those of you who've already got a copy of the latex companion, second edition, may have noticed a remark (top of p14) that the examples were going to be on ctan.
the arrangement was that i would install them as soon as my copy arrived. my copy took some time in the maws of the publishers' system...
... but arrived today. so, from today, there is indeed a ctan directory info/examples/tlc2, which contains files for running the examples in the book.
so, even people without the book (and its accompanying cd) can now use the examples without further ado.
Robin Fairbairns
For the CTAN team