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How to Use Lorem Ipsum in Text

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Lorem Ipsum or Lipsum is a placeholder made of meaningless strings to focus on the document’s design. In $\TeX$, it can be used by utilizing the lipsum package.

\lipsum ¹

The command \lipsum can be handled as if it were a two-dimensional array.

• \lipsum[x]: Outputs the $x$-th paragraph.
• \lipsum[x][y]: Outputs the $x$-th paragraph’s $y$-th sentence.
• \lipsum[x][y-z]: Outputs from the $y$-th to the $z$-th sentence in the $x$-th paragraph.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{document}
  \paragraph{lipsum[1]}
  \lipsum[1]
  \paragraph{lipsum[2]}
  \lipsum[2]
  \paragraph{lipsum[1][2]}
  \lipsum[1][2]
  \paragraph{lipsum[1][1-3]}
  \lipsum[1][1-3]
\end{document}