dummy text
English
Noun
dummy text (plural dummy texts)
- (typography) A placeholder text used in typesetting.
- Synonym: lorem ipsum
- 2006, Christian Crumlish; Kate J. Chase, Microsoft FrontPage 2003: Savvy, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 93:
- A traditional way to represent dummy text in typeset documents is with a passage of medieval Latin that begins “Lorem ipsum. ..” (or “lipsum” for short).
- 2010, Olav Martin Kvern; David Blatner; Bob Bringhurst, Real World Adobe InDesign CS5, Pearson Education, →ISBN:
- This means you can easily set up text layouts without having the copy in hand and without resorting to a “dummy text” placeholder.
Translations
placeholder text
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