On Sat, Dec 17, 2016, at 01:39 PM, Manish Rai Jain wrote: > Thanks! That definitely helps.
> > I think the documentation needs updating (documentation being one of > my main gripes with ledger). I'd suggest a solution: Host the > documentation on wiki, which would allow community to build and keep > the documentation up to date. Issues like these for e.g., could be > easily marked by the user as "not working", and then updated by > someone in the know-how with the right instructions. That > collaborative effort on documentation is the only way to keep high > quality and easy to understand documentation. We don't need a wiki (even though we do already have one), we have something much better. Git. You can submit a pull request on GitHub here: https://github.com/ledger/ledger/blob/next/doc/ledger3.texi#L7734 You can track this as a problem by opening an issue there as well. This way everyone keeps everything in one place. regards, bex > > For starters, the wikia service could be used (to avoid the pains of > setting up our own): > http://www.wikia.com > > > On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 10:07 PM, Brian (bex) Exelbierd > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > On Dec 17, 2016, at 6:16 AM, Manish R Jain <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> > >> > I'm trying to build a budget, following section 9 in the manual. >> > http://www.ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html#Budgeting-and-Forecasting >> > >> > This command is mentioned in the doc to help determine the average >> > spending per expenses category. But, when I use it, the numbers >> > are out of whack. They're way too low. >> > >> > $ ledger -p "this year" --monthly --average balance ^expenses -f >> > journal.ldg >> > >> > I've tried other variations like using reg, or setting -b flag >> > instead of -p. But, doesn't seem to work. >> > >> > Any ideas, what's going wrong? >> >> I was literally doing this yesterday as well. I had the same problem. >> I "solved" it by doing the math manually. >> >> $ ledger -p "this year" balance ^expenses -f journal.ldg --amount >> "amount / 11.5" >> >> As I understand this redefines the amount displayed to be the >> original amount / 11.5. I chose 11.5 because we are approximately >> that far through the year. >> >> Let me know if that gives you logical values. My transactions are in >> about 12 currencies so I'm having trouble verifying them logically. >> >> This is also exposing a need for me to think about journal >> organization as some of these values are "polluted" with data that >> shouldn't be counted. I did conversion of data only back to 2016-01- >> 01. The pollution is caused by my having categorized things like my >> 2015 tax payment as Expense:Tax:CZ:Income:2015. Not ideal in >> retrospect, I think. Still thinking it through. >> >> Regards, >> >> bex >> >> >> -- >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Ledger" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop >> receiving emails from it, send an email to ledger- >> [email protected][1]. For more options, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Ledger" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, > send an email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. Links: 1. mailto:ledger-cli%[email protected] -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ledger" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
