Licenciatura Cuarto medio B
Where does it come from?
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.
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.
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 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).