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%% The LaTeX Companion, 3ed
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%% Example 6-2-14 on page I-444 in "Controlling the horizontal separation between columns".
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%% Copyright (C) 2022 Frank Mittelbach
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\documentclass{tlc3exa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{159.0pt}
%StartShownPreambleCommands

%StopShownPreambleCommands

\begin{document}
\begin{flushleft} \textbf{Sample text before \ldots}\\
\begin{tabular}{lr}
  one & two\\ three & four\\
\end{tabular}\textbf{material following \ldots}\\
\textbf{a bit more text to separate the tables}\\
\begin{tabular}{|lr@{}}
  one & two\\ \multicolumn{1}{@{}l}{three} & four\\
\end{tabular}\textbf{now touching \ldots}\\
\textbf{\ldots\ and some more text.}  \end{flushleft}
\end{document}
