Cool. Given the knee jerk shock factor that some folks will get from seeing an Expenses:Asset account I have to wonder if drewr3.dat is perhaps too advanced now for a tutorial introduction.
Are there any efforts to make a less steep introduction? If so I wouldn't mind helping / reviewing. Otherwise I'll just press on and circle back to this idea once I have a more comprehensive understanding of all the features. Wes On 9/7/2013 11:59 AM, Craig Earls wrote: > 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 >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> 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. > > > -- 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. 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