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Versions of the Lorem ipsum text have been used in typesetting at least since the 1960s, when it was popularized by advertisements for Letraset transfer sheets. [1] Lorem ipsum was introduced to the digital world in the mid-1980s, when Aldus employed it in graphic and word-processing templates for its desktop publishing program PageMaker.
Since joined text produces a single string without line breaks and without block-level tags such as <p>, if no prefix metacharacters are in use, the result of transcluding the template with |join=yes is an inline-level HTML element, meaning that standard wiki markup for font styling (like bold, italic, or font-size such as '<small>') may be ...
This template generates a filler text for test purposes. Text generated is the original Cicero passage from which the well-known "Lorem ipsum" text was created, which is an excerpt from De finibus bonorum et malorum. It has 20 distinct paragraphs. Template parameters [Edit template data] Parameter Description Type Status Number of paragraphs 1 Number of paragraphs to be shown. A number from 1 ...
Filler text. Etaoin shrdlu – Common metal-type printing error; Lorem ipsum – Placeholder text used in publishing and graphic design; Thousand Character Classic – Chinese educational poem that uses exactly 1,000 characters, each appearing once; Iroha – Japanese pangram poem
Filler text (also placeholder text or dummy text) is text that shares some characteristics of a real written text, but is random or otherwise generated. It may be used to display a sample of fonts , generate text for testing, or to spoof an e-mail spam filter .
A Linotype machine keyboard. It has the following alphabet arrangement twice, once for lower case (the black keys) and once for upper case (the white keys), with the keys in the middle for numbers and symbols: etaoin / shrdlu / cmfwyp / vbgkqj / xz Close-up of keyboard, showing "etaoin / shrdlu" pattern
Afrikaans: Lorem ipsum word soms gebruik om die oog op sekere grafiese aspekte van 'n bladsy-ontwerp te fokus. English: Using Lorem ipsum text in a website design proposal. The generally incomprehensible placeholder text allows viewers to focus on the visual elements, rather than the content.
E.g. instead of "adipiscing" use "adipisci" etc. If we leave it like it is, the "wrong" Lorem ipsum will be spread everywhere, not only in wikipedia. On the german Lorem ipsum site the original text is already used, it is the same as you can see on History and discovery. --Saippuakauppias 11:21, 1 June 2007 (UTC)