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WYSIWYM is spelt What You See Is What You Mean and refers to the paradigm created for LyX. It means that the things displayed on a computer screen should accurately display the information that one intends to convey, rather than the stylistic formatting. In other words, LyX favors logical markup as opposed to purely graphical markup.

The term WYSIWYM is also used for XML editors[1] that do not display the formatting of the XML Data. Since XML does not define the stylistic formatting of the XML content, these editors are very useful in visually creating the data.

See also

  • WYMeditor - Standards compliant open source WYSIWYM web-based editor
  • LyX - LyX, a WYSIWYM text processor.

References

  1. ^ XML: WYSIWYG to WYSIWYM - A brief look at XML document authoring An article on existing XML authoring software (May 2005)
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