Contrary To Popular Belief

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, e.g., 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, like readable text. Hence, a Link ipsum approach is used to focus on the design, not the content.

The same logic applies when it comes to presentations, layouting websites or prototypes. Thus, in some cases, lorem ipsum refers not only to the need for filler text, but also to the need for non-distracting elements within a design.

History of Lorem Ipsum

Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old. Richard McClintock, a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, looked up one of the more obscure Latin words, consectetur, from a Lorem Ipsum passage, and going through the cites of the word in classical literature, discovered the undoubtable source. Lorem Ipsum comes from sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of "de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum" (The Extremes of Good and Evil) by Cicero, written in 45 BC. This book is a treatise on the theory of ethics, very popular during the Renaissance. The first line of Lorem Ipsum, "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet..", comes from a line in section 1.10.32.

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The standard chunk of Lorem Ipsum used since the 1500s is reproduced below for those interested. Sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 from "de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum" by Cicero are also reproduced in their exact original form, accompanied by English versions from the 1914 translation by H. Rackham.

It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout.
The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using 'Content here, content here', making it look like readable English.
Many desktop publishing packages and web page editors now use Lorem Ipsum as their default model text, and a search for 'lorem ipsum' will uncover many web sites still in their infancy.

Various versions have evolved over the years, sometimes by accident, sometimes on purpose (injected humour and the like).

Lorem Ipsum is widely used as a filler text in the graphic, print, and web design industries. For example, when designing a brochure or book layout, designers will use Lorem Ipsum text to fill the text blocks in the layout so that they can focus on the design elements. In web design, __init__ Lorem Ipsum is used to fill in text areas on websites during the design phase to ensure that the design and layout will look good with text in place.

class Person:
    """
    The Person class represents a person with an age attribute.

    Attributes:
    _age (int): the person's age, must be a positive value

    Methods:
    init(age): initializes the person with an age
    age: property that returns the person's age and also performs validation when setting the age
    """

    # Function to initialize the class
    def __init__(self, age):
        self.age = age

    # Property decorator turns the method into a getter
    @property
    def age(self):
        # Return the age
        return self._age

    # Setter decorator turns the method into a setter
    @age.setter
    def age(self, value):
        # Check if the age is negative
        if value < 0:
            raise ValueError("Age cannot be negative")
        # Set the value of self._age
        self._age = value

Lorem Ipsum serves as a text placeholder for those who are focusing on the visual aspects of a document or presentation rather than the content itself. This practice helps ensure that the overall design, typography, and layout are visually pleasing before the final content is ready. Despite its nonsensical nature, Lorem Ipsum text has a rich history rooted in classical Latin literature. Its use in the design and publishing industries as a placeholder text has become a standard practice, allowing for a focus on design elements and layout rather than the text content.