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%%  Der Mathematiksatz mit LaTeX, 1. Auflage 2009
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%%  Example 5-0-1 on page 75.
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%%  Copyright (C) 2009 Herbert Voss
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%%  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.
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%%  See http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
%% 

\documentclass[]{ttctexa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{122.59192pt}
\setlength\parindent{0pt}
\StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{xcolor}
\StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
\colorbox{red}{red}      \\
\colorbox{red!75}{red!75}\\
\colorbox{red!75!blue!100}{\color{white} red!75!blue!100}\\
\colorbox{red!75!blue!40}{red!75!blue!40} \\
\colorbox{red!75!blue!40!yellow!50}%
  {red!75!blue!40!yellow!50} \\[6pt]
%
\colorbox{-red}{-red} \\
\colorbox{-red!75}{-red!75} \\
\colorbox{-red!75!blue!100} {-red!75!blue!100} \\
\colorbox{-red!75!blue!40}{\color{white} -red!75!blue!40}\\
\colorbox{-red!75!blue!40!yellow!50}%
  {\color{white}-red!75!blue!40!yellow!50}
\end{document}
