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%% The LaTeX Companion, 2ed (second printing August 2004)
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%% Example 3-1-47 on page 101.
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%% Copyright (C) 2004 Frank Mittelbach, Michel Goossens,
%%    Johannes Braams, David Carlisle, and Chris Rowley
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%% 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{159.0pt}
\sloppy % to fit in small book columns
\StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{palatino,lettrine}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[french]{babel}
\StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
\lettrine[lines=4, slope=0.6em, findent=-1em,
   nindent=0.6em]{À} { peine ont-ils mis} le pied dans
la ville en pleurant la mort de leur bienfaiteur,
qu'ils sentent la terre trembler sous leurs pas; \ldots
\end{document}
