While the creation of those accounts on the fly is probably hard coded to use a dash, what if you created them yourself and used a different spacer in the name, then change your separator character of choice?
Options might be ‘Imbalance_GBP’ or 'Imbalance–GBP’ or ‘Imbalance—GBP’. Those last two might look exactly like ‘Imbalance-GBP’ depending on your e-mail client’s text settings, but they are an en-dash and em-dash respectively, not hyphens. If your keyboard layout is set to ‘Macintosh’ you should be able to generate those by using OPT- and SHIFT+OPT- respectively. First change the account separator back to the default, then edit the names of those accounts, then change the separator to what you want. Then create a test transaction that should attempt to create the Imbalance or Orphan accounts and see if it uses the ones you renamed, or creates new ones with dashes instead. Regards, Adrien > On Jul 23, 2019, at 6:19 AM, Michael Hendry <[email protected]> wrote: > > I’ve tried using “dash” as account separator, as it’s easily accessible with > my left little finger without the need for me to press the shift key (as is > the case with the colon). > > Unfortunately, when I create and unbalanced or orphan transaction, GnuCash > creates a new account (Imbalance-GBP or Orphan-GBP) which breaks the rule > that the separator can’t be used as part of an account name. > > This is OK until the account is closed and re-opened, when GnuCash appears to > have hung, with the Gnucash title-bar bereft of any menu options, and the > Main Window unresponsive. > > I discovered accidentally that the GnuCash splash screen and a dialogue box > warning of the use of the separator character had been obscured by the Main > GnuCash window. > > The latter may be a Mac OS issue (I’m using GC version 3.5 on an iMac with OS > X High Sierra. > > I haven’t found reference to these issues in the bug list - are they > sufficient to warrant notification? > > Regards, > > Michael _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
