Thread:AvdN/@comment-22439-20140704070558/@comment-3388158-20140704170012

IMHO: In My Humble Opinion

WYSIAYG is short for What you see is all you get/all you've got. It is a pun on the visual editing systems, where you have often no idea how the result you see is being created. It differs from the way e.g. LaTeX and markup languages (like underneath this wiki) work: there you don't see the final result, but you have exact control over what goes where because you see all the commands that the rendering system will receive. The former seems more easy but the second is always necessary for professional or non-trivial work.