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njharman on Feb 11, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Texts Editor - True WYSIWYG Markdown

I don't even understand how wysiwyg can possibly apply to markup. Markup depends on a renderer for wyg. It could be PDF, plain text, HTML, RTF, XML, anything.

sheremetyev on Feb 11, 2012 [–]

You are right, WYSIWYM is more correct term. Formatting in the editor shows document structure and not exact rendering.

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