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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>WYSIAYG</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../W.html" title="W"/><link rel="previous" href="wumpus.html" title="wumpus"/><link rel="next" href="WYSIWYG.html" title="WYSIWYG"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">WYSIAYG</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="wumpus.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">W</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="WYSIWYG.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="WYSIAYG"/><dt xmlns="" id="WYSIAYG"><b>WYSIAYG</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/wiz´ee·ayg/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Describes a user interface under which “<span class="quote">What You See Is
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<span class="emphasis"><em>All</em></span> You Get</span>”; an unhappy variant of
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<a href="WYSIWYG.html"><i class="glossterm">WYSIWYG</i></a>. Visual,
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‘point-and-shoot’-style interfaces tend to have easy initial
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learning curves, but also to lack depth; they often frustrate advanced
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users who would be better served by a command-style interface. When this
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happens, the frustrated user has a WYSIAYG problem. This term is most
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often used of editors, word processors, and document formatting programs.
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WYSIWYG ‘desktop publishing’ programs, for example, are a clear
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win for creating small documents with lots of fonts and graphics in them,
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especially things like newsletters and presentation slides. When
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typesetting book-length manuscripts, on the other hand, scale changes the
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nature of the task; one quickly runs into WYSIAYG limitations, and the
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increased power and flexibility of a command-driven formatter like
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<a href="../T/TeX.html"><i class="glossterm">TeX</i></a> or Unix's <a href="../T/troff.html"><i class="glossterm">troff</i></a> becomes
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not just desirable but a necessity. Compare
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<a href="../Y/YAFIYGI.html"><i class="glossterm">YAFIYGI</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="wumpus.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="WYSIWYG.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">wumpus </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> WYSIWYG</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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