On Monday 01 September 2003 2:46 pm, someone claiming to be Jon Lapham wrote: > Tim Wunder wrote: > > So... > > Are we back to > > Simple Transaction > > Complex (Split) Transaction > > and just leaving off any reference to the number of accounts involved? > > Ahhhhhh...... kerplung. (or, whatever the sound is of someone jumping > from a tall bridge into the river below). > > :) > > "3 or more accounts" refers to the number of accounts involved in the > transaction, I do not see how this requires that they are different > accounts. I think we are still fine. > > There are always better ways to describe things, but often that requires > longer explanations. At some point we have to put a title on the > section and move on, we can be *very* clear what we mean in the body > text. Another complication, for example, is that you can enter a "split > transaction" with only 2 accounts, so is it wrong to not mention this in > the title of the simple transaction? >
A "simple" transaction does not reqire use of the Split mechanism, a complex one does. > So, let's vote on the following two proposals for the section titles: > > Simple Transaction (2 accounts) > Split Transaction (3 or more accounts) > > or > > Simple Transaction Which May or May Not Involve the Split Transaction > Mechanism but Must Only Involve 2 Accounts > > Transaction Involving More that Two Accounts In Which May or May Not be > Different Accounts but Will Always Involve the Split Transaction Mechanism Given those choices, well, I'll take the first one. But I still like leaving off the nimber of accounts reference better. As a clever man once said, "There are always better ways to describe things, but often that requires longer explanations. At some point we have to put a title on the section and move on, we can be *very* clear what we mean in the body text." And again, you're doing the actual *work* here... do what you want. Tim _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnucash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
