Vinod Kurup <[email protected]> writes:
> I know the emacs reconcile-mode uses the '!' and '*'.
>
> '*' indicates that the entry has been reconciled
> '!' indicates that the entry is marked to be reconciled, but not yet
> finalized. Once finalized, it is converted to a '*'
>
> Individual accounts can be reconciled with ledger, which explains why
> some entries have a mark (like 'Assets:Current Assets:Checking
> Account' in your first example), but others don't (like
> 'Unspecified').
>
> If *all* the entries in a transaction get reconciled, ledger removes
> the '*' from the front of the individual entries and moves it to the
> beginning of the transaction (the top line) so it will look like this:
>
>    2008/07/01 * CHECK CARD REWARDS ANNUAL FEE
>        Unspecified                  $25.00
>        Assets:Current Assets:Checking Account
>
> Perhaps GnuCash uses a similar syntax and this got converted over for
> you?

Thank you, this helps.  I think GnuCash does not use a similar syntax
per se, but uses similar semantics (represented differently in the GUI,
of course, and who-knows-how in the XML), and that's probably what got
converted over.

I am using ledger.el, so I'll try reconciling and see what happens.

Best,
-Karl

> On Sep 20, 5:03 pm, Karl Fogel <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I just started using Ledger (2.6.2, as packaged in Debian 'testing').
>>
>> I imported data from a GnuCash 2.2.9 file, and the resulting ledger
>> has "!" marks in unexpected places.  For example:
>>
>>   2008/07/01 CHECK CARD REWARDS ANNUAL FEE  
>>       Unspecified                  $25.00
>>       ! Assets:Current Assets:Checking Account              
>>
>>   2008/07/07 MONTHLY MAINTENANCE FEE - NO ONL
>>       Unspecified                   $2.50
>>       ! Assets:Current Assets:Checking Account              
>>
>>   2008/08/06 MONTHLY MAINTENANCE FEE - NO ONL
>>       Unspecified                   $2.50
>>       ! Assets:Current Assets:Checking Account              
>>
>>   2008/08/12 BANK BY MAIL DEPOSIT            
>>       ! Assets:Current Assets:Checking Account       $120.00
>>       Income:Donations:Restricted              
>>
>> A great many of my entries have a "!" on one line or the other (it
>> seems never both, though).
>>
>> The manual athttp://joyful.com/repos/ledger/doc/ledger.htmltalks a
>> little bit about "!" (in section 2.1), but that explanation appears to
>> apply only to the first line -- it doesn't explain what "!"  might
>> mean in the positions where I'm seeing it.  Note that I also see "*"
>> in a similar position sometimes, which indicates that these really are
>> the pending/cleared markers described in section 2.1... perhaps they
>> were just misplaced by the import process?
>>
>> Any hints welcome.
>>
>> -Karl

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