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Wysiayg : /wiz'ee-ayg/ adj. Describes a user interface under which "What
You See Is _All_ You Get"; an unhappy variant of WYSIWYG. Visual,
`point-and-shoot'-style interfaces tend to have easy initial learning
curves, but also to 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
{TeX">power and flexibility of a command-driven formatter like {TeX or
{troff">Unix's {troff becomes not just desirable but a necessity. Compare
YAFIYGI.
Based on the Online Dictionary of Computing [Computer_Dictionary]:
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