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Re: greeking

#122965 02/15/2004 10:41 PM

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Jenet

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Jenet

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Greeking is supposed to be a printers' term for setting semi-random text just to fill up space and see how it looks. These days the standard text used for greeking is not Greek put pseudo-Latin, the infamous "lorem ipsum", which is a garbled form of a passage from Cicero.

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