Why are my templets in pages all in Latin?

It's a filler text called "Lorem Ipsum," or "Lipsum." It just holds the place of where your text would be. You delete it, and fill the space as needed.

why are my templates in latin

http://www.lipsum.com

The pseudo-latin text serves as placeholders to illustrate the look of the template, and is automatically replaced by the things you'll type.

Storrowdrive wrote:

At least in word the template is in English.

In my Word for Mac 2011 the template is almost entirely in Latin, as shown below. Is yours really not that way? I think it has been standard practice for such things for a very long time already....

How does the placeholder text being in Lorem Ipsum affect you using it when the idea is to select the text and replace it?

Are you American?

Peter

Storrowdrive wrote:

Thanks for the responses...I get it but it is a real Pain...It is always useful when creating a template to have the original text...just to see the layout. I think it ***** and will have to use my PC. At least in word the template is in English. Total bummer as I like the Pages template lay out more. What a pain, not sure why I purchased the program if I can't use it. No one at the Apple store told me it was in this fake latin layout

Maybe you should dig around the app a little more!

Create your document, insert and select some text for the 'placeholder'.

Format menu > Advanced > Define as placeholder text.

Save the document as a template.

Now you can have whatever 'placeholder text' on your templates.

P.S.

Lorem ipsum is used because it 'looks like English' in terms of word lengths, punctuation, how lines break etc, but is sufficiently like gibberish to make it easy for designers to see it needs replacing. When you use real words & real sentences some can get easily missed & end up in your final documents (the brain doesn't flag real sentences as quickly as gibberish). Good luck with that.

Storrowdrive wrote:

Thanks for the responses...I get it but it is a real Pain...It is always useful when creating a template to have the original text

It's a template. The text int eh template is the original text.

If you want a template with your own text then create one.

Besides, having it in Latin you can see how it looks, without being concerned what the content is (since it is only a template and you are only concerned with layout, not content).

Storrowdrive wrote:

It is always useful when creating a template to have the original text...just to see the layout.

What do you mean with 'original text'? An already existing text that needs a layout? If it is only text without any formatting, any template-based application cannot offer more than a quick way to paste the text into it (eg, by selecting all body text in the template). If your text has already the full set of styles, I don't know of a way to switch from one set of styles to another one in Pages (I wouldn't know of way in Word either but I know less of Word). I know that one can in Keynote switch an existing presentation between different styles/templates.

The point of Lorem Ipsum text is to have a body of text that looks like normal text for speakers of most European languages but doesn't have any meaning so the visual impression is not biased by actual content. Actual words from a language one knows will add meaning that distracts from the visual impact. One could use any other essentially meaningless text, eg, repetitions of 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog', but the repetition will give blocks of text visual patterns. You need something random to get something looking natural. And it is not that any of the text would be marked as Latin for hyphenation or spelling purposes, it'll be marked at whatever language the default one is.

The added benefit, already mentioned, is that is easy to see what is dummy text and what is actual text.