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Generate random text in Word
Authored by: Fofer on Dec 10, '03 12:09:58PM

The built-in "random text" feature actually inserts the well known sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."

This sentence is notable because it includes every letter of the English alphabet -- helpful if you are sampling a font.

Lorem Ipsum on the other hand, is just intended as a more-or-less normal distribution of letters (as opposed to using 'Content here, content here') making it look like readable English, while not distracting the audience... so they can focus on the layout.



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Generate random text in Word
Authored by: jonbauman on Dec 11, '03 09:56:31AM
Lorem Ipsum on the other hand, is just intended as a more-or-less normal distribution of letters (as opposed to using 'Content here, content here') making it look like readable English, while not distracting the audience... so they can focus on the layout.

A normal distribution, or a Zipf distribution? IIRC, the distribution of relative letter frequencies as well as word frequencies follow Zipf's law. That is, the ratio of frequency between the nth and (n+1)th most common letter = (1/n) : (1/(n+1)).

I could be wrong, but I think text that didn't have the same letter frequency distribution would look really odd, not just full of unknown words as lorem ipsum does.

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jon

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