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#What is WYSIWYG?

    10-Feb-91 19:59:37
Fm: Mark Olbert 73557,1512
To: Bill Howe 71350,166
No, Bill, you're not asking too much, but it may be difficult to achieve on the Amiga. WYSIWYG is an acronym for 'What You See Is What You Get', i.e., the image on the monitor should look exactly like whta gets printed. Like all definitions taken over by the marketing droids, there is WYSIWIG and there is WYSIWIG. In other words, a lot of stuff billed as WYSIWIG isn't, and in particular most of it would not fit your implied definition of making the screen width match the paper width for large documents. I can't help you as to what Amiga wordprocessor is the most WYSIWIG. I use WordPerfect (for the font control), and it is definitely not WYSIWIG. Such products do exist (I use one on my Mac at work), but I'm not sure the Amiga state of the art is up to the challenge yet. – Mark