The document is a book chapter in Italian about Lorem Ipsum dummy text. It is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 Italy License and discusses how Lorem Ipsum text has been used as placeholder text in printing and publishing since the 1500s and remains a common placeholder text today. It also explains that the semi-random Latin used makes it look like real text without actually conveying any information.
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2. Il linguaggio delle Immagini
eGutemberg project
TTC/Grafica
Milano 2011
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4. Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the prin-
ting and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the
industrys standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when
an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled
it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only
five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting,
remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the
1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem
Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publi-
shing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of
Lorem Ipsum.
5. Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy
text of the printing and type-
setting industry. Lorem Ipsum
has been the industrys standard
dummy text ever since the 1500s,
when an unknown printer took a
galley of type and scrambled it to
make a type specimen book.
6. Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the prin-
ting and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the
industrys standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when
an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled
it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only
five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting,
remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the
1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem
Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publi-
shing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of
Lorem Ipsum.
Why do we use it?
It is a long established fact that
a reader will be distracted by the
readable content of a page when
Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy
looking at its layout. The point of
text of the printing and type-
setting industry. Lorem Ipsum using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a
has been the industrys standard
more-or-less normal distribution of
dummy text ever since the 1500s,
when an unknown printer took a letters, as opposed to using Content
galley of type and scrambled it to
here, content here, making it look
make a type specimen book.
like readable English. Many desktop
publishing packages and web page
editors now use Lorem Ipsum as
their default model text, and a se-
7. There are many variations of
passages of Lorem Ipsum availa-
ble, but the majority have suffered
alteration in some form, by injec-
ted humour, or randomised words
which dont look even slightly
believable. If you are going to use
a passage of Lorem Ipsum, you
need to be sure there isnt anything
embarrassing hidden in the mid-
dle of text. All the Lorem Ipsum
generators on the Internet tend to
repeat predefined chunks as ne-
cessary, making this the first true
generator on the Internet. It uses a
dictionary of over 200 Latin words,
combined with a handful of model
sentence structures, to generate
Lorem Ipsum which looks reasona-
ble. The generated Lorem Ipsum.
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sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit...
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