RE: "lorem ipsum", "brown fox" & "enter title here" PDF titles

["Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com>]

Dick Margulis wrote: 
 
> Dori Green wrote:
> 
> > Why Latin came to be used for the "greeking" process is just one of 
> > those _really_ arcane language lore thingies.  It's 
> probably because 
> > early MS fonts didn't include Greek letters.  They were 
> used for the 
> > hot type placeholders precisely because there was no 
> mistaking them for English text.
> > 
> 
> Lorem ipsum has been used for greeking since long before 
> computers were invented. My speculation is that the term 
> greeking comes from "it's all Greek to me" and is basically a 
> bit of printers' humor.

My preferred Lorem Ipsum generator, www.lipsum.com, says: 

"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. ... 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. ..."

Lipsum.com has the passages from Cicero, with translations. You can use
their generator to create genuine Lorem Ipsum (using a Latin word
dictionary and model sentence structures, not just repeating chunks).
There are also links for various Lorem Ipsum plugins, extensions, and
packages. 

If you like the site and want it to stick around, donate a buck or two
toward bandwidth costs. 

Richard


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Richard G. Combs
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Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom
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