splitting account (with child account) balances

[hendrik at topoi.pooq.com]

On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 01:26:37PM -0700, chris wrote:
> 
> thanks for the example michael.
> 
> i took a look at the report file on my install and have decided to give up on this and stick with copy values from gnucash into a spreadsheet.  the reports seem way to complicated for me to sift through and learn how to modify/write.  no offense to gnucash, of coruse, most likely just a sign of my level of development knowledge.

I've found it easier to write a C++ program that reads the gnucash file 
and gereat reports from that.  The documentation for the Scheme 
functions that are needed to access gnucash's data base just seems to be 
excessively lacking.  Or am I not looking in the right place?

I'm going to have to do this, though, when gnucash abandons the xml data 
base.

-- hendrik