Question on modifing User Guide

Chris Lyttle chris at wilddev.net
Tue Apr 11 00:45:34 EDT 2006


First of all Dave thanks a lot for doing this. If you want to submit 
updates to the docs you can email them to me and I'll commit them to svn.

David Herman wrote:
> I have a archive of my changes to the Concept/User Guide for GnuCash
> Chapter 8 (Investments).  I've updated the screenshots, installed the
> comments in the BZ reports that I've seen and modified some of the
> grammar/spelling (also probably inserted some errors of mine).
>
> The archive contains the new screenshots images, a DIFF between new XML
> and the XML from 1.8.5 (the latest doc I found), and the new
> "ch_invest.xml".
>
> Suggestions on where to place this archive (1.2M) are needed, as are
> reviewers.
>
> This is a draft for comments/suggestions.
>
> Observations from working on the update;
>
> 1) There appears to be inconsistencies in screen names and enter forms
> using "commodity" and "security".  Working through creating new security
> account (Guide 8.4.2) brings up a screen (New Account) to select
> commodity, then a screen labeled "Select Security", then a screen "New
> Commodity".
>   
This should probably be submitted as a bug to be fixed before release 
with more appropriate names.
> Should these terms be combined "Commodity/Security", defined, or
> ignored?  Do you really track Commodities as "Corn, Wheat, ...)?
>
> 2) What is the proper term for the "mark" next to the account name that
> signifies that there are sub-accounts present?
>
>   
I usually just refer to this as a '+' or plus symbol in the docs.

Chris


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