If at all possible, please start using 3.0. It is much improved over 2.6 and the support here is much better.
Craig On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Xavier Maillard <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello there, > > I am trying to familiarize again with accounting. I am a real beginner in > that > domain. I read a lot but I do not want to stay stupid and I'd rather ask > you > about help. > > So, I am using ledger 2.6 (and ledger.el off course) on my slackware > GNU/linux > system. As far as I can see, all seems to be ok (I plan to upgrade > slackbuild to latest stable as soon as slackware 14 is released). > > So let's present my present situations. I want to track many accounts: > > - my checking account (on which I also own a credit card) > - my saving accounts > - my "fund" accounts > - my sons' saving accounts > - my "join account" (dunno if it is the good wording; this is a shared > account > with my wife) > > I stupidely entered all my data since june 2012 into my system and > principaly > my personnal account (I do not want to track to much thing without a > good basement :)). > > Today, I would like to know how I could automatically feed my sons accounts > when my salary hits my asset account. > > I thought something like this would work: > > = /^Income:Salaire/ > Assets:Saving:son1 15.00 EUR > Assets:Saving:son2 15.00 EUR > Assets:Join 1000.00 EUR > > but it does not. How would you do this ? > > Second, knowing I do not track these accounts effectively today, could > this be > feeded to virtual accounts and then be switched to "real" accounts ? > What's the best approach ? Does an automatic transaction appear in the > budget ? > > Thank you very much > > Xavier > > > > -- Craig, Corona De Tucson, AZ enderw88.wordpress.com
