%%
%% The LaTeX Companion, 3ed
%%
%% Example 4-3-14 on page I-343 in "paracol --- Several text streams aligned".
%%
%% Copyright (C) 2022 Frank Mittelbach
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%% of this license or (at your option) any later version.
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%% See https://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
%%

\documentclass{tlc3exa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{159.0pt}

  \sloppy
  \setlength\parindent{0pt}

  % We have to repeat the columncolor setting after colorspace  and the spotcolor was loaded
  % in the book version. We therefore need this slightly odd repeat here:

  \AtBeginDocument{\columncolor{blue}[1]}


%StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{xcolor,paracol}   \columncolor{blue}[1]
\setlength\columnseprule{2pt} \colseprulecolor{red}
%StopShownPreambleCommands

\begin{document}
\begin{paracol}{3}
  baseline     \switchcolumn Grundlinie  \switchcolumn
                             basislijn     \switchcolumn*
  frontispiece \switchcolumn Frontispiz  \switchcolumn
                             Frontispice   \switchcolumn*
  orphan \switchcolumn Schuster\-junge   \switchcolumn
                             weeskind      \switchcolumn*
\columncolor[gray]{.7} \itshape
  punch        \switchcolumn Stempel     \switchcolumn
                             patrijs       \switchcolumn*
  spacing      \switchcolumn Zurichtung  \switchcolumn
                             spatiëring    \switchcolumn*
  widow \switchcolumn Hurenkind \switchcolumn hoerenjong
\end{paracol}
\end{document}