Editing Lorem ipsum (section)

{{short description|Placeholder text used in publishing and graphic design}}
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[[Image:Lorem ipsum design.svg|thumb|300px|right|alt=An example of the ''Lorem ipsum'' placeholder text on a green and white webpage.|Using ''Lorem ipsum'' to focus attention on graphic elements in a webpage design proposal]]
[[File:Letraset Lorem Ipsum.jpg|thumb|right|An example of the ''Lorem ipsum'' placeholder text on a Letraset sample sheet. Date unknown, possibly 1970s.]]

'''''Lorem ipsum''''' ({{IPAc-en|ˌ|l|ɔː|.|ɹ|ə|m|_|ˈ|ɪ|p|.|s|ə|m}} {{respell|LOR|əm|_|IP|səm}}) is a dummy or placeholder text commonly used in graphic design, publishing, and web development. Its purpose is to permit a page layout to be designed, independently of the [[copy (publishing)|copy]] that will subsequently populate it, or to demonstrate various [[font]]s of a [[typeface]] without meaningful text that could be distracting.

''Lorem ipsum'' is typically a corrupted version of {{lang|la|[[De finibus bonorum et malorum]]}}, a 1st-century BC text by the [[Roman Republic|Roman]] statesman and philosopher [[Cicero]], with words altered, added, and removed to make it nonsensical and improper [[Latin]]. The first two words are the [[Clipping (morphology)|truncation]] of {{lang|la|dolorem ipsum}} ("pain itself").

Versions of the ''Lorem ipsum'' text have been used in [[typesetting]] since the 1960s, when advertisements for [[Letraset]] transfer sheets popularized it.<ref name=Cibois/> ''Lorem ipsum'' was introduced to the digital world in the mid-1980s, when [[Aldus Corporation|Aldus]] employed it in graphic and word-processing templates for its desktop publishing program [[Adobe PageMaker|PageMaker]]. Other popular [[Word processor (electronic device)|word processors]], including [[Pages (word processor)|Pages]] and [[Microsoft Word]], have since adopted ''Lorem ipsum'',<ref name="SDop"/> as have many [[LaTeX]] packages,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ctan.org/pkg/lipsum |title=LaTeX lipsum package |access-date=23 September 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ctan.org/pkg/blindtext |title=LaTeX blind text package |access-date=23 September 2017}}</ref><ref name="ms-212251">{{cite web |title=How to insert sample text into a document in Word |url=http://support.microsoft.com/kb/212251/en-us |website=Microsoft Support |access-date=14 November 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120112094738/http://support.microsoft.com/kb/212251/en-us |archive-date=12 January 2012 |date=18 September 2011 |url-status=dead}}<!-- The URL is not dead but has been changed such that it no longer contains the relevant information --> </ref> web content managers such as [[Joomla!]] and [[WordPress]], and [[CSS]] libraries such as Semantic UI.