F/OSS software choices: was Creating a statement of account

2017-12-24 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 24 Dec 2017 12:47:51 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepard wrote: > Grahame, > >And that's one of the reasons we run F/OSS software: choices. > There are always multiple ways of accomplishing any task. Quoted For Truth! The absolute truth! Choice and DIY-ability (which is another aspect of choi

Re: Creating a statement of account

2017-12-24 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 24 Dec 2017, Grahame Blackwood wrote: When I started using Scrivener, I didn't know about gnumeric or spreadtab, but I've had Scrivener to hand (for about 30 years) and I used it to do spreadsheety arithmetic in plain text files and in the last 10 years in .tex files. This made it possib

Re: Creating a statement of account

2017-12-24 Thread Grahame Blackwood
Hi Rich When I started using Scrivener, I didn't know about gnumeric or spreadtab, but I've had Scrivener to hand (for about 30 years) and I used it to do spreadsheety arithmetic in plain text files and in the last 10 years in .tex files. This made it possible for me to have typeset documents cont

Re: Creating a statement of account

2017-12-24 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 24 Dec 2017 09:10:25 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepard wrote: >I recently learned that I could use gnumeric to track retainer > payments and draws and have the results automatically reflected in > the LyX article's table, but that involves another application. The > spreadtab package will do t

Re: Creating a statement of account

2017-12-24 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 24 Dec 2017, Grahame Blackwood wrote: I don't use Lyx for invoices or any documents with calculations in them. Instead I use Latex usually (depending on what I am doing) with the letter class adapted for window envelopes and my header. Latex takes care of the typesetting and a program ca

Re: Creating a statement of account

2017-12-24 Thread Grahame Blackwood
Hi Rich I don't use Lyx for invoices or any documents with calculations in them. Instead I use Latex usually (depending on what I am doing) with the letter class adapted for window envelopes and my header. Latex takes care of the typesetting and a program called Scrivener looks after the arithmet

Re: Creating a statement of account [RESOVED]L

2017-12-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 22 Dec 2017 05:47:22 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepard wrote: > On Fri, 22 Dec 2017, Joel Kulesza wrote: > > > I tend to agree with Steve's points. > > Joel, > >I fail to understand why you and Steve think LyX/LaTeX is not > suitable for producing an invoice/statement while a word process

Re: Creating a statement of account

2017-12-22 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 22 Dec 2017, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: my view is that you are using the wrong tool, ie typesetting to do bookkeeping instead of letting the bookkeeping do the typesetting. It seems that no one read what I wrote. Yes, I used to use SQL-Ledger, too, until it died. Now I use GnuCash.

Re: Creating a statement of account

2017-12-22 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Well, my view is that you are using the wrong tool, ie typesetting to do bookkeeping instead of letting the bookkeeping do the typesetting. I use SQL-Ledger which is Open Source in Perl and uses LaTeX to prepare the invoices. I have developed a template with KOMA-Script to my liking and haven't l

Re: Creating a statement of account [RESOVED]L

2017-12-22 Thread Joel Kulesza
On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 10:47 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Fri, 22 Dec 2017, Joel Kulesza wrote: > > I tend to agree with Steve's points. >> > > Joel, > > I fail to understand why you and Steve think LyX/LaTeX is not suitable > for > producing an invoice/statement while a word processor such as

Re: Creating a statement of account [RESOVED]L

2017-12-22 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 22 Dec 2017, Joel Kulesza wrote: I tend to agree with Steve's points. Joel, I fail to understand why you and Steve think LyX/LaTeX is not suitable for producing an invoice/statement while a word processor such as LibreOffice is. I can produce invoices with GnuCash, but they're more

Re: Creating a statement of account

2017-12-22 Thread Joel Kulesza
On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 7:32 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > I'm trying to create an account statement for clients whom I invoice by > time and expense and I'm missing something in my efforts. The statement is > a > running explanation of payments received and charges against those > payments. > I'm

Re: Creating a statement of account

2017-12-20 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 20 Dec 2017 14:32:09 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepard wrote: >I'm trying to create an account statement for clients whom I > invoice by time and expense and I'm missing something in my efforts. > The statement is a running explanation of payments received and > charges against those payments.

Creating a statement of account

2017-12-20 Thread Rich Shepard
I'm trying to create an account statement for clients whom I invoice by time and expense and I'm missing something in my efforts. The statement is a running explanation of payments received and charges against those payments. I'm trying to use the invoice2 package, so far unsuccessfully. The