What You See is What You MEAN (WYSIWYM)

Editors specializing in the separation between authoring format and publishing forms and business-oriented semantic markup are called WYSIWYM (What You See Is What You Mean) editors, as opposed to WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) editors traditionally used in office software.

Scenari includes a WYSIWYM editor.

What is the WYSIWYM?

WYSIWYM aims to represent content depending on its meaning and the intention of the writer.

For example, the author will specify that "TGV" is an acronym. The computer processing will apply transformation rules that will display TGV in italics, add a tooltip containing the wording (Train à Grande Vitesse, or High Speed Train) and will regroup all the acronyms at the end of the document.

WYSIWYM versus WYSIWYG

The WYSIWYM approach is opposed to the one from the WYSIWYG based on the graphic result (the goal is to represent the content as close as possible to its final rendering), as it may be known in a word processing or a CMS (Content Management System).

However, the Scenari editor offers a relevant graphic representation of the content, for example an Important word is displayed in bold, just as lists or tables have a formatting... of lists and tables!

What are the benefits of the WYSIWYM approach?

The interest of this approach is to benefit from a higher level of semantics, making it possible to open up to advanced features of digital writing and manipulation of the content, and to carry out powerful computer processing on the content:

  • starting with the help brought by a model in the writing task, contributing to the improvement of its quality, its homogeneity,

  • the multi-media and multi-use publication of documents, controlled and homogeneous,

  • conditioned writing, with variable depth (variables, overload, conditions),

  • spatial-temporal writing (in particular chaptered media) and interactive writing (quiz, mental map, clickable image).