Lipsum Extension For Quarto

The Lipsum extension is useful for generating placeholder text.

Installing

quarto add dragonstyle/lipsum

This will install the extension under the _extensions subdirectory. If you're using version control, you will want to check in this directory.

Using

Simply place the shortcode where you'd like placeholder content to be generated. Be default, the lipsum shortcode will emit 5 paragraphs of lipsum. For example:

{{< lipsum >}}

Number of Paragraphs

You can specify how many paragraphs of Lipsum you'd like included. For example, to include 7 paragraphs of lipsum, you would write:

{{< lipsum 7 >}}

Ranges

Lipsum use a dictionary of lipsum paragraphs. You can use particular paragraphs if you'd like, by providing a range. For example, to emit paragraphs 2, 3, and 4 you would write:

{{< lipsum 2-4 >}}

You can also specify decreasing ranges, such as:

{{< lipsum 4-2 >}}

Example

Here is the source code for a minimal example: example.qmd.