With respect to patches, if I have ignored any documentation patches I am sorry, I completely missed them. As far as building the docs, cd into the docs directory and run the gendocs script ../tools/gendocs.sh
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Charles Merriam <[email protected]> wrote: > So, is the answer to figure out how to optimize the ledger entries? > > So if I had: > > 2013/1/1 Safeway > Expenses:Groceries $23.00 > Liabilities:Chase Visa -$23.00 > > and I add: > > account Expenses:Groceries > alias grocs > > account Liabilities:Chase Visa > alias visa > > should a sort give: > > 2013/1/1 Safeway > grocs $23.00 ; using the alias I just added > visa ; balance the transaction shortcut > > This does open up the can of worms: how should a ledger file look? > is one better? when to add a bucket? > > I guess I looked at documentation as the low hanging fruit, but failed > to figure out its build system in a day. It is unclear how welcome > little fixes are, and I get tired of making patches that get ignored. > > On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 9:36 AM, Russell Adams > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Craig, >> >> As much as I love ledger, I've moved my expenses back to Excel using a >> giant T chart. I spent about 3 months trying to write a database >> oriented ledger-like expense reporting system, and failed miserably at >> the UI layer. So I wouldn't get any use out of the tool you propose. >> >> Ledger's major flexibility is the text file format and the ability to >> hand craft optimized ledgers. That is also it's downside in large >> volumes of verbose (non-optimal) transactions quickly become unwieldy. >> >> Sorting and narrowing (queries) are both related to data management, >> and I'm not sure how that should be accomplished in the text files >> while staying synchronized with version control tools. >> >> I think a simple sort that may break hand optimized ledgers would be >> ok if it raised an error on a break (ie: if txn count and balances >> changed after sort, raise error). A tool like that should be easy to >> implement. >> >> Otherwise it comes back to the debate on txn storage. >> >> Thanks. >> >> On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 09:19:28AM -0700, Craig Earls wrote: >>> So, is there any interest in this project? If not I won't waste my time. >>> >>> On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Craig Earls <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > My transactions are also all atomic. With the exception of a few >>> > virtual transactions at the top order does no matter. >>> > >>> > On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 1:17 PM, Russell Adams >>> > <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >> I can see the point where commands which apply across many >>> >> transactions (a manual optimization) are broken by sorting. My data >>> >> has always been verbose and each txn is atomic, so sorting wasn't an >>> >> issue. >>> >> >>> >> Thanks. >>> > >>> > -- >>> > Craig, Corona De Tucson, AZ >>> > enderw88.wordpress.com >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Craig, Corona De Tucson, AZ >>> enderw88.wordpress.com >>> >>> -- >>> >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "Ledger" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Russell Adams [email protected] >> >> PGP Key ID: 0x1160DCB3 http://www.adamsinfoserv.com/ >> >> Fingerprint: 1723 D8CA 4280 1EC9 557F 66E8 1154 E018 1160 DCB3 >> >> -- >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "Ledger" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/ledger-cli/WsIPp_6sn_k/unsubscribe. >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ledger" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- Craig, Corona De Tucson, AZ enderw88.wordpress.com -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ledger" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
