Gummi is a
LaTeX editor. It is a
GTK+
GTK (formerly GIMP ToolKit and GTK+) is a free and open-source cross-platform widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces (GUIs). It is licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License, allowing both free and prop ...
application which runs on
Linux
Linux ( or ) is a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged as a Linux distribution, which i ...
systems.
Features
Gummi has many useful features needed to edit
LaTeX
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In nature, latex is found as a milky fluid found in 10% of all flowering plants (angiosper ...
source code, such as:
*Live preview: The
pdf
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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
WinEdt is a shareware Unicode (UTF-8) editor and shell (computing), shell for Microsoft Windows. It is primarily used for the creation of TeX (or LaTeX) documents, but can also be used to edit HTML or any other type of text file. It can be configu ...
Vim-LaTeX (LaTeX-suite) TeXmacs
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...).
*Graphical insertion of mathematical symbols (available in
Gnome LaTeX,
TeXnicCenter,
Kile
Kile or KILE may refer to:
* Darryl Kile, a Major League Baseball player
* Kile, a TeX/LaTeX text editor
* Kile, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland
* Kile (surname)
* Kile (unit), an Ottoman unit of volume
* KWCC-FM, a radio station (89.5 FM ...
, ...).
*Document structure summary (available in
Gnome LaTeX,
Kile
Kile or KILE may refer to:
* Darryl Kile, a Major League Baseball player
* Kile, a TeX/LaTeX text editor
* Kile, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland
* Kile (surname)
* Kile (unit), an Ottoman unit of volume
* KWCC-FM, a radio station (89.5 FM ...
, ...).
Installation
Gummi is available in the official repositories of various
Linux distribution
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s, such as
Arch Linux
Arch Linux () is an independently developed, x86-64 general-purpose Linux distribution that strives to provide the latest stable versions of most software by following a rolling-release model. The default installation is a minimal base system, ...
,
Debian
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,
Fedora
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,
Gentoo, and
Ubuntu
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.
See also
*
List of text editors
The following is a list of notable text editors.
Graphical and text user interface
The following editors can either be used with a graphical user interface or a text user interface.
Graphical user interface
Text user interface
Sys ...
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Comparison of text editors
This article provides basic comparisons for notable text editors. More feature details for text editors are available from the '' Category of text editor features'' and from the individual products' articles. This article may not be up-to-date or n ...
*
Comparison of TeX editors
The following is a comparison of TeX editors.
Table of editors
See also
* Formula editor
* Comparison of word processors
* Comparison of text editors
* Comparison of desktop publishing software
* List of TeX extensions
Notes and refere ...
References
External links
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{{TeX editors
TeX SourceForge projects
Free TeX editors
Linux TeX software
TeX editors that use GTK
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