"lorem ipsum", "brown fox" & "enter title here" PDF titles
Dick Margulis
margulisd at comcast.net
Thu Feb 1 10:56:07 MST 2007
Combs, Richard wrote:
> Dick Margulis wrote:
>> 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.
And, to back up my earlier statement,
http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-gre1.htm
Dick
http://ampersandvirgule.blogspot.com/
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