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Wysiwyg Common

Wysiwyg has 4 different meanings across 2 categories:

Adjective · Phrase

Definitions
Noun
1

Software that allows editing on screen what the printed version would be like; software with a what-you-see-is-what-you-get display interface.

Adjective
1

relating to or being a word processing system that prints the text exactly as it appears on the computer screen

Phrase
1

Acronym of what you see is what you get.

2

Alternative letter-case form of WYSIWYG

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Origin

The term was coined by computer typesetter John W. Seybold in the late 1970s. It gained popularity at Xerox PARC as an acronym for "what you see is what you get."

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