I'm designing a template intended for mathematical writing. I'd like to fill the template with Lorem ipsum text, but would like that text to showcase some of the common ways that mathematics is typeset. I could use some randomly generated text using either LaTeX's blindtext package or a random paper generator (although the phony formulas in those can get pretty crunchy). But is there some canonical mathematics text used for this purpose that has the same meaninglessness as Lorem ipsum? Or is there some classical text (language doesn't matter) that would be cool to use for this?
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4Does The Art of Computer Programming count as classical? – Gerry Myerson Dec 06 '20 at 04:32
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3This question would be more on-topic on [tex.se]. – Federico Poloni Dec 06 '20 at 21:02
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2Euclid's Elements. https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/elements/bookI/bookI.html – Ben McKay Dec 06 '20 at 21:51
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1Have you seen the answer about mathgen? – მამუკა ჯიბლაძე Feb 27 '21 at 16:49
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As a "showcase", and a test for fonts, I use fonttest.tex
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Nice answer. But why did you change the link to the image? I'm having trouble viewing it on my work computer (company policy blocks various sites) but I didn't before. – Timothy Chow Dec 08 '20 at 00:46
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1changed link to imgur (I actually thought that would have been a more suspicious site than a university site...) – Carlo Beenakker Dec 08 '20 at 07:32
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2OP asks for a text with "same meaninglessness as Lorem ipsum". While the formula here are quite meaningless, the text certainly isn't… – Dirk Dec 08 '20 at 09:56
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1sure, but I may note that the Lorem ipsum text is not completely meaningless if you happen to know Latin (it's adapted from a Cicero speech). – Carlo Beenakker Dec 08 '20 at 11:16