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

Dick Margulis margulisd at comcast.net
Thu Feb 1 09:50:31 MST 2007


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.




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