Scrollkeeper in Gnucash Docs

[John Ralls]

On Oct 5, 2009, at 7:09 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:

> John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> writes:
>> Rather misses the point: Why even build the omf files if there's no
>> scrollkeeper?
>
> I didn't miss the point; that was (indirectly) my question.  You said
> that scrollkeeper was used during build time to timestamp the files,  
> so
> I asked if the files can be used without that timestamp.  Another  
> way of
> looking at that question is can the files be used without  
> scrollkeeper?

Can they? I suppose, if someone wanted to write a different cataloging  
program that also uses them. I haven't yet found any references to  
such a program on the web. Apple and Microsoft help each have their  
own catalogs, neither of which (AFAICT) use omf metadata.

Regards,
John Ralls