%%
%% The LaTeX Companion, 2ed (second printing August 2004)
%%
%% Example 2-2-8 on page 30.
%%
%% 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{207.0pt}

\makeatletter
\renewcommand\section{\@startsection
 {section}{1}{1em}%                 % name, level, indent
 {\baselineskip}%                   % beforeskip
 {-\fontdimen2\font                 % afterskip
   plus -\fontdimen3\font
   minus -\fontdimen4\font}%
 {\normalfont\normalsize\scshape}}% % style
\makeatother

\StartShownPreambleCommands
% redefinition of \section shown above
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{-2}
\StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
\ldots\ some text above.
\section{The man}
started to run away from the truck. He
saw that he was followed by
\end{document}