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What is Lorem Ipsum?
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 popularized 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.
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.
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 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.
EXAMPLE:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Cras tincidunt turpis. Sed id pede ut massa rhoncus congue. Proin sed lectus. Donec nec magna. Maecenas consequat lacus quis purus. Praesent in nisi. Vestibulum dapibus, magna sed tincidunt porttitor, nisl odio molestie neque, sit amet porttitor lacus dolor quis libero. Vestibulum vestibulum. Curabitur elementum enim. Curabitur id lorem at nisl laoreet lacinia. Donec suscipit congue metus. Ut varius, lacus eu feugiat laoreet, pede massa molestie mauris, vel congue ligula augue ac turpis. Nullam pharetra mi sit amet lectus. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Suspendisse nisi urna, auctor sed, bibendum tincidunt, accumsan a, sapien. Vivamus congue, massa iaculis varius adipiscing, est magna adipiscing orci, non lacinia nunc felis vitae arcu. In rutrum est ac tellus. Aliquam erat volutpat. Quisque auctor urna id neque. Sed ultricies adipiscing nulla.
Sed eu turpis facilisis ipsum porta convallis. Sed ligula orci, varius id, vestibulum sed, fringilla ac, lacus. Proin ultricies magna ac turpis. Curabitur ac nibh a diam ornare tempus. Cras et eros. Integer iaculis tempus ante. Suspendisse potenti. Vivamus mi odio, mattis ut, accumsan sit amet, pretium sed, lacus. Ut diam. Donec magna ligula, lacinia ut, congue nec, blandit id, ligula. Vestibulum urna. Etiam quis nunc. Cras vulputate eleifend risus. Nullam nisl orci, bibendum ut, ornare id, posuere at, nunc. Cras ornare lectus non tortor. Aenean elementum augue a ipsum. Nullam euismod. Nulla eu dolor. Donec pretium.
Nam sed orci vel est accumsan auctor. Aenean in mauris non diam pellentesque sagittis. Vestibulum vitae justo. Maecenas enim nulla, euismod sed, vulputate pharetra, mattis sit amet, sapien. Maecenas urna. Cum sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Proin luctus. Praesent dictum. Phasellus adipiscing gravida metus. Suspendisse facilisis leo et eros. Pellentesque rutrum enim ac felis. Sed porta. Ut ornare, orci et faucibus sagittis, dolor urna rhoncus sapien, ut tincidunt nunc ipsum non quam. Donec nonummy pulvinar nisi. Fusce nec eros. Proin semper tincidunt elit. Praesent semper, leo nec vehicula ultrices, erat tortor auctor nulla, nec pulvinar leo diam ac odio.
Etiam tempus nisi ut ligula. In non ante ac est ornare vestibulum. Vivamus tincidunt placerat massa. Praesent pretium enim. Praesent vitae quam sed massa laoreet fermentum. Maecenas aliquam, est vel elementum dictum, risus nulla elementum magna, non porta turpis mauris ut pede. Fusce eu mi imperdiet nisi ullamcorper pellentesque. Vivamus et dolor. Integer felis massa, ultricies a, fringilla in, sollicitudin vel, risus. Mauris venenatis tellus nec felis. Nullam quis tellus eget sapien laoreet aliquet. Nulla vel arcu quis tellus convallis nonummy. Sed eleifend, mi quis hendrerit imperdiet, nisl nulla rutrum ante, nec condimentum turpis metus vel ligula. Aliquam dignissim mi sed erat. Vivamus a leo in nunc tempor tempor. Phasellus ac nisi. Morbi venenatis mauris. Aenean sodales nunc ut orci.
Cras eget tortor. Pellentesque tellus. Ut nonummy rutrum enim. Donec fringilla consequat sem. Suspendisse nonummy mauris. Nullam malesuada pulvinar tortor. Pellentesque interdum, sem vel sagittis fermentum, urna enim iaculis sapien, non dignissim sem elit in velit. Curabitur at lorem quis nulla elementum ornare. Fusce sed metus nec felis lobortis ultrices. Sed purus. Ut semper arcu vitae nibh. Class aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra, per inceptos hymenaeos. Nunc luctus, mauris nec auctor aliquet, pede diam volutpat ante, a scelerisque nisl ante sed pede. Curabitur congue auctor nibh. Etiam condimentum ultrices tellus. Sed urna purus, egestas nec, ultrices vitae, gravida nec, quam. Vestibulum venenatis. Praesent tortor mauris, ornare at, viverra eu, condimentum ut, urna. Cum sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Vivamus rhoncus tincidunt nisi.
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