custom reports

[hendrik at topoi.pooq.com]

On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 10:07:55AM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Guillermo Uriarte <guiuriarte at yahoo.es> writes:
> 
> > Hello, I'm not a technical user. In fact I'm quite new with Linux and GnuCash.
> >
> > I would like to develop my own custom reports, but I find it quite
> > complex (involving learning a programming language called Scheme).
> >
> > Which would be the best way to get custom reports? Learning Scheme or
> > trying to investigate a way of getting the data out of GnuCash into
> > OpenOffice and then make the reports there?
> 
> I think learning scheme would be easy.  The syntax can be learned in a
> day.  There's a great reference from MIT on Scheme that you can use.
> You might find that Scheme is both fun and very powerful.  See the Wiki
> for more information on writing Custom Reports.

Yes, it's easy to learn Scheme.  It's not a big languagel nor is it a 
tarpit.

What's hard is figuring out how to get the information out of GnuCash 
into Scheme.  Or has this documentation improved since last I looked at 
it?

-- hendrik