Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index To prettyprint is to make something, commonly some printed material, appear more appealing to the human eye. In computing it describes the formatting of some kind of output that is more akin to what a human would produce; for example in computer algebra systems the system may write output like x * x + 3 * x as x2+3x. A very familiar idea of prettyprinting is the Wiki markup contributors are using to contribute to the Wikipedia; articles are plain text, for example the above paragraph is internally stored as In [[computing]] it describes the formatting of some kind of output \r\n that is more akin to what a human would produce; for example in \r\n [[computer algebra systems]] the system may write output like \r\n x * x + 3 * x as ''x''2+3''x''. However the markup system prettyprints this as you see above. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.