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Contents
Paragraf 1.................................................................4
Lorem Ipsum: common examples....................4
Paragraf 2.................................................................5
Lorem Ipsum: translation.................................5
Lorem Ipsum: variants and technical
information........................................................6
Paragraf 3.................................................................7
Office suites......................................................11
Lorem Ipsum plugins: content management
systems (CMS).................................................11
Joomla.........................................................12
Wordpress...................................................12
Lorem Ipsum plugins: editors........................12
Notepad++..................................................12
Sublime Text...............................................13
TITLU
Paragraf 1
Lorem ipsum is a pseudo-Latin text used in web design, typography, layout, and
printing in place of English to emphasise design elements over content. It's also called
placeholder (or filler) text. It's a convenient tool for mock-ups. It helps to outline the visual
elements of a document or presentation, eg typography, font, or layout. Lorem ipsum is
mostly a part of a Latin text by the classical author and philosopher Cicero. Its words and
letters have been changed by addition or removal, so to deliberately render its content
nonsensical; it's not genuine, correct, or comprehensible Latin anymore. While lorem ipsum's
still resembles classical Latin, it actually has no meaning whatsoever. As Cicero's text doesn't
contain the letters K, W, or Z, alien to latin, these, and others are often inserted randomly to
mimic the typographic appearence of European languages, as are digraphs not to be found in
the original.
In a professional context it often happens that private or corporate clients corder a
publication to be made and presented with the actual content still not being ready. Think of a
news blog that's filled with content hourly on the day of going live. However, reviewers tend
to be distracted by comprehensible content, say, a random text copied from a newspaper or
the internet. The are likely to focus on the text, disregarding the layout and its elements.
Besides, random text risks to be unintendedly humorous or offensive, an unacceptable risk in
corporate environments. Lorem ipsum and its many variants have been employed since the
early 1960ies, and quite likely since the sixteenth century.
Lorem Ipsum: common examples
Most of its text is made up from sections 1.10.32–3 of Cicero's De finibus bonorum et
malorum (On the Boundaries of Goods and Evils; finibus may also be translated as purposes).
Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci
velit is the first known version ("Neither is there anyone who loves grief itself since it is grief
and thus wants to obtain it"). It was found by Richard McClintock, a philologist, director of
publications at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia; he searched for citings of consectetur in
classical Latin literature, a term of remarkably low frequency in that literary corpus.
Cicero famously orated against his political opponent Lucius Sergius Catilina.
Occasionally the first Oration against Catiline is taken for type specimens: Quo usque tandem
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abutere, Catilina, patientia nostra? Quam diu etiam furor iste tuus nos eludet? (How long, O
Catiline, will you abuse our patience? And for how long will that madness of yours mock us?)
Cicero's version of Liber Primus (first Book), sections 1.10.32–3 (fragments included in most
Lorem Ipsum variants in red):
Sed ut perspiciatis, unde omnis iste natus error sit voluptatem accusantium
doloremque laudantium, totam rem aperiam eaque ipsa, quae ab illo inventore veritatis et
quasi architecto beatae vitae dicta sunt, explicabo. Nemo enim ipsam voluptatem, quia
voluptas sit, aspernatur aut odit aut fugit, sed quia consequuntur magni dolores eos, qui
ratione voluptatem sequi nesciunt, neque porro quisquam est, qui dolorem ipsum, quia dolor
sit amet, consectetur, adipisci[ng] velit, sed quia non numquam [do] eius modi tempora
inci[di]dunt, ut labore et dolore magnam aliquam quaerat voluptatem. Ut enim ad minima
veniam, quis nostrum exercitationem ullam corporis suscipit laboriosam, nisi ut aliquid ex ea
commodi consequatur? Quis autem vel eum iure reprehenderit, qui in ea voluptate velit esse,
quam nihil molestiae consequatur, vel illum, qui dolorem eum fugiat, quo voluptas nulla
pariatur? (Tabel 1)
Tabel 1
12 23 26 17 40
15 25 40 16 14
11 30 20 50 56
13 10 18 60 78
Paragraf 2
Lorem Ipsum: translation
The Latin scholar H. Rackham translated the above in 1914:
But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and
praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the
actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No
one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do
not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely
painful. Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself,
because it is pain, butoccasionally circumstances occur in which toil and pain can procure him
some great pleasure. To take a trivial example, which of us ever undertakes laborious physical
exercise, except to obtain some advantage from it? But who has any right to find fault with a
man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a
pain that produces no resultant pleasure?
On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are
so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire,
that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs
to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through
shrinking from toil and pain. These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a
free hour, when our power of choice is untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being
able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided. But in
certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or the obligations of business it will
frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted. The wise man
therefore always holds in these matters to this principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to
secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse pains.
Lorem Ipsum: variants and technical information
In 1985 Aldus Corporation launched its first desktop publishing program Aldus
PageMaker for Apple Macintosh computers, released in 1987 for PCs running Windows 1.0.
Both contained the variant lorem ipsum most common today. Laura Perry, then art director
with Aldus, modified prior versions of Lorem Ipsum text from typographical specimens; in
the 1960s and 1970s it appeared often in lettering catalogs by Letraset. Anecdotal evidence
has it that Letraset used Lorem ipsum already from 1970 onwards, eg. for grids (page
layouts) for ad agencies. Many early desktop publishing programs, eg. Adobe PageMaker,
used it to create template.
Most text editors like MS Word or Lotus Notes generate random lorem text when
needed, either as pre-installed module or plug-in to be added. Word selection or sequence
don't necessarily match the original, which is intended to add variety. Presentation software
like Keynote or Pages use it as a samples for screenplay layout. Content management
software as Joomla, Drupal, Mambo, PHP-Nuke, WordPress, or Movable Type offer Lorem
Ipsumplug-ins with the same functionality.
Do you like Cheese Whiz? Spray tan? Fake eyelashes? That's what is Lorem Ipsum to
many—it rubs them the wrong way, all the way. It's unreal, uncanny, makes you wonder if
something is wrong, it seems to seek your attention for all the wrong reasons. Usually, we
prefer the real thing, wine without sulfur based preservatives, real butter, not margarine, and
so we'd like our layouts and designs to be filled with real words, with thoughts that count,
information that has value.
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The toppings you may chose for that TV dinner pizza slice when you forgot to shop
for foods, the paint you may slap on your face to impress the new boss is your business. But
what about your daily bread? Design comps, layouts, wireframes—will your clients accept
that you go about things the facile way? Authorities in our business will tell in no uncertain
terms that Lorem Ipsum is that huge, huge no no to forswear forever. Not so fast, I'd say, there
are some redeeming factors in favor of greeking text, as its use is merely the symptom of a
worse problem to take into consideration.
Paragraf 3
You begin with a text, you sculpt information, you chisel away what's not needed, you
come to the point, make things clear, add value, you're a content person, you like words.
Design is no afterthought, far from it, but it comes in a deserved second. Anyway, you still
use Lorem Ipsum and rightly so, as it will always have a place in the web workers toolbox, as
things happen, not always the way you like it, not always in the preferred order. Even if your
less into design and more into content strategy you may find some redeeming value with, wait
for it, dummy copy, no less.
Consider this: You made all the required mock ups for commissioned layout, got all
the approvals, built a tested code base or had them built, you decided on a content
management system, got a license for it or adapted open source software for your client's
needs. Then the question arises: where's the content? Not there yet? That's not so bad, there's
dummy copy to the rescue. But worse, what if the fish doesn't fit in the can, the foot's to big
for the boot? Or to small? To short sentences, to many headings, images too large for the
proposed design, or too small, or they fit in but it looks iffy for reasons the folks in the
meeting can't quite tell right now, but they're unhappy, somehow. A client that's unhappy for a
reason is a problem, a client that's unhappy though he or her can't quite put a finger on it is
worse.
But. A big but: Lorem Ipsum is not t the root of the problem, it just shows what's
going wrong. Chances are there wasn't collaboration, communication, and checkpoints, there
wasn't a process agreed upon or specified with the granularity required. It's content strategy
gone awry right from the start. Forswearing the use of Lorem Ipsum wouldn't have helped,
won't help now. It's like saying you're a bad designer, use less bold text, don't use italics in
every other paragraph. True enough, but that's not all that
it takes to get things back on track.
So Lorem Ipsum is bad (not necessarily)
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There's lot of hate out there for a text that amounts to little more than garbled words in an old language. The villagers are out there with a
vengeance to get that Frankenstein, wielding torches and pitchforks, wanting to tar and feather it at the least, running it out of town in shame.
Paragraf 4
One of the villagers, Kristina Halvorson from Adaptive Path, holds steadfastly to the notion that design can’t be tested without real
content:
I’ve heard the argument that “lorem ipsum” is effective in wireframing or design because it helps people focus on the actual layout, or
color scheme, or whatever. What kills me here is that we’re talking about creating a user experience that will (whether we like it or not) be
DRIVEN by words. The entire structure of the page or app flow is FOR THE WORDS.
If that's what you think how bout the other way around? How can you evaluate content without design? No typography, no colors, no
layout, no styles, all those things that convey the important signals that go beyond the mere textual, hierarchies of information, weight, emphasis,
oblique stresses, priorities, all those subtle cues that also have visual and emotional appeal to the reader. Rigid proponents of content strategy
may shun the use of dummy copy but then designers might want to ask them to provide style sheets with the copy decks they supply that are in
tune with the design direction they require.
Or else, an alternative route: set checkpoints, networks, processes, junctions between content and layout. Depending on the state of affairs
it may be fine to concentrate either on design or content, reversing gears when needed.
Or maybe not. How about this: build in appropriate intersections and checkpoints between design and content. Accept that it’s sometimes
okay to focus just on the content or just on the design.
Luke Wroblewski, currently a Product Director at Google, holds that fake data can break down in real life:
Using dummy content or fake information in the Web design process can result in products with unrealistic assumptions and potentially
serious design flaws. A seemingly elegant design can quickly begin to bloat with unexpected content or break under the weight of actual activity.
Fake data can ensure a nice looking layout but it doesn’t reflect what a living, breathing application must endure. Real data does.
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Paragraf 5
Websites in professional use templating systems. Commercial publishing platforms
and content management systems ensure that you can show different text, different data using
the same template. When it's about controlling hundreds of articles, product pages for web
shops, or user profiles in social networks, all of them potentially with different sizes, formats,
rules for differing elements things can break, designs agreed upon can have unintended
consequences and look much different than expected.
This is quite a problem to solve, but just doing without greeking text won't fix it.
Using test items of real content and data in designs will help, but there's no guarantee that
every oddity will be found and corrected. Do you want to be sure? Then a prototype or beta
site with real content published from the real CMS is needed—but you’re not going that far
until you go through an initial design cycle.
Lorem Ipsum actually is usefull in the design stage as it focuses our attention on places
where the content is a dynamic block coming from the CMS (unlike static content elements
that will always stay the same.) Blocks of Lorem Ipsum with a character count range provide
a obvious reminder to check and re-check that the design and the content model match up.
Kyle Fiedler from the Design Informer feels that distracting copy is your fault:
If the copy becomes distracting in the design then you are doing something wrong or
they are discussing copy changes. It might be a bit annoying but you could tell them that that
discussion would be best suited for another time. At worst the discussion is at least working
towards the final goal of your site where questions about lorem ipsum don’t.
Summing up, if the copy is diverting attention from the design it’s because it’s
not up to task.
Typographers of yore didn't come up with the concept of dummy copy because people
thought that content is inconsequential window dressing, only there to be used by designers
who can’t be bothered to read. Lorem Ipsum is needed because words matter, a lot. Just fill up
a page with draft copy about the client’s business and they will actually read it and comment
on it. They will be drawn to it, fiercely. Do it the wrong way and draft copy can derail your
design review.
Asking the client to pay no attention Lorem Ipsum isn't hard as it doesn’t make sense
in the first place, that will limit any initial interest soon enough. Try telling a client to ignore
draft copy however, and you're up to something you can't win. Whenever draft copy comes up
in a meeting confused questions about it ensue.(Figură 1)
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Figură 1
Summing up, really:
Lorem Ipsum is a tool that can be useful, used intentionally it may help solve some
problems. If you go about content strategy the wrong way, fix that problem.
Summing up, really:
Lorem Ipsum is a tool that can be useful, used intentionally it may help solve some
problems. If you go about content strategy the wrong way, fix that problem.
Lorem Ipsum plugins
Office suites
1. MS Word: From 2007 onwards typing =lorem(i) or =lorem(i, j) in MS Word creates
greeking text--don't forget to hit the enter key; i and j need to be integers, where istands for
the amount of desired paragraphs and j numbers the sentences per paragraph. j has a default
value of 3 and a maximum set to 6665. >> screenshots
2. Open Office: An extension named Magenta Lorem ipsum generator is available at
services.openoffice.org. Once installed, an icon will be shown in a toolbar below the menu
bar, with the option to insert a number of paragraphs, the maximum is set to 25. >>
screenshots
3. Libre Office: Magenta Lorem Ipsum Generator 2.0.2, available for LibreOffice 3.3,
LibreOffice 3.4, and LibreOffice 3.5.
Lorem Ipsum plugins: content management systems (CMS)
4.
Joomla
Dummy Content: an editor button and system plugin (Joomla extension) that
sets random dummy copy in articles or in other content item that have editors
like custom HTML modules, category descriptions, or third party content.
Folcomedia - Button Lorem Ipsum: creates a button in the editor to insert a
paragraph of "Lorem Ipsum" greeking text.
Tabel 2
Content Fake: a component that allows for easy creation of menu items,
quickly creating paragraphs of "Lorem Ipsum" and pictures with custom sizes.
30 45 50 23 67 (Tabel 2)
20 23 60 21 76
10 12 45 35 87 Overview of all
40 11 34 37 89 Joomla plugins
for Lorem Ipsum generation.
5.
Wordpress
Lorem Ipsum Generator: Creates a button on wysiwyg toolbars to add a
configurable amount of Lorem Ipsum text to a post, page or any other custom
post type.
lorem shortcode: This plugin contains two shortcodes, lorem and loremimage,
the loremimage shortcode can be nested in the lorem shortcode.
WP Dummy Content: Easy generation and deletion of blog posts, pages, and
sub pages for developers. Full site structure in one click.
WP Dummy Post Generator: A plugin that generates dummy posts and dummy
categories. It also allows to set names for blogs or taglines.
Lorem Ipsum plugins: editors
Notepad++
For notepad++, a Windows text editor, the InsertLoremIpsumNppPlugin can be
downloaded at twenfour.com. It generates and inserts Lorem Ipsum, either as words,
sentences, or paragraphs. The installation requires to copy the file
InsertLoremIpsumNppPlugin.dll and the Config
directory (both are contained in the zip file) to the
"plugins" subdirectory of the Notepad++ installation
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directory. Afterwards, a new option "InsertLoremIpsum" will show in the "plugin" menu
entry. A restart may be required. >> screenshots
ToolBucket: This plugin allows for base 64 encoding, it has a change indentation dialog, it
generates Lorem Ipsum and has many more features.
Sublime Text
Insert lorem and press the tab key, this will insert a Lorem Ipsum paragraph. lorem200 +
tab will add 200 words.
(Figură 2)
Figură 2
(Tabel 3)
Tabel 3
7 9 5
4 8
45 55 7
27 87 28
27 84 28
257 58 84
8 11 75
14
(Figură 3)
Figură 3
(Tabel 4)
Tabel 4
85 25 885 47 36 74
874 25 58 78 29 47
28 247 258 15 28 284
88 84 69 33 84 75
214 258 68 698 14 85
(Figură 4)
Figură 4
(Tabel 5)
Tabel 5
7885 18 28 11 88 52 47 96
147 25 585 474 656587 2548 247 218
8 52 58 48 39 48 25 67
258 85 95 99 258 39 85 998
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(Figură 5)
Figură 5
(Figură 6)
Figură 6
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