I was taught to copy passages from newspaper articles or ideally a sample of writing from the same author as the final text you will be setting and not to use l

I was taught to copy passages from newspaper articles or ideally a sample of writing from the same author as the final text you will be setting and not to use lorem ipsum by my typography tutors. Despite what’s often said, it isn’t as good as using real english for representing the “colour” of text on a page. Though I was interested by a thread on HN the other day where people were using Google Scribe to generate sentences, that would make an interesting (American English? Or possibly “Globish”?) dummy copy generator. Now if only someone knew how to make such a script…