On Fri, 22 Dec 2017, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote:
my view is that you are using the wrong tool, ie typesetting to do bookkeeping instead of letting the bookkeeping do the typesetting.
It seems that no one read what I wrote. Yes, I used to use SQL-Ledger, too, until it died. Now I use GnuCash. I am using LyX with the longtable package to _write_ a statement of account. However, ... Rich