WYSIWYG

See also: Wysiwyg

English

Etymology

Coined by John Seybold and popularized at Xerox PARC during the late 1970s.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈwɪz.iˌwɪɡ/, /ˈwɪz.ə.wɪɡ/
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Phrase

WYSIWYG

(acronym) What you see is what you get.

Noun

WYSIWYG (plural WYSIWYGs)

(computing) 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.
- 2003, James H. Pence, How to Do Everything with HTML & XHTML, page 132:
  WYSIWYGs are helpful tools in that they enable you to create pages much more quickly

Translations

computer program that allows editing on screen what the printed version would be like

Chinese:
Mandarin: 所見即所得 (zh), 所见即所得 (zh) (suǒjiàn jí suǒdé)
Finnish: WYSIWYG
German: WYSIWYG (de), wirklichkeitsgetreue Darstellung auf dem Bildschirm
Hebrew: מה שאתה רואה זה מה שאתה מקבל‎ (informal; there is no formal translation)

Hungarian: WYSIWYG (hu)
Portuguese: o que você vê é o que você tem
Romanian: ceea ce vezi e ceea ce vei obține
Russian: что ви́дишь, то и полу́чишь (što vídišʹ, to i polúčišʹ), WYSIWYG (ru)
Turkish: ne görüyorsan onu alırsın (informal; there is no formal translation), WYSIWYG (tr)

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