As I've said over and over, the REAL answer is to integrate e-guile and then invoices could be an HTML-template with embedded guile, instead of a scheme program that happens to generate HTML. I'm still waiting for someone to offer to implement that. :-D
-derek Quoting Monte Jewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm a gnucash newbie but very experienced with proprietary billing > systems for small law offices. > > I'm reading everything I can find on how to edit the gnucash > templates, but my invoices still look like I'm selling automotive > parts (not that there would be anything wrong with that if I wasn't > actually drafting separation agreements . . . ) > > I want to help and to gnu use-share-study-improve the code, esp with > nonprofit projects that I volunteer with who have no money to be > spending on proprietary licenses but have to do it anyway. > > This invoice editing problem is kicking my butt so far. > > mj > *** > Monte Jewell PC Attorney at Law > 500 N Higgins Ave Ste 107 > Missoula MT 59802 > www.montejewell.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 10:09:56 > To:"Bryan Cebuliak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc:gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > Subject: Re: Fwd: World friendlier printable invoices > > > Hi, > > "Bryan Cebuliak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Pardon me, I am really very new at this. Would you like me to do that >> now with the files or have you already done it? Will just a plain >> diff file.scm filenew.scm > diffoutfile >> do the trick? > > Usually the way to do it would be: > > svn diff > >> Attached please file the diff output files including the total ex tax >> localisation changes. > > Unfortunately you: > > a) ran diff manually > b) didn't use '-u' to create a unified diff > >> Also, do you have an idea why opening gnucash with a saved >> fancy-invoice report in the old format using the new fancy-invoice.scm >> etc crashes gnucash? The same may happen with the the other files. Not >> tested yet. This is avoided if the old report tab is closed prior to >> saving before upgrading the invoice files. This is a show stopper if >> it happened with a gnucash upgrade. > > Umm... Without really seeing your changes (while my brain can process > a unified diff, I can't really process a non-context/non-unified diff) > I can only guess. My first guess is that you changed the available > options so that when gnucash reloads the options into the report it > fails. But I don't know without seeing the code and seeing the > crash backtrace. > > It would be "allowed" in a major release change, but certainly not > within a stable release. E.g., this happened between 1.6 -> 1.8 > and again from 2.0 -> 2.2. (It might have happened from 1.8 -> 2.0 > too, but I don't recall). > > -derek > -- > Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory > Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) > URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH > [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > > > -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel