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%% The LaTeX Companion, 3ed
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%% Example 11-2-22 on page II-142 in "Display environments as mini-pages".
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%% Copyright (C) 2022 Frank Mittelbach
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%% It may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions
%% of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3c
%% 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{tlc3examargin}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{159.0pt}

%StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{mathtools}
%StopShownPreambleCommands

\begin{document}
\[ \left|
  \begin{multlined}[c]
    (a+b)^2 = \\ (a+b)(a+b) \\ = a^2 + 2ab + b^2
  \end{multlined}                           \right| \]
\end{document}
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