Good catch. That’s definitely a documentation bug. I could see why including it in the exceptions makes that sentence appear to read that those are allowed.
Regards, Adrien > On Jul 23, 2019, at 12:26 PM, Colin Law <[email protected]> wrote: > > But "colon" is the default! > > Colin > > On Tue, 23 Jul 2019, 18:16 Adrien Monteleone, > <[email protected]> wrote: > I’m using 3.6 on MacOS. > > It says, emphasis mine: > > A legal value is any single character EXCEPT letters and numbers, or any of > the following strings: “colon” “slash”, “backslash”, “dash” and “period”. > > > There are three missing commas in that list, but the intent is still clear. > The ‘or’ is extending the list of exceptions beyond just “letters and > numbers”. > > > It should probably read for clarity and grammar: > > A legal value is any single character EXCEPT letters, numbers, “colon”, > “slash”, “backslash”, “dash”, and “period”. > > Thus, you cannot use: > > letters > numbers > colon > slash > backslash > dash > period > > Regards, > Adrien > > > > On Jul 23, 2019, at 11:39 AM, Colin Law <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Tue, 23 Jul 2019 at 17:18, Michael Hendry <[email protected]> > > wrote: > >> ... > >> The tooltip on my Mac version of GC 3.5 specifically includes “dash” as > >> one of the legal options. > > > > Same with 3.6 on Ubuntu. The tooltip says "dash" is allowed. I guess > > that is a bug. > > > > Colin > > > _______________________________________________ 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.
