https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92900
Bug ID: 92900
Summary: Enhancement Request: Lorem Ipsum Generator for Writer.
Product: LibreOffice
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
Reporter: mrmister...@gmail.com
Hi
First thing what is Lorem Ipsum?
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For sure you have seen this text in many published examples with programs like
QuarkXpress, Corel, Indesign.
Quoting Wikipedia: In publishing and graphic design, lorem ipsum (derived from
Latin dolorem ipsum, translated as "pain itself") is a filler text commonly
used to demonstrate the graphic elements of a document or visual presentation.
Replacing meaningful content with placeholder text allows viewers to focus on
graphic aspects such as font, typography, and page layout without being
distracted by the content. It also reduces the need for the designer to come up
with meaningful text, as they can instead use quickly-generated lorem ipsum.
The lorem ipsum text is typically a scrambled section of De finibus bonorum et
malorum, a 1st-century BC Latin text by Cicero, with words altered, added, and
removed to make it nonsensical, improper Latin.
Why is useful Lorem Ipsum?
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When you are creating a document, you need to focus in the design of the
document. Tables, graphics elements, pictures, boxes, etc. To make your design
have a coherence, you need to insert text automatically, so you can have a
finshed document, which act as a preview, giving you a final idea of how the
document would look like.
In those cases you need a tool to insert fast quantities of a demo text. That
demo text can be later on replaced by the final text of the user, but, for a
preview, you only need to use a tool that gives you the skill to insert
paragraphs and paragraphs of randoms texts, so you can have a clear idea on how
the final document would be formatted.
Of course, if you type this text, it would take a loooot of time, but with a
Lorem Ipsum generator this task is accomplished in seconds.
To understand why Lorem Ipsum is important when designing documents, please,
watch this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYVX0wviSgQ
It can be Lorem Ipsum or also other public domain text.
For example: Texts from Shakespeare, Cervantes, or whatever author could be in
public domain. However, the standard in press and printing is Lorem Ipsum.
There are web based Lorem Ipsum generators, as this one:
http://www.lipsum.com/
However, using a website it's annoying because you have to copy and paste text,
whilst programs like Indesign allows you to just enter a random text in
paragraphs, tables, blocks of texts, etc, so you have time.
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