WYSIAYG

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 power and flexibility of a
   command-driven formatter like {{TeX}} or UNIX's {{troff}}
   becomes not just desirable but a necessity.  Compare {YAFIYGI}.