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名詞

dummy text (plural dummy texts)

1. (typography) A placeholder text used in typesetting.

   Hyponym: lorem ipsum (broadly synonymous)

   • 2006, Christian Crumlish, Kate J. Chase, Microsoft FrontPage 2003: Savvy, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 93:

     A traditional way to represent dummy text in typeset documents is with a passage of medieval Latin that begins “Lorem ipsum. ..” (or “lipsum” for short).

   • 2010, Olav Martin Kvern, David Blatner, Bob Bringhurst, Real World Adobe InDesign CS5, Pearson Education, →ISBN:

     This means you can easily set up text layouts without having the copy in hand and without resorting to a “dummy text” placeholder.