Trading Accounts documentation

[John Ralls]

On Nov 5, 2010, at 11:01 PM, Mike Alexander wrote:

> --On November 6, 2010 12:25:12 AM -0400 Yawar Amin <yawar.amin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi John & List,
>> 
>> On 2010-11-05, at 14:33, John Ralls wrote:
>> 
>>> […]
>>> I think it should be a release candidate for 2.4, with a code freeze
>>> for anything but critical bugs. If it works as well as I think it
>>> will, then we can release 2.4 as soon as the documentation is ready.
>> 
>> Are there any user-facing changes we’re missing in the docs right
>> now? Apart from the What’s New section–I have to work on that.
>> 
>> To put it another way, can you think of anything apart from the new
>> default .gnucash extension, SQL file format, and preferences UIs that
>> users should know about?
> 
> I don't know how complete you want to make the docs, but there doesn't seem to be anything about trading accounts, at least not that I can find with a quick search.  The pages at <http://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~selinger/accounting/tutorial.html> and <http://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~selinger/accounting/gnucash.html> give a good, if slightly outdated, overview of this.  I would be glad to review anything added to the documentation for this.

That's good stuff! Perhaps Mr. Selinger would be willing to contribute the tutorial as a chapter for the Guide, and we could brush up the gnucash bit to reflect the way it works now.

Regards,
John Ralls