Lorem Ipsum Love
Filed in Productivity, Applications by admin March 22nd, 2007 at 7:51 pmAnybody who spends time doing typesetting work, including web design, understands the value of placeholder text. Lorem Ipsum text is exactly that, placeholder text. As the Sage has been preparing his blog he needed place holder text in the body. Thus the previous posting (Trial Post) which contains two paragraphs of dummy text.
Lorem Ipsum text can trace its origins to a popular Latin text published in 45 B.C. There are a number of ways to obtain Lorem text. Dreamweaver and many other applications have plugins, either built in or provided by a third party, for generating lorem ipsum text. Another resource is lipson.com. The website gives a tidy little current event on Lorem Ipsum text (Who?, What?, Where?, When? and Why?). More importantly, the site has a lorem ipsum generator which you can use to generate text based on x number of:
- Paragraphs
- Words
- Bytes and
- Lists
The power comes when combining lorem text with an application like TextExpander. To put the lorem text in the previous post, all the Sage did was type 6 keys (l-o-r-e-m-2). In order to place lorem text easily all you need to do is make a snippet with TextExpander. The steps for creating a Lorem snippet in TextExpander are as follows:
- Use the Lorem Ipsum generator at lipsum.com to generate 2 paragraphs of Lorem text.
- Copy and Paste the text into the content portion of the TextExpander Preferences Pane.
- Decide on an abreviation for the snippet and enter it into the abrbreviations pane (e.g. lorem2)
- enter your abbreviation whenever and wherever you need some lorem text
You can take this a bit futher if you would like and generate abbreviations for 1, 2, 3, etc. paragraphs of Lorem Text (The Sage actually has snippets for 1-5 paragraphs of Lorem text).
It is worth mentioning that this trick can also be used with Typinator or TypeIt4Me. Both applications work similarly to TextExpander though the Sage uses Textexpander. Any of these applications are worth their weight in gold for anybody. Not only do they provide a system wide autocorrect feature, but they can save you hours of time. TexpExpander, Typinator, and TypeIt4Me all offer a free 30-day trial period.
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