Re: Null Account and more

2004-08-07 Thread Christopher Browne
> Sorry... Another question: > > The accounts with no name have: > > > > Instead of what I would expect as: > > > > I'm not an XML buff so that may be correct. If not, I'll look into > that problem as well while I'm at it. is valid XML; your expectations would be correct for SGML..

Some XML Funniness...

2002-03-27 Thread Christopher Browne
Apparently the XML parser is quite dependent on the positions of elements matching with some sort of implicit ordering. I was planning to en-masse move a bunch of accounts into a hierarchy; I've got a bunch of $USD accounts that I'm not using much anymore, and figured I'd hide them under "US E

Re: Begining of Java Servlet Inteface

2001-05-14 Thread Christopher Browne
> On 14 May 2001 11:32:23 -0400, Chris Shenton wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > > > > I would suggest the thought that "multiuser" be considered completely > > > synonymous with "using SQL DBMS." The database provides an interface > > > that supports many concurrent connections; tha

Re: Books/Accounting Periods proposal

2001-04-16 Thread Christopher Browne
On 09 Apr 2001 11:23:11 EDT, the world broke into rejoicing as Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Christopher Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Consider the following control file: > And how does one get this control file from client to client, user > to

Re: importing "web connect" files -- was importing bank qif file

2001-04-16 Thread Christopher Browne
On Fri, 13 Apr 2001 15:47:03 PDT, the world broke into rejoicing as Dave Peticolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Thanks for the links. OFX before 2.0 uses SGML and is not XML-compliant. > However, I believe OFX 2.0 is XML compliant. Might it be an idea to run an SGML normalizer (sgmlnorm) to fix i

Re: addressbook export module?

2001-04-16 Thread Christopher Browne
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001 13:19:48 CDT, the world broke into rejoicing as [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Linas Vepstas) said: > Is there a way to use the evolution contact manager inside another > program? (I haven't yet , umm played with bonobo ... so my question > is umm, a bit naive, but serious ...) > I'm wo

Re: Books/Accounting Periods proposal

2001-04-16 Thread Christopher Browne
On Mon, 09 Apr 2001 12:00:58 CDT, the world broke into rejoicing as [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Linas Vepstas) said: > On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 12:01:31PM -0400, James LewisMoss was heard > to remark: >> This brings up something I was thinking. >> >> It'd be nice to stop using "files" as such to save gnuca

Development Docs

2001-04-16 Thread Christopher Browne
Question: Is the Info documentation under active development, and is it being pretty seriously used? If that be the case, then I probably should take the material in .../C/xacc-repdev.sgml and transform it into src/doc/design/reporting.texinfo, right? -- (concatenate 'string "aa454" "@freenet.car

Re: subtotals in reports; accounts with children and transactions

2001-04-09 Thread Christopher Browne
On Fri, 06 Apr 2001 13:50:18 PDT, the world broke into rejoicing as Charlton Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Christian Stimming wrote: > > > Once again we had the question whether it makes sense at all to have > > accounts with children in the hierarchy (non-leaf accounts) w

Re: Books/Accounting Periods proposal

2001-04-09 Thread Christopher Browne
On 07 Apr 2001 11:50:48 EDT, the world broke into rejoicing as Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I, too, like plan A. However instead of thinking about files, I'd > prefer if we did keep things in the abstract 'book'. A book could > be a file, it could be a database, it could be a remote

Docs for Scheme, Report Development

2001-04-09 Thread Christopher Browne
I just bounced a patch _primarily_ for documentation [though with a few Scheme changes] over to the patch list. -- (concatenate 'string "cbbrowne" "@acm.org") http://vip.hex.net/~cbbrowne/resume.html "Linux! Guerrilla Unix Development Venimus, Vidimus, Dolavimus." -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mark

How To Design Programs

2001-04-03 Thread Christopher Browne
Those of you that have been looking for a "somewhat practical guide" to Scheme now have a new option that looks like it's _very_ good. >From MIT Press, by a list of Scheme luminaries formerly at Rice, it's called "How To Design Programs" and may be found in webbed form at: http://mitpress.mit.

Re: échéancier GnuCach

2001-04-03 Thread Christopher Browne
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 22:36:30 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as Charles Gagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > :: Sorry for the french noise but I figured I'd CC the list > :: in case. He's asking about "scheduled" transactions. I > :: know it's not in the 1.4 tree. Anyone knows if it's > :: alre

Re: import wizzard currency or security type

2001-04-03 Thread Christopher Browne
On 28 Mar 2001 09:49:05 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Gnucash currencies and securities (aka commodities) are stored with a > reference to the commodity within a namespace (the "type"). The > "ISO4217" you see is the namespace (type) for national

Re: New HTML style features for tables

2001-03-23 Thread Christopher Browne
On Thu, 22 Mar 2001 19:17:45 PST, the world broke into rejoicing as Christian Stimming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I have a question on how to use the HTML style features. I would like to > have a table cell style grand-total as described below, but I would like > to have it markup the cell con

Re: date interval handling is toast

2001-03-22 Thread Christopher Browne
On Thu, 22 Mar 2001 10:15:29 PST, the world broke into rejoicing as Christian Stimming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > That brings up another interesting question. What will happen if I > switch time zones regularly on my machine? Are the transactions > recorded in localtime? I think at least the re

Dependancy problems

2001-03-02 Thread Christopher Browne
On 28 Feb 2001 11:51:08 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > What my mom needs to be able to do is basically run the install > command and have it work: > > rpm -i gnucash.rpm I think the "right answer" for this is probably on its way... On Debi

Re: Image enabling gnucash?

2001-02-23 Thread Christopher Browne
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001 19:33:32 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as Bakki Kudva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I am new on this list and gnucash. I do have it on my Red Hat 6.2 box > and am very impressed with what I see. > > I am a consultant/integrator in the business document management > solu

Re: Mortgages?

2001-02-06 Thread Christopher Browne
On Mon, 05 Feb 2001 15:32:49 CST, the world broke into rejoicing as [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Gribble) said: > On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 02:59:27PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > someone needs to write a 'cash flow' report, which is missing in the > > current version. > > Actually isn't it the

Re: backend-sql, network hacks

2001-01-26 Thread Christopher Browne
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001 14:06:35 CST, the world broke into rejoicing as [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > It's been rumoured that David Merrill said: >> I was referring to the auditing and checkpointing functionality. It >> *could* be implemented in the engine, but my assumption was that it >> would be imple

Re: how to create nice HTML tables in reports?

2001-01-22 Thread Christopher Browne
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001 14:38:38 PST, the world broke into rejoicing as Christian Stimming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Sunday 21 January 2001 13:09, Robert Graham Merkel wrote: >> Have a look at the development version, There's a bunch of table >> generation code in it that ALL reports are going t

Re: scripting language vs. developer community size

2001-01-17 Thread Christopher Browne
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 22:48:53 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as David Merrill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 10:44:02PM -0600, Christopher Browne wrote: > > On Tue, 16 Jan 2001 10:00:05 CST, the world broke into rejoicing as > > The world "co

Re: scripting language vs. developer community size

2001-01-16 Thread Christopher Browne
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001 10:00:05 CST, the world broke into rejoicing as [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Gribble) said: > On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 07:05:40PM -0500, Eugene Tyurin wrote: > > Many years ago (circa 1988) I remember briefly trying out some > > package called Texas Instruments' Scheme. Bac

Re: scripting language vs. developer community size

2001-01-15 Thread Christopher Browne
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:09:10 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as Ariel Rios <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > I think this is a little bit disingenuous. Nobody outside the > > gnucash-devel list is requiring gnucash to use Scheme, least of all > > RMS; in point of fact, hardly any GNU projects ac

Bug Report - Saving Empty File Causes Crash

2001-01-14 Thread Christopher Browne
This is with a CVS checkout from last night of the latest and greatest. This is admittedly one of those pathological cases where the "dumb user" has _nothing to save_, so that trying to save the DB is a mite silly. Crashing is nonetheless an irritating result. Note that in "SQL land," the prope

Re: Transaction Engine

2001-01-05 Thread Christopher Browne
On 05 Jan 2001 10:38:42 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Christopher Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Notably: > > a) Balance management [the thing of keeping track of daily balances, > >or per

Transaction Engine

2001-01-05 Thread Christopher Browne
On Fri, 29 Dec 2000 09:24:40 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as David Merrill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 02:46:51AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > It's been rumoured that [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > > > > > It should be clear why Transaction engine and DB engine

GUID Management

2001-01-03 Thread Christopher Browne
On Tue, 02 Jan 2001 15:54:53 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as David Merrill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 02:38:45PM -0600, Christopher Browne wrote: > > On Tue, 02 Jan 2001 14:23:22 CST, the world broke into rejoicing as > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [offtopic] marshalling

2001-01-02 Thread Christopher Browne
On Tue, 02 Jan 2001 14:50:24 CST, the world broke into rejoicing as [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > This is way off-topic, but ... > > It's been rumoured that Tyson Dowd said: > > > > (Actually M$ has a lot more in the whole language infrastructure thing, > > since their VM supports multiple language

Audit Logging, User Roles

2001-01-02 Thread Christopher Browne
On Tue, 02 Jan 2001 19:33:50 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as Eugene Tyurin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 04:02:24PM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: > > David, a good start... > > > > David Merrill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > We need to determine what level of g

Re: Access Controls

2001-01-02 Thread Christopher Browne
On Tue, 02 Jan 2001 14:23:22 CST, the world broke into rejoicing as [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > It's been rumoured that David Merrill said: > > > > I read this again and changed my mind, and I'll tell you why... > > > > When a record is changed, it is moved to the audit table, and a new > > recor

VarChars

2001-01-01 Thread Christopher Browne
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000 09:54:44 CST, the world broke into rejoicing as Patrick Spinler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > David Merrill wrote: > > You can't avoid having a limit on text fields, but you can make them > > very large. > > The only way to get "unlimited" text fields (or a reasonable > approxim

Locks and Concurrency

2001-01-01 Thread Christopher Browne
On Mon, 01 Jan 2001 18:07:01 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as David Merrill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 01:04:01AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > It's been rumoured that David Merrill said: > > > > > > Option 1, no concurrent edits allowed: > > > > > > cl

Re: DB design document

2000-12-22 Thread Christopher Browne
On 21 Dec 2000 14:19:40 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > David Merrill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Is it possible that the answer is to take the existing engine code and > > separate the Query API into calls into a corresponding API on the > >

Query API

2000-12-19 Thread Christopher Browne
On 18 Dec 2000 13:00:56 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Christopher Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > It shouldn't be a situation of the GUI submitting database queries; > > instead, the GUI should submit _tr

DB API

2000-12-18 Thread Christopher Browne
On 18 Dec 2000 13:20:17 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Gribble) writes: > > > On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 01:00:56PM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: > > > This is a reasonable approach, although I think we still want (need?) > > > t

Re: DB design document

2000-12-17 Thread Christopher Browne
On Sun, 17 Dec 2000 23:11:15 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as David Merrill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 05:43:57PM -0600, Rob Browning wrote: > > Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > At this point, as I've said, I now tend to think that we should jus

Re: GUID Factory

2000-12-17 Thread Christopher Browne
On Sun, 17 Dec 2000 21:54:32 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > David Merrill wrote: > > > > On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 08:49:02PM -0500, Jean-David Beyer wrote: > > > Christopher Browne wrote (in part): > > &

GUID Factory

2000-12-17 Thread Christopher Browne
On Sun, 17 Dec 2000 10:09:04 CST, the world broke into rejoicing as [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Gribble) said: > On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 12:05:42PM -0500, David Merrill wrote: > > Obviously, the current algorithm is working. So there is no reason to > > change it, but I'm doing essentially a new imp

Re: DB design document

2000-12-15 Thread Christopher Browne
On 15 Dec 2000 18:29:12 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > FTR, Debian currently ships OpenSSL (at least in non-us). So, if > Debian is willing to ship it, I don't see the problem. We are not > creating a derivative work of OpenSSL, we would be using

Re: File store (was Re: Salutations)

2000-12-12 Thread Christopher Browne
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000 12:49:22 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as David Merrill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 12:35:45PM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote: > > David Merrill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > [snip] > > > > > But I do take issue with the argument that period cl

Lack of Transaction List

2000-12-12 Thread Christopher Browne
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000 10:20:07 +1000, the world broke into rejoicing as "Phillip Shelton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > Transactions aren't entered in the ledger. In fact, > > > there's no global > > > way to get a list of transactions at all. > > First, an apology for airing just how much I do

Balance Checkpoints

2000-12-12 Thread Christopher Browne
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000 15:22:15 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as David Merrill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 06:08:46AM +1000, Phillip J Shelton wrote: > > Derek Atkins wrote: > > > David Merrill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > aisb, I consider the issue of closing th

Re: Financial library

2000-12-11 Thread Christopher Browne
On Sat, 09 Dec 2000 12:05:03 +1100, the world broke into rejoicing as Robert Graham Merkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I also agree that a shared financial library would be an excellent > idea. > > Is there any other project that might get on board, or should we just > get going and if we start

Re: File store (was Re: Salutations)

2000-12-11 Thread Christopher Browne
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000 08:13:59 CST, the world broke into rejoicing as [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Gribble) said: > On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 01:57:31AM +, Al Snell wrote: > > Archives in SQL databases are useful for data mining and OLAP, but > > are more costly to store - anm archive file can be dump

Re: File store (was Re: Salutations)

2000-12-10 Thread Christopher Browne
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000 15:03:55 +1000, the world broke into rejoicing as "Phillip Shelton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > -Original Message- > > On Mon, 11 Dec 2000 11:32:49 +1000, the world broke into rejoicing as > > "Phillip Shelton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > How does all of this af

Re: File store (was Re: Salutations)

2000-12-10 Thread Christopher Browne
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000 11:32:49 +1000, the world broke into rejoicing as "Phillip Shelton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > How does all of this affect the `closing the books'. If the books are > `close-able' then maybe we do not have to read the last 10 years worth of > data in at once? > > Will the c

Re: Performance improvement for xml loads (+comments)

2000-12-06 Thread Christopher Browne
On Thu, 07 Dec 2000 16:13:06 +1100, the world broke into rejoicing as Tyson Dowd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On 06-Dec-2000, Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Nobody is suggesting going back to the old binary format. I'm > > certainly not. I *AM*, however, suggesting a NEW binary form

Re: date stuff in gnucash

2000-11-28 Thread Christopher Browne
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 12:04:51 PST, the world broke into rejoicing as Dave Peticolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > James LewisMoss writes: > > Dave> I tend to think of abstract dates as functions from absolute > > Dave> dates to absolute dates. So, "last monday in a month" would be > > Dave> a fun

Re: Taking the defs file issue

2000-11-12 Thread Christopher Browne
On 12 Nov 2000 18:56:28 CST, the world broke into rejoicing as Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Marius Vollmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I quite strongly disagree with this. In my view, the functions > > exported to the Scheme side must not be not be `dangerous' in the > > sense th

Re: Get PostgreSQL installed as part of the distros

2000-10-31 Thread Christopher Browne
> Christopher Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The options that leap to mind are: > > What did you think about the info I got on embedding MySQL and > PosgreSQL (did I post that?). I'm not sure I saw that; could be "user error" on my part.

Re: Get PostgreSQL installed as part of the distros

2000-10-21 Thread Christopher Browne
On Sat, 21 Oct 2000 10:46:13 EDT, the world broke into rejoicing as Eugene Tyurin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Please do *not* go the RDBMS way! > > RDBMS are sexy, "industrial-strength" and stuff. But unless you need to > ensure consistency of multiple reads/writes on the same table they only >

Virtual Packages

2000-10-03 Thread Christopher Browne
On Mon, 02 Oct 2000 17:47:49 EDT, the world broke into rejoicing as "James A. Treacy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 10:14:13PM -0500, Christopher Browne wrote: > > > > [Aside: A _VERY COOL_ idea would be to set up a "virtual package&

Re: Currencies / the accounting equation.

2000-10-02 Thread Christopher Browne
On Sun, 01 Oct 2000 14:37:40 PDT, the world broke into rejoicing as Dave Peticolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > writes: > > On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 04:50:18PM -0700, Dave Peticolas wrote: > > > I think there is an additional issue for transactions. Consider > > > a transfer between two accounts w

Re: Revisiting the database

2000-10-02 Thread Christopher Browne
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000 18:36:11 PDT, the world broke into rejoicing as Gary Bickford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Folks who are used to watching Access grind away for hours can be > surprised by the performance of a real, tuned ISAM database. > > I can't see anyone having an accounting system large

Re: double entry and accounting equation

2000-09-28 Thread Christopher Browne
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000 00:14:26 EDT, the world broke into rejoicing as "Robert W. Brewer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I'm using gnucash 1.4.6 under Linux. It seems to be > pretty nice for tracking my personal finances. > I have some questions though. I'm > an accounting newbie, but I've been r

Re: Connected graphs [was RE: Dimensions?]

2000-09-28 Thread Christopher Browne
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000 10:30:24 +1000, the world broke into rejoicing as "Phillip Shelton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > I tend to think that interpreting these kind of complex relationships > > is not really the domain of the engine at all - it's the domain of the > > individual reports that interp

Re: Dimensions?

2000-09-27 Thread Christopher Browne
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000 10:46:27 +1000, the world broke into rejoicing as "Phillip Shelton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > True. I think what I want is to be able to report on the transaction from > both clothes and shoes. > > Others have shown that if I use a well defined tree I can roll-up my account

Re: Dimensions?

2000-09-26 Thread Christopher Browne
On Tue, 26 Sep 2000 09:27:51 +1000, the world broke into rejoicing as "Phillip Shelton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > No it is not a split. The shoes cost $50 so I want to have the clothes > account debited with $50 and the shoes account debited with $50 and the bank > account credited with $50. W

Re: libraries

2000-09-25 Thread Christopher Browne
On Sat, 23 Sep 2000 15:39:44 EDT, the world broke into rejoicing as Terry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, you wrote: > > Downloaded 1.5.1 and tries to install - unsatisfied dependencies: > > > > libaspell > > libpspell > > libgtkhtml > > > > Looked on the HelixCode site - could

Re: What, exactly, does 'cleared' mean (in the context of reconciling)?

2000-09-14 Thread Christopher Browne
On 14 Sep 2000 17:29:37 PDT, the world broke into rejoicing as Eric Hanchrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I'm rewriting a tiny piece or two of the documentation, and now I'm > looking at the stuff about reconciling your accounts > (xacc-recnwin.sgml). I'd like to write an explanation of what the

Re: Inventory and payroll

2000-09-11 Thread Christopher Browne
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000 13:11:49 +1000, the world broke into rejoicing as "Phillip Shelton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > So is there any validity in multiplying the number of shares I bought in > December 1997 at $5.00 a share with the current value of $10.87 a share? If the value is $10.87, then the

Re: Inventory and payroll

2000-09-11 Thread Christopher Browne
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000 13:45:52 +1100, the world broke into rejoicing as Conrad Canterford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > OK, here are my thoughts on why we keep an inventory of shares in > Gnucash. Please remember that I am not an accountant, so it is entorely > possible I'm completely off track. >

Re: Inventory and payroll

2000-09-11 Thread Christopher Browne
On 11 Sep 2000 18:26:22 CDT, the world broke into rejoicing as John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Phillip Shelton writes: > > Then maybe you can answer why you keep the _number_ of shares that you own > > in any one company. > > I don't understand what you are asking. > > > Because the _nu

Re: Inventory and payroll

2000-09-11 Thread Christopher Browne
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000 12:13:46 +1000, the world broke into rejoicing as "Phillip Shelton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Umm, you lost me here. Selling shares `costs'? Don't I sell the shares for > the going rate of $5.02 and thus make about a dollar on each share minus the > commission and any roundi

Re: new text format for HTML files

2000-09-07 Thread Christopher Browne
On Thu, 07 Sep 2000 15:54:07 PDT, the world broke into rejoicing as Dave Peticolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > "Christophe Guychard" writes: > > and I think it is possible to use XML to write Gnucash docs. > > I'm sure it will be more flexible than SGML file format. > > First because it's more s

Re: request: encryption support on file open/save

2000-09-07 Thread Christopher Browne
On Thu, 07 Sep 2000 08:49:12 EDT, the world broke into rejoicing as John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On 7 Sep 2000, Derek Atkins wrote: > > > Robert Graham Merkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Of course, I hope that anyone who encrypts their gnucash data > > > remembers to also encrypt

Re: request: encryption support on file open/save

2000-09-06 Thread Christopher Browne
On 06 Sep 2000 11:59:50 EDT, the world broke into rejoicing as Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Why not just use a crypto filesystem? PGP (and gpg) are useful for > encrypting files for transmission, but really should not be used for > long-term data storage. You should be using data-st

Re: How do I do this? (Accounting question)

2000-08-30 Thread Christopher Browne
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000 15:02:05 +1100, the world broke into rejoicing as Conrad Canterford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I have some conceptual problems which I'm hoping someone will be able to > explain for me. Since they are not specifically gnucash related, private > response may be warranted. > >

Re: Spreadsheet exporting?

2000-08-25 Thread Christopher Browne
that, > > both on the accounts, and on the reports. > > There is some scheme code in src/scm/gnumeric that Christopher > Browne wrote for generating gnumeric xml data, but it hasn't > been hooked into GnuCash yet, afaik. Indeed. I've been plugging away bit by bit at getti

Success & Fixes...

2000-08-18 Thread Christopher Browne
After installing still-some-further-dev-packages that came available this week in Helix Gnome, GnuCash again became buildable and runnable. With the next result that I have done some testing of the "new reporting code" that uses lists rather than appending strings together. Attached are the thre

Patch to SCM Stuff...

2000-08-15 Thread Christopher Browne
Unfortunately, I'm having _zero_ luck connecting to cvs.gnucash.org, so I'm depending on local RCS differences to find the changes to be made. The "global" change is that rather than using (string-append) to create the output, I've changed the (html-whatever) functions to instead create lists.

Re: Tools for the HTML manuals

2000-08-14 Thread Christopher Browne
On Mon, 14 Aug 2000 11:47:04 -, the world broke into rejoicing as Yannick LE NY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I want to convert the french HTML files in SGML and Dave said: > > >We need it in SGML, but Christopher Browne has a utility to convert > >html->docbook.

Re: new text format for HTML files?

2000-08-14 Thread Christopher Browne
On Sun, 13 Aug 2000 22:04:52 -, the world broke into rejoicing as Yannick LE NY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Now, the english HTML files are in SGML. > For the next update for french HTML files, do you want it in SGML or in > HTML? > For me translate the HTML files in french take a long time,

Re: gtkhtml strangeness

2000-08-13 Thread Christopher Browne
On 13 Aug 2000 18:25:16 CDT, the world broke into rejoicing as John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Christopher Browne writes: > > I have installed _all_ the debian packages containing gtkhtml in their > > names, namely gtkhtml and libgtkhtml3. > > libgtkhtml-dev

Re: gtkhtml strangeness

2000-08-11 Thread Christopher Browne
On Fri, 11 Aug 2000 09:16:12 CDT, the world broke into rejoicing as [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Gribble) said: > On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 12:49:15PM +, Jan Schrage wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 01:04:43AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrot e: > > > I'm having ill success at getting the latest CVS

Re: gtkhtml strangeness

2000-08-11 Thread Christopher Browne
On Fri, 11 Aug 2000 12:49:15 -, the world broke into rejoicing as Jan Schrage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > --v9Ux+11Zm5mwPlX6 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 01:04:43AM -0500,

Re: Accounting standard for "one month ago"

2000-08-10 Thread Christopher Browne
On Fri, 11 Aug 2000 12:27:05 +1000, the world broke into rejoicing as Robert Graham Merkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > As previously reported, I'm adding a new type of option for relative > dates. I'd like to add a relative date for "one month ago". My > simplistic definition for "one month ago

Dependancies for DocBook Dox

2000-08-08 Thread Christopher Browne
On Mon, 07 Aug 2000 20:34:00 +0200, the world broke into rejoicing as Niklaus Giger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > e) [I'll need help on this one] Integrating this into the > > existing Makefile.in in a coherent way. > > Here are some snippets from Makefile.in and Makefile.am (taken from

Docs Updates: Exchange rate EUR -> DEM

2000-08-05 Thread Christopher Browne
On Sat, 05 Aug 2000 16:07:24 MST, the world broke into rejoicing as Dave Peticolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > writes: > > It's been rumoured that Heiko Gruebler said: > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I think there is an error in page > > > http://www.gnucash.org/docs/C/xacc-euro.html. > > > >

Re: Australian Cash Granularity

2000-08-04 Thread Christopher Browne
On Fri, 04 Aug 2000 15:57:20 +1000, the world broke into rejoicing as Ben Stanley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Christopher Browne wrote: > > > For all of this, GnuCash has no need for awareness of the $0.05 > > granularity. You record the amount spent, and if that is d

Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

2000-08-03 Thread Christopher Browne
On Fri, 04 Aug 2000 11:16:49 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as Robert Graham Merkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Ben Stanley writes: > > In Australia, we currently have a curious system. The smallest unit of > > currency is 1 cent (AU$ 0.01), which is what bank accounts are kept in. > > Ho

Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

2000-08-02 Thread Christopher Browne
On Wed, 02 Aug 2000 12:54:52 -0400, the world broke into rejoicing as Buddha Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > At 11:25 AM 8/2/00 -0400, Jason Rennie wrote: > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > > I view "$/8 USD" and "$/100 USD" to be -similar- commodities. You > > > can't add or subtract them, but

Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

2000-08-02 Thread Christopher Browne
On Wed, 02 Aug 2000 20:32:44 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as Richard Wackerbarth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Wed, 02 Aug 2000, Buddha Buck wrote: > > > I view "$/8 USD" and "$/100 USD" to be -similar- commodities. You can't > > add or subtract them, but comparison should be possible.

Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

2000-08-02 Thread Christopher Browne
On Wed, 02 Aug 2000 06:53:18 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as Richard Wackerbarth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Tue, 01 Aug 2000, Christopher Browne wrote: > > > > Placing this unification code inside the addition code is a computational > > > burden on

Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

2000-08-01 Thread Christopher Browne
On Tue, 01 Aug 2000 22:32:23 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as Richard Wackerbarth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Tue, 01 Aug 2000, Bill Gribble wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 08:05:04PM -0500, Richard Wackerbarth wrote: > > > 2) The "denominator" may need to be the reciprocal of an inte

Re: gnucash ideas - (fwd)

2000-07-31 Thread Christopher Browne
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000 18:01:32 PDT, the world broke into rejoicing as <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hello - I just discovered gnucash which seems pretty cool! > I'd like to offer any help I can to the effort but my knowledge of > programming is more in the applications language level - like Python, >

Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

2000-07-28 Thread Christopher Browne
On Thu, 27 Jul 2000 19:42:37 -0400, the world broke into rejoicing as Terry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Richard, I'm curious (sometimes fatal :-) ) Bill has put together a fairly > detailed proposal and implementation using rationals. I haven't seen > a similar single discription and correspondin

Re: Tools for the HTML manuals

2000-07-27 Thread Christopher Browne
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000 16:07:36 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as Robert Graham Merkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Christopher Browne writes: > > At some point, I should "steal" access to at least the English > > documentation tree, and turn it into a set

Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

2000-07-27 Thread Christopher Browne
On Thu, 27 Jul 2000 21:48:30 MST, the world broke into rejoicing as Gordon Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi all. > One commentary that I would have with exact values is that > in this (and any I imagine) accounting scheme we are representing > one side of the story, i.e. we don't care what

Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities]

2000-07-27 Thread Christopher Browne
On Wed, 26 Jul 2000 18:07:36 +0100, the world broke into rejoicing as Steven Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Richard Wackerbarth wrote: > > > > On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Terry wrote: > > > Actually - yes - the stock are purchased through dividend > re-investment. > > > The dividend is compute

Re: Tools for the HTML manuals

2000-07-27 Thread Christopher Browne
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000 13:49:56 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as Robert Graham Merkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Niklaus Giger writes: > > Hello, > > > > I am starting the translation of the GnuCash HTML-manuals into german. > > > > Do I just have to copy the doc/html/c/*.html files in

Re: Bulk transaction mover (was: question about importing .qif files)

2000-07-26 Thread Christopher Browne
> > 2. Which of those "walks" are worthy of trying to build a GUI > > in order to make them usable to non-Scheme-gurus? > > Since I don't know scheme (and only know enough lisp > to tweak my .emacs), this is what I would like to see. > Feel free to comment, argue, flame, whatever... > > >

Re: Bulk transaction mover (was: question about importing .qif files)

2000-07-25 Thread Christopher Browne
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000 23:46:47 -0400, the world broke into rejoicing as Jason Rennie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > This sounds like a restricted sort of "find and replace" operation. > > It would be a handy thing to have on its own, not just as a part of a > > QIF importer

Canonical Representation of Commodity Identifiers

2000-07-25 Thread Christopher Browne
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000 20:00:11 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as Jon Trowbridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 05:41:58PM -0500, Bill Gribble wrote: > > 2. gnc_commodity knows the full name of the commodity > > ("International Business Machines", "US Dollars"), plus

Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

2000-07-25 Thread Christopher Browne
On 25 Jul 2000 18:17:35 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Richard Wackerbarth writes: > > Actually, price is a rational and quantity is an integer. (At least in > > the pumps that I helped program) > > I'm not talking about gasoline anymore, but abou

Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

2000-07-25 Thread Christopher Browne
On 25 Jul 2000 09:29:49 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as Bill Gribble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Clark Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I hate to quibble with Gribble :-), but in actuallity the bill establishing > > the Dollar as the U.S. currency (written by Thomas Jefferson) defines

Re: fractional parts

2000-07-19 Thread Christopher Browne
On Wed, 19 Jul 2000 20:28:11 -0400, the world broke into rejoicing as Matthew Lepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I think the way to use this factoid is to define a data type > that uses three integers to represent values: > 1) integer units -- for USD this would be dollars > 2) fractional numera

Re: Multi-Userness

2000-07-18 Thread Christopher Browne
On 18 Jul 2000 22:00:21 -0400, the world broke into rejoicing as Roland Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >>>>> "cbb" == Christopher Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > cbb> A way around this would be to have ONE process devoted to >

Multi-Userness

2000-07-17 Thread Christopher Browne
On 17 Jul 2000 23:30:12 -0400, the world broke into rejoicing as Roland Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > > "jr" == Jason Rennie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > jr> Is GNUCash multi-user? Won't different users store their > jr> accounts in d

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