This is definitely a documentation problem, and is probably a carry over form 2.6. THe period commands customize the OUTPUT, while average applies to all posting that meet the input requirements. I need to think about how to both explain that and give a working command for generate the right information in 10.1
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Craig Earls <[email protected]> wrote: > Appropriate and encouraged, or you can use Bugzilla. > > > On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Christophe Rhodes <[email protected]>wrote: > >> 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 >> >> > > > -- > Craig, Corona De Tucson, AZ > enderw88.wordpress.com > -- Craig, Corona De Tucson, AZ enderw88.wordpress.com
