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What You See Is All You Get (WYSIAYG)
Project Goals : WYSIAYG
: Overview
09-Sep-2002/09-Jan-06
Overview
FOLDOC, the Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing created by Denis
Howe, has one
explanation of the term, essentially in terms of the limitations of
PC-based GUI desktop publishing (DTP) application for large scale
documents:
»WYSIAYG [pronounced "wiz'ee-ayg"], describes a user
interface under which "What You See Is *All* You Get"; an unhappy
variant of WYSIWYG. Visual, "point- and-drool interfaces" are easy
to learn but often lack depth; they often frustrate advanced users
who would be better served by a command-style interface. When this
happens, the frustrated user has a WYSIAYG problem.
This term is most often used of editors, word processors,
and document formatting programs. WYSIWYG "desktop publishing"
programs, for example, are a clear win for creating small documents
with lots of fonts and graphics in them, especially things like
newsletters and presentation slides. When typesetting book-length
manuscripts, on the other hand, scale changes the nature of the
task; one quickly runs into WYSIAYG limitations, and the increased
power and flexibility of a command-driven formatter like TeX or
Unix's troff becomes not just desirable but a necessity«.
References
FOLDOC Online Computing Dictionary: WYSIAYG (What You See Is
All You Get),
www.instantweb.com/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?query=WYSIAYG&action=Search.
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