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%%  Der Mathematiksatz mit LaTeX, 1. Auflage 2009
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%%  Example 10-10-4 on page 237.
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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.
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\documentclass[]{ttctexa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{146.59192pt}
\AtBeginDocument{\setlength\parindent{0pt}}
\StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{xcolor,amsmath}
\StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
\begin{align*}
  \cos\alpha\sin\beta\\% richtig
  \cos\alpha\textcolor{magenta}{\sin\beta}\\% falsch
  \cos\alpha\textcolor{magenta}{{}\sin\beta}% richtig
\end{align*}
\end{document}