book, so this is all faked
\renewcommand\normalsize{\fontsize{6}{8}\selectfont}
\renewcommand\LARGE{\fontsize{10}{12}\selectfont}
\setlength\topsep{.2\topsep}
\newsavebox\titlebox
\renewenvironment{titlepage}{\begin{lrbox}{\titlebox}%
 \begin{minipage}[c][.98\textheight][s]{.9\linewidth}}
 {\end{minipage}\end{lrbox}\noindent\fbox{\usebox{\titlebox}}}

%StartShownPreambleCommands
\newcommand\HR{\noindent\rule{\linewidth}{1.5pt}}
%StopShownPreambleCommands

\begin{document}
\begin{titlepage}
  \vspace*{\stretch{1}}
  \HR
  \begin{flushright}
    \LARGE   Geoffrey Chaucer  \\
            The Canterbury Tales
  \end{flushright}
  \HR
  \vspace*{\stretch{2}}
  \begin{center}
    \textsc{London 1400}
  \end{center}
\end{titlepage}

\end{document}