Reports chapter in guide

[Anton Kratz]

> In my opinion, the Help and the Guide serve different purposes.  The
> Help document is "I found this menu item/report/etc in the UI -- what
> does it do?" whereas the Guide is more about "I want to do X, how do I
> do it in GnuCash".

This.

I think that the two different types of documentation are a stroke of
genius and it made learning GnuCash so much easier for me. In the previous
emails in this thread, I see no convincing argument why they should be
merged into one. I can just reiterate what the previous poster wrote, these
are two different documents: the guide is about *concepts*, and the manual
is about what the individual menu items etc achieve. I wish more software
would split it like that, it makes absolutely sense.

bw,
Anton


On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 12:56 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Pedro Albuquerque <palbuquerque73 at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Platform independently speaking, I would rather have the help manual and
> > the guide merged into one single document and then split in two again,
> > one for personal finances and another for business finances.
>
> In my opinion, the Help and the Guide serve different purposes.  The
> Help document is "I found this menu item/report/etc in the UI -- what
> does it do?" whereas the Guide is more about "I want to do X, how do I
> do it in GnuCash".
>
> I'm not sure how you could merge those two concepts together into a
> single document.
>
> > One reason for this choice of mine and following up on a recent
> > discussion on the users list, there are countries where GC can't be used
> > for most businesses, so a separate document for businesses would make
> > sense to me, living on one of those.
>
> Okay, I'll bite --- why can't GnuCash be used for most businesses?
>
> > As for the merge, I think we all know that users seldom read the
> > documentation (me included), so having to jump between two documents
> > could eventually discourage them even more.
>
> See above for why there are two documents.
>
> > Either way, thank you for this excellent software. Took me some time to
> > choose it but I'm glad I did. It's now fully translated into my language
> > and I will finish just saying that I can spare some time to help, if you
> > want.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Pedro.
> >
> > Sáb, 2016-02-20 às 11:46 -0500, David T. escreveu:
> >
> >> 687820
> >
>
> -derek
>
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