[GNC] GnuCash Reconciliation Documentation

[David Cousens]

David

Agreed the Guide is the place Reconciliation process discussion apart from
the button by button type description of the interface which should be in
the help.

 I noticed you referenced Ch4 as Accounts. In the V3 guide at present Ch3 is
Accounts and the succeeding chapters deal with detail within Accounts with
Ch 4 being transactions. Is this how it will appear in the reorganization of
the guide.? I will check it out in the master on Github. Perhaps a start
would be to try and consolidate the process descriptions in one place. I
like the use of a concrete example in the Check Book discussion with numbers
as it gives people a better handle to relate to there own use. I will have a
go at trying to shift the Window descriptions into 5.8 in the help and move
the process-example descriptions there into the guide.

I have followed a bit of the discussion around transalations. I'll review it
to see if there is any way of minimising the disruption. While it is perhaps
a short term consideration, longer term I feel it is also important to
structure the help and guide to minimize information duplication, simplify
maintenance (including translation), and improve accessibility to the
information.  I've had a look at Geert's wiki page on the experiment using
itstool for the documentation but really couldn't glean enough. It seems to
be oriented more towards translating short strings which works for the
program and may work better for the help than the guide which will tend to
have more prose. The other factor is examples. I guess one could run GnuCash
with the appropriate locale setting but that will not change account names
etc into another language only the interface

I am not underestimating the work and effort involved. I have some
reservations about embarking on it but nothing ventured nothing gained. I am
not planning on rushing into it but perhaps doing it in a series of small
moves to get the overall structure in place first, then trying to get the
coherent narrative out of it. Is there any documentation on the planned
changes in structure to the guide available or an outline for where it is
headed? 

David Cousens



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