Quark CopyDesk is primarily used by newspapers and magazines to write, edit and style text (copy).
Since 1999, InCopy from Adobe is a direct competitor to Quark CopyDesk, which was launched in 1991.
Quark CopyDesk offers three viewing modes: Story, Galley and WYSIWYG.
This provides an interface for users more comfortable with traditional word processors to read and edit copy and allows text to be seen larger and in a different font than it would appear in the layout.
The Galley mode also displays the text without formatting, but shows style sheets that have been applied to the copy and also the correct hyphenation and line endings.