Capital Gains Input Question

[Fred Bone]

On 11 December 2010 at 14:39, David T. said:

> I have been trying to enter capital gains/loss in 2.3.17 on a Mac, and I
> want to understand an interface gotcha. Specifically, it it Extremely
> Confusing that when you want to enter the split lines for capital gains in
> a Stock or Mutual Fund account, you can't enter the dollar figure for
> capital gain directly in the transaction register for the stock. If you
> try to do this, Gnucash requires **and will automatically assign** a
> number of shares and a per share price--an action that is guaranteed to
> throw your portfolio off.

Wrong. This is explained, quite well though perhaps not perfectly, in the 
"Tutorial and Concepts Guide", under "Selling shares". I recommend 
reading it.

> However, Gnucash allows these splits to exist--it just requires you to
> enter the split information from a different register. It seems to me that
> either you should be allowed to enter a cash split line in a register--or
> not. This "You can't do it here, but you might be able to do it from over
> there" interface is very very very very confusing. 

It might be, if that were true, but it isn't.