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<h2>GnuCash Documentation 2.4.2 released</h2>
<p>The GnuCash documentation team proudly announces release 2.4.2 of
the GnuCash help manual and concepts guide. This documentation is
intended for the 2.4 series of GnuCash.</p>
<h3>Reading the documentation online</h3>
<p>An online version of the documentation is available on the <a
href="http://www.gnucash.org/docs.phtml">Documentation page</a>
of the <a href="http://www.gnucash.org/">GnuCash website</a>. The
2.4.2 documentation can be found under "GnuCash v2.4 (current
stable release)" in multiple languages.</p>
<h3>Getting GnuCash Documentation as pdf</h3>
<p>A pdf version of the documentation available on the <a
href="http://www.gnucash.org/docs.phtml">Documentation page</a>
of the <a href="http://www.gnucash.org/">GnuCash website</a>. The
2.4.2 documentation can be found under "GnuCash v2.4 (current
stable release)" in multiple languages.</p>
<h3>Getting GnuCash Documentation as epub</h3>
<p>A epub version of the documentation available on the <a
href="http://www.gnucash.org/docs.phtml">Documentation page</a>
of the <a href="http://www.gnucash.org/">GnuCash website</a>. The
2.4.2 documentation can be found under "GnuCash v2.4 (current
stable release)" in multiple languages.</p>
<h3>Getting GnuCash Documentation as mobi</h3>
<p>A mobi version of the documentation available on the <a
href="http://www.gnucash.org/docs.phtml">Documentation page</a>
of the <a href="http://www.gnucash.org/">GnuCash website</a>. The
2.4.2 documentation can be found under "GnuCash v2.4 (current
stable release)" in multiple languages.</p>
<h3>Getting GnuCash Documentation as source code</h3>
<p>If you want to compile the GnuCash Documentation 2.4.2 for
yourself, the source code can be downloaded from:</p>
<ul>
<li><a
href="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/gnucash/gnucash-docs-2.4.2.tar.gz">Sourceforge</a></li>
<li>You can also checkout the sources directly from the subversion
repository as <a href="http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Subversion">described
here.</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Changes</h3>
<p>Changes between 2.4.1 and 2.4.2 include</p>
<ul>
<li>Bugs fixed
<ul>
<li>Bug #647197 - Add short note on report customisation</li>
<li>Bug #651498 - Add note about automatic price retrieval</li>
<li>Bug #651886 - Reword and simplify A/P and A/R warnings</li>
<li>Bug #654467 - Proof reading patch and many localized
figures. Thanks to Yasuaki Taniguchi.</li>
<li>Bug #654467 - Add support to relative path for ipaexfont
folder location. Thanks to Yasuaki Taniguchi.</li>
<li>Bug #654467 - Add handling of Japanese font for pdf
generation. Thanks to Yasuaki Taniguchi.</li>
<li>Bug #654467 - Complete the update to Japanese Translation
of the GnuCash guide. Thanks to Yasuaki Taniguchi.</li>
<li>Bug #659147 - Use Loan repayment calculator instead of
financial calculator, fix some minor mistakes and add some
tagging.</li>
<li>Bug #660379 - Add tip and note about customizable register
view and transactions operations.</li>
<li>Bug #660871 - Correct spelling.</li>
<li>Bug #661705 - OMF files not installed at the right place:
yelp doesn't see them</li>
<li>Bug #663208 - New method for running New Account Hierarchy</li>
<li>Bug #664054 - add a note about using Tab key instead of
Enter key for the split in capital gain and losses.</li>
<li>Bug #670354 - [PATCH] Outdated Docs - Assign Starting
Invoice Number</li>
<li>Bug #672668 - Add section explaining how to migrate data.</li>
<li>Bug #684709 - Cumulative patch to backport changes related
to this bug.</li>
<li>Bug #688425 - Fix steps in putting it all together
section.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Translation updates
<ul>
<li>Update Italian translation of help and guide.</li>
<li>Add missing files to help/de../makefile as suggested by
Dominique Leuenberger on IRC.</li>
<li>Add missing xml file for chapter 16 and 17 to Japanese
guide.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>New or improved content
<ul>
<li>Change wording on section Online Assistance</li>
<li>Update in Help_tips Pseudo-symbols that can be used for
TIAA-CREF quotes</li>
<li>Update in Help_tips Yahoo Codes for Exchanges and Markets.
As a side effect, I introduced more GDP conform id's. I
know, I should have done the formating in a separate patch -
sorry for the inconvience.</li>
<li>Update in Help_tips Finance-Quote Sources to FQ 1.17 /
gnc-commodity r22290 Additional change order: Sources
overview before source specific tables</li>
<li>Fix capitalization in GnuCash word.</li>
<li>Small fixes to help files.</li>
<li>Add a non complete section for migrating GnuCash data.</li>
<li>Added item re. line chart for net worth.</li>
<li>guide: Slight clarification in meaning</li>
<li>Fix a typo.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Markup releated changes
<ul>
<li>Fix tags to pass docbook validation.</li>
<li>Some tagging.</li>
<li>Use variable list.</li>
<li>Fix a missing slash.</li>
<li>Add proper markup for app name.</li>
<li>Adjust dpi of help figures for better pdf printing for all
languages using the script documented in
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Documentation_Update_Instructions#Images_and_screenshots">http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Documentation_Update_Instructions#Images_and_screenshots</a>
</li>
<li>Adjust dpi of figures for better pdf printing for all
languages using the script documented in
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Documentation_Update_Instructions#Images_and_screenshots">http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Documentation_Update_Instructions#Images_and_screenshots</a>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Other, non-visible changes
<ul>
<li>Update AUTHORS and NEWS</li>
<li>Clean up the revision history list</li>
<li>Copyright and contact changes - Remove Yawar's e-mail
adress from the author's listing (on his request) - Remove
my e-mail address from the author's listing - Transfer my
copyrights to the GnuCash Documentation team. I don't need
personal copyright assignment. - Start adding an e-mail
address for the publisher (using <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:gnucash-user@gnucash.org">gnucash-user@gnucash.org</a>)</li>
<li>Make sure images are found when generating pdf out of tree</li>
<li>Add comment about modifications in xmldoc.make</li>
<li>Add links for backwards compatibility with older yelp
versions This is a follow up on r22373 which fixes the help
file locations for newer yelp versions. That fix was
incompatible with older yelp versions. With the links in
place, both old and new yelp versions should properly find
the help files. This change is deliberately committed to the
2.4 branch only. It is expected that the older yelp versions
won't be used anymore by the time the current trunk gets
stable.</li>
<li>Makefile cleanups</li>
<li>Update README: Debian packaging, non-latin PDF. Explain
the different way to contact the team. Add a few pointer to
related documents.</li>
<li>Fix out of tree build</li>
<li>Clean up indentation</li>
<li>Add openSUSEs font path for local installed IPA*.ttf</li>
<li>XML conversion: mark old step as for pre-2.0 files only</li>
<li>Fix uninstall error introduced by r21467</li>
<li>Fix commits of SASAKI Suguru patches for epub and mobi
generation.</li>
<li>Patch by SASAKI Suguru - Implement mobi generation target.</li>
<li>Patch by SASAKI Suguru - Implement epub generation target</li>
<li>Add svnlog2ul script tailored to gnucash-docs</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>About the Program</h3>
<p>GnuCash is a free, open source accounting program released under
the GNU General Public License (GPL) and available for GNU/Linux,
*BSD, Solaris, Mac OSX and Microsoft Windows. Programming on
GnuCash began in 1997, and its first stable release was in 1998.</p>
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