WYSIWYM

In computing, What You See Is What You Mean (WYSIWYM, /ˈwɪziwɪm/) is a paradigm for editing a structured document. It is an adjunct to the better-known WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) paradigm, which displays the result of a formatted document as it will appear on screen or in print—without showing the descriptive code underneath.^[1]

In a WYSIWYM editor, the user writes the contents in a structured way, marking the content according to its meaning, its significance in the document, and leaves its final appearance up to one or more separate style sheets. In essence, it aims to accurately display the contents being conveyed, rather than the actual formatting associated with it.^[2]

For example, in a WYSIWYM document, one would manually mark text as the title of the document, the name of a section, the caption associated with a figure, or the name of an author; this would in turn allow one element, such as section headings, to be rendered as large bold text in one style sheet, or as red center justified text in another, without further manual intervention.^[3] More often than not, this requires the semantic structure of the document to be decided in advance before writing it. The editor also needs a system for exporting structured content to generate the document's final format, following the indicated structure.

The main advantage of this system is the total separation of content and presentation: users can structure and write the document once, rather than repeatedly alternating between the two modes of presentation—an approach which comes with its own switch cost. And since the rendering of formatting is left to the export system, this also makes it easier to achieve consistency in design as well.

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understanding content on the Web is an important issue of the current Web. Let's a start by an example. Here is a sentence from David James during the World Cup 2010. Why snub me Fab? understanding this sentence we need to know who Fab is Fab can have different meanings like a detergent, a canadian gay magazine or many other meanings but the real meaning here is the manager of UK national football team Fabio Capello so as you see we need to define semantics explicitly within our Web documents we need to define Fabio Capello as an entity which it is a soccer manager and soccer manager as a subclass of person semantic documents aim to add semantics to current Web documents so that they are understandable by both humans as well as machines they provide different advantages for information management in search and retrieval they provide faceted browsing provide sophisticated ways of visualizing information and many more advantages. In information integration personalization re-usability and interoperability duty but the question is how to author semantic documents WYSIWYG model is currently very popular for most of the Web users We aim to provide a similar approach for authoring semantic documents we call it WYSIWYM WYSIWYM concept aims to provide a mappeing between semantics and user interface we provide a set of bindings between existing UI elements and existing semantic representations recreated argue faces an implementation of the reason the model at some pics robot arms on top of the existing google easy week heading towards it supports that's it for potential enrich proceeding p_r_i_'s too automatically annotate content the content can then be revised by user here you see there triple browser you reach your cam brawls defects embedded within your document and you can't be beat or delete them as well you know if issue counsel ached some part of the pics and been you can't have find properties three it has a rip three comment there it's suggests related programs peace to you different country regions of the the model can be used for different personal for example a journalist e can use the context menu too easily the locations to an article so he doesn't want to get distracted from the normal normal process of offering so he just sees very lightweight more terrorist ron dante keys and at the end he can use that automatic annotations feature to entertain entreaties occupy their hand metro they take your eight or needs to see more details so he sees but the friend and keep using different colored he's he's more detailed by it to peeps he can change the type of dante keys he can at more details student e_t_'s he can delete or if you can't even me you semantic and gps entered the document he can also use drag and dropped when making associations between two entities sold here he mentions the name of this association and then he sees did association by these arabs and other use cases a product manager who is interested in search engine optimization he can't roll some buyers are on the continent and you can use parekh called forms to admit for the that too is product as you see here the creates a rectangular groaned period these date and been in-depth reprieve forum enter it corresponding dates for this product this review will be present at the resi beam concert as an acronym for but you see is what you mean racial guardia faces an implementation of the resilient and we describe some examples of findings fortuna lee smith today tech you're a tower and for their content manager of course there are more bindings evaded and four an occasion of images and the rebuilds the also imploding easy gaming other bombings we created a tool called farmer four offering semantic medical prescriptions

Document processors

Unlike an unstructured, fixed-presentation document, a document processor rather than a word processor must be used for WYSIWYM. The first document processor which articulated^[4] itself through the WYSIWYM term was LyX document processor, although similar concepts can be traced back to earlier publishing systems such as LaTeX, TPS (modeled on pioneering experiments at Xerox PARC) and FrameMaker.

For example, in FrameMaker, a document may be authored (i.e., viewed and edited) using two possible page views, the styling tags (called "formats") and contents of a document reside in "body pages", while structure and presentation are defined by "master pages".^[a] Multiple such documents can be linked together and programmed conditionally for a variety of applications. These elements can then be exported to corresponding tags which preserve some or all of their functionality in a markup language such as XML/HTML/CSS and PDF, or directly rendered down for final presentation in anything from PostScript to raw text.

A different approach to the WYSIWYM philosophy is taken by GNU TeXmacs, which combines the on-screen representation of the document structure with an almost-faithful WYSIWYG rendering.^[6]

In web environments

Major software vendors have integrated web-page creation features into their popular WYSIWYG products to increase their utility. Users can create an HTML web page in a word processor with no knowledge of HTML, but like nearly all IDE authored or handwritten web markup, these tools' automated analysis of the source format rarely accounts for a distinction between HTML's content and its presentation through means such as CSS during output.

Such fixed-presentation HTML generators have been criticized, primarily because of the bloatedness and low quality of their code,^[7]^[8]^[9] and there are voices advocating for changes to the WYSIWYM model.^[10]^[11]^[12]

One example of a WYSIWYM Web page editor is WYMeditor.^[13] In this editor, the structure of the documents is defined by the class attributes of HTML elements. These classes also allow the final appearance of the document to be applied. Although WYMeditor follows a WYSIWYM model, the document format is always HTML, so the new structures to be defined are limited to new classes, and the final document will always be built by applying presentational elements to these classes.

Other CMSs are moving in the direction of providing some WYSIWYM interface for their users editing content.

Notes

^ Strictly speaking, this explanation of FrameMaker's page views applies only to so-called "unstructured documents". These page views are not to be confused with the commonly known FrameMaker modes used for authoring different types of documents. The mode for unstructured documents is called "Unstructured FrameMaker" or simply "FrameMaker" whereas the mode for the so-called "structured documents" is called "Structured FrameMaker". Starting from FrameMaker 12, it also offers a third mode, called "FrameMaker XML Author".^[5]

References

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^ van der Hoeven, Joris (2001). "GNU TeXmacs, A free, structured, wysiwyg and technical text editor". Cahiers Gutenberg. 39–40: 39–50.
^ Sauer, C.: WYSIWIKI - Questioning WYSIWYG in the Internet Age. In: Wikimania (2006)
^ Spiesser, J., Kitchen, L.: Optimization of HTML automatically generated by WYSIWYG programs. In: 13th International Conference on World Wide Web, pp. 355-364. WWW '04. ACM, New York, NY (New York, NY, USA, May 17–20, 2004)
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^ "Thom Shannon's blog". Ts0.com. 2007-09-19. Archived from the original on 2012-02-07. Retrieved 2012-08-02.
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