What you see is what you mean

WYSIWYM , acronym used in data processing which comes from English “ W hat there or S ee I S W hat there or m ean”, meaning “what you see is what you want to say”, in opposition to WYSIWYG: What you see is what you get .

The principle is for a software, to represent information according to their direction, of information to be conveyed (in opposition to " to represent information in their final form, for impression, with working with identical… the "). One of the objectives of interfaces WYSIWYM is to allow better a Séparation of the bottom and form during the creation of documents.

See too

YAFIYGI
LyX
TeX
BBComposer : An editor WYSIWYM
WYM Editor: A project of editor WYSIWYM
scenari-platform.org: Advantages of the WYSIWYM for a software of design of leading chains

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