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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.
Why do we use it?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).
Where does it come from?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.
Where can I get some?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.