On Sat, 30 Dec 2017 14:47:52 -0500, "Jim Wilkins"
wrote:

"Ed Huntress" wrote in message
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On Sat, 30 Dec 2017 13:41:34 -0400, Leon Fisk
wrote:


Looks like a good replacement for Lorem Ipsum

Yeah, except that I can picture copy editors huddling together to
figure out if it's grammatically correct. g

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Ed Huntress

I tried that on Lorem Ipsum, which is clearly miscopied Latin and
retains hints of Cicero's eloquence. The key was that the original
text was dolorem ipsum, pain/grief itself.

Right. It's been so modified over the years that it's only vaguely
Latin-like. Before the Internet, we had printed copies of "Lorem
Ipsum" text that we copied from. We could get it in galley-proof form,
in different typefaces, sizes, and column widths, which we would paste
into "makeup" (mocked-up) pages to show how something would look in
print, with illustrations, headlines, etc..

Once we started using word processors (I never had one at McGraw-Hill.
I typed on a Royal manual office model.), writers saved blocks of it
to copy-and-paste. Now, we just pick it up from a variety of free
sources on the Web.

I was using it until I retired a year ago, when we did layout mockups
of promotional copy and, rarely these days, magazine pages.

It was never more than a placeholder used in publishing.

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Ed Huntress