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%% The LaTeX Companion, 2ed (second printing August 2004)
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%% Example 3-1-1 on page 81.
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%% 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.
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%% See http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
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\documentclass{ttctexa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{183.0pt}

\sloppy % to avoid overfull boxes

\StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{xspace}
\newcommand\USA{United States of America\xspace}
\newcommand\GB {Great Britain\xspace}
\StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
\GB was unified in 1707.\\ \GB, the \USA, and
Canada have close cultural links.
\end{document}
