Editing check format

[Derek Atkins]

Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws at hotkey.net.au> writes:

> On Wednesday 23 April 2008 11:35:11 pm you wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws at hotkey.net.au> writes:
>> > I am trying once more to do away with Quicken.  The one thing I cannot do
>> > is to make Gnucash print checks the Australian way.  The dimensions I can
>> > adjust; it is a question of the "amount in words" line.  The convention
>> > here is entirely different from in the U.S.
>>
>> Oh?  How is it different?
>
> You write "100 dollars 45/100"

Actually, when I write a check by hand I write out:

   One hundred and 45/xx ---------------------  [Dollars]

> Australian Quicken writes "100 dollars and 45 cents."   We brought in decimal 
> currency in 1966, and I think that the official guidelines then 
> specified "100 dollars 45."   That is how I hand-write checks.  We don't use 
> the fraction convention.  It would be accepted, but it looks foreign, like 
> something from a U.S.  Windows 3 vintage shareware package.  I think that a 
> program as full-featured as Gnucash should look professional, no matter what 
> country uses it.    

Making the code locale-specific would be challenging, but
probably the right solution for you.  Doing this generally
is "hard".

> I have struck the printing problem under Windows, but since I use Linux, it is 
> not a problem for me.
>
> Doug.

-derek

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