Balance Sheets

[Chris Bester]

Hi Tommy

What a wonderful breath of fresh air.  You have made my day.  Wel explained,
and if I may say so, in a sympathetic way,  to a novice like me.  I have to
emphasize my appreciation.  Wish there were more people like you. 

Tanks again and have a great day.

Chris

 

From: Tommy Trussell [mailto:tommy.trussell at gmail.com] 
Sent: 07 January 2014 02:51 AM
To: Chris Bester
Cc: Egbert van der Wal; GNU Cash User
Subject: Re: Balance Sheets

 

 

On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 3:45 AM, Chris Bester <chrisbester at cybersmart.co.za>
wrote:

My other question was; just for interest sake, what does (Equile) mean in (
Balance Sheet( Equile)?
Thanks again

Chris

 

 

I am afraid some of the responses you received to this question took you
down a "rabbit hole." I believe I understand what happened and I hope to
clear things up. If it doesn't I hope someone will set ME straight!

 

When you see two "Balance Sheet" reports, one labeled "eguile" it means the
developers have included both the old "Balance Sheet" report AND a new,
"prettier" or "easier to edit" report that uses the eguile utility. They
should function similarly (as far as the numbers that appear on them),
however one or the other might suit you better.

 

Explanation: GnuCash uses a programming language called Scheme to create its
reports. (GnuCash uses Scheme several places, but we're just talking about
reports here.) The utility that GnuCash uses uses to interpret Scheme code
is called Guile. Someone created a special Guile "preprocessor" called
eguile that simplifies the creation of "pretty" or "easier to maintain"
reports. GnuCash developers chose it because eguile knows how to use HTML,
which is the "language" used by web browsers to make web pages look nice,
and HTML is more familiar to more people than plain Scheme code. SO an
eguile report should be easier to make into a nicer web page, which may give
you more options both in its creation and in using the final result.

 

I hope I didn't botch that explanation TOO terribly.

 

 

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