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Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and
typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's
standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown
printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a
type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries,
but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining
essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with
the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum
passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software
like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.
Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random
text. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature
from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old. Richard
McClintock, a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney College in
Virginia, looked up one of the more obscure Latin words,
consectetur, from a Lorem Ipsum passage, and going through
the cites of the word in classical literature, discovered
the undoubtable source. Lorem Ipsum comes from sections
1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of "de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum" (The
Extremes of Good and Evil) by Cicero, written in 45 BC. This
book is a treatise on the theory of ethics, very popular
during the Renaissance. The first line of Lorem Ipsum, "Lorem
ipsum dolor sit amet..", comes from a line in section
1.10.32.
The standard chunk of Lorem Ipsum used since the 1500s is
reproduced below for those interested. Sections 1.10.32 and
1.10.33 from "de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum" by Cicero are
also reproduced in their exact original form, accompanied by
English versions from the 1914 translation by H. Rackham.
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It is a long established fact that a reader will be
distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at
its layout. The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a
more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to
using 'Content here, content here', making it look like
readable English. Many desktop publishing packages and web
page editors now use Lorem Ipsum as their default model
text, and a search for 'lorem ipsum' will uncover many web
sites still in their infancy. Various versions have evolved
over the years, sometimes by accident, sometimes on purpose
(injected humour and the like).
There are many variations of passages of Lorem Ipsum
available, but the majority have suffered alteration in some
form, by injected humour, or randomised words which don't
look even slightly believable. If you are going to use a
passage of Lorem Ipsum, you need to be sure there isn't
anything embarrassing hidden in the middle of text. All the
Lorem Ipsum generators on the Internet tend to repeat
predefined chunks as necessary, making this the first true
generator on the Internet. It uses a dictionary of over 200
Latin words, combined with a handful of model sentence
structures, to generate Lorem Ipsum which looks reasonable.
The generated Lorem Ipsum is therefore always free from
repetition, injected humour, or non-characteristic words
etc.
There are many variations of passages of Lorem Ipsum
available, but the majority have suffered alteration in some
form, by injected humour, or randomised words which don't
look even slightly believable. If you are going to use a
passage of Lorem Ipsum, you need to be sure there isn't
anything embarrassing hidden in the middle of text. All the
Lorem Ipsum generators on the Internet tend to repeat
predefined chunks as necessary, making this the first true
generator on the Internet. It uses a dictionary of over 200
Latin words, combined with a handful of model sentence
structures, to generate Lorem Ipsum which looks reasonable.
The generated Lorem Ipsum is therefore always free from
repetition, injected humour, or non-characteristic words
etc. |
