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%%  Der Mathematiksatz mit LaTeX, 1. Auflage 2009
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%%  Example 6-3-17 on page 102.
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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{355.65944pt}
\AtBeginDocument{\setlength\parindent{0pt}}
\setcounter{equation}{42}
\renewcommand\theequation{6.\arabic{equation}}
\StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{amsmath}
\StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
\begin{align}
x &= \begin{cases}
       0 & \text{falls } a=\ldots\\
       1 & \text{falls } b=\ldots\\
       x & \parbox{5cm}{\raggedright Dieser Text kann so lang sein, wie er will,
            aber es gibt manchmal Probleme \ldots\ jetzt nicht mehr :-)}
\end{cases}
\end{align}
\end{document}