On Monday 01 September 2003 10:05 am, someone claiming to be Jon Lapham wrote: > Tim Wunder wrote: > > As long as the reference uses the correct chapter/section whatever. > > Currently, the page says "You enter a transaction with multiple > > splits, which we will cover in section 4.3." Section 4.3 is "Choosing > > a Register Style", > > I think we should definitely use the correct reference. :) In fact, I > wish I knew how to put a link there, so you could just click and go > immediately to the reference... >
I guess you mean within the docs themselves and not the webified docs... > > the section that relates seems to be 4.2.2, "Multi Account > > Transaction", which I'd like to see named "Spilt Transactions", which > > is what Gnucash calls 'em. > > Hmmm, don't know about this. To a user with no GnuCash experience, > isn't "multi account transaction" the logical thing to follow "simple > two account transaction"? > It'd seem that "complex" would follow "simple", so maybe "Complex (Split) Transaction" as a title, or "Complex Mutliple Account Transaction". Also, perhaps renaming "simple two account transaction" to just "Simple Transaction" would work, too. > Maybe the first thing to say in section 4.2.2 is "In GnuCash a > transaction involving more than 2 accounts is called a split > transaction" and never use the term "multi account transaction" again. > Better? > Yes. But, to a virgin GnuCash user, aren't two account transactions multi-account transactions, multi being more than 1. The more I think about it, the more I like the use of just "Simple Transaction/Complex (Split) Transaction." > But, I'll change the title of the section if there are others that agree > with you, I'm not set in stone on my position. You're the doc's guru, and have been doing a great job thus far, don't let me stand in the way of you doing what you think is right (but I really dislike the phrase "multi account").... Regards, Tim -- RedHat 8.0 Kernel 2.4.20-19.8, KDE 3.1.3, Xfree86 4.2.1 11:40am up 9 days, 17:37, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.00 It's what you learn after you know it all that counts _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
