So is the advice to proceed but raise discrepancies as I find them? Should I file bugzilla tickets against the documentation?
Is there perhaps a place in the ledger3 lineage where documentation and executable are known to be more in sync? Thanks, Wes On Friday, September 6, 2013 6:00:49 PM UTC-5, Craig Earls wrote: > > The thing that is spooking you is trying to demonstrate how the > "bucket" and "apply" commands work. At line 72 you see the command > "apply account Expenses", this tells ledger to stick "Expenses" in > from of every posting account. The "bucket Assets:Checking" at line > 73 command tells ledger to automatically balance any transaction to > the "Assets:Checking", but since the apply command was already in > effect it prepended Expenses to the line. > > This example in very contrived. But you are seeing expected behavior. > > On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Wes Cravens > <[email protected]<javascript:>> > wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm a relative newcomer to ledger3. Up until now I've stuck with the > > relative safety of system packages for my distro. I'd really like to > > contribute but I keep running into things trying to bootstrap that lower > > my confidence. > > > > At the moment I'm struggling with: > > > > wcravens@aberforth:~/Repos/ledger$ ./ledger -f test/input/drewr3.dat > balance > > $ -3,804.00 Assets > > $ 1,396.00 Checking > > $ 30.00 Business > > $ -5,200.00 Savings > > $ 20.00 Books > > $ -1,000.00 Equity:Opening Balances > > $ 6,634.00 Expenses > > $ -5,520.00 Assets:Checking > > $ 11,000.00 Auto > > $ 20.00 Books > > $ 300.00 Escrow > > $ 334.00 Food:Groceries > > $ 500.00 Interest:Mortgage > > $ -2,030.00 Income > > $ -2,000.00 Salary > > $ -30.00 Sales > > $ -63.60 Liabilities > > $ -20.00 MasterCard > > $ 200.00 Mortgage:Principal > > $ -243.60 Tithe > > -------------------- > > $ -243.60 > > > > The Expenses:Assets:Checking is giving me the spooks. > > > > I'm on master commit 0ec4291013bae966df2f5ca504d2216e488cd7ec > > wcravens@aberforth:~/Repos/ledger$ ./ledger --version > > Ledger 3.0.0-20130529, the command-line accounting tool > > > > Any tips for this issue or any other pointers for 'getting started in > > the dev environment' will be appreciated. > > > > Kind Regards, > > > > Wes Cravens > > > > -- > > Wes Cravens, Founding Member > > Moxigen - Oxygen for Moxie > > http://moxigen.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] <javascript:>. > > 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.
