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%% The LaTeX Companion, 2ed (second printing August 2004)
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%% Example 10-1-1 on page 595.
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%% Copyright (C) 2004 Frank Mittelbach, Michel Goossens,
%%    Johannes Braams, David Carlisle, and Chris Rowley
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%% 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}

\StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{boxedminipage}
\StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
\begin{boxedminipage}[t]{5cm}
 This is an example of a small boxed  minipage
 sporting a footnote\footnote{Very simple example}
 and a \verb=\verb= command.
\end{boxedminipage}
\end{document}