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Lorem ipsum (/ ˌ l ɔː. r ə m ˈ ɪ p. s ə m / LOR-əm IP-səm) is a dummy or placeholder text commonly used in graphic design, publishing, and web development to fill empty spaces in a layout that does not yet have content.
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 .
An expletive is a word or phrase inserted into a sentence that is not needed to express the basic meaning of the sentence. [1] It is regarded as semantically null or a placeholder. [ 2 ] Expletives are not insignificant or meaningless in all senses; they may be used to give emphasis or tone, to contribute to the meter in verse, or to indicate ...
The phrase shown in metal moveable type, used in printing presses (image reversed for readability) "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is an English-language pangram – a sentence that contains all the letters of the alphabet.
Line breaking, also known as word wrapping, is breaking a section of text into lines so that it will fit into the available width of a page, window or other display area. In text display, line wrap is continuing on a new line when a line is full, so that each line fits into the viewable window, allowing text to be read from top to bottom ...
In Hebrew, the word זה (zeh, meaning 'this') is a placeholder for any noun. The term צ׳ופצ׳יק ( chúpchik , meaning a protuberance, particularly the diacritical mark geresh ), a borrowing of Russian чубчик ( chúbchik , a diminutive of чуб chub "forelock") is also used by some speakers.
Text of this sort is known as "greeked text", "dummy text", or "jabberwocky text". [2] Lorem ipsum is a commonly used example, though this is derived from Latin, not Greek. Because a viewer can be distracted by meaningful content, greeking unimportant text forces the viewer to focus on layout and design.
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