Gummi (software) explained

Gummi
Screenshot Size:	250px
Developer:	Alexander van der Mey, Wei-Ning Huang, Dion Timmermann and Robert Schroll^[1]
Programming Language:	C
Latest Release Version:	0.8.3
Latest Release Date:	^[2]
Operating System:	Linux (GTK+ environment)
Language:	Multilingual
Genre:	TeX/LaTeX editor
License:	MIT
Website:	https://github.com/alexandervdm/gummi

Gummi is a LaTeX editor. It is a GTK+ application which runs on Linux systems.

Features

Gummi has many useful features needed to edit LaTeX source code, such as:^[3]

• Live preview: The pdf is shown without the need to compile it manually
• Snippets: LaTeX snippets can be configured
• Graphical insertion of tables and images
• Templates and wizards for new document creation
• Project management
• Bibliography management
• SyncTeX integration

However, it lacks some features available in other editors:

• Compare (available in WinEdt, Vim-LaTeX (LaTeX-suite), TeXmacs...).
• Graphical insertion of mathematical symbols (available in Gnome LaTeX, TeXnicCenter, Kile, ...).
• Document structure summary (available in Gnome LaTeX, Kile, ...).

Installation

Gummi is available in the official repositories of various Linux distributions, such as Arch Linux, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, and Ubuntu.

See also

• List of text editors
• Comparison of text editors
• Comparison of TeX editors

Notes and References

1. Web site: Gummi developers. September 7, 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120815025257/http://dev.midnightcoding.org/projects/gummi. August 15, 2012. dead.
2. Web site: Gummi 0.8.3. 2022-04-29. GitHub. 2022-07-06.
3. Web site: Gummi features. September 7, 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20121003012321/http://dev.midnightcoding.org/projects/gummi/wiki/Index. October 3, 2012. dead.