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WYSIAYG
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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/wizeeayg/ , adj. Describes a user interface under which What You See Is All
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You Get ; an unhappy variant of WYSIWYG. Visual, point-and-shoot -style
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interfaces tend to have easy initial learning curves, but also to lack
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depth; they often frustrate advanced users who would be better served by a
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command-style interface. When this happens, the frustrated user has a
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WYSIAYG problem. This term is most often used of editors, word processors,
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and document formatting programs. WYSIWYG desktop publishing programs, for
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example, are a clear win for creating small documents with lots of fonts and
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graphics in them, especially things like newsletters and presentation
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slides. When typesetting book-length manuscripts, on the other hand, scale
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changes the nature of the task; one quickly runs into WYSIAYG limitations,
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and the increased power and flexibility of a command-driven formatter like
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TeX or Unix's troff becomes not just desirable but a necessity. Compare
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YAFIYGI.
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