The packages lipsum and blindtext work well enough to flesh-out and format LaTeX documents, but are these packages all that's available? The question to answer in this thread: how can I use newly generated web content in place of the usual text produced by more standard text generators?
[Tex/LaTex] How to replace lipsum text with online text in LaTeX
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lipsum provides a starred version of the traditional \lipsum macro which suppresses the paragraph breaks, or the package option nopar that removes the paragraph breaks altogether:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}% http://ctan.org/pkg/lipsum
\begin{document}
\lipsum[1-2]
\newpage
\lipsum*[1-2]
\end{document}
From the lipsum documentation (p 2):
...the paragraphs generated by
\lipsumwill be separated by the macro\par, or, more precisely, every paragraph will be terminated by\par. Sometimes, this may cause some unintended effects. Therefore the package provides the optionnoparthat causes\lipsumto omit the terminating\par. For this purpose, the package should be included via\usepackage[nopar]{lipsum}Furthermore, a starred version of
\lipsum,\lipsum*, exists that, with respect to the terminating\par, does the opposite of\lipsum: If no option is provided, it omits the insertion of\parafter each paragraph, if the optionnoparis provided, it typesets the paragraphs separated by\par.Note that
\lipsum*calls the macro\ChangeLipsumParinside a group and subsequently calls the internal macro\@lipsumthat generates the output.\ChangeLipsumParalternates the internal macro\lips@parbetween\relaxand\par.\lips@paris called at the end of each paragraph and therefore\ChangeLipsumParprovides a switch to alter the output of this package within a single document when it is required to avoid additional groups.
This is often-used "dummy text" suggesting that there is a placeholder in the template for which you did not overwrite the text with your own. It's used to show "bla bla bla here is some text and this is what it will look like" but trying to look more interesting. It is scrambled Latin that has been in use since the 1500's, although the original text is over 2000 years old. See http://www.lipsum.com
Best Answer
In ConTeXt, you can use
\inputand\externalfigureto source anyhttp://resource as well. So, just pick your favourite online text and simply\inputit. An example:which gives a 208 page document. The
\startasciimodeis to change the catcode of#so that it does not cause an error.