[BLUG] Story of reversed roles

[Ana Greavu-Rachow]

At 11, her requirements are fairly basic :-)

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Steven Black <yam655 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ana, I mentioned my experience with the folks that make Scrivener.
> They have an unsupported beta version for Linux.
>
> If your daughter is writing longer things, it is really ideal. The big
> difference between it and a word-processing program is that it is
> designed to make it easy to manipulate the structure of a story
> without copying and pasting anything. Once things are ready, it gets
> compiled in to an RTF file and final styling can be done in your
> word-processing program of choice.
>
> They used QT for the Windows version, so it was basically a recompile.
> http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivenerforwindows/ (includes
> videos -- it is the same codebase)
> http://www.literatureandlatte.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=9150
> http://literatureandlatte.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=9154&start=0
>
> I'm using it for NaNoWriMo this year. (Though with my changing job
> priorities, I'm in Windows more than not so I'm beta testing the
> Windows version.)
>
> Their goal was always to get a Linux-native version, but they hadn't
> originally planned to make anything available for Linux until after
> they had released the Windows version. There was sufficient demand for
> a Linux version and there were some issues getting it to work in Wine.
> (Bringing it back to Wine.)
>
> Cheers,
> Steven Black
>
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Ana Greavu-Rachow
> <pawsitiveresults at gmail.com> wrote:
> > LOL!
> > Husband  has been teaching stepdaughter to play chess.... "Wow! There are
> > ALL THESE CHESS GAMES on here, Dad!"
> > She also likes to write stories...and I've got OOo on her Dad's Windows
> > machine, so she's totally accustomed to using that instead of a Microsoft
> > product. Her little hands are really the ideal size for a tiny little
> > netbook keyboard, and, as I said, she's just really quickly taken to it.
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Mark Krenz <mark at slugbug.org> wrote:
> >>
> >>  Hi Ana. Do you have a shovel? I need to dig myself out of this hole
> >> I've gotten into. ;-)
> >>
> >>  I'm happy to see that you've had lots of success converting people.
> >>
> >> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 03:28:17PM GMT, Ana Greavu-Rachow
> >> [pawsitiveresults at gmail.com] said the following:
> >> > I've got my husband using a Linux netbook these days, and my
> 11-year-old
> >> > stepdaughter is constantly asking to borrow it...I gave her an older
> >> > Mac,
> >> > that she pretty much refused to learn to use, but she's doing MUCH
> >> > better
> >> > with Linux...
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > Ana Greavu-Rachow
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> >> > "Xen"
> >> >
> >> > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Mark Krenz <mark at slugbug.org>
> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > >
> >> > >  I saw an interesting thing happen on Saturday at PC Max.
> >> > >
> >> > >  While in there looking for wireless bridging equipment, I overheard
> a
> >> > > conversation between two customers, a mother and what I assume was
> her
> >> > > teenage son, talking to the salesman about Linux. The interesting
> >> > > thing
> >> > > is that the mother was actually trying to convince her son that
> Linux
> >> > > was good and he was the one being skeptical, making an excuse about
> it
> >> > > possibly not running many games.  Being the geek I am, I suddenly
> felt
> >> > > and uncontrollable urge to become a 12 year old kid in a computer
> >> > > store
> >> > > and found myself interjecting that it does play lots of games using
> >> > > Wine
> >> > > and pointed out that probably half the games that you see on the
> >> > > shelves
> >> > > would actually fully install and run under Wine these days.  It at
> >> > > least
> >> > > seemed to debunk a myth for him a little bit.
> >> > >
> >> > >  I'm not saying that it was unusual for a woman to be advocating
> >> > > Linux,
> >> > > or perhaps even a mother, its just that you don't see it happen
> often
> >> > > or
> >> > > even hear of it happening often. Anyways, thought it was an
> >> > > interesting
> >> > > thing to share.
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > > --
> >> > > Mark Krenz
> >> > > Bloomington Linux Users Group
> >> > > http://www.bloomingtonlinux.org/
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Ana Greavu-Rachow
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UAg-I Norwood's Linux Hypervisor AX OAJ JHD AD AG AJ SR CL2 CL3-RSF "Xen"
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