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Lorem ipsum (Template:IPAc-en Template:Respell) is a dummy or placeholder text commonly used in graphic design, publishing, and web development. Its purpose is to permit a page layout to be designed, independently of the copy that will subsequently populate it, or to demonstrate various fonts of a typeface without meaningful text that could be distracting.
Lorem ipsum is typically a corrupted version of Template:Lang, a 1st-century BC text by the Roman statesman and philosopher Cicero, with words altered, added, and removed to make it nonsensical and improper Latin. The first two words are the truncation of Template:Lang ("pain itself").
Versions of the Lorem ipsum text have been used in typesetting since the 1960s, when advertisements for Letraset transfer sheets popularized it.<ref name=Cibois/> 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. Other popular word processors, including Pages and Microsoft Word, have since adopted Lorem ipsum,<ref name="SDop"/> as have many LaTeX packages,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="ms-212251">Template:Cite web </ref> web content managers such as Joomla! and WordPress, and CSS libraries such as Semantic UI.
Example text
A common form of Lorem ipsum reads: Template:Loremipsum
Source text
The Lorem ipsum text is derived from sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of Cicero's Template:Lang.<ref name="Microsoft">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="cicero_archive_org">Template:Cite book</ref> The physical source may have been the 1914 Loeb Classical Library edition of Template:Lang, where the Latin text, presented on the left-hand (even) pages, breaks off on page 34 with "Template:Lang" and continues on page 36 with "Template:Lang," suggesting that the galley type of that page was mixed up to make the dummy text seen today.<ref name=Cibois>Template:Cite journal</ref>
The discovery of the text's origin is attributed to Richard McClintock, a Latin scholar at Hampden–Sydney College. McClintock connected Lorem ipsum to Cicero's writing sometime before 1982 while searching for instances of the Latin word Template:Lang, which was rarely used in classical literature.<ref name="SDop">Template:Cite web</ref> McClintock first published his discovery in a 1994 letter to a Before & After magazine editor,<ref>Before & After 4:2, according to Template:Cite web</ref> contesting the editor's earlier claim that Lorem ipsum had no meaning.<ref name="SDop" />
The relevant section of Cicero as printed in the source is reproduced below with fragments used in Lorem ipsum highlighted. Letters in brackets were added to Lorem ipsum and were not present in the source text:
What follows is H. Rackham's translation, as printed in the 1914 Loeb edition, with words at least partially represented in Lorem ipsum highlighted:<ref name="cicero_archive_org"/>
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References
External links
- The original De finibus bonorum et malorum (Book 1) from Cicero, on Latin Wikisource