A few questions from a keen newbie

Dave Peticolas dave@krondo.com
Wed, 18 Oct 2000 12:45:44 -0700


Terry Boon writes:
> User interface niggle:
> 
> The layout of the columns doesn't show the transactions as laid out
> above in traditional double-entry format.  For example, Example 1
> above would be shown similar to the following in the Salary register
> 
> Description             | Account          | Debit | Credit
> - -------------------------------------------------------------
> Salary, September 2000  | Salary           |       |   100
>                         | Income tax       |       |    20
>                         | Checking account |       |    80
>                         |                  |       |
> 
> I would ideally like to see these laid out so that the debits are on
> the left and the credits on the right.
> 
> Description             | Account          | Debit | Credit
> - -------------------------------------------------------------
> Salary, September 2000  | Salary           |       |   100
>                         | Income tax       |   20  | 
>                         | Checking account |   80  | 
>                         |                  |       |
> 
> Am I missing an option to do this somewhere?

No, but the next major version of gnucash will display them
in the right way.

dave