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%% The LaTeX Companion, 3ed
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%% Example 6-2-13 on page I-443 in "Controlling the horizontal separation between columns".
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%% Copyright (C) 2022 Frank Mittelbach
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%% It may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions
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%% of this license or (at your option) any later version.
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%% See https://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
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\documentclass{tlc3exa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{159.0pt}
%StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{array}
%StopShownPreambleCommands

\begin{document}
\begin{tabular}{c@{}c!{}c@{--}c!{--}c}
  one & two & three & four & five \\ 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5
\end{tabular}
\end{document}