budget with ytd difference option and ?improved? readability

Fred Bone Fred.Bone at dial.pipex.com
Thu Oct 5 10:53:28 EDT 2017


On 3 October 2017 at 19:16, Steve said:

> Color me clueless, well, almost...
> 
> Using Windows 10, latest release of GnuCash.
> 
> So the two scm files, I installed them in the standard-reports
> sub-directory as indicated in the above posts. I got them there, by
> opening up each one, copying the contents, then pasting the contents to a
> new file I created with Notepad, and saving it with the original name with
> the scm extension, eg
> 
> budget-plus.scm
> stylesheet-budget-plus.scm
> 
> In the .gnucash directory, I created a config.user file using Notepad,
> then copied the 2 lines calling the scm files into that file.
> 
> But then when I try and start up GnuCash, it won't start, eg program won't
> run.  When I remove the above files from the referenced directories, it
> runs fine.  So obviously I'm doing something wrong (not the first time).
> 
> Hints... ? Be gentle... :)

Perhaps it's objecting to the MS-DOS-style line endings, that Notepad 
will have helpfully put there for you?

If you put a file there with one line containing just a semicolon and it 
still won't run, then that's the problem.



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