Oops.  OK, I will fix that.  I fix these as quickly as they are found.
 Sorry for the confusion.

Craig

On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Wes Cravens <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
>>>>>
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