r19896 - gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C - Use ’ entity instead of "'"
Cristian Marchi
cmarchi at code.gnucash.org
Tue Nov 30 08:09:47 EST 2010
Author: cmarchi
Date: 2010-11-30 08:09:46 -0500 (Tue, 30 Nov 2010)
New Revision: 19896
Trac: http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/changeset/19896
Modified:
gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/appendixa.xml
gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/appendixb.xml
gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/appendixc.xml
gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/appendixd.xml
gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/ch_accts.xml
gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/ch_budgets.xml
gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/ch_bus_ap.xml
gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/ch_bus_ar.xml
gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/ch_bus_pay.xml
gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/ch_capgain.xml
gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/ch_cbook.xml
gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/ch_cc.xml
gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/ch_currency.xml
gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/ch_dep.xml
gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/ch_invest.xml
gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/ch_loans.xml
gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/ch_oview.xml
gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/ch_txns.xml
gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/fdl-appendix.xml
Log:
Use ’ entity instead of "'"
Modified: gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/appendixa.xml
===================================================================
--- gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/appendixa.xml 2010-11-30 03:27:19 UTC (rev 19895)
+++ gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/appendixa.xml 2010-11-30 13:09:46 UTC (rev 19896)
@@ -55,14 +55,14 @@
given a properly written stylesheet.</para>
<para>A few steps need to be followed. The writing of a stylesheet is a task
-for a different time, but if you can get one written, here's what you
+for a different time, but if you can get one written, here’s what you
need to do:</para>
<orderedlist>
<listitem>
- <para>Copy the <application>&app;</application> to a working file. Modify the working file's
-<gnc-v2> tag to read something like what's below. Note that you can
+ <para>Copy the <application>&app;</application> to a working file. Modify the working file’s
+<gnc-v2> tag to read something like what’s below. Note that you can
pretty much put anything you want in the '="..."' part; I used the URL
-because it's traditional (if such can be said about such a young
+because it’s traditional (if such can be said about such a young
technology!).</para>
<literallayout>
<gnc-v2 xmlns:cd="http://www.gnucash.org/XML/cd"
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Create an XSLT stylesheet containing the transformation your desire,
-or obtain one that's already written (AFAIK, there aren't any, but I'm
+or obtain one that’s already written (AFAIK, there aren’t any, but I'm
working on a CSV one).</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Run the work file and the stylesheet through the processor according
-to the processor's instructions.</para>
+to the processor’s instructions.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>You will now have a file in the desired output format. An
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
-<para>Benefits are that you don't need to write a Scheme module or a new C
+<para>Benefits are that you don’t need to write a Scheme module or a new C
routine to do this transformation. Anyone who knows or can learn XML
and XSLT can perform this task. Not much harder, really, than writing a
Web page....</para>
Modified: gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/appendixb.xml
===================================================================
--- gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/appendixb.xml 2010-11-30 03:27:19 UTC (rev 19895)
+++ gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/appendixb.xml 2010-11-30 13:09:46 UTC (rev 19896)
@@ -17,8 +17,8 @@
<title>Sources of Information</title>
<sect2 id="appendixb_info_where">
- <title>Q: Where's the FAQ?</title>
- <para>A: You're looking at it. The most up-to-date copy can be found <ulink url="http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ">within the <application>&app;</application> Wiki</ulink>.</para>
+ <title>Q: Where’s the FAQ?</title>
+ <para>A: You’re looking at it. The most up-to-date copy can be found <ulink url="http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ">within the <application>&app;</application> Wiki</ulink>.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="appendixb_info_mail">
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
<sect2 id="appendixb_general_hard2compile">
<title>Q: I heard it is too hard to compile <application>&app;</application>!</title>
- <para>A: This was probably true at the time when 1.6.0 was released. It is no longer true today, as almost every distribution ships with all the necessary libraries (except g-wrap, which means there is in fact "one" extra library to be installed before compiling <application>&app;</application>). However, by default, distributions won't install the development packages of the required libraries, so you might need to start your distribution's installer program and tell it to install not only the library packages but also the -devel packages. In general, it was noted that this problem concerns many applications in the gnome domain, and this also boils down to the fact that there is no such thing as "one monolithic gnome package".</para>
+ <para>A: This was probably true at the time when 1.6.0 was released. It is no longer true today, as almost every distribution ships with all the necessary libraries (except g-wrap, which means there is in fact "one" extra library to be installed before compiling <application>&app;</application>). However, by default, distributions won’t install the development packages of the required libraries, so you might need to start your distribution’s installer program and tell it to install not only the library packages but also the -devel packages. In general, it was noted that this problem concerns many applications in the gnome domain, and this also boils down to the fact that there is no such thing as "one monolithic gnome package".</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="appendixb_general_batchmode">
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
<sect2 id="appendixb_general_multuser">
<title>Q: Can multiple people access the same datafile in <application>&app;</application>?</title>
<para>A: You can have multiple people with access to the same datafile, but they cannot use the data file simultaneously.</para>
- <para>To setup multi-person access, all the people must have read/write access to the directory containing the file (to read the other's created files, and to create new files). One way to do this is by creating a user group and setting the data directory to be owned by the shared group and set to mode 2775. The '2' makes the directory setgid which copies the permissions to all files.</para>
+ <para>To setup multi-person access, all the people must have read/write access to the directory containing the file (to read the other’s created files, and to create new files). One way to do this is by creating a user group and setting the data directory to be owned by the shared group and set to mode 2775. The '2' makes the directory setgid which copies the permissions to all files.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="appendixb_general_WhyC">
@@ -68,13 +68,13 @@
</sect2>
<sect2 id="appendixb_general_rewrite">
- <title>Q: Why don't you rewrite <application>&app;</application> in programming language xyz so that I can contribute easily?</title>
- <para>A: The quick answer is "We won't". The longer answer is complex but still amounts to "We won't". <application>&app;</application> is a large body of code maintained by a small group of developers who are comfortable in C and Scheme (Guile). Actually, 80% of it is in C and approx. 13% is in Scheme/Lisp. There is no valid reason that would justify rewriting this amount of existing code in a newer language. Also, creating language bindings to recent languages such as Python or Ruby or (insert your favourite language here) is labor intensive, and we're already stretched pretty thin maintaining and developing the existing code.</para>
- <para>Having said that, this is an open source project and you're free to do with it or contribute what you want. Just don't expect much support if the reason for your changes is that you're not willing to learn C or Scheme. Also, <application>&app;</application> used to have SWIG bindings (<ulink url="http://www.swig.org"></ulink>) which have been used for some perl programming code. According to a list discussion, these SWIG bindings might still be a way to include other languages into <application>&app;</application>, but currently they are unused and unmaintained.</para>
+ <title>Q: Why don’t you rewrite <application>&app;</application> in programming language xyz so that I can contribute easily?</title>
+ <para>A: The quick answer is "We won’t". The longer answer is complex but still amounts to "We won’t". <application>&app;</application> is a large body of code maintained by a small group of developers who are comfortable in C and Scheme (Guile). Actually, 80% of it is in C and approx. 13% is in Scheme/Lisp. There is no valid reason that would justify rewriting this amount of existing code in a newer language. Also, creating language bindings to recent languages such as Python or Ruby or (insert your favourite language here) is labor intensive, and we’re already stretched pretty thin maintaining and developing the existing code.</para>
+ <para>Having said that, this is an open source project and you’re free to do with it or contribute what you want. Just don’t expect much support if the reason for your changes is that you’re not willing to learn C or Scheme. Also, <application>&app;</application> used to have SWIG bindings (<ulink url="http://www.swig.org"></ulink>) which have been used for some perl programming code. According to a list discussion, these SWIG bindings might still be a way to include other languages into <application>&app;</application>, but currently they are unused and unmaintained.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="appendixb_general_newFeatures">
- <title>Q: I really want feature XYZ but <application>&app;</application> doesn't have it. How do I get it added?</title>
+ <title>Q: I really want feature XYZ but <application>&app;</application> doesn’t have it. How do I get it added?</title>
<para>A: Ask nicely. :-) You can file an enhancement request at <ulink url="http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=&app;"></ulink>. Please bear in mind to describe your proposed enhancement as verbosely as possible. The trick here is to learn how to give the best information to the programmers about what your proposed new feature should do. If you want to speed up development significantly, consider donating some money as described on <application>&app;</application>Development.</para>
</sect2>
@@ -90,13 +90,13 @@
<sect2 id="appendixb_software_contribute">
<title>Q: How can I contribute to the <application>&app;</application> project?</title>
- <para>A: We're working on a more formal process, but for now you should subscribe to the mailing list at <ulink url="http://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user">http://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user</ulink> and <ulink url="http://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel">http://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel</ulink> and discuss what you can contribute with the participants on the lists. Please be aware that <application>&app;</application> is a large body of code written in C and Scheme (see the FAQ above, "Why is <application>&app;</application> written in C?" if you want to know why). If these are languages that you are not willing to work with, consider contributing in other ways.</para>
+ <para>A: We’re working on a more formal process, but for now you should subscribe to the mailing list at <ulink url="http://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user">http://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user</ulink> and <ulink url="http://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel">http://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel</ulink> and discuss what you can contribute with the participants on the lists. Please be aware that <application>&app;</application> is a large body of code written in C and Scheme (see the FAQ above, "Why is <application>&app;</application> written in C?" if you want to know why). If these are languages that you are not willing to work with, consider contributing in other ways.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 id="appendixb_software_bugs">
<title>Q: I think I found a bug. How do I report it?</title>
<para>A: First of all, try to verify that it is indeed a bug and that it has not been reported before. Search the mail list archives (see FAQ above). Then search the <ulink url="http://bugzilla.gnome.org">Gnome Bugzilla</ulink> database.</para>
- <para>If you feel you have indeed found a bug, you can then report it at <ulink url="http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=&app;"></ulink>. Please bear in mind to report your bug as verbosely as possible. The trick here is to learn how to give the best information to the programmers about how to reproduce bugs. A Programmer will usually only be able to fix a bug they can see, if you can't make the programmer see your bug, it won't get fixed!</para>
+ <para>If you feel you have indeed found a bug, you can then report it at <ulink url="http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=&app;"></ulink>. Please bear in mind to report your bug as verbosely as possible. The trick here is to learn how to give the best information to the programmers about how to reproduce bugs. A Programmer will usually only be able to fix a bug they can see, if you can’t make the programmer see your bug, it won’t get fixed!</para>
</sect2>
</sect1>
Modified: gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/appendixc.xml
===================================================================
--- gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/appendixc.xml 2010-11-30 03:27:19 UTC (rev 19895)
+++ gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/appendixc.xml 2010-11-30 13:09:46 UTC (rev 19896)
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@
Equity [Q]
|___ Corp Tax
- |___ Director's Loan
+ |___ Director’s Loan
|___ Dividends
| |___ Director1
| |___ Director2
Modified: gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/appendixd.xml
===================================================================
--- gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/appendixd.xml 2010-11-30 03:27:19 UTC (rev 19895)
+++ gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/appendixd.xml 2010-11-30 13:09:46 UTC (rev 19896)
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@
<entry>Filename_<emphasis>n</emphasis></entry>
<entry>string</entry>
<entry>optional</entry>
- <entry>This field is only used when the item type is <emphasis>PICTURE</emphasis>. It specifies the filename of the image that should be printed on the check. The string may specify either an absolute path name or as a relative path name. If a relative path name is specified, <application>&app;</application> first looks in in the application check format folder (typically /usr/share/gnucash/checks) for the image file, and if it isn't found there then it looks in the user private ~/.gnucash/checks directory for the image. This field is only recognized when using gtk version 2.10 or later.</entry>
+ <entry>This field is only used when the item type is <emphasis>PICTURE</emphasis>. It specifies the filename of the image that should be printed on the check. The string may specify either an absolute path name or as a relative path name. If a relative path name is specified, <application>&app;</application> first looks in in the application check format folder (typically /usr/share/gnucash/checks) for the image file, and if it isn’t found there then it looks in the user private ~/.gnucash/checks directory for the image. This field is only recognized when using gtk version 2.10 or later.</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>Blocking_Chars_<emphasis>n</emphasis></entry>
@@ -406,7 +406,7 @@
<title>Creating Check Format Files</title>
<para>Creating your own check format file is a fairly simple task. The easiest way to start is to copy an existing check format file from the application directory (typically /usr/share/gnucash/checks) to the directory ~/.gnucash/checks. Make sure to change the guid so the new file will be accepted by gnucash, and change the title to something descriptive. Then change or add individual item fields as necessary. You can also create a new check file by clicking the <guilabel>Save Format</guilabel> button on the "Custom format" page of the check printing dialog.</para>
<note>
- <para>Key names are case sensitive. If you're having problems with a check format file, ensure that all key names have capital letters as documented above.</para>
+ <para>Key names are case sensitive. If you’re having problems with a check format file, ensure that all key names have capital letters as documented above.</para>
</note>
</sect2>
</sect1>
Modified: gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/ch_accts.xml
===================================================================
--- gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/ch_accts.xml 2010-11-30 03:27:19 UTC (rev 19895)
+++ gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/ch_accts.xml 2010-11-30 13:09:46 UTC (rev 19896)
@@ -31,10 +31,10 @@
<guilabel>Liabilities</guilabel>, <guilabel>Equity</guilabel>,
<guilabel>Income</guilabel> and <guilabel>Expenses</guilabel>. We will now
expand on our understanding of these account types, and show how they are
- represented in <application>&app;</application>. But first, let's divide them into 2 groups, the
+ represented in <application>&app;</application>. But first, let’s divide them into 2 groups, the
balance sheet accounts and the income and expense accounts.</para>
- <para>Let's have a quick look at the Accounting Equation (<emphasis>Assets
+ <para>Let’s have a quick look at the Accounting Equation (<emphasis>Assets
- Liabilities = Equity + (Income - Expenses)</emphasis>) again as a
reminder, before we go deeper into each account type.</para>
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@
<para>This section will show how the <application>&app;</application> definition of an account fits
into the view of the 5 basic accounting types.</para>
- <para>But first, let's begin with a definition of an
+ <para>But first, let’s begin with a definition of an
<guilabel>account</guilabel> in <application>&app;</application>. A <application>&app;</application>
<guilabel>account</guilabel> is an entity which contains other
sub-accounts, or that contains <guilabel>transactions</guilabel>. Since an
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@
<listitem>
<para><guilabel>Stock</guilabel> Track your individual stocks and
- bonds using this type of account. The stock account's register
+ bonds using this type of account. The stock account’s register
provides extra columns for entering number of shares and price of
your investment. With these types of assets, you may not be able to
easily convert them to cash unless you can find a buyer, and you are
@@ -405,13 +405,13 @@
<sect1 id="accts-examples1">
<title>Putting It All Together</title>
- <para>Let's go through the process of building a common personal finance
+ <para>Let’s go through the process of building a common personal finance
<emphasis>chart of accounts</emphasis> using the information we have
learned from this chapter. A chart of accounts is simply a new <application>&app;</application>
file in which you group your accounts to track your finances. In building
this chart of accounts, the first task is to divide the items you want to
track into the basic account types of accounting. This is fairly simple,
- let's go through an example.</para>
+ let’s go through an example.</para>
<sect2 id="accts-examples-situation2">
<title>Simple Example</title>
Modified: gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/ch_budgets.xml
===================================================================
--- gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/ch_budgets.xml 2010-11-30 03:27:19 UTC (rev 19895)
+++ gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/ch_budgets.xml 2010-11-30 13:09:46 UTC (rev 19896)
@@ -85,10 +85,10 @@
<sect1 id="budget_creation1">
<title>Creating a Budget</title>
- <para>Even before you begin to make a budget, it's important to
+ <para>Even before you begin to make a budget, it’s important to
have given some thought to your account hierarchy. For example, if
you want to budget a certain amount for your electric bill and a
- certain amount for your water bill, you can't have only an
+ certain amount for your water bill, you can’t have only an
Expenses:Utilities account. Your accounts must be at least as
specific as your budget. </para>
@@ -107,12 +107,12 @@
<para>Before you begin to create your budget, you need to make
two decisions: What accounts do I want to budget for? and When
do I want my budget to be for? You can always change your mind
- later, after you've created a budget, but you need to start with
+ later, after you’ve created a budget, but you need to start with
something.</para>
<tip><para>As a rule of thumb, if you mostly care about
<emphasis>what</emphasis> you spend your money on, you may want
- to make an expense report. If you're also concerned about having
+ to make an expense report. If you’re also concerned about having
enough money in the right places at the right times, you may want
to use a cash-flow budget.</para></tip>
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@
<sect1 id="budget_reporting1">
<title>Budget Reporting</title>
- <para>You've already done the hardest part - creating your budget.
+ <para>You’ve already done the hardest part - creating your budget.
But now you want to know how your actual financial transactions
compare to your plan. You need to run the Budget Report.</para>
<para>Click on <menuchoice><guimenu>Reports</guimenu><guisubmenu>Budget</guisubmenu>
Modified: gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/ch_bus_ap.xml
===================================================================
--- gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/ch_bus_ap.xml 2010-11-30 03:27:19 UTC (rev 19895)
+++ gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/ch_bus_ap.xml 2010-11-30 13:09:46 UTC (rev 19896)
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
well with your particular situation. It should be close enough that it
is recommended you begin with it.</para>
- <para>Accounts Payable (or A/P) refers to products or services bought by your company for which payment has not yet been sent. This is represented on the balance sheet as a liability because you will have to pay for them. To use <application>&app;</application>'s integrated accounts payable system, you must first setup an account of the <emphasis>A/Payable</emphasis> type. The <emphasis>A/Payable</emphasis> account is usually a sub-account under Liabilities. It is within this account that the integrated A/P system places transactions.</para>
+ <para>Accounts Payable (or A/P) refers to products or services bought by your company for which payment has not yet been sent. This is represented on the balance sheet as a liability because you will have to pay for them. To use <application>&app;</application>’s integrated accounts payable system, you must first setup an account of the <emphasis>A/Payable</emphasis> type. The <emphasis>A/Payable</emphasis> account is usually a sub-account under Liabilities. It is within this account that the integrated A/P system places transactions.</para>
<literallayout>
Basic A/P Account Hierarchy:
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>Enter your company's tax payer id number in the
+ <para>Enter your company’s tax payer id number in the
<guilabel>Company ID</guilabel> field.</para>
</listitem>
@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@
<para><guilabel>Payment Address - Name</guilabel> - is the contact name of the person to receive payments you make.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para><guilabel>Notes</guilabel> - records any additional comments about the vendor. Use it to track names of contact people within the vendor's company, for example.</para>
+ <para><guilabel>Notes</guilabel> - records any additional comments about the vendor. Use it to track names of contact people within the vendor’s company, for example.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><guilabel>Payment Information - Currency</guilabel> - specifies the default payment currency.</para>
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@
<para>When you receive a bill from a vendor and want to enter it into <application>&app;</application>, you must create a new bill. To create a new bill use the <menuchoice><guimenu>Business</guimenu><guisubmenu>Vendor</guisubmenu><guimenuitem>New Bill</guimenuitem></menuchoice> menu item, and fill in the resulting window appropriately.</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
- <para><guilabel>Invoice Info - Invoice ID</guilabel> (optional) - the identification number of the invoice as emitted by the vendor (IE: the vendor's internal number for this invoice).</para>
+ <para><guilabel>Invoice Info - Invoice ID</guilabel> (optional) - the identification number of the invoice as emitted by the vendor (IE: the vendor’s internal number for this invoice).</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><guilabel>Invoice Info - Date Opened</guilabel> - the date the Invoice was emitted by the vendor.</para>
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@
<para><guilabel>Billing Info - Job</guilabel> (optional) - associates a vendor job with this bill. Vendor jobs are described in the following section.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para><guilabel>Billing Info - Billing ID</guilabel> (optional) - the vendor's ID for the bill (e.g.: their invoice #).</para>
+ <para><guilabel>Billing Info - Billing ID</guilabel> (optional) - the vendor’s ID for the bill (e.g.: their invoice #).</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><guilabel>Billing Info - Terms</guilabel> - the pay back terms agreement for this bill. A list of registered terms is available within the pop up menu. If you specified a a default value for the selected vendor, this field is initialized with the default.</para>
@@ -447,7 +447,7 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para><guilabel>Owner Info - Billing ID</guilabel> - the vendor's
+ <para><guilabel>Owner Info - Billing ID</guilabel> - the vendor’s
reference to this job (e.g. their PO Number).</para>
</listitem>
Modified: gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/ch_bus_ar.xml
===================================================================
--- gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/ch_bus_ar.xml 2010-11-30 03:27:19 UTC (rev 19895)
+++ gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/ch_bus_ar.xml 2010-11-30 13:09:46 UTC (rev 19896)
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@
<para>Accounts Receivable (or A/R) refers to products or services
provided by the company on credit for which payment has not yet been
received. This is represented on the balance sheet as an asset, because
- you expect to receive payment soon. To use <application>&app;</application>'s integrated accounts
+ you expect to receive payment soon. To use <application>&app;</application>’s integrated accounts
receivable system, you must first set up an account (usually a
sub-account under Assets) defined with account type
<emphasis>A/Receivable</emphasis>. It is within this account that the
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>Enter your company's tax payer id number in the
+ <para>Enter your company’s tax payer id number in the
<guilabel>Company ID</guilabel> field.</para>
</listitem>
@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para><guilabel>Shipping Address</guilabel> - records the customer's
+ <para><guilabel>Shipping Address</guilabel> - records the customer’s
shipping address if it is different from the billing address. The
shipping address is for your reference. <application>&app;</application> does not use the
value.</para>
@@ -384,7 +384,7 @@
<listitem>
<para><guilabel>Billing Information - Billing ID</guilabel> - this
- is the customer's PO Number or other "customer reference number".
+ is the customer’s PO Number or other "customer reference number".
You should use it to identify your invoices to this customer (and
job, if you have one).</para>
</listitem>
@@ -690,7 +690,7 @@
<guilabel>Unpost</guilabel> it.</para>
</note>
- <para>One of the design goals in <application>&app;</application>'s Account Receivable system was
+ <para>One of the design goals in <application>&app;</application>’s Account Receivable system was
to allow different processes to get to the same state, so you can reach
an invoice from different directions based on the way you think about
the problem:</para>
@@ -832,7 +832,7 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para><guilabel>Owner Info - Billing ID</guilabel> - the customer's
+ <para><guilabel>Owner Info - Billing ID</guilabel> - the customer’s
reference to this job (e.g. their PO Number). This is the "Billing
Identification" that they require to correlated your invoices with
their order. The Billing ID you enter is used to set the billing id
Modified: gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/ch_bus_pay.xml
===================================================================
--- gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/ch_bus_pay.xml 2010-11-30 03:27:19 UTC (rev 19895)
+++ gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/ch_bus_pay.xml 2010-11-30 13:09:46 UTC (rev 19896)
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
<para>Local tax law must be considered when setting up accounts. Because there are many different ways payroll taxes are handled throughout the world, this section presents a very simple structure. From this, you should be able to adapt your particular payroll deductions setup.</para>
<para>Assume that you must pay 2 taxes, Tax1 and Tax2 and that each has an employee contributed and an employer contributed component.</para>
- <para>The employee's salary and these two taxes are expense accounts. The tax components are liability accounts. The tax liability accounts are where you accumulate the taxes withheld for all of your employees. The taxes are later paid to the appropriate government agency.</para>
+ <para>The employee’s salary and these two taxes are expense accounts. The tax components are liability accounts. The tax liability accounts are where you accumulate the taxes withheld for all of your employees. The taxes are later paid to the appropriate government agency.</para>
<para>
<literallayout>
Simple Payroll Account Layout:
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<note>
- <para>The employee's net salary (E_NET_SALARY) is defined as E_GROSS_SALARY - E_TAX1 - E_TAX2 and need not be placed in this list since it is composed of items that already exist.</para>
+ <para>The employee’s net salary (E_NET_SALARY) is defined as E_GROSS_SALARY - E_TAX1 - E_TAX2 and need not be placed in this list since it is composed of items that already exist.</para>
</note>
<para>Place the actual formulas for calculating each deduction in this list. Sometimes these formulas are quite complex, and sometimes they simply say "look it up in table XYZ of the tax codes".</para>
<para>Notice that you can calculate some interesting values using the above definitions. One such value is the total cost to the company: E_GROSS_SALARY + C_TAX1 + C_TAX2.</para>
@@ -136,8 +136,8 @@
<para>Go to the account from which the employee will be paid, for example your Assets:Checking account. Open a split transaction and enter the real values using the Transaction Map above as a guide. Repeat this for all employees.</para>
<tip>
<para>This manual process is tedious, especially if you have a large number of employees.</para>
- <para>One <application>&app;</application> tool you certainly want use when entering employee payroll is duplicate transaction (use the <guibutton>Duplicate</guibutton> tool bar button). This saves you from having to enter all the transaction splits for each employee. You still need to change the amounts of money to match each employee's real payroll values, but you will not have to build the split for each employee.</para>
- <para>If payroll transactions do not change significantly every pay period, you can also use the duplicate transaction feature to duplicate each employee's most recent payroll transaction for the current pay period. If you find you are doing so all the time, read about the Schedule Transactions feature and save even more time!</para>
+ <para>One <application>&app;</application> tool you certainly want use when entering employee payroll is duplicate transaction (use the <guibutton>Duplicate</guibutton> tool bar button). This saves you from having to enter all the transaction splits for each employee. You still need to change the amounts of money to match each employee’s real payroll values, but you will not have to build the split for each employee.</para>
+ <para>If payroll transactions do not change significantly every pay period, you can also use the duplicate transaction feature to duplicate each employee’s most recent payroll transaction for the current pay period. If you find you are doing so all the time, read about the Schedule Transactions feature and save even more time!</para>
</tip>
</sect2>
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@
<sect1 id="bus-pay-example1">
<title>Example</title>
- <para>Using the account setup seen previously, let's go through an example. Assume that there are 2 employees (E1 and E2) which each earn $1000 per month gross salary. The employee contribution to Tax1 and Tax2 are 10% and 5% respectively. The company contribution to Tax1 and Tax2 are 15% and 10% each on top of the employees gross salary.</para>
+ <para>Using the account setup seen previously, let’s go through an example. Assume that there are 2 employees (E1 and E2) which each earn $1000 per month gross salary. The employee contribution to Tax1 and Tax2 are 10% and 5% respectively. The company contribution to Tax1 and Tax2 are 15% and 10% each on top of the employees gross salary.</para>
<para>Staring with $50k in the bank, and before doing any payroll, the account hierarchy looks like this:</para>
<screenshot id="bus-pay-ex1">
<mediaobject>
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@
</screenshot>
<tip>
- <para>When paying employees, enter only the employee name in the Description area. If you decide to use <application>&app;</application>'s check printing capabilities, the check is automatically made out to the correct employee. If you want to record other information in the transaction besides the employee name, use the Notes area, available when viewing the Register in double-line mode.</para>
+ <para>When paying employees, enter only the employee name in the Description area. If you decide to use <application>&app;</application>’s check printing capabilities, the check is automatically made out to the correct employee. If you want to record other information in the transaction besides the employee name, use the Notes area, available when viewing the Register in double-line mode.</para>
</tip>
<para>Repeat this for the second employee, which leaves the account hierarchy looking like this:</para>
Modified: gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/ch_capgain.xml
===================================================================
--- gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/ch_capgain.xml 2010-11-30 03:27:19 UTC (rev 19895)
+++ gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/ch_capgain.xml 2010-11-30 13:09:46 UTC (rev 19896)
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@
<sect1 id="capgain_example1">
<title>Example</title>
- <para>Let's suppose you buy an asset expected to increase in value, say a
+ <para>Let’s suppose you buy an asset expected to increase in value, say a
Degas painting, and want to track this. (The insurance company will care
about this, even if nobody else does.)</para>
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@
<sect2 id="capgain_examplesell2">
<title>Selling</title>
- <para>Let's suppose another month later prices for Degas paintings have
+ <para>Let’s suppose another month later prices for Degas paintings have
gone up some more, in this case about $20,000, you estimate. You duly
record the $20,000 as an unrealized income like above, then decide to
sell the painting.</para>
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@
<para><emphasis>Accurate estimation</emphasis> of unrealized
gain.</para>
- <para>Your optimistic estimate of the painting's value was correct.
+ <para>Your optimistic estimate of the painting’s value was correct.
First you must record that the profits made are now realized gains,
not unrealized gains. Do this by transferring the income from the
"Income:Unrealized Gains" to the "Income:Realized Gains"
Modified: gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/ch_cbook.xml
===================================================================
--- gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/ch_cbook.xml 2010-11-30 03:27:19 UTC (rev 19895)
+++ gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/ch_cbook.xml 2010-11-30 13:09:46 UTC (rev 19896)
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
For instructions on importing your accounts from another program, refer to
<xref linkend="basics-import1"></xref>.</para>
- <para>Let's start with the bank accounts you'll need. You need one <application>&app;</application>
+ <para>Let’s start with the bank accounts you’ll need. You need one <application>&app;</application>
bank type account for each physical bank account you wish to track. If you
are setting up your own accounts or using the default <application>&app;</application> accounts,
make sure that you have an opening balance transaction for each bank
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@
<title>Entering Deposits</title>
<para>Most deposit transactions are entered as a transfer from an income
- account to a bank account. Income may come from many sources, and it's a
+ account to a bank account. Income may come from many sources, and it’s a
good idea to set up a separate income type account for each different
source. For example, your income may come mainly from your paychecks, but
you may also receive interest on your savings. In this case, you should
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@
<para>Cash accounts can be used for different levels of detail. On a
basic level of detail, you simply transfer money to it from your
checking account. That tells you how much money you took out of checking
- on a given day, but it doesn't tell you where that cash was spent. With
+ on a given day, but it doesn’t tell you where that cash was spent. With
a little more effort, you can use the cash account to record your cash
purchases as well, so that you can see where that cash went. You record
these purchases as a transfer from the cash account to expense
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@
receipts, but then adjust the balance of the account to match what is in
your wallet.</para>
- <para>It's a good idea to at least set up a cash account for your
+ <para>It’s a good idea to at least set up a cash account for your
withdrawals. Then if you decide to track where your cash goes, you can
enter transactions for the money you spend. You determine what level of
detail you want to use.</para>
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@
provided there.</para>
<para>Income and expense accounts are usually not reconciled, because
- there is no statement to check them against. You also don't need to
+ there is no statement to check them against. You also don’t need to
reconcile cash accounts, for the same reason. With a cash account, though,
you might want to adjust the balance every once in a while, so that your
actual cash on hand matches the balance in your cash account. Adjusting
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@
<sect2 id="cbook-puttoget-open2">
<title>Opening Balances</title>
- <para>So, let's get started by opening the gcashdata file you saved in the
+ <para>So, let’s get started by opening the gcashdata file you saved in the
last chapter (<filename>gcashdata_4</filename>). Your chart of accounts
should look like this:</para>
@@ -256,7 +256,7 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>Now let's write some checks on this account. First, write a
+ <para>Now let’s write some checks on this account. First, write a
check to HomeTown Grocery for $75 (5th of March). Your transfer account
is Groceries, since all of this money is going to buy groceries. Next,
write a check to ABC Hardware for $100 (6 of March), and split this
@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>Suppose you now need to withdraw some money. You don't have a
+ <para>Suppose you now need to withdraw some money. You don’t have a
cash account set up in your chart of accounts, so you will need to
create one. Create the account as <guilabel>Cash</guilabel> as a
top-level account of type <guilabel>Asset</guilabel>. From your
@@ -460,13 +460,13 @@
<sect2 id="cbook-puttoget-reports">
<title>Reports</title>
- <para>As we did in the previous chapter, let's have a look at a
+ <para>As we did in the previous chapter, let’s have a look at a
<guilabel>Cash Flow</guilabel>, and a <guilabel>Transaction</guilabel> Report.
</para>
<orderedlist>
<listitem>
- <para>First let's have a look at the <guilabel>Cash Flow</guilabel> report
+ <para>First let’s have a look at the <guilabel>Cash Flow</guilabel> report
for the month of March.</para>
<para>Select the cash flow report from <menuchoice><guimenu>Reports</guimenu>
<guisubmenu>Income & Expense</guisubmenu>
@@ -493,7 +493,7 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>Now let's have a look at corresponding transaction report for the various
+ <para>Now let’s have a look at corresponding transaction report for the various
Asset accounts.
</para>
<para>Select the transaction report from <menuchoice><guimenu>Reports</guimenu>
@@ -523,7 +523,7 @@
<listitem>
- <para>Now let's change the transaction report to only show the various
+ <para>Now let’s change the transaction report to only show the various
Expenses account.
</para>
Modified: gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/ch_cc.xml
===================================================================
--- gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/ch_cc.xml 2010-11-30 03:27:19 UTC (rev 19895)
+++ gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/ch_cc.xml 2010-11-30 13:09:46 UTC (rev 19896)
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
method is to simply track monthly payments to the credit card company.
From your bank account, you enter a transfer of money each month to the
credit card expense account. This will show you the amount of money you
- are paying each month to the credit card company, but it won't show you
+ are paying each month to the credit card company, but it won’t show you
any information about your credit card balance or credit card
purchases.</para>
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@
refund.</para>
</note>
- <para>To clarify this, let's run through an example. You bought some jeans
+ <para>To clarify this, let’s run through an example. You bought some jeans
for $74.99 on your VISA card, but realized one day later that they are too
big and want to return them. The shop gracefully agrees, and refunds your
credit card.</para>
@@ -289,7 +289,7 @@
<para>Now that we have covered the basic ideas behind the various
transactions you must make to successfully track your credit card in
- <application>&app;</application>, let's go through an example. In this example, we will make credit
+ <application>&app;</application>, let’s go through an example. In this example, we will make credit
card purchases, refund two of the purchases, get charged interest on
the unpaid balance, reconcile the credit card account, and finally make a
partial payoff of the credit card.</para>
@@ -324,7 +324,7 @@
<sect2 id="cc-together-purchases2">
<title>Purchases</title>
- <para>Let's make some purchases on our visa card. Start by buying $25
+ <para>Let’s make some purchases on our visa card. Start by buying $25
worth of food from the Greasy Spoon Cafe, $100 worth of clothing from
Faux Pas Fashions, $25 worth of gasoline from Premium Gasoline, $125
worth of groceries and household items from Groceries R Us (split
@@ -417,13 +417,13 @@
<title>Reconciliation</title>
<para>When your credit card bill arrives you should reconcile your
- credit card account to this document. This is done using <application>&app;</application>'s
+ credit card account to this document. This is done using <application>&app;</application>’s
built-in reconciliation application. Highlight the credit card account
and click on <menuchoice><guimenu>Actions</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Reconcile...</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. This reconciliation procedure is
described in detail in the <xref linkend="txns-reconcile1"></xref>,
but we will step
- through the process here as well. For this example, let's assume that
+ through the process here as well. For this example, let’s assume that
the credit card statement is dated May 1st, with a final balance of
$455. Enter these values in to the initial Reconcile window as shown
here.</para>
@@ -536,13 +536,13 @@
<sect2 id="cc-puttoget-reports">
<title>Reports</title>
- <para>As we did in the previous chapters, let's have a look at a
+ <para>As we did in the previous chapters, let’s have a look at a
<guilabel>Cash Flow</guilabel>, and a <guilabel>Transaction</guilabel> Report.
</para>
<orderedlist>
<listitem>
- <para>First let's have a look at the <guilabel>Cash Flow</guilabel> report
+ <para>First let’s have a look at the <guilabel>Cash Flow</guilabel> report
for the liability account <guilabel>Visa</guilabel> during the month of March.</para>
<para>Select the cash flow report from <menuchoice><guimenu>Reports</guimenu>
<guisubmenu>Income & Expense</guisubmenu>
@@ -569,7 +569,7 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>Now let's have a look at corresponding transaction report for the Visa
+ <para>Now let’s have a look at corresponding transaction report for the Visa
account.
</para>
<para>Select the transaction report from <menuchoice><guimenu>Reports</guimenu>
@@ -599,7 +599,7 @@
<listitem>
- <para>Now let's change the transaction report to only show the various
+ <para>Now let’s change the transaction report to only show the various
Expenses accounts.
</para>
Modified: gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/ch_currency.xml
===================================================================
--- gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/ch_currency.xml 2010-11-30 03:27:19 UTC (rev 19895)
+++ gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/ch_currency.xml 2010-11-30 13:09:46 UTC (rev 19896)
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
work with Euros, but have the occasional Ethiopian Birr account, be sure
to set your preferences to Euro.</para>
- <para>As an example, let's set up a typical bank account scenario where
+ <para>As an example, let’s set up a typical bank account scenario where
you mostly work in US Dollars, but do also have a European bank account
using the Euro currency, as well as one bank account in Hong Kong using
Hong Kong Dollars. So, setup 3 bank accounts, one using the Euro currency,
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@
different ways, manual and automatic. In the following two sections we
will work through both ways.</para>
- <para>Before we start, let's have a quick look at the Chart of
+ <para>Before we start, let’s have a quick look at the Chart of
Accounts</para>
<screenshot id="currency_main1a">
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@
</screenshot>
<para>Observe that since you have no exchange rate for HKD, <application>&app;</application>
- doesn't convert the HKD accounts to USD. This will be added in the next
+ doesn’t convert the HKD accounts to USD. This will be added in the next
section.</para>
</sect2>
@@ -478,7 +478,7 @@
</mediaobject>
</screenshot>
- <para>You find the boat, and since it's a bargain at JMD 509,000 you
+ <para>You find the boat, and since it’s a bargain at JMD 509,000 you
decide to buy it. To record this transaction in <application>&app;</application>, you will need
to enter a simple transaction in Assets:Current Assets:Jamaican Bank
withdrawing 509,000 and transferring it to Assets:Fixed
@@ -591,13 +591,13 @@
</mediaobject>
</screenshot>
- <para>If you have not moved some money (HKD 50,000) into the brokerage's
+ <para>If you have not moved some money (HKD 50,000) into the brokerage’s
cash account (Assets:Investments:Brokerage Account:Boom:Bank), do so
now, either using the Equity (HKD) account, or an existing bank account
(Currency Transfer).</para>
- <para>Let's assume that stock price is HKD 3 per share. To record the
- purchase, open the brokerage's HKD cash account
+ <para>Let’s assume that stock price is HKD 3 per share. To record the
+ purchase, open the brokerage’s HKD cash account
(Assets:Investments:Brokerage Account:Boom:Bank), and enter
the following:</para>
<literallayout>
@@ -629,7 +629,7 @@
</screenshot>
<para>If you return to the Chart of Accounts, you will see the
- purchased shares reflected in the stock account's total.</para>
+ purchased shares reflected in the stock account’s total.</para>
<screenshot id="currency_purchase_AfterStocks.png">
<mediaobject>
@@ -648,7 +648,7 @@
</screenshot>
<para>However, as you can see, the USD totals may be zero if
- <application>&app;</application> doesn't have an exchange rate between USD and HKD.
+ <application>&app;</application> doesn’t have an exchange rate between USD and HKD.
To fix this, go to <menuchoice><guimenu>Tools</guimenu><guimenuitem>Price
Editor</guimenuitem></menuchoice>
and click the <guibutton>Get Quotes</guibutton> button to
@@ -658,13 +658,13 @@
<para>This example shows how stock can be purchased in any currency
by entering the transaction in the register of the cash account used
to make payment. It is also possible to enter the purchase
- in the stock account's register, but proceed with caution!
+ in the stock account’s register, but proceed with caution!
When doing it that way, the stock is assumed to be priced
- in the currency of the stock account's parent.</para>
- <para>In this example, the stock account's parent
+ in the currency of the stock account’s parent.</para>
+ <para>In this example, the stock account’s parent
(Assets:Investments:Brokerage Account:Boom) is denominated in HKD.
Since this is same currency as the stock price, the purchase
- can be safely entered in the stock account's register.</para>
+ can be safely entered in the stock account’s register.</para>
</note>
</sect2>
@@ -941,7 +941,7 @@
<sect2>
<title>Configure Accounts</title>
- <para>This time let's start with a fresh and new <application>&app;</application> data file, so
+ <para>This time let’s start with a fresh and new <application>&app;</application> data file, so
<menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu><guimenuitem>New File</guimenuitem></menuchoice>, and edit
preferences (<menuchoice><guimenu>Edit</guimenu><guimenuitem>Preferences</guimenuitem></menuchoice>)
to set Default Currency as AUD. Since you have
Modified: gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/ch_dep.xml
===================================================================
--- gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/ch_dep.xml 2010-11-30 03:27:19 UTC (rev 19895)
+++ gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/ch_dep.xml 2010-11-30 13:09:46 UTC (rev 19896)
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
<listitem>
<para><emphasis>Salvage value</emphasis> - this is the value that you
- estimate the asset can be sold for at the end of it's useful life (to
+ estimate the asset can be sold for at the end of it’s useful life (to
you).</para>
</listitem>
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@
<title>Personal Finances</title>
<para>Depreciation is used in personal finances to periodically lower an
- asset's value to give you an accurate estimation of your current net
+ asset’s value to give you an accurate estimation of your current net
worth. For example, if you owned a car you could keep track of its
current value by recording depreciation every year. To accomplish this,
you record the original purchase as an asset, and then record a
@@ -510,7 +510,7 @@
<sect1 id="dep_example1">
<title>Example</title>
- <para>Let's go ahead and step through an example. Imagine you are a
+ <para>Let’s go ahead and step through an example. Imagine you are a
photographer and you use a car and an expensive camera for your personal
business. You will want to track the depreciation on these items, because
you can probably deduct the depreciation from your business taxes.</para>
@@ -552,7 +552,7 @@
depreciation as an expense in the appropriate <emphasis>Accrued
Depreciation</emphasis> account (eg: the "Asset:Fixed
Assets:Car:Depreciation" account for the car). The two windows below show
- your car's accrued depreciation account and the main window after the
+ your car’s accrued depreciation account and the main window after the
third year (IE: three periods) of depreciation using this "sum of digits"
scheme.</para>
Modified: gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/ch_invest.xml
===================================================================
--- gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/ch_invest.xml 2010-11-30 03:27:19 UTC (rev 19895)
+++ gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/ch_invest.xml 2010-11-30 13:09:46 UTC (rev 19896)
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@
<listitem>
<para><emphasis>Realized vs Unrealized Gain/Loss</emphasis>,
- unrealized gain or loss occurs when you've got a change in price of
+ unrealized gain or loss occurs when you’ve got a change in price of
an asset. You realize the gain/loss when you actually sell the
asset. See also <emphasis>capital gain/loss</emphasis>.</para>
</listitem>
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@
withdrawal penalty. This is a relatively lower risk investment.
Examples are certificates of deposit or some government bonds. Other
types of Bonds may have higher yields based on the higher risks from
- the quality of the issuer's <quote>credit rating</quote>.</para>
+ the quality of the issuer’s <quote>credit rating</quote>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@
<para>A mutual fund is a group investment mechanism in which you can
buy into many stocks simultaneously. For example, a "S&P 500
index fund" is a fund which purchases all 500 stocks listed in the
- Standard and Poor's index. When you buy a share of this fund, you
+ Standard and Poor’s index. When you buy a share of this fund, you
are really buying a small amount of each of the 500 stocks contained
within the fund. Mutual funds are treated exactly like a single
stock, both for tax purposes and in accounting.</para>
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@
brokerage firm you used to buy the stocks.</para>
<para>Regardless of how you setup your account hierarchy, remember that
- you can always move accounts around later (without losing the work you've
+ you can always move accounts around later (without losing the work you’ve
put into them), so your initial account hierarchy does not have to be
perfect.</para>
@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@
<para>You will probably at least want to add a <emphasis>Bank</emphasis>
account to the Assets and probably an <emphasis>Equity:Opening
- Balance</emphasis> account, as we have done in previous chapters. Don't
+ Balance</emphasis> account, as we have done in previous chapters. Don’t
forget to save your new account file with a relevant name!</para>
</sect2>
@@ -392,7 +392,7 @@
<sect2 id="invest-intex2">
<title>Example</title>
- <para>Now let's populate these accounts with real numbers. Let's assume
+ <para>Now let’s populate these accounts with real numbers. Let’s assume
that you start with $10000 in your bank account, which pays 1% interest
and you buy a $5000 certificate of deposit with a 6 month maturity date
and a 2% yield. Clearly, it is much better to keep your money in the CD
@@ -530,7 +530,7 @@
<sect2 id="invest-setup-example2">
<title>Example Stock Account</title>
- <para>As an example, let's assume that you currently own 100 shares of
+ <para>As an example, let’s assume that you currently own 100 shares of
Amazon stock. First, create the stock account AMZN by selecting the
<guilabel>Stock</guilabel> account and click on the menu <menuchoice>
<guimenu>Actions</guimenu><guimenu>New Account...</guimenu></menuchoice>. The New
@@ -727,7 +727,7 @@
<listitem>
<para><emphasis>Tax Related</emphasis> - Go to <menuchoice><guimenu>Edit</guimenu>
<guimenuitem>Tax Report Options</guimenuitem></menuchoice> to check this box if this
- account's transactions will relate to Income Taxes.</para>
+ account’s transactions will relate to Income Taxes.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
@@ -1042,7 +1042,7 @@
<para>Remember that Mutual Fund <quote>prices</quote> are really <quote>Net Asset
Value</quote> and require several hours after the exchange closes before being
available. If NAVs are downloaded before the current days NAVs are
- determined, yesterday's NAVs are retrieved.</para>
+ determined, yesterday’s NAVs are retrieved.</para>
</sect3>
</sect2>
@@ -1140,7 +1140,7 @@
time</guilabel> Price Source.</phrase>
</textobject>
- <caption><para>Tracking what value your stocks would've had on the
+ <caption><para>Tracking what value your stocks would’ve had on the
stock exchanges.</para></caption>
</mediaobject>
</screenshot>
@@ -1763,7 +1763,7 @@
</imageobject>
<textobject>
- <phrase>Example of simple stock split transaction in the stock's register</phrase>
+ <phrase>Example of simple stock split transaction in the stock’s register</phrase>
</textobject>
<caption><para>An image of the <quote>Assets:Investments:DRIPs:NST</quote>
@@ -1821,7 +1821,7 @@
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
- <para><guilabel>Date</guilabel> - Enter the date of the split. Here we'll enter
+ <para><guilabel>Date</guilabel> - Enter the date of the split. Here we’ll enter
November 18, 2005.</para>
</listitem>
@@ -1829,7 +1829,7 @@
<para><guilabel>Shares</guilabel> - The number of shares increased (or decreased)
in the transaction.</para>
<para>In our example it is a .77942 for 1 split so the number of shares will
- decrease from the number of shares currently in the register. You may use <application>&app;</application>'s
+ decrease from the number of shares currently in the register. You may use <application>&app;</application>’s
ability to preform calculations on an entry form by entering data directly
(E.g. <quote>(.77942*100)-100</quote>) to calculate the decrease in shares
from the split.</para>
@@ -1885,7 +1885,7 @@
</imageobject>
<textobject>
- <phrase>Example of moderate stock split transaction in the stock's register</phrase>
+ <phrase>Example of moderate stock split transaction in the stock’s register</phrase>
</textobject>
<caption><para>An image of the Investment Account:T register after a
Modified: gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/ch_loans.xml
===================================================================
--- gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/ch_loans.xml 2010-11-30 03:27:19 UTC (rev 19895)
+++ gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/ch_loans.xml 2010-11-30 13:09:46 UTC (rev 19896)
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
<title>Basic Concepts</title>
<para>A loan is defined as a financial transaction in which someone pays
- for the use of someone else's money. There are many familiar examples of
+ for the use of someone else’s money. There are many familiar examples of
loans: credits cards, auto loans, house mortgages, or a business
loan.</para>
@@ -364,13 +364,13 @@
<sect3 id="loans_calcsdetails_ex2">
<title>Example: Monthly Payments</title>
- <para>Let's recalculate <xref linkend="loans_calcsexample1_2"/>,
+ <para>Let’s recalculate <xref linkend="loans_calcsexample1_2"/>,
this time using the
mathematical formulas rather than the Financial Calculator. What is
your monthly payment on a $100000 30 year loan at a fixed rate of 4%
compounded monthly?</para>
- <para>First, let's define the variables: n = (30*12) = 360, PV =
+ <para>First, let’s define the variables: n = (30*12) = 360, PV =
100000, PMT = unknown, FV = 0, i = 4%=4/100=0.04, CF = PF = 12, X = 0
(end of payment periods).</para>
@@ -545,7 +545,7 @@
back monthly for the next 18 months. Since he is your friend, (but not
that close) you both agree on a yearly interest rate of 5%.</para>
- <para>In summary we have the below details. Peter's loan details:
+ <para>In summary we have the below details. Peter’s loan details:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Pinciple Amount - $2,000</para>
@@ -567,7 +567,7 @@
<para>So how do you calculate the Monthly Payment?</para>
<para>You have a number of different options, like paper and pen,
- Linux Calculator, Open Office's Calc module, but the easiest is to use
+ Linux Calculator, Open Office’s Calc module, but the easiest is to use
<application>&app;</application> Financial Calculator. This tells you that the Monthly Payment
should be $115.56.</para>
@@ -596,7 +596,7 @@
<sect2 id="loans_personalLoanToSomeOne_accounts">
<title>Accounts for the loan</title>
- <para>Let's start with the following accounts (all accounts have the
+ <para>Let’s start with the following accounts (all accounts have the
same currency, in this case USD)</para>
<literallayout>
@@ -862,7 +862,7 @@
<para>In this way you only record the proper sale amount.</para>
- <para>Let's work through two samples of selling a house, one with a
+ <para>Let’s work through two samples of selling a house, one with a
profit, and one with a loss. If you want to sell a car instead, just
substitute the house account with a car account.</para>
@@ -940,7 +940,7 @@
<para>To record this you need to increase your bank account with the
$230k, and decrease some other accounts with $230k. The house
account contains $300k which is more than what you sold it for. So
- let's move $230k of it to your bank account. After this you have $70k
+ let’s move $230k of it to your bank account. After this you have $70k
remaining in your house account which needs to be removed. You move it
to our Income:Capital Gains Long:House account, which will indicate
a loss. The split transaction you enter into your
Modified: gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/ch_oview.xml
===================================================================
--- gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/ch_oview.xml 2010-11-30 03:27:19 UTC (rev 19895)
+++ gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/ch_oview.xml 2010-11-30 13:09:46 UTC (rev 19896)
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@
<listitem>
<para><emphasis>Documentation</emphasis>: <application>&app;</application> has built-in Help
- and extensive User's Guide documentation.</para>
+ and extensive User’s Guide documentation.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@
<sect2 id="oview-featuresaccounting2">
<title>Accounting Features</title>
- <para>For those knowledgeable in accounting, here is a list of <application>&app;</application>'s
+ <para>For those knowledgeable in accounting, here is a list of <application>&app;</application>’s
accounting features.</para>
<itemizedlist>
@@ -294,8 +294,8 @@
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
- <!-- The What's New section for the current stable series must be at
- the top and the older What's New sections must be moved down as they
+ <!-- The What’s New section for the current stable series must be at
+ the top and the older What’s New sections must be moved down as they
get superseded. The list of changes is a greatly summarised one
compiled by looking through the milestone bugfixes pointed to by
http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Release_Schedule to pick up on significant
@@ -338,7 +338,7 @@
</sect2>
<sect2 id="oview-featuresnew2">
- <title>What's New in v2.0</title>
+ <title>What’s New in v2.0</title>
<para><itemizedlist>
<listitem>
@@ -351,7 +351,7 @@
<listitem>
<para><emphasis>UTF-8 support</emphasis></para>
- <para><application>&app;</application> now stores and reads each country's special
+ <para><application>&app;</application> now stores and reads each country’s special
character sets by using UTF-8.</para>
</listitem>
@@ -386,7 +386,7 @@
<sect1 id="oview-about1">
<title>About this Book</title>
- <para>This manual's goal is to save you time. It will get you started
+ <para>This manual’s goal is to save you time. It will get you started
using <application>&app;</application> as quickly as possible.</para>
<para>Each chapter follows a simple format. A chapter begins with a
@@ -404,7 +404,7 @@
steps for accomplishing specific tasks. The <quote>Putting It All
Together</quote> sections present real-world examples in the form of a
tutorial. Beginning with creation of a file in <xref linkend="chapter_basics"></xref>,
- each successive chapter builds on the previous chapter's tutorial.</para>
+ each successive chapter builds on the previous chapter’s tutorial.</para>
<para>This manual is organized into 3 main parts: <itemizedlist>
<listitem>
@@ -531,7 +531,7 @@
<sect1 id="oview-reasons1">
<title>Top Ten Reasons to Use <application>&app;</application></title>
- <para>We've already discussed some of the general advantages of using
+ <para>We’ve already discussed some of the general advantages of using
<application>&app;</application>. Here are some specific features offered by <application>&app;</application> that may not
exist in other programs.</para>
@@ -539,7 +539,7 @@
<listitem>
<para>Simple user interface</para>
- <para><application>&app;</application> is as easy to use as a checkbook register. It's simpler
+ <para><application>&app;</application> is as easy to use as a checkbook register. It’s simpler
than a paper register, because auto-completion and other entry
shortcuts not only do work for you, but reduce data entry
errors.</para>
@@ -596,7 +596,7 @@
<para>Double entry</para>
<para>To provide complete records, <application>&app;</application> uses the double entry
- method of bookkeeping. Double entry simply means that money doesn't
+ method of bookkeeping. Double entry simply means that money doesn’t
just appear or disappear - an equal amount must come from one location
and go to another location. By tracking the transaction in both
locations, <application>&app;</application> will give you detailed reports from the perspective
@@ -629,7 +629,7 @@
<listitem>
<para>Open source</para>
- <para><application>&app;</application> doesn't hide its methods. If you wonder how <application>&app;</application>
+ <para><application>&app;</application> doesn’t hide its methods. If you wonder how <application>&app;</application>
computed a number, you can find it out. In addition, you can set
preferences that tell <application>&app;</application> how much information to display to you.
There is no <quote>secret code</quote> used in <application>&app;</application> - it continues
@@ -637,7 +637,7 @@
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
- <para>These are only a few of the advantages you'll discover when you
+ <para>These are only a few of the advantages you’ll discover when you
start using <application>&app;</application> to track your financial information. Now get ready to
enjoy the benefits of <application>&app;</application> for yourself!</para>
</sect1>
Modified: gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/ch_txns.xml
===================================================================
--- gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/ch_txns.xml 2010-11-30 03:27:19 UTC (rev 19895)
+++ gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/ch_txns.xml 2010-11-30 13:09:46 UTC (rev 19896)
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
<para>For example, starting with the chart of accounts we created in the
previous chapter <filename>gcashdata_3</filename>, double click on the
- <guilabel>checking</guilabel> asset account. Let's add a simple
+ <guilabel>checking</guilabel> asset account. Let’s add a simple
transaction to the checking account. When you first create your accounts
in <application>&app;</application>, it is common to start them off with an initial
balance.</para>
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@
current transaction. Note that in the expanded view, the
<guilabel>Transfer</guilabel> column heading disappears, and there is no
account name listed in that field. This line shows you only a summary of
- the transaction's effect on the current account. For more detailed
+ the transaction’s effect on the current account. For more detailed
information, you need to look at the individual splits that make up the
transaction.</para>
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@
notice, the transaction line contains the same debit amount as the
<guilabel>Checking</guilabel> split line. Why is this shown twice?
Because the transaction line is merely a <emphasis>summary</emphasis> of
- the transaction's effect on the current account. The same transaction in
+ the transaction’s effect on the current account. The same transaction in
a different account will have a different transaction line, one that
shows the effect on that particular account. You can see this by
highlighting another split line and clicking the
@@ -306,9 +306,9 @@
<guimenuitem>Double Line</guimenuitem></menuchoice>, and you will see your transaction
line expand to two register lines.</para>
- <para>Let's have a closer look at how the Basic Ledger and Transaction Journal view differs.
+ <para>Let’s have a closer look at how the Basic Ledger and Transaction Journal view differs.
</para>
- <para>For this example, let's assume that you have a checking account with $10,000,
+ <para>For this example, let’s assume that you have a checking account with $10,000,
and have decided to really splurge by purchasing 3 pair of Jeans for $1,000.
Now, you can either record this as one simple transaction and move $1,000 to Expenses:Clothes.
Or, you can record a split transaction, and record each Jeans individually.</para>
@@ -317,7 +317,7 @@
different transactions.</para>
<para>The below screenshots will illustrate this a bit better</para>
- <para>First let's purchase the Jeans from your checking account</para>
+ <para>First let’s purchase the Jeans from your checking account</para>
<screenshot id="txns-registersplit4">
<mediaobject>
@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@
<para>The we open the Expenses:Clothes account, and look at it from the default Basic Ledger view.
As you can see, we have three entries here, but there were only one entry in the checking account.
If you look carefully, you will see that each row have a different amount, $200, $300, and $500.
- Each row's transaction line reflects a one split row.</para>
+ Each row’s transaction line reflects a one split row.</para>
<screenshot id="txns-registersplit5">
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
@@ -431,7 +431,7 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para><keycap>T</keycap> or <keycap>t</keycap> to enter today's
+ <para><keycap>T</keycap> or <keycap>t</keycap> to enter today’s
date</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
@@ -577,10 +577,10 @@
transaction will initially contain n (new). Your new entry will
contribute to the "total" balance, but not to the "cleared and
reconciled" balance. Later, if you think that the check has been cashed,
- you might click on the transaction's R field to change it to c
+ you might click on the transaction’s R field to change it to c
(cleared). When you do this, the "cleared and reconciled" balance will
change to include this amount. When the bank statement arrives, you can
- then compare it to what you've recorded in <application>&app;</application> in the Reconciliation
+ then compare it to what you’ve recorded in <application>&app;</application> in the Reconciliation
window. There, you will be able to change the R field to y (reconciled).
You cannot reconcile in the register window, you must use the
reconciliation window. Once a transaction has been marked "reconciled",
@@ -737,7 +737,7 @@
then <application>&app;</application> will tell you whenever a scheduled transaction is ready to
create, and create it for you.</para>
- <para>In this howto, we'll take a monthly Internet subscription of 20 USD
+ <para>In this howto, we’ll take a monthly Internet subscription of 20 USD
as example, which is taken on the 28th of each month.</para>
<para>In <application>&app;</application>, there are two ways of creating scheduled transactions,
@@ -810,7 +810,7 @@
</mediaobject>
</screenshot>
- <para>Let's fill the values, we know that the subscription is taken on
+ <para>Let’s fill the values, we know that the subscription is taken on
the 28th each month, and the next one is for next month (since we
entered the one for this month manually) :</para>
@@ -844,7 +844,7 @@
scheduled transactions to create at once.</para>
<para>From the main accounts windows, go in the Actions menu, select
- Scheduled Transactions, a submenu will open in which you'll click
+ Scheduled Transactions, a submenu will open in which you’ll click
Scheduled transaction Editor.</para>
<screenshot id="txns-sxn-editor-1">
@@ -884,7 +884,7 @@
</screenshot>
<para>This window contains a list, now empty, of all the scheduled
- transactions. Let's create a new one by clicking on the "New" button,
+ transactions. Let’s create a new one by clicking on the "New" button,
another window will pop up :</para>
<screenshot id="txns-sxn-editor-3">
@@ -904,12 +904,12 @@
</mediaobject>
</screenshot>
- <para>This window may seem complicated but it's fairly easy to
- understand. First, let's enter a name for this new scheduled
+ <para>This window may seem complicated but it’s fairly easy to
+ understand. First, let’s enter a name for this new scheduled
transaction, this name will only identify it in the Scheduled
Transaction Editor, it will never appear in the ledger.</para>
- <para>Then we'll enter the transaction's parameters. We know that the
+ <para>Then we’ll enter the transaction’s parameters. We know that the
subscription is taken on the 28th each month, so the start date will be
Nov 1, 2003 (assuming November is the next month), the frequency will be
"Monthly", it will be taken every month on the 28th.</para>
@@ -934,7 +934,7 @@
</itemizedlist>
<para>The End tab allows you to tell <application>&app;</application> that this scheduled
- transaction won't last for ever, for example if you are repaying a loan,
+ transaction won’t last for ever, for example if you are repaying a loan,
you can enter the loan end date.</para>
<para>Since in our example the internet subscription is automatically
@@ -945,7 +945,7 @@
in the ledger, with the only difference of having no date.</para>
<note>
- <para>Warning: don't use the ENTER key like in the ledger, as it will
+ <para>Warning: don’t use the ENTER key like in the ledger, as it will
activate the default button of the whole window : Cancel. Instead, use
TAB to go to the next field, and when you have finished entering your
transaction, click on the "Enter" button to validate it.</para>
@@ -1057,7 +1057,7 @@
<guibutton>Apply</guibutton>. The window will disappear and the
transactions will be created.</para>
- <para>Then if you take a look in your bank account, you'll see the
+ <para>Then if you take a look in your bank account, you’ll see the
transaction has been created :</para>
<screenshot id="txns-sxn-editor-8">
@@ -1134,7 +1134,7 @@
<para>Open the <guilabel>Assets:Savings</guilabel> account register.
Select <guimenu>View</guimenu> from the menu and check to make sure
you are in Basic Ledger style. You will view your transactions in
- the other modes later, but for now let's enter a basic transaction
+ the other modes later, but for now let’s enter a basic transaction
using the basic default style.</para>
</listitem>
@@ -1190,10 +1190,10 @@
<sect2 id="txns-puttoget-add2">
<title>Additional Transaction Examples</title>
- <para>Now add some more transactions to simulate a month's expenses.
+ <para>Now add some more transactions to simulate a month’s expenses.
During the month, $78 is spent on electricity, $45 on phone, and $350 on
rent. All paid by check. We also spent $45.21 on groceries, received $670
- as salary, and paid our Internet bill this month. Finally, let's move
+ as salary, and paid our Internet bill this month. Finally, let’s move
$100 from the savings account to the checking account.</para>
<orderedlist>
@@ -1314,7 +1314,7 @@
<sect2 id="txns-puttoget-save">
<title>Save file</title>
- <para>Before we go to the report section, let's save the <application>&app;</application> data
+ <para>Before we go to the report section, let’s save the <application>&app;</application> data
file (<filename>gcashdata_4</filename>).</para>
</sect2>
@@ -1329,12 +1329,12 @@
<para>More details on the reports will be in the Report chapter</para>
</note>
- <para>Let's have a look at a <guilabel>Cash Flow</guilabel>, and a
+ <para>Let’s have a look at a <guilabel>Cash Flow</guilabel>, and a
<guilabel>Transaction</guilabel> Report.</para>
<orderedlist>
<listitem>
- <para>First let's have a look at the <guilabel>Cash Flow</guilabel>
+ <para>First let’s have a look at the <guilabel>Cash Flow</guilabel>
report for the month of March.</para>
<para>Select the cash flow report from <menuchoice><guimenu>Reports</guimenu>
@@ -1363,7 +1363,7 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>Now let's have a look at corresponding transaction report for
+ <para>Now let’s have a look at corresponding transaction report for
the Checking account.</para>
<para>Select the transaction report from <menuchoice><guimenu>Reports</guimenu>
@@ -1388,7 +1388,7 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>Now let's change the transaction report to only show the
+ <para>Now let’s change the transaction report to only show the
various Expenses accounts.</para>
<screenshot id="txns-puttoget2-TransactionRptExpenses">
Modified: gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/fdl-appendix.xml
===================================================================
--- gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/fdl-appendix.xml 2010-11-30 03:27:19 UTC (rev 19895)
+++ gnucash-docs/trunk/guide/C/fdl-appendix.xml 2010-11-30 13:09:46 UTC (rev 19896)
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@
front-matter section of the <link
linkend="fdl-document">Document</link> that deals exclusively
with the relationship of the publishers or authors of the
- Document to the Document's overall subject (or to related
+ Document to the Document’s overall subject (or to related
matters) and contains nothing that could fall directly within
that overall subject. (For example, if the Document is in part a
textbook of mathematics, a Secondary Section may not explain any
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@
hold, legibly, the material this License requires to appear in
the title page. For works in formats which do not have any title
page as such, <quote>Title Page</quote> means the text near the
- most prominent appearance of the work's title, preceding the
+ most prominent appearance of the work’s title, preceding the
beginning of the body of the text.
</para>
</sect1>
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@
<para>
If you publish printed copies of the <link
linkend="fdl-document">Document</link> numbering more than 100,
- and the Document's license notice requires <link
+ and the Document’s license notice requires <link
linkend="fdl-cover-texts">Cover Texts</link>, you must enclose
the copies in covers that carry, clearly and legibly, all these
Cover Texts: Front-Cover Texts on the front cover, and
@@ -327,7 +327,7 @@
linkend="fdl-invariant"> Invariant Sections</link> and
required <link linkend="fdl-cover-texts">Cover
Texts</link> given in the <link
- linkend="fdl-document">Document's</link> license notice.
+ linkend="fdl-document">Document’s</link> license notice.
</para>
</formalpara>
</listitem>
@@ -383,7 +383,7 @@
<title>K</title>
<para>
In any section entitled <quote>Acknowledgements</quote> or
- <quote>Dedications</quote>, preserve the section's title,
+ <quote>Dedications</quote>, preserve the section’s title,
and preserve in the section all the substance and tone of
each of the contributor acknowledgements and/or
dedications given therein.
@@ -437,7 +437,7 @@
option designate some or all of these sections as invariant. To
do this, add their titles to the list of <link
linkend="fdl-invariant">Invariant Sections</link> in the
- Modified Version's license notice. These titles must be
+ Modified Version’s license notice. These titles must be
distinct from any other section titles.
</para>
@@ -550,7 +550,7 @@
linkend="fdl-cover-texts">Cover Text</link> requirement of <link
linkend="fdl-section3">section 3</link> is applicable to these
copies of the Document, then if the Document is less than one
- quarter of the entire aggregate, the Document's Cover Texts may
+ quarter of the entire aggregate, the Document’s Cover Texts may
be placed on covers that surround only the Document within the
aggregate. Otherwise they must appear on covers around the whole
aggregate.
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