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  1. What You See Is What You Get
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    In computing, WYSIWYG (/ ˈwɪziwɪɡ / WIZ-ee-wig), an acronym for What You See Is What You Get, refers to software which allows content to be edited in a form that resembles its appearance when printed or displayed as a finished product, such as a printed document, web page, or slide presentation.

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    In the early 1980s, the phrase "what you see is what you get" was abbreviated to "WYSIWYG" by computer users who sought a term to describe software that accurately reflects the appearance of the finished product. WYSIWYG interfaces eliminate the need for users to master complex formatting codes, allowing them to concentrate instead on design.

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    WYSIWYG is a tech initialism that stands for "what you see is what you get." It usually refers to a user interface that lets you directly edit and manipulate the look and content of a document, page, or file. This means that whatever edits you're making to something will display the same way when the final output is produced.

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    What is WYSIWYG?
    What is WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get)? WYSIWYG (pronounced wiz-ee-wig) is a type of editing software that allows users to see and edit content in a form that appears as it would when displayed on an interface, webpage, slide presentation or printed document.

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    What is a WYSIWYG document?
    Eventually, this term became prominent among software developers and computer builders. The earliest computers had no form of WYSIWYG. Instead, people created formatted documents via custom coding languages and tags, intended to work within the confines of older programming languages.

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    What is a WYSIWYG editor?
    WYSIWYG is an acronym for "what you see is what you get." WYSIWYG editors enable users to manipulate the content or layout without having to type any commands. For example, when users write a document using a word processor, it uses WYSIWYG, as what they create, format and edit is replicated in the printed document or PDF file.

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    What is a WYSIWYG interface?
    In the early 1980s, the phrase "what you see is what you get" was abbreviated to "WYSIWYG" by computer users who sought a term to describe software that accurately reflects the appearance of the finished product. WYSIWYG interfaces eliminate the need for users to master complex formatting codes, allowing them to concentrate instead on design.

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    In computing, WYSIWYG , an acronym for What You See Is What You Get, refers to software which allows content to be edited in a form that resembles its appearance when printed or displayed as a finished product, such as a printed document, web page, or slide presentation. WYSIWYG implies a … See more

    History

    Before the adoption of WYSIWYG techniques, text appeared in editors using the system standard typeface and style with little indication of layout (margins, spacing, … See more

    Etymology

    The phrase "what you see is what you get", from which the acronym derives, was a catchphrase popularized by Flip Wilson's drag persona See more

    See also

    • Website builder
    • HTML editor
    • Visual editor
    • DWIM See more

    Timeline
    1974
    Bravo, a document preparation program for the Alto produced at Xerox PARC by Butler Lampson, Charles Simonyi and colleagues in 1974, is generally considered to be the first program to incorporate the WYSIWYG technology, displaying text with formatting (e.g. with justification, fonts, and proportional spacing of characters).
    1978
    In late 1978, in parallel with but independent of the work at Xerox PARC, Hewlett-Packard developed and released the first commercial WYSIWYG software application for producing overhead slides (or what today are referred to as presentation graphics).
    1981
    By 1981, MicroPro advertised that its WordStar word processor had WYSIWYG, but its display was limited to displaying styled text in WYSIWYG fashion; bold and italic text would be represented on screen, instead of being surrounded by tags or special control characters.
    1983
    As improving technology allowed the production of cheaper bitmapped displays, WYSIWYG software started to appear in more popular computers, including LisaWrite for the Apple Lisa, released in 1983, and MacWrite for the Apple Macintosh, released in 1984.
    1984
    MacWrite for the Apple Macintosh, released in 1984.
    Variations

    Many variations are used only to illustrate a point or make a joke, and have very limited real use. Some that have been proposed include the following:
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    External links

    • The Jargon File entry for WYSIWYG
    • What has WYSIWYG done to us? – Critical paper about the negative effects the introduction of … See more

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  6. WYSIWYG
    adjective
    computing
    1. denoting the representation of text on-screen in a form exactly corresponding to its appearance on a printout.
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