If we want dummy text in our document then we generally search for lorem ipsum text generators and copy-paste those texts/paragraphs in our document.
In LaTeX, we don’t need to do such copy and paste thing. LaTeX has different packages which automatically generates dummy text in our document. You can generate them with just a few lines of code.
1) USING LIPSUM PACKAGE
One of such package is the lipsum package.
Lipsum package has access to 150 paragraphs of “Lorem ipsum” dummy text.
lipsum[2-4]will print lorem ipsum paragraph 2 to 4.
lipsum[1-1]will only print lorem ipsum paragraph 1.
In the example below, lipsum package is used to print dummy text below chapter title. lipsum[2-4] prints lorem ipsum text from paragraph 2 to paragraph 4.
\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\begin{document}
\chapter{Introduction}
\lipsum[2-4]
\end{document}
Below is the output pdf generated from the above LaTeX code:
2) USING BLINDTEXT PACKAGE
There is another package named blindtext which can generate a single paragraph of dummy lorem ipsum text to even an entire document with the dummy text.
\blindtext = This macro will generate a paragraph of dummy text
\BlindText = This macro will generate multiple paragraphs (one page long) of dummy text
\Blinddocument = This macro will generate an entire document of dummy text. If you specify documentclass as report then \Blinddocument will generate the document with multiple chapters, sections, subsections, paragraphs, and itemized lists.
The below example contains LaTeX code that uses blindtext package to create an entire document with the dummy text.
\documentclass{report}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\begin{document}
% generates a paragraph of dummy lorem ipsum text
%\blindtext
% generates multiple paragraphs of dummy lorem ipsum text
%\Blindtext
% generates whole document with dummy lorem ipsum text
\Blinddocument
\end{document}
Below is the output pdf generated from the above LaTeX code:
Hope this helps.
Thanks.