History Before the adoption of WYSIWYG techniques, text appeared in editors using the system standard typeface and style with little indication of layout (margins, spacing, etc.). Users were required to enter special non-printing control codes (now referred to as markup code tags) to indicate that some text should be in boldface, italics, or a different typeface or size. In this environment there was very little distinction between text editors and word processors.
history before the adoption of wysiwyg techniques text appeared in editors using the system standard typeface and style with little indication of layout (margins spacing etc) users were required to enter special non-printing control codes (now referred to as markup code tags) to indicate that some text should be in boldface italics or a different typeface or size in this environment there was very little distinction between text editors and word processors