I have pushed updated ledger3.texi and drewr3.dat with some additional minor corrections. So, at least that one is fixed. BTW, you are the first person who noticed it and it has been in there for a year. I don't know if that is good or bad.
On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Craig Earls <[email protected]> wrote: > I think you are right. I am going to pull those lines out of > drewr3.dat and document them some other way. I have struggled with > documenting ledger for the last few years. I am convinced I have the > wrong approach, but I haven't come up with anything better. It is a > deceptively large program. You can get very useful result with very > little effort, but then the complexity of the many, many command-line > options, format commands etc really make it hard to explain > coherently. > > On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Wes Cravens <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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. >> 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 -- Craig, Corona De Tucson, AZ enderw88.wordpress.com -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ledger" group. 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