gnucash-devel Digest, Vol 37, Issue 3

[Bengt Thuree]

On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 11:08 -0600, David Herman wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 12:00 -0400, gnucash-devel-request at gnucash.org
> wrote:
> > From: Josh Sled <jsled at asynchronous.org>
> > On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 17:24 +0900, Bengt Thuree wrote:
> > > Any wiki place which tracks the progress of this?
> > 
> > I think a wiki page would be a good place to keep track of what has
> > been, and what needs to be, done.

Lets see if we can create a wiki page somewhere, to track the status a
bit. I can have a shot at this and see what I can come up with.
Also, on this page lets indicate which parts of the document is marked
with TODO, which I think should be the first area of touch up.

> But onward - Yes I believe that all the screenshots will need to be
> updated.  Some of the text needs expansion.
> 
> I don't think that there will be one data file for examples; I don't
> know how many I've created but I guess each Chapter might be written as
> to have one data file.

One data file per chapter sounds ok to me, as long as it is explained
how every entry in it is created. The data files should of courses be
stored in a special data file directory :)

> I have created a diff from the unmodified Chapter 8 and current working
> copy, if anyone is interested (will require new copies of the screenshot
> files).
> 
> Multiple currencies were also raised as a weakness in the document, I
> located in the center of the US and don't have any experience in that
> area.  Can anyone create a chapter/section to cover multiple currencies

The only way I am dealing with multiple currencies for the  moment, is
to create a separate account for everything that deals with this
currency and specify XYZ as these particular accounts currency.
EQUITY:OPENING:BALANCE:XYZ
ASSET:BANK:XYZ
INCOME:INTEREST:SAVING:XYZ
for instance.
Same for Stocks (adding Dividend income, and commission expense etc)

/Bengt