Re: Transaction reports

1999-12-05 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
> I think this is very much the right idea; there is no doubt but that > there will be value to having a variety of output forms. > > Creating what amounts to a "financial reporting language" that can > be used to push data at multiple output forms would be a *big* win. > I think we're a

Re: build errors with dave's latest.

1999-12-05 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Rob Walker writes: > I just created a symlink from libXpm.so.4 to libXpm.so and that > worked. So... looks like configure needs to think more? > > or, is this an error in the xpm4g package which I have? > > $ dpkg -S /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so > dpkg: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so not found.

Re: Transaction reports

1999-12-05 Thread Christopher Browne
On Mon, 06 Dec 1999 10:29:22 +1100, the world broke into rejoicing as Robert Graham Merkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Dave Peticolas writes: > > > > > I think that gnome-print is probably the right way to go, but I'm not > > > sure how long it's going to be before it's ready for prime time.

Re: build errors with dave's latest.

1999-12-05 Thread Rob Walker
> On Sun, 5 Dec 1999 21:02:43 -0500 (EST), Heath Martin > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Heath> Dave Peticolas writes: >> >> > cvs update just done. >> > applypatch < gnucash.diff >> > >> > no errors displayed. >> >> After you apply the patch, you need to run autoconf and then configure.

Re: build errors with dave's latest.

1999-12-05 Thread Dave Peticolas
> > Dave Peticolas writes: > > > > > cvs update just done. > > > applypatch < gnucash.diff > > > > > > no errors displayed. > > > > After you apply the patch, you need to run autoconf and then configure. > > I don't think configure.in checks for gtkxmhtml properly. In > my case, I h

Re: build errors with dave's latest.

1999-12-05 Thread Dave Peticolas
> > > On Sun, 05 Dec 1999 17:11:57 -0800, Dave Peticolas > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > >> cvs update just done. > >> applypatch < gnucash.diff > >> > >> no errors displayed. > > Dave> After you apply the patch, you need to run autoconf and then > Dave> configure. > > I _think_ i

Re: build errors with dave's latest.

1999-12-05 Thread Rob Walker
> On Sun, 05 Dec 1999 17:11:57 -0800, Dave Peticolas > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> cvs update just done. >> applypatch < gnucash.diff >> >> no errors displayed. Dave> After you apply the patch, you need to run autoconf and then Dave> configure. I _think_ i did this. doing it again

Re: build errors with dave's latest.

1999-12-05 Thread Heath Martin
Dave Peticolas writes: > > > cvs update just done. > > applypatch < gnucash.diff > > > > no errors displayed. > > After you apply the patch, you need to run autoconf and then configure. I don't think configure.in checks for gtkxmhtml properly. In my case, I have gtkxmhtml installed

Re: build errors with dave's latest.

1999-12-05 Thread Dave Peticolas
> cvs update just done. > applypatch < gnucash.diff > > no errors displayed. After you apply the patch, you need to run autoconf and then configure. dave -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Scheme bug (was Re: Transaction reports)

1999-12-05 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Dave Peticolas writes: > I think this is slib related. The files which are failing > are all using slib. Do you have the latest slib installed? > /dev : dpkg --status slib Package: slib Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: devel Installed-Size: 1646 Maintainer: James Lewi

build errors with dave's latest.

1999-12-05 Thread Rob Walker
cvs update just done. applypatch < gnucash.diff no errors displayed. $ make gnome make gnome.disabled make[1]: Entering directory `/home/rob/src/cvs/gnucash' make[1]: *** No rule to make target `gnome.disabled'. Stop. make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/rob/src/cvs/gnucash' make: *** [gnome] Err

wife found a bug....

1999-12-05 Thread Rob Walker
added a new transaction. it was for fuel. it was added to our main checking account, with a "xfer from" category of "auto:fuel". opened the "expenses:auto:fuel" register to feel warm and fuzzy. felt warm and fuzzy. deleted the transaction from the main checking register. It remained in the e

Re: splits

1999-12-05 Thread Dave Peticolas
> hooray! I was in multiline mode for a while earlier, but I didn't > know you had to hit record to get the second line. not too intuitive > to me. what about in multiline mode, as you hit , it adds > lines, and you have to hit RET or click on record to record, and then > leave the trans

Re: Transaction reports

1999-12-05 Thread Rob Walker
> On 05 Dec 1999 18:47:33 -0600, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: John> Robert Graham Merkel writes: >> What is the purpose of printing the reports out in ASCII? because I want to view them with Xemacs, less, more and cat. I aslo want to email them to my wife, and she has no ne

Re: Transaction reports

1999-12-05 Thread Dave Peticolas
> I suggested something like this in a subsequent mail. If you guys > think this more complex method is worth the additional complexity, I'd > be very happy to go with it. I think it is easily worth it. I think it will save us lots of time in the future when we need to add a new output format.

Re: splits

1999-12-05 Thread Rob Walker
> On Sun, 05 Dec 1999 16:43:17 -0800, Dave Peticolas > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> I just went to WalMart, bought socks and an air freshener for my >> car, and wrote a check. This needs to be recorded as hitting two >> different expense categories. How do I do this in the banking >> r

Re: Transaction reports

1999-12-05 Thread John Hasler
Robert Graham Merkel writes: > What is the purpose of printing the reports out in ASCII? I want to be able to access and manipulate them with ordinary text tools such as more, grep, vi, email, etc. I would only want them typeset if I was going to show them to a banker or some other suit. -- Joh

Re: splits

1999-12-05 Thread Dave Peticolas
> I just went to WalMart, bought socks and an air freshener for my car, > and wrote a check. This needs to be recorded as hitting two different > expense categories. How do I do this in the banking register? Switch the register to Multi-line mode. Enter your socks on the second line of the b

splits

1999-12-05 Thread Rob Walker
I just went to WalMart, bought socks and an air freshener for my car, and wrote a check. This needs to be recorded as hitting two different expense categories. How do I do this in the banking register? rob -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscribe send empty email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Scheme bug (was Re: Transaction reports)

1999-12-05 Thread Dave Peticolas
> > > > It looks like you're missing src/scm/srfi/* These are a set of *very* > > useful implementations of the accepted schme "Scheme Request For > > Implementation's" at www.schemers.org. The most useful one ATM is > > SRFI-1 which contains some very efficient list processing algorithms.

Re: Scheme bug (was Re: Transaction reports)

1999-12-05 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Rob Browning writes: > > > > ~ : gnucash & > > [2] 825 > > ~ : gnucash: bootstrap file is >/usr/local/stow/gnucash-CVS/share/scm/bootstrap.scm > > gnucash: [W] "failure loading >""/usr/local/stow/gnucash-CVS/share/scm/srfi/srfi-8.guile.scm" > > gnucash: [W] "failure loading >""/

Re: Transaction reports

1999-12-05 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Dave Peticolas writes: > > > I think that gnome-print is probably the right way to go, but I'm not > > sure how long it's going to be before it's ready for prime time. Do > > you know, Dave? > > >From what I can extract from the gnome developer's site, the > gnome printing libraries wil

Re: Transaction reports

1999-12-05 Thread Dave Peticolas
> I think that gnome-print is probably the right way to go, but I'm not > sure how long it's going to be before it's ready for prime time. Do > you know, Dave? >From what I can extract from the gnome developer's site, the gnome printing libraries will be in the 1.2 release of Gnome, which has

stock questions

1999-12-05 Thread Rob Walker
how can i do an import of stock data? I have the closing data information for my portfolio going a long ways back. I need to import this into my stock register. Also, I need to record a few stock splits. How is this done in the stock register? rob -- Gnucash Developer's List To unsubscr

Re: Transaction reports

1999-12-05 Thread Rob Browning
Rob Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > yes! please, please get them out in ASCII. Well, if we go with my previous suggestion, spitting out plain ASCII should be trivial, and depending on what you want to do, since the report itself would be (text) scheme forms, you could write scripts to do p

Re: Transaction reports

1999-12-05 Thread Rob Browning
Robert Graham Merkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Two other things. Firstly, has there been any discussion on how > best to produce printed reports? There are a couple of different > approaches that come to mind: A little. > 1) Feed the generated HTML to a HTML/PS converter, and print the >

Re: Transaction reports

1999-12-05 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Rob Walker writes: > > > On 05 Dec 1999 07:43:08 -0600, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > said: > > John> Robert writes: > >> Two other things. Firstly, has there been any discussion on how best to > >> produce printed reports? > > >> ...HTML...Postscript...TeX... > > >>

Re: Transaction reports

1999-12-05 Thread Rob Walker
> On 05 Dec 1999 07:43:08 -0600, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: John> Robert writes: >> Two other things. Firstly, has there been any discussion on how best to >> produce printed reports? >> ...HTML...Postscript...TeX... >> Suggestions? John> I don't suppose there is any cha

Re: Transaction reports

1999-12-05 Thread John Hasler
Robert writes: > Two other things. Firstly, has there been any discussion on how best to > produce printed reports? > ...HTML...Postscript...TeX... > Suggestions? I don't suppose there is any chance of an option to produce reports in ASCII? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Danci

Re: Transaction reports

1999-12-05 Thread Robert Graham Merkel
Rob Browning writes: > Dave Peticolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks to both of you. I suspect it'll probably be a week before I'll have any working code, but rest assured I'll be working on it! Two other things. Firstly, has there been any discussion on how best to produce printed r