THis was reported as a documentation bug and it is. But, bug #583 also applies. --monthly doesn't really produce a rational result.
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Craig Earls <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- Craig, Corona De Tucson, AZ enderw88.wordpress.com
