Landships II

PDA · Legend

Contacting Emhar

Hughbearson · General

Seems good. On the subject, it seems that Armourfast's website has advanced a bit, but there is still some text unhelpfully written in Latin for some reason.

PDA · Legend

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorem_ipsum

Hughbearson · General

Ahhhh...

RCD · Lieutenant-Colonel

At the moment I would rather that they produce their current models. Looks like most shops only have the female MkIV and whippet! Being the only company producing� WW1 at 1/72 plastic at a reasonable price�its a shame that their models keeps disappearing on a regular basis.

Yes it would be nice to see the MkV in 1/72 but my fathers tortoises in mid winter move faster than Emhar production line!

-- Edited by RCD on Sunday 22nd of August 2010 12:36:22 PM

Ironsides · Legend

Hughbearson wrote:

Seems good. On the subject, it seems that Armourfast's website has advanced a bit, but there is still some text unhelpfully written in Latin for some reason.

Yes I actually tried to translate that and only got gooble de gook

Cheers smile

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Hughbearson · General

Are you trying to tell me that
"Lorem itself pain he is amet consectetur adipisicing elit , but to give her transitory incididunt when to sink and pain magna some. When in fact to in the least degree grace , anyone our work at ullamco labor if not when some out of this to make fit according to reason. Duis but irure pain upon reprehenderit upon pleasant skirmish to be cillum pain good to flee nulla to pay. To take out sint occaecat cupidatat not proident , are upon fault quae workshop to leave gently breath this is to sink"
Doesn't make sense?!

Well, maybe even Latin speakers cannot define this as an original (I.E Roman) text, since a question mark comes up at one point, which first appeared in the late 1300s, and was not widely used until a bit later.
Could it be a late Medieval Christian or collage script?

Rectalgia · Legend

Hughbearson wrote:

...Could it be a late Medieval Christian or collage script?

It has been in use since the very early days of the printing press which was a time when almost all scholarly works were printed in Latin. There is little doubt it would have been more or less intelligible to the great majority of educated people at the time - certainly those all over Europe - and the Latin they used was not quite the classical Latin. But it is just a "fragment", not really intended to be complete, to make sense or to impart a message, just to give an impression of what a printed block would look like in terms of layout, font and general composition. It possibly started from a degraded text, a then contemporary rendition of the classical Cicero text. I don't know.

It has to be remembered that hand-setting of typeface was a laborious task (and somewhat artistic) - so having some standard dummy blocks available to do a mock-up for the client's approval was a serious time and labour saving. Even today, "proper" layout uses kerning and tracking (and appropriate and varied fonts) to increase the impact and style of printed material, so a dummy block still has its value.

http://www.lipsum.com/ is probably better than Wikipedia at explaining it. See http://desktoppub.about.com/cs/typespacing/a/kerningtracking.htm on desktop publishing. Grab an image of an old book, magazine or even newspaper page off the internet somewhere and see how close you can come to matching the layout, style and clarity with the WP of your choice. Or just trust me

-- Edited by Rectalgia on Sunday 22nd of August 2010 06:35:51 PM

kieffer · Commander in Chief

Today you can use lore ipsum easily for font or lettertype picking too, on the computer.
For fonts and types they used letter books in the old days. To show how a particular type looked like, a popular line was used: the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, comprehensing all letters of the alphabet. Pieces of classical text or poems were used too. Cicero shows up again as a piece of his writing is often used for the lettertype given his name.
Most printers had their own letter book, as the range of available types was/is huge and you can't have them all in stock.
Hand setting is laborious though you would be surprised how fast an' old fashioned' typographer can work, reading mirror wise and easily finding letters in the case.