Split transactions

[Doug Laidlaw]

When i try to enter split transactions, gnucash adjusts figures along the way 
to make things balance.  That is good.  But if I add an item to the list, the 
program alters another specific item I have already entered, to make them all 
add up to the total.  This means that I never know how to sort it out.

Is there a way of having a dummy entry to absorb these changes, and which 
will eventually be zero?  Short of creating a nominal account called "dummy", 
I mean  I haven't really noticed, but the item that changes all the time 
might be the first.

Another option might be to let me type anything but refuse to save the 
transaction if it doesn't balance,  but I have promised not to suggest any 
more programming changes, and it isn't much use without a "helper" line which 
keeps track of the difference.

The moral of this and the previous posting seems to be: split transactions 
are undesirable.

Regards,

Doug.