%%
%% The LaTeX Companion, 2ed (second printing August 2004)
%%
%% Example A-2-7 on page 863.
%%
%% 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{255.0pt}
\StartShownPreambleCommands

\StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
\parbox{.3\linewidth}{This is
  the contents of the left-most
  parbox.}
\hfill CURRENT LINE \hfill
\parbox{.3\linewidth}{This is
  the right-most parbox.
  Note that the typeset text
  looks sloppy because \LaTeX{}
  cannot nicely balance the
  material in these narrow
  columns.}
\end{document}