Re: [GNC-dev] Register Documentation Improvements (was Re: [GNC] Column widths again)

David, I haven’t advocated for renaming the documents. I changed a couple of headings on the main wiki page. There are two documents, 1) the Help Manual and 2) the Tutorial and Concepts Guide as outlined at gnucash.org . One might refer to them respectively as the

Re: [GNC-dev] Main WIki Page edit

the main page is above my pay grade. (I’m > sure for very good reason) > > Regards, > Adrien > >> On Aug 18, 2018, at 8:53 AM, John Ralls wrote: >> >> >> >>> On Aug 17, 2018, at 11:45 PM, David T. via gnucash-devel >>> wrote: &

Re: [GNC-dev] Main WIki Page edit

> On Aug 17, 2018, at 11:29 AM, Frank H. Ellenberger > wrote: > > Am 16.08.2018 um 20:37 schrieb David T. via gnucash-devel: >> Hello, >> >> I was reviewing the Wiki today to try to figure out where a page on the SQL >> formats might get attached, an

Re: [GNC-dev] Wiki Home page

Frank, You imply that the use of Eclipse somehow renders the documentation process simple enough for a user to identify a typo and get it fixed. I flat out disagree, and I think that using disingenuous language on the wiki home page is not going to change the reality: implementing a change in

Re: [GNC-dev] Documentation update problems

. Perhaps this is another instance of not trying to teach old dogs new tricks. David > On Aug 16, 2018, at 11:41 PM, David T. via gnucash-devel > wrote: > > Hello, > > If I am working on updating the documentation, it must be time for me to bang > my head against some comm

[GNC-dev] Documentation update problems

Hello, If I am working on updating the documentation, it must be time for me to bang my head against some command line hiccup! Yup! Right on time. Following my handy-dandy git cheat sheet, I’ve pulled from github.com/gnucash/gnucash-docs and pushed to

[GNC-dev] Wiki Proposal

Sorry to bombard the list with so many messages! As you’ve no doubt surmised, I am back to digging into the various documentation for GnuCash, including the Guide and the wiki. In reference to editing the "XML Format” wiki page, Geert mentioned preferring that the wiki cover information about

[GNC-dev] Windows Wiki page

Hello, I had reason to click on the Windows wiki page (https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Windows ), and I think that there is a lot of information parked there that should be placed elsewhere or removed. I am hesitant to edit this page in part because I do

[GNC-dev] Main WIki Page edit

Hello, I was reviewing the Wiki today to try to figure out where a page on the SQL formats might get attached, and I noticed a change to the Glossary section that makes for awkward English. As currently entered, the section reads: Above GnuCash Tutorial and Concepts Guide includes a

Re: [GNC-dev] New balsheet (and P report), API considerations, and (slow?) KVP in Account.cpp

Hi, I admit that I haven’t been following the details of thsi thread that closely, but it would seem to me that if a user has selected price source “Latest,” then the report will of necessity include an Unrealized Gains line in order to balance, as John said. I agree with his suggestion that

Re: [GNC-dev] Location of XML Schema

Ah! Thank you! I have updated the links. On a more substantial note: I see that this page makes significant reference to changes in XML implementation from version 1.9 forward. An examination of the page history shows that most of the content was developed in 2006. At this point, I believe

Re: [GNC-dev] Request of keeping a 2.6 branch still alive (Re: branch-2.6)

+1 on all fronts. Thank you Adrien. > On Jun 3, 2018, at 10:02 AM, Adrien Monteleone > wrote: > > Folks, > > Perhaps my comments are not wanted, or out of place, but as an active user, > someone who contributes a bit of assistance on the mailing list, and just > someone who in general helps

Re: [GNC-dev] GDPR and gnucash as a project

Geert, I am not fluent with the issues of the GDPR, but I have had a lifetime of considering intellectual property issues (as a librarian). Personal contributions of ideas, thoughts, or intellectual content are IMHO NOT personal data, even when signed by an individual’s name*. Those would fall

Re: [GNC-dev] Register text selection

Geert, > On May 22, 2018, at 1:22 PM, Geert Janssens > wrote: > > Op maandag 21 mei 2018 19:44:57 CEST schreef David T.: > > > On May 21, 2018, at 6:14 PM, Geert Janssens > > > > > > wrote:> > > > Op

Re: [GNC-dev] Register text selection

> On May 21, 2018, at 6:14 PM, Geert Janssens > wrote: > > Op maandag 21 mei 2018 13:08:05 CEST schreef Robert Fewell: >> I have been looking at getting the middle mouse button to work for pasting >> selected text and whilst trying to do that started to wonder

Re: [GNC-dev] pricedb policy

The ONLY way to change the value in a transaction is to change it in the transaction itself—either by changing the number of shares, the actual price per share, or the total amount in the transaction (and note that the UI will ask you about this if you change one without changing the others).

[GNC-dev] Unknown Compressor error on startup

Hello, I am using GC 2.6.19 on Mac OS X 10.13.4. In an effort to test the effect of some commands I put into ~/Library/Application Support/Gnucash/config.user, I opened GC from a terminal window. Interestingly, when I did so, I received the following errors in the terminal window:

Re: [GNC-dev] Proposed updates to Wiki Build#Ubuntu pages

David,  It's a wiki, so please sign up and make your contributions! You don't need to worry about messing things up, since changes can be rolled back. Frankly, it's a whole lot easier to edit what you've written than to come up with the text whole cloth.  David T. On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at

Re: gnucash wiki access

John, The Captcha problem essentially freezes the wiki from the perspective of adding or modifying links; contributors can’t (for example) fix erroneous links like the one for OFX on the Glossary page that links to a 404. That’s a problem that only grows worse. David > On Apr 3, 2018, at

Re: trial balance - how to find mismatch question

BTW, quixotic, while based on the famous Don Quixote, is a non-proper (improper?) adjective, and thus does not need capitalization. Whether you pronounce it “key-hotic” or “quick-sotic” depends on your personal predilection, as I undetstand it. David > On Mar 6, 2018, at 7:57 AM, David

Re: trial balance - how to find mismatch question

David, I have IRAs, but I do not *manage* IRAs. The custodian is the entity with whom I maintain my IRA, and so I do not need to report an IRA valuation. THEY do. So, it is true—I do not act as custodian for others’ retirement accounts. I wonder whether this is common for the GnuCash user

Re: trial balance - how to find mismatch question

David Carlson, > On Mar 6, 2018, at 4:27 AM, David Carlson wrote: > > Adrien, I think that you summarized the problem with "nearest in time" > nicely. Wm, no doubt, had tongue in cheek when he was assigning a high > value to future prices. You clarify that reports

Re: trial balance - how to find mismatch question

David, Adrien,  I, too, have encountered many discrepancies in my books with the Trial Balance report. I was not able to hammer them out. I gave up, and rely on brokerage reports for gains, and assume that the imbalance in the report is due to my incomplete understanding of the principles

Re: trial balance - how to find mismatch question

I don’t believe I’ve seen anywhere in this thread any attempt to explain that there is a difference between IMBALANCE-XXX (an indication that you have transactions that lacked a balancing split) and the Imbalance entry in the Trial Balance report. This latter most likely indicates (as David C.

Permissions for gnc-fq-update

Hello, In my quixotic quest to try and get quote retrieval working again on my Mac, I’ve been looking at ways to remove and reload all the Perl underlying Finance::Quote. (As John noted to me recently, there isn’t any uninstall command in CPAN, unfortunately). In this process, I ran into

Re: price.date, transaction.post_date and neutral time

Wm, Sebastien, I profess to not paying too much attention to this thread, but IIRC, there was a time when the price entered into transactions was NOT entered into the price DB, which meant that users would often get useless reports on commodities, since the reports use price DB entries to

Re: Scope of GNUCash

Matt, I again applaud your promise (threat?! ;) ) to update the slim information about the Budget section. As you do, be sure to look through the list archives and the wiki for any information you might draw in to the Tutorial; there have been numerous discussions over the years about how to

Re: RFP: Generic Comparison Report

Chris, I think that users would like to know what is happening on this front. Users are very interested in these developments, and there are far more readers on users, who may have additional suggestions for use-cases and features. Given the fact that there are current threads on the user list

Re: GnuCash Opens Dirty?

e request to save something that doesn’t really need saving. I’m inclined to think that it would also be better to display an accounts page instead of an empty notebook. Regards, John Ralls > On Feb 4, 2018, at 8:35 AM, David T. via gnucash-devel > <gnucash-devel@gnucash.org>

Re: GnuCash Opens Dirty?

ecause the file was unnamed it did not have a asterisk in the filename space > on the top banner. > > David C > > On Sat, Feb 3, 2018 at 7:41 AM, David Carlson <david.carlson@gmail.com > <mailto:david.carlson@gmail.com>> wrote: > David, > > I t

Wiki is down

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GnuCash Opens Dirty?

Hello, When I open GnuCash with no file (i.e., “gnucash --nofile”), I find that if I immediately attempt to open a different file or exit the program altogether (i.e., without doing anything to the current session), I am warned that all changes to the current file will be lost. Given that I:

WIki Page discrepancies

Hello, More on the two Git pages (“Git” and “An Introduction to Git”)(Thanks, Geert!). I notice that “An Introduction to Git” says that there are 2 important branches: master and maint, whereas “Git” says that there are three: master, maint, and unstable, with the note that unstable only

Captcha Error Redux

On January 13, there were a number of folks with errors with the Captcha verification on the wiki. I am having this problem again; what were the steps taken to fix this? David ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org

Wiki Page title

Hello, As noted recently, I have begun to work on the main Git pages (“Git," and "Git for Newbies") on the Wiki. One of the edits I would like to make is to change the title from “Git for Newbies” to “An Introduction to Git.” I want to do this because I feel the term “Newbie” is disparaging,

Re: "What's New" for 3.0

John, That all sounds great! Thanks for all you and the team do. David > On Jan 22, 2018, at 8:35 PM, John Ralls wrote: > > David, > > A reminder of what we (I think it was a collaboration between Cristian Marchi > and Christian Stimming) did last time: >

Re: Capital Gains FAQ entry

Alen, I appreciate your message, as well as your effort and attitude. I have worked over the years to improve the official documentation (that is, the Help Manual and the Guide), and make those documents as accurate, clear, and up to date as possible. Although there is still a lot of work that

Capital Gains FAQ entry

Cicko, I see that you have gotten involved in working on the wiki; fabulous! I recently received a notice that you had edited the FAQ on handling capital gains, by adding a reference to the wiki page “Concept of Lots”. Naturally, having received the announcement of the page change, I took a

Re: Wrong link in docs

As that is part of the Help manual, a bug would be appropriate. I have submitted one: Bug 792756 (https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=792756 ) Thanks! David T. > On Jan 21, 2018, at 9:16 PM, cicko wrote: > > In

Documentation Update Instructions Wiki page

Hello, I am sending out this message to alert folks that I have implemented a substantial update to the Documentation Update Instructions wiki page (https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Documentation_Update_Instructions ). In the

Re: GnuCash Draft Concept Guide, or, Whose WIki Is This, Anyway?

Frank, Thank you for your reply. I will start with an overall observation: I think that you and I see the GnuCash documentation realm in fundamentally different ways. I believe that the wiki and what I will refer to as the official documentation (defined as the Tutorial & Concepts Guide and

GnuCash Draft Concept Guide, or, Whose WIki Is This, Anyway?

Frank, I am struggling right now to find the right way to bring up the issue of the Gnucash Draft Concept Guide, which still resides on the wiki. As you know, I have proposed on numerous occasions (most recently, two and a half weeks ago) to have these pages removed from the wiki, since they

Re: Translation...

> On Nov 14, 2017, at 4:15 AM, Frank H. Ellenberger > <frank.h.ellenber...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > Am 11.11.2017 um 07:26 schrieb David T. via gnucash-devel: >> Thomas, >> >> I am not an expert on any of this, but I think that referri

Please, Oh, Please, Can we delete the (10 year old and counting) Draft Concept Guide on the Wiki?

Okay, Once again, I search Google for some aspect of GnuCash functionality, and ONCE AGAIN, one of the top hits there is the 10 year old Draft Concept Guide lurking on the wiki. Not the ACTUAL, CURRENTLY-MAINTAINED Tutorial and Concept Guide. No. The ***Draft Concept Guide*** (ostensibly

Re: Translation...

Thomas, I am not an expert on any of this, but I think that referring to a “split” as a “transaction line” ("ligne de transaction”) would be the most appropriate. GnuCash uses the term “split” in a decidedly specific manner—which the Guide takes pains to explain (cf. 2.2.3 and the Glossary,

Re: Branching unstable

If we are talking about report work, will bug 773198 get addressed here? > On Sep 13, 2017, at 7:36 PM, Derek Atkins wrote: > > Geert Janssens writes: > >> On woensdag 13 september 2017 06:27:23 CEST John Ralls wrote: >>> I think we’re pretty close

Re: New Account Dialog

Alex,  Nice to see this moving forward. I think John's comment about the combo for parent  might be good.  Personally, I think the account name and code would be better placed first; my opinion is that I have accessed this dialog box to add a new account, and not its parent. Thus, to me it

Re: Intended behavior of automatic decimal point (bug 120940)

According to Wikipedia, there is no single format predominant. The green areas in the picture below use commas, while the blue use a period. If the picture doesn’t make it through, Europe, West Africa and South America predominantly use commas, whereas The US, UK, East/Southern Africa, India,

Re: Intended behavior of automatic decimal point (bug 120940)

How about: Note: When a calculation is entered in the Amount field, the decimal is added to every operand that omits a decimal. David > On Jul 29, 2017, at 12:43 AM, Frank H. Ellenberger > wrote: > > Hi all, > > Am 28.07.2017 um 14:28 schrieb Christoph R: >>>

Re: Wiki collissions; was: GnuCash page Git has been changed by Sunfish62

> On Jul 28, 2017, at 10:24 AM, Frank H. Ellenberger > wrote: > > Hi David, > Am 28.07.2017 um 05:45 schrieb David T.: >> Frank, >> >> I beg to differ about reverting your edits. I have never knowingly reverted >> any of your edits. (I have had you revert mine,

Re: Patches versus Pull Requests

wishing to find that. David > On Jul 27, 2017, at 10:28 PM, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: > > >> On Jul 27, 2017, at 9:45 AM, David T. via gnucash-devel >> <gnucash-devel@gnucash.org> wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> In goin

Re: GnuCash page Git has been changed by Sunfish62

Frank, I beg to differ about reverting your edits. I have never knowingly reverted any of your edits. (I have had you revert mine, however) It is true that I have changed things you’ve written, to improve their English grammar and readability. I wouldn’t believe that such changes would

Patches versus Pull Requests

Hello, In going over some of the wiki information, I ran into a section that goes into some detail about preparing patches for submission. While this is, no doubt, still a valid way of submitting changes, is this: a) how the project prefers such changes to be submitted, and b) something that

Re: Intended behavior of automatic decimal point (bug 120940)

heers, Christoph Am 26.07.2017 um 09:58 schrieb David T. via gnucash-devel <gnucash-devel@gnucash.org>: Sumit,  As I understand it, the example you gave  (560 becomes 5.60) is intended behavior. And, as far as I am concerned, the explanation in the help is sufficient, if not inspiring.  It s

Re: Intended behavior of automatic decimal point (bug 120940)

Sumit,  As I understand it, the example you gave  (560 becomes 5.60) is intended behavior. And, as far as I am concerned, the explanation in the help is sufficient, if not inspiring.  It seems to me the problem in the underlying bug is that the decimal algorithm needs to be applied after any

Re: OT "Concept Guide"; was: Time Frame on Wiki Edits

Frank,  Indeed, I am wrong. I apologize for the inaccurate noise.  David On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 7:54, Frank H. Ellenberger<frank.h.ellenber...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi David, Am 20.06.2017 um 04:59 schrieb David T. via gnucash-devel: > [Aside: I will note that this link—present on

Re: Time Frame on Wiki Edits

;> "getting involved” replace the main heading—[Developing for GnuCash] with >>> [Getting Involved in the Project] or something similar like [Contributing >>> to GnuCash]. The other headings and text can remain as is. >>> >>> Overall though, this is laid o

Re: Website Platform Discussion

Derek, > On Jun 16, 2017, at 10:33 PM, Derek Atkins wrote: > > Adrien Monteleone writes: > >>> A side effect of the content being in a db rather than in git is it is no >>> longer stored in a distributed way. So it will be important to implement

Website Platform Discussion

In Bug 783240, I made some suggestions about modifying the website structure to improve the new user experience. As the discussion has developed, the implications of some of the suggestions have become more substantial, and John Ralls suggested that we bring the discussion to the devel list for

Re: Time Frame on Wiki Edits

] with > [Getting Involved in the Project] or something similar like [Contributing to > GnuCash]. The other headings and text can remain as is. > > Overall though, this is laid out much better than the current version. > > -Adrien > > >> On Jun 13, 2017, at 11:17 A

Time Frame on Wiki Edits

Hello, Two weeks ago, after a flurry of discussion in this list, I and Don (doncram) worked to put together a modified wiki landing page, which was placed as a sandbox page at https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/GnuCash/sandbox . Since that time, there

Wiki/Website Suggestions

Hello, I just posted Bug 783240 to suggest some improvements to the home page. I am suggesting these changes because of discussions and developments with the wiki and its landing page. It seems to me that the website Home page and the Documentation page include a lot of information that

Re: Wiki Landing Page

Don,  Your points about the Documentation web page are well-taken. I will consider what changes might be made there to better direct new users--in a separate thread.  FWIW,  I am sunfish62 on the wiki.  David On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 9:14, doncram wrote: To David T.

Re: Wiki Landing Page

Don, > On May 29, 2017, at 10:24 PM, doncram wrote: > > About the suggested content now at > http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/GnuCash/sandbox > , one objection that I have is > that it refers readers to a Documentation page at the

Re: Wiki Landing Page

OK, I have created wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Wikihomesandbox <http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Wikihomesandbox> with my proposed changes. David > On May 28, 2017, at 10:35 AM, David T. via gnucash-devel > <gnucash-devel@gnucash.org> wrote: > > I'll put my proposed page up

Re: Wiki Landing Page

been demonstrated in a sandbox.  I would develop the sandbox if someone would please create a sandbox page. :) cheers, Don On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 2:30 AM, David T. via gnucash-devel <gnucash-devel@gnucash.org> wrote: I would like to propose substantial changes to the Wiki landing page (https:/

Re: Wiki Landing Page

than requesting changes piecemeal on the Talk > page or on the gnucash-devel email list. It is too cumbersome to request > them that way, and requested change might not work, because it hasn't been > demonstrated in a sandbox. I would develop the sandbox if someone would > please creat

Wiki Landing Page

I would like to propose substantial changes to the Wiki landing page (https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/GnuCash ), a page I can’t edit. I apologize in advance for the length and complexity of this email, but that’s the price to pay for control. For ease of

Re: Gnucash wiki

Templates do sound like an improvement, although I would be concerned with some of these huge wiki pages (like the Documentation Update Instructions page) that the box will be at the top, and someone will link into the page such that the box wouldn’t show. If you set up the templates or

Re: Some history of wikis: was: lots

Frank, I strongly believe that having outdated, unmaintained—and ultimately WRONG—information available to the casual user is the wrong approach to take. How an English translation of a German draft of the English Guide got onto the main GnuCash wiki (in English) in the first place is

Re: Some Assistance Please

> On May 2, 2017, at 8:16 PM, Derek Atkins <warl...@mit.edu> wrote: > > David, > > First, sorry to come at this late... > > "David T. via gnucash-devel" <gnucash-devel@gnucash.org> writes: > >> Hello, >> >> Once again, the docu

Re: Wiki decision workflow; was: Some Assistance Please

So, apparently, there is a decision-making process in place. I’m not sure how it might be improved, since this is quite literally the first I have heard about it. Since you seem to be one of the folks in charge of the decisions on the wiki, perhaps *you* might consider how to improve the

Re: Some Assistance Please

, were we thought your changes might have issues. And I am pretty sure, I and almost every other contributor has made some mistakes, special at the beginning and will more than likely do others in the future. Am 26.04.2017 um 18:51 schrieb David T. via gnucash-devel: > I am somewhat hes

Re: Some Assistance Please

Geert, See below. > On Apr 26, 2017, at 5:54 PM, Geert Janssens > wrote: > > By doing so you may have implicitly configured your source directory > resulting > in the errors below. As a rule of thumb, avoid running any "make" command in > your source tree. The

Some Assistance Please

Hello, Once again, the documentation bug has bit me, and I am trying to use the accepted GnuCash toolset to implement a change to the Guide. Most recently, this toolset has been changed to use “make”, and when I attempt to refresh my memory by going to the wiki page, I fail to find an

Re: unable to find the file

Deepak, You need to provide a little more context. There are a lot of possible reasons for this error. For example, did you rename your file in your operating system? Did you move it? Did you delete it? Is it in a location (e.g., a network drive or USB stick) that is not currently available?

Re: Building System Requirements

Stephen, I’m no expert, but you might start by looking at: https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Building David T. > On Apr 7, 2017, at 11:17 PM, Stephen Brown > wrote: > > Hi John >> There's no need to debug the GnuCash build

Re: RIP Trunk Branch

Just a reminder to check the wiki for references to trunk (a quick search there turns up 17 page references), and make sure they are corrected/updated. It would be best for someone to make these changes who actually understands what those changes should look like (i.e., probably not me,

Re: gnucash master: Multiple changes pushed

> On Feb 21, 2017, at 10:06 PM, John Ralls wrote: > > >> On Feb 21, 2017, at 8:43 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: >> >> It's weird that this isn't caught by the *compiler* -- isn't an unused >> parameter a warning/error? > > It is by default, but we turn it off

Re: wiki login difficulties

I had the same problem. Clear your cookies and try again. > On Feb 14, 2017, at 6:29 AM, Tommy Trussell wrote: > > Hi -- the revision list for my username says it's been over a year since I > edited something in the GnuCash wiki. I know this isn't right as I can see >

Re: Issues with Placeholder Accounts

> On Feb 11, 2017, at 2:40 PM, Geert Janssens > wrote: > David, > > I agree with you on this. The current behavior in gnucash is inconsistent and > that should be improved. I also think this is a big challenge because this > "detail" touches almost all parts of

Re: Issues with Placeholder Accounts

> On Feb 11, 2017, at 6:04 AM, Chris Good wrote: > Hi David, > > The Help manual says: > > A Placeholder means this account is not used for transaction data. > Transactions may not be posted to this account, only to sub-accounts of this > account not marked

Issues with Placeholder Accounts

Hello, I will preface this email with a reminder that I am not a developer, and apologize ahead of time if my understanding of GnuCash functionality is flawed. That said... In the course of trying to corral a problem with Unrealized Gains reporting, I have been dealing with accounts that

Re: gnucash-docs maint: Bug 777891 - Guide Glossary lacks proper ID tag or mention in Basics Chapter.

When I put this in, I accidentally committed the Overview without the related Glossary change, thus creating a broken reference. I caught it immediately and committed the glossary change as well in a second commit. Geert “squashed” the two commits (his term) before committing; is it possible

Re: Using make with docs

> On Feb 7, 2017, at 11:59 AM, Chris Good wrote: > Hi David T, > > I had made some changes to the Documentation Update Instructions sections > dealing with "make check" + "make html" to make it clearer that these > commands should be run from within the build

Re: Document Update Instructions have been revised

> On Feb 7, 2017, at 7:14 PM, Frank H. Ellenberger > wrote: > > Hi David, > > Am 07.02.2017 um 11:29 schrieb David T.: >> Chris, No. I haven't tried John's suggestion. My current mac is five >> years old, and I had already downloaded the full xcode upgrade when

Re: documentation bug 687820

ens <geert.gnuc...@kobaltwit.be> wrote: > > Op dinsdag 7 februari 2017 10:17:38 CET schreef David T. via gnucash-devel: >> Frank, >> I'm pretty sure those features are not opened to mere mortals, at least, I >> can't see them. That's what I meant when I said I could on

RE: Document Update Instructions have been revised

Chris,  No. I haven't tried John's suggestion. My current mac is five years old, and I had already downloaded the full xcode upgrade when John made the suggestion. I'll note that the wiki still instructs mac users to install the full xcode suite. If it's no longer true, then the wiki needs

Re: documentation bug 687820

Frank,  I'm pretty sure those features are not opened to mere mortals, at least, I can't see them. That's what I meant when I said I could only edit an existing dependency entry.  David T. On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 10:50, Frank H. Ellenberger wrote: Davids,

Re: Using make with docs

Geert, > On Feb 6, 2017, at 10:10 PM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnuc...@kobaltwit.be> > wrote: > > Op maandag 6 februari 2017 21:28:24 CET schreef David T. via gnucash-devel: >> Hello, >> >> The recently-updated Documentation Update Instruct

Using make with docs

Hello, The recently-updated Documentation Update Instructions page on the wiki—as detailed as they are—nonetheless leave something to be desired when one reaches step 10. You see, up until this point, a great deal of energy is put into showing how one can use “make check” in different ways to

Re: New Documentation Bug

Frank, I agree that the wiki would be a better place to document this; that is why I raised the subject here. The bug in question discusses adding information to the Guide and Help, and I am wary of adding ephemeral information to the documentation, given how long the cycle ends up being, and

Re: New Documentation Bug

Geert,  That is still the case.  David On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 15:14, Geert Janssens<geert.gnuc...@kobaltwit.be> wrote: Op zondag 29 januari 2017 08:28:39 CET schreef John Ralls: > > On Jan 29, 2017, at 12:42 AM, David T. via gnucash-devel > > <gnucash-dev

Documentation Docbook Question

Hello, In working on Bug 777318, I noticed some small issues with the recently-added glossary (which is all my creation). First, I noticed that it lacks the appropriate section name (“gnc-gloss”). Next, I noticed that the file lacks a chapter tag. Third, I noticed that 1.3 About This Book in

Re: GnuCash page Documentation Update Instructions has been changed by Sunfish62

Geert, Thanks as always for providing a clear explanation of the situation. You have gently shown me where I have misunderstood the process, and make it clearer to me. I have entered a version that I think does a reasonable job of promoting git-maint as the commonly-used mode, but also

Re: Document Update Instructions have been revised

On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 8:26, John Ralls wrote: Indeed. But you don't need all of it, just the command-line tools. Regards,John Ralls I'm not sure you can get one without first getting the other. At least, I haven't been able to. 

Re: Documentation Update Instructions

Chris,  I explained my reasoning behind that on the other thread.  On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 11:00, Chris Good wrote: Hi David,   Re http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Documentation_Update_Instructions#Step_1_Create_a_Bugzilla_Bug_for_the_Documentation_Change  

Re: Depreciation Chapter in the Guide

chapter could be deleted.  My apologies.  David P.s. I'll take your word about the subprime crisis.  On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 2:25, Frank H. Ellenberger<frank.h.ellenber...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi David, Am 23.01.2017 um 18:23 schrieb David T. via gnucash-devel: > Hello, > >

Moving Forward with Documentation Bug 687820

Hello, Nearly five years ago, I created Bug 687820 in a more innocent time. In that bug, I outlined an ambitious plan to restructure the Tutorial and Concepts Guide, which received a modicum of positive support when I initially submitted it. At this time, I think that I am comfortable

Re: Document Update Instructions have been revised

Hi Frank, > On Jan 23, 2017, at 1:09 PM, Frank H. Ellenberger > wrote: > > Hi all, > > just a few ideas: > I found by accident the 10 years old > http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Concept_Guide_draft/Overview ff., which is > an example for using subpages in a

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