WYSIWYG

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WYSIWYG

WYSIWYG (/ˈwɪziwɪɡ/ WIZ-ee-wig) is an acronym for What You See Is What You Get. In computing, it refers to a system in which content displayed during editing appears very similar to the final output, which might be a printed document, a web page, or a slide presentation.

Etymology

The term WYSIWYG has its origins in the late 1970s and early 1980s at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, where a team led by Larry Tesler developed the first WYSIWYG editor, called Gypsy. The term was coined to contrast with the more common term at the time, WYSIAWYG (What You See Is Almost What You Get).

Related Terms

  • Text Editor: A text editor is a type of computer program that edits plain text.
  • HTML Editor: An HTML editor is a program for editing HTML, the markup of a web page.
  • Desktop Publishing: Desktop publishing (DTP) is the creation of documents using page layout software on a personal computer.
  • Markup Language: A markup language is a system for annotating a document in a way that is syntactically distinguishable from the text.

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