I'm also a newbie here. Having re-read the manual many times, I believe it is quite complete. Personally, what I had problems with was understanding the context in which something was important. Sometimes I would unconsciously think "Oh, that has nothing to do with what I'm doing" and skip over it. This would cause me to swear that the information was not in the manual at all :-) On re-reading, I would discover it and curse myself.
Some tutorials on more complex topics would really make it easier to put a context to a feature. A good example is: http://ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html#Lot-value-expressions I can not understand any situation in which define ten_dollars(s, date, t) = market($10, date, t) 2012-04-10 My Broker Assets:Brokerage:Cash $375.00 Assets:Brokerage -5 AAPL {$50.00} ((ten_dollars)) @@ $375.00 Income:Capital Gains $-125.00 was appropriate. (BTW, I can't get the lambda syntax to work... I'm not sure if it is a bug in the documentation or the code). Of course, winging about lack of documentation is not helpful :-) I'm also keen to help writing documentation when I get more experience. Mike On 22 September 2014 16:55, John Wiegley <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>>> o1bigtenor <[email protected]> writes: > > > I found that the negative sign MUST be just before the number or it is > not > > recognized. Why can I not have it right after the currency symbol say? > > > You cannot at present have "-" separated from the number. > > > Is there a way to put a spacer in larger numbers (like the just previous > > example)? > > Only "," (or "." if you use "," to separate the decimal component). > > > Would there be an easy way to develop a 'guide' or some kind of cheat > sheet > > from some of the things I have had to work my way through these initial > > steps? (See this as one way to pass back to the community.) > > Are there things the manual did not cover? If so, please let us know! > > John > > -- > > --- > 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/d/optout. > -- --- 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/d/optout.
