%%
%% The LaTeX Companion, 2ed (second printing August 2004)
%%
%% Example 10-3-10 on page 631.
%%
%% Copyright (C) 2004 Frank Mittelbach, Michel Goossens,
%%    Johannes Braams, David Carlisle, and Chris Rowley
%%
%% 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.
%%
%% See http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
%%

\documentclass{ttctexa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{183.0pt}
\newcommand\HR{\rule{1em}{0.4pt}}
\newcommand\bluefbox[1]{\textcolor{blue}{\setlength\fboxsep{0pt}%
                                      \fbox{\textcolor{black}{#1}}}}
\StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{color,graphics} % or graphicx
\StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
\HR\bluefbox{\rotatebox{45}{%
   \fbox{\parbox{3em}{Red\\Green\\Blue}}}}%
\HR\bluefbox{\rotatebox{45}{%
   \fbox{\parbox[t]{3em}{Red\\Green\\Blue}}}}%
\HR\bluefbox{\rotatebox{45}{%
   \fbox{\parbox[b]{3em}{Red\\Green\\Blue}}}}\HR
\end{document}