%%
%% The LaTeX Companion, 2ed (second printing August 2004)
%%
%% Example A-1-17 on page 858.
%%
%% 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{159.0pt}
\setlength\textheight{16\baselineskip}
\addtolength\textwidth{-25pt}
% Next definitions are only to squeeze example
% into the book, so this is all faked
\renewcommand\normalsize{\fontsize{6}{8}\selectfont}
\renewcommand\LARGE{\fontsize{10}{12}\selectfont}
\setlength\topsep{.2\topsep}
\newsavebox\titlebox
\renewenvironment{titlepage}{\begin{lrbox}{\titlebox}%
 \begin{minipage}[c][.98\textheight][s]{.9\linewidth}}
 {\end{minipage}\end{lrbox}\noindent\fbox{\usebox{\titlebox}}}

\StartShownPreambleCommands
\newcommand\HRule{\noindent\rule{\linewidth}{1.5pt}}
\StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
\begin{titlepage}
  \vspace*{\stretch{1}}
  \HRule
  \begin{flushright}
    \LARGE   Geoffrey Chaucer  \\
            The Canterbury Tales
  \end{flushright}
  \HRule
  \vspace*{\stretch{2}}
  \begin{center}
    \textsc{London 1400}
  \end{center}
\end{titlepage}

\end{document}
