[Wine] Wine with writeitnow

Susan Cragin susancragin at earthlink.net
Mon Mar 17 20:14:35 CDT 2008


To be honest, YWriter runs so well in Wine I've never thought of asking. Also, I use Dragon NaturallySpeaking in Wine also. DNS is quirky now, runs best in Notepad, but I look forward to the day when it runs in YWriter on Wine. 
Another thing... and this I'm not sure about. He writes his programs using Visual Basic. How convertible would the code be?

BTW -- Another good program that runs well in Wine and is useful for writers, researchers and other note-gatherers is KeyNote. It's on Sourceforge. It was written in Delphi and so, although the code is open, it will never run on Linux without a complete re-write.

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>From: Paul Johnson <baloo at ursine.ca>
>Sent: Mar 17, 2008 7:41 PM
>To: wine-users at winehq.org
>Subject: Re: [Wine] Wine with writeitnow
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>On Monday 17 March 2008 04:03:32 pm Susan Cragin wrote:
>> I just wanted to state that I use YWriter with WINE and it seems to run
>> well. The program is similar, and it's free.
>>
>> http://www.spacejock.com/yWriter.html
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>Looks like it's no cost, not free.  Though, after looking at the page 
>http://www.spacejock.com.au/WhyFree.html I really have to wonder why it's not 
>free.  Have you considered talking to the author and asking him to consider 
>licensing it under a free license and releasing the source?  That might 
>increase the odds of your program being available on your favored platform 
>without having to resort to emulating a legacy environment for it.
>
>- -- 
>Paul Johnson
>baloo at ursine.ca
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