Craig Earls <[email protected]> writes: > As the guy that volunteered to do the Manual and only got about 50% of what > I wanted accomplished, I would say move forward to release. Maybe more > users beating on it would help push the manual forward. It is a pretty > good manual even if incomplete.
I don't know if it's appropriate to report bugs in the manual here? One that I noticed recently was in the description of --average as applied to balance reports: section 10.1 of ledger3.pdf claims that ledger -p "this year" --monthly --average --subtotal balance ^expenses can be used to find the average monthly posting in various expense accounts, for help with budgeting. I think that doesn't work in general; it *might* work if each account has exactly one posting per month, but in the more general case it produces something that's a bit like the average posting value, which doesn't help with budgeting unless you know how many postings per month there are. (I couldn't find a way of actually doing what section 10.1 says fully automatically; it's obviously fairly easy to take the vanilla balance report and divide by the number of months included...) Best, Christophe
