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%% The LaTeX Companion, 3ed
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%% Example A-3-13 on page II-666 in "Paragraph boxes".
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%% Copyright (C) 2022 Frank Mittelbach
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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.
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\documentclass{tlc3exa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{135.0pt}
%StartShownPreambleCommands
\newcommand\HR{\rule{.5em}{0.4pt}}
%StopShownPreambleCommands

\begin{document}
\HR\begin{minipage}[b]{12mm}
      A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A \end{minipage}\HR
\begin{minipage}[b]{30mm}
  \begin{minipage}[t]{12mm}
     B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B gg jj
     \par\vspace{-\prevdepth}
  \end{minipage} xx
  \begin{minipage}[t]{12mm}  C C C C C C C  \end{minipage}
  \par\vspace{0pt}
\end{minipage}\HR
\end{document}