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%% The LaTeX Companion, 3ed
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%% Example 3-4-27 on page I-195 in "microtype \& soul --- Letterspacing or stealing sheep".
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%% Copyright (C) 2022 Frank Mittelbach
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%% It may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions
%% of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3c
%% of this license or (at your option) any later version.
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%% See https://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
%%

\documentclass{tlc3exa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{135.0pt}
\renewcommand\rmdefault{cmr}
\setlength\parindent{0pt}

%StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{soulutf8}
\soulaccent{\capitalgrave}
%StopShownPreambleCommands

\begin{document}
\Huge \st{\"a \`u \~O \capitalgrave X {\capitalbreve Y}}

% next line needs soulutf8:
      \st{��   ��   ��   \capitalgrave X {\capitalbreve Y}}
\end{document}