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.
>>> >
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