Lorem Ipsum...

Bloggers, writers and anyone working with text often have to check how a certain amount of text will look on their blog or in their book. For instance when they have to decide to post to their blog with a substantial amount of text wondering how that will look on their blog. Or a writer who wants to know how a 10 paragraph 2,000 words text looks like.

Here's Lorem Ipsum to the rescue. It is a 'sample text' to get a feeling about larger texts, What it really means you got to have finished a 5,000 small essay by the end of the day.

Or you want to show off a proposal for a website and need sample text to get a better understanding how the website is going to look like, textwise.

 Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old.

Scoot on over to WikiPedia for some more info about this subject.

Yup, It sound like a pretty 'dusty' subject, hard to swallow, like all dry matter. Try dry-wall. Now that's dry.

Here are some websites you can get your working sample texts. It's all pretty self-explanatory.

The official Lipsum Website A plain text generator, suitable for regular moods.
Filerati, Offers filler texts from books you can choose and lets you 'grab' 1 to 10 paragraphs.
Malevole, Offers Lorem Ipsum texts in English up to 5 paragraphs.
Slipsum, Samuel L. Jackson Like texts.
Bacon Ipsum, A meatier Lorem Ipsum text generator, multiple paragraphs.
Lorem Ipsum Fail... Guess 'someone' forgot 'something'... ;)

Now git! And get your own. Try to make yourself a Lorem Ipsum text by using just the names of the objects you see where you are right now. Could be fun.

"Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, keyboard con monitoret de mouse. Avet pencillium a maximus lamporta da ceiling-fan. Rounda, Rounda estem con Sun et Moon circlem fasteret...". See?

Happy Lorem'ing.
// Jan