I know about the lipsum
, blindtext
and kantlipsum
packages. What I would need is a variant creating dummy metadata: author name/affiliation, title, thanks etc. Does anyone know of anything like this? (Paragraphs provided by lipsum
or kantlipsum
are way too long, it seems from a glance at the source that blindtext
has a similar problem.)
And a bonus would be fake jpgs with author photos, for testing journal styles with author picture & bio at the end;).
If the answer is no (which is quite probable), I might consider adding something like this to kantlipsum
. What do you think, egreg?
Side note: if anyone knows what tags should accompany this question, please edit them. Does it make sense to have a "dummy-text" tag?
blindtext
,lipsum
andkantlipsum
want to be as class independent as possible. What class a\metadata
command should be tailored to? For instance,article
wants\thanks
inside the\author
field,amsart
outside.\fakeauthor
, generating a fake name, with an optional argument, which might be an index from a table with, say, 20 names (just like with[kant]lipsum
). Then one might say, eg,\author{\fakeauthor[8]}
.Paragraphs[...]are way too long
How long should the paragraphs be? Did you try blindtext with optionpangram
and\blindtext[1]
or\Blindtext[10][1]
(10 paragraphs with 1 sentence). The pangram texts are quiet short. Don't forget to load babel (\usepackage[english]{babel}
)