Re: traslation italian

2000-07-25 Thread
Il ne functionne pas encore je ne sait que faire.. This is only my problem ?? Not function any translation.. >Salut Alessandro, >Peuts-tu faire celĂ , je peux pas le tester sur ma Mandrake 7.0, elle n'accepte >pas le changement des locales: > >In a directory and with the sources you can

Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

2000-07-25 Thread Clark Jones
Bill Gribble wrote: > > Clark Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I hate to quibble with Gribble :-), but in actuallity the bill establishing > > the Dollar as the U.S. currency (written by Thomas Jefferson) defines the > > "mill" -- which is 1/1000 of a U.S. Dollar -- though the only places wh

Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

2000-07-25 Thread Clark Jones
Rob Walker wrote: > > > On Mon, 24 Jul 2000 22:18:28 -0700, Clark Jones > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Clark> Bill Gribble wrote: [...] > > >> 1. gnc_commodity knows about the smallest possible transactional > >> unit for trading the commodity (for example, 1/100 of a US Dollar > >>

contacting me

2000-07-25 Thread Dave Peticolas
I will be out of email contact starting tomorrow until August 3 or so, fyi. Please send any patches to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I will get them when I get back. Thanks! dave ___ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnumatic.com/cgi-bin/

Re: Bulk transaction mover (was: question about importing .qif files)

2000-07-25 Thread Christopher Browne
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000 23:46:47 -0400, the world broke into rejoicing as Jason Rennie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > This sounds like a restricted sort of "find and replace" operation. > > It would be a handy thing to have on its own, not just as a part of a > > QIF importer

Canonical Representation of Commodity Identifiers

2000-07-25 Thread Christopher Browne
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000 20:00:11 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as Jon Trowbridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 05:41:58PM -0500, Bill Gribble wrote: > > 2. gnc_commodity knows the full name of the commodity > > ("International Business Machines", "US Dollars"), plus

Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

2000-07-25 Thread John Hasler
Richard Wackerbarth writes: > In practice, accounting always restricts the allowable values. In practice, reality always restricts the allowable values. I don't see how we can predict what those restrictions will be for anything but money, though. Nor do I see the necessity of doing so. > Rath

Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

2000-07-25 Thread Christopher Browne
On 25 Jul 2000 18:17:35 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Richard Wackerbarth writes: > > Actually, price is a rational and quantity is an integer. (At least in > > the pumps that I helped program) > > I'm not talking about gasoline anymore, but abou

Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

2000-07-25 Thread Christopher Browne
On 25 Jul 2000 09:29:49 EST, the world broke into rejoicing as Bill Gribble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Clark Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I hate to quibble with Gribble :-), but in actuallity the bill establishing > > the Dollar as the U.S. currency (written by Thomas Jefferson) defines

Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

2000-07-25 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Terry wrote: > Actually - yes - the stock are purchased through dividend re-investment. > The dividend is computed to 1/1,000 USD (stock total is carried on their > books to 1/1,000 and the dividend is computed to 1/1,000 USD per stock > unit.) Thus the transaction value in US

Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

2000-07-25 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, John Hasler wrote: > Richard Wackerbarth writes: > > Actually, price is a rational and quantity is an integer. (At least in > > the pumps that I helped program) > > I'm not talking about gasoline anymore, but about prices and quantities in > general. Treating price and quant

Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

2000-07-25 Thread Terry
On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, you wrote: > Terry writes: > > Yes stock transactions > > Your broker bills you in thousandths of a dollar? > -- Actually - yes - the stock are purchased through dividend re-investment. The dividend is computed to 1/1,000 USD (stock total is carried on their books to 1/1,000

Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

2000-07-25 Thread John Hasler
Richard Wackerbarth writes: > Actually, price is a rational and quantity is an integer. (At least in > the pumps that I helped program) I'm not talking about gasoline anymore, but about prices and quantities in general. Treating price and quantity as reals (always rationals or integers in pract

Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

2000-07-25 Thread John Hasler
Terry writes: > Yes stock transactions Your broker bills you in thousandths of a dollar? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI ___ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnumatic.com/cgi-bin/mai

Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

2000-07-25 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, John Hasler wrote: > The pump knows that 1.699 * gallons = total sale, anyway. > IMHO transaction_total != price * quantity. > Rather, transaction_total = f(price, quantity) > > where transaction_total is an integer, > price and quantity are reals, and Actually, price is

Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

2000-07-25 Thread Terry
On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, you wrote: > Clark Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I hate to quibble with Gribble :-), but in actuallity the bill establishing > > the Dollar as the U.S. currency (written by Thomas Jefferson) defines the > > "mill" -- which is 1/1000 of a U.S. Dollar -- though the only

Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

2000-07-25 Thread Stanley Long
Buddha Buck wrote: > > At 09:29 AM 7/25/00 -0500, you wrote: > >Clark Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I hate to quibble with Gribble :-), but in actuallity the bill establishing > > > the Dollar as the U.S. currency (written by Thomas Jefferson) > > > > defines the "mill" -- which is 1/10

Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

2000-07-25 Thread John Hasler
Buddha Buck writes: > I know that the local gas pumps do accurately treat the $1.699/gallon > price as $1.699/gallon -- when I buy 10.000 gallons, I pay $16.99, not > $17.00. And when you buy 11.000 gallons you will be billed $18.69 (or maybe $18.68), not $18.689. > The pump evidentially knows a

One more item from O'Reilly Open Source

2000-07-25 Thread Gary Bickford
I forgot - Sun not only announce GPL of StarOffice (with other licenses optional - that's another story), they've founded http://www.openoffice.org, whose charter is to be a repository of XML DTDs to push for commoditization of all the office protocols and file formats. They're going to turn oper

Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

2000-07-25 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, John Hasler wrote: > Bill Gribble writes: > > Are there *any* places where correct record keeping requires one to keep > > track of dollar values down to the 1/1000 of a dollar? > > Property tax rates are stated in mills, but the actual tax bills are always > in dollars and ce

Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

2000-07-25 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Bill Gribble wrote: > Clark Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I hate to quibble with Gribble :-), but in actuallity the bill > > establishing the Dollar as the U.S. currency (written by Thomas > > Jefferson) defines the "mill" -- which is 1/1000 of a U.S. Dollar -- > > tho

Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

2000-07-25 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Glen Ditchfield wrote: > On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Bill Gribble wrote: > > 1. gnc_commodity knows about the smallest possible transactional > > unit for trading the commodity (for example, 1/100 of a US Dollar > > or 1/1000 of a mutual fund share). > Is the smallest tr

Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

2000-07-25 Thread Richard Wackerbarth
On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Bill Gribble wrote: > I definitely don't think rounding should be a default. For most > financial transactions, the math you're doing won't require any > rounding/truncation at all, and for the ones that do (total-value > computations, for example) you probably want to use R

Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

2000-07-25 Thread Bill Gribble
Steven Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Floor(X): returns the largest (most positive) integral value less than > or equal to X. When X is zero, the result has the sign of X; a zero > result otherwise has a positive sign. > > Ceil(X) returns the smallest (most negative) integral value great

Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

2000-07-25 Thread Glen Ditchfield
On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Bill Gribble wrote: > 2. gnc_commodity : representing currencies and other commodities > > 1. gnc_commodity knows about the smallest possible transactional > unit for trading the commodity (for example, 1/100 of a US Dollar > or 1/1000 of a mutual fund share). Is

Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

2000-07-25 Thread Buddha Buck
At 09:29 AM 7/25/00 -0500, you wrote: >Clark Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I hate to quibble with Gribble :-), but in actuallity the bill establishing > > the Dollar as the U.S. currency (written by Thomas Jefferson) defines the > > "mill" -- which is 1/1000 of a U.S. Dollar -- though the

Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

2000-07-25 Thread John Hasler
Bill Gribble writes: > Are there *any* places where correct record keeping requires one to keep > track of dollar values down to the 1/1000 of a dollar? Property tax rates are stated in mills, but the actual tax bills are always in dollars and cents. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler

Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

2000-07-25 Thread Steven Murdoch
I haven't been on this list for long, so if this has already been discussed please accept my apologies. One thing I was unsure about was in the gnc_numeric API was about the handling of negative amounts, especially during rounding. I have a few questions/suggestions about this For Floor and Ceil

Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

2000-07-25 Thread Bill Gribble
Clark Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I hate to quibble with Gribble :-), but in actuallity the bill establishing > the Dollar as the U.S. currency (written by Thomas Jefferson) defines the > "mill" -- which is 1/1000 of a U.S. Dollar -- though the only places where > you're likely to run into

Re: Proposal for modifying gnucash to use exact quantities

2000-07-25 Thread Bill Gribble
Phillip J Shelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Not really up on what is available my self so my comment is `Are > there any engines out there that already do this type of math? > > And would it be safe to say you are looking at some kind of integer > math? The actual math code is quite simple.