I apologize, I should have been more detailed. Section 2.2.1 shows the expected output of a balance report against drewr3.dat. It doesn't match.
Wes On 9/7/2013 11:53 AM, Craig Earls wrote: > I am not sure I understand your last comment. You didn't find a > discrepancy in the documentation. apply and bucket are explained in > there, perhaps not very well, but those commands are documented and > are working as expected. I would love to have a better example if you > would like to provide one, as I said drewr3.dat is very contrived in > order to show lots of features without a huge file. The documentation > has been very stable for a year (I write it). It certainly isn't > complete, but I don't know of any place where it is wrong. > > Craig > > On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Wes Cravens <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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]> 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]. >>>> 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. > > > -- 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]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
