Thanks! That definitely helps. I think the documentation needs updating (documentation being one of my main gripes with ledger). I'd suggest a solution: Host the documentation on wiki, which would allow community to build and keep the documentation up to date. Issues like these for e.g., could be easily marked by the user as "not working", and then updated by someone in the know-how with the right instructions. That collaborative effort on documentation is the only way to keep high quality and easy to understand documentation.
For starters, the wikia service could be used (to avoid the pains of setting up our own): http://www.wikia.com On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 10:07 PM, Brian (bex) Exelbierd <b...@pobox.com> wrote: > > > On Dec 17, 2016, at 6:16 AM, Manish R Jain <manishrj...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > I'm trying to build a budget, following section 9 in the manual. > > http://www.ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html#Budgeting-and-Forecasting > > > > This command is mentioned in the doc to help determine the average > spending per expenses category. But, when I use it, the numbers are out of > whack. They're way too low. > > > > $ ledger -p "this year" --monthly --average balance ^expenses -f > journal.ldg > > > > I've tried other variations like using reg, or setting -b flag instead > of -p. But, doesn't seem to work. > > > > Any ideas, what's going wrong? > > I was literally doing this yesterday as well. I had the same problem. I > "solved" it by doing the math manually. > > $ ledger -p "this year" balance ^expenses -f journal.ldg --amount "amount > / 11.5" > > As I understand this redefines the amount displayed to be the original > amount / 11.5. I chose 11.5 because we are approximately that far through > the year. > > Let me know if that gives you logical values. My transactions are in about > 12 currencies so I'm having trouble verifying them logically. > > This is also exposing a need for me to think about journal organization as > some of these values are "polluted" with data that shouldn't be counted. I > did conversion of data only back to 2016-01-01. The pollution is caused by > my having categorized things like my 2015 tax payment as > Expense:Tax:CZ:Income:2015. Not ideal in retrospect, I think. Still > thinking it through. > > Regards, > > bex > > > -- > > --- > 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 ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > 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 ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
