What You See Is All You Get
What You See Is All You Get
(jargon)This term is most often used of editors, word processors,and document formatting programs. WYSIWYG "desktop publishing" programs, for example, are a clear win forcreating small documents with lots of fonts and graphics inthem, especially things like newsletters and presentationslides. When typesetting book-length manuscripts, on theother hand, scale changes the nature of the task; one quicklyruns into WYSIAYG limitations, and the increased power andflexibility of a command-driven formatter like TeX orUnix's troff becomes not just desirable but a necessity.
Compare YAFIYGI.