Origins of "Lorem Ipsum" (was Re: [thelist] site check -- http://spinhead.com/new)

Craig Saila crsaila at yahoo.ca
Mon Jul 15 08:31:24 CDT 2002


Mark Gallagher wrote:
> It's latin - an excerpt from Cicero's famous essay that begins "Lorem
> ipsum sit amet...".

The altered text is drawn from sections 1.10.32 to 1.10.33 of his "de
Finibus Bonorum et Malorum" and has been used as "dummy text" since the
1500s.

I've got more info here:
<http://www.saila.com/usage/lorem/>

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Cheers,

Craig Saila
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