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I'm not sure this is the correct forum for this, but since I thought
about the problem while looking at some desktop publisher output I
decided to put the question here.  Are there general rules for
generating ``trash'' text for checking layouts?  I know there's a word
for the stuff but I can't remember; it's sometimes latin words stuck
together, or just random letters.  Well, it seems to me that it would
be nice to generate the stuff based upon some criteria, so that (for
example) if I were laying out Weekly Reader I could look at lots of
small words, whilst on the other hand if I were doing some
hyper-sophisticated journal like Omni or Infoworld I could look at
random text with big words.  I guess sentence length and punctuation
frequency are important too.

I guess the basic question is, how is word length distributed in typical
English text?


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Mike McNally of Lynx Real-Time Systems

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