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Newer page: | version 5 | Last edited on Wednesday, November 17, 2004 5:46:18 pm | by IlanVolow | |
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[Acronym] for __W__hat __Y__ou __S__ee __I__s __W__hat __Y__ou __G__et.
-The idea of whats
showing on the screen is as close to what you see on paper. MicrosoftWord
is an example of a [WYSIWYG] editor. Writing things in [LaTeX] is not.
+The idea of what's
showing on the screen is as close to what you see on paper. [Microsoft] Word
is an example of a [WYSIWYG] editor. Writing things in [LaTeX] is not.
+
+It works better as an idea than in practice, a lot of the time. Hence variations of the [Acronym] such as What You See Is What You Might Get and similar ones
.