CashFlow report with a month-by-month display?

[Jeff Smith]

As reported in an earlier email, I'm using GnuCash to try to get a 
handle on household spending. As part of that, I would dearly love to be 
able to generate a report that showed each of my expense categories and 
a month-by-month total for each.

I understand that this could be done by exporting to an Excel 
spreadsheet, but I figure that if it's useful once, it will be useful 
regularly. And furthermore, if *I* find it useful, chances are that 
others will find it useful too.

The existing Cashflow report does what I want, except that it only shows 
one period at a time. This isn't a complete enough picture for me to get 
a clear picture of the trends involved, so I'd like to turn it into a 
multi-column report that shows me each month in a separate column. (And 
printing out one report for each month in question seems a bit "brute 
force" to me.)

Since I am not shy about having to write some script code, I figured 
that I would dig into the engine and try to create one based on the 
existing cashflow specification. But before I try that, I wondered if 
somebody might have already done this, or if perhaps there's a way to 
get what I want interactively, rather than going to code.

-- 
Jeff Smith
Computer Science Dept.
University of Saskatchewan
http://jefficus.usask.ca