WYSIWYG
![The program on the left uses a WYSIWYG editor to produce a Lorem Ipsum document. The program on the right contains LaTeX code, which when compiled will produce a document that will look very similar to the document on the left. Compilation of formatting code is not a WYSIWYG process.](/Images/godic/202502/21/Lorem_Ipsum_-_WYSIWYG_en_Latex_-_tekst_als_paden.svg0719.png")
![Compound document displayed on Xerox 8010 Star system](/Images/godic/202502/21/Xerox_8010_compound_document0719.jpg")
WYSIWYG (/ˈwɪziwɪɡ/ WIZ-ee-wig) is an acronym for "what you see is what you get". In computing, a WYSIWYG editoris a system in which content (text and graphics) onscreen during editing appears in a form closely corresponding to its appearance when printed or displayed as a finished product, which might be a printed document, web page, or slide presentation.