Dave Peticolas wrote:
>
> > > > > 1. When I started GnuCash in german language, the Report submenu didn't
> > > > > appear. I changed the word "_Reports" to "_Berichte" in report.scm and
> > > > > then it worked (but only in german language!).
> > >
> > > Hm, I can't reproduce this on 1.4.2. I ca
On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 12:14:20PM -0500, Richard Wackerbarth wrote:
> And you have yet to address the objections that I, and others, have been
> raising for an equal period of time.
If you can state any objection that impacts the correctness of the
code, I'm happy to entertain it. I am not int
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Jason Rennie wrote:
> So, here something from left field...
>
> All of this discussion concerning roundoff error, internal number
> representation, etc. seems to be assuming that there *is* a right answer.
> i.e. if we discuss and think hard enough, we'll be able to come up wi
So, here something from left field...
All of this discussion concerning roundoff error, internal number
representation, etc. seems to be assuming that there *is* a right answer.
i.e. if we discuss and think hard enough, we'll be able to come up with a
solution that will always do the right th
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> This isn't all that hard to do with a bit of autoconf/automake magic:
> with a bit of tweaking, you can get the generated files into the
> tarball that "make dist" creates. (If you have trouble, e-mail me and
> I'll tell you the mysterious invocation needed to get this
OK, I'll give up on expecting a clean interface to solve the "round-off"
problem. I'm sure Bill will eventually get something that gives the right
answers.
The problem that I am now encountering has to do with the cost basis of
inventory (in particular equities).
Assume that, in January, I pu
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Jon Trowbridge wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 12:24:53PM -0500, Richard Wackerbarth wrote:
> > All you need to do that is switch to some form of integer amounts of SCU.
> > and associate a formatting routine to display the result in a different
> > unit.
>
> Let's assume for
On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 12:47:18PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
> On 28-Jul-00, 09:55 (CDT), Jon Trowbridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > last week. Representatives from many the various free software
> > documentation projects all met and decided to standardize on DocBook.
> > So moving your
On 28-Jul-00, 09:55 (CDT), Jon Trowbridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> BTW, I spoke to (GDP leader) Dan Mueth the other day; he told me that
> there was a "documentation summit" at the O'Reilly Open Source show
> last week. Representatives from many the various free software
> documentation proj
On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 12:24:53PM -0500, Richard Wackerbarth wrote:
> All you need to do that is switch to some form of integer amounts of SCU.
> and associate a formatting routine to display the result in a different unit.
Let's assume for the moment that Bill's proposal is fundamentally
wrong
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Bill Gribble wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 08:14:47AM -0500, Christopher Browne wrote:
> > Unfortunately, all Bill has provided is a way of representing and
> > manipulating rational values.
> >
> > But I don't think it represents what people really need to do with
> > _fin
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Bill Gribble wrote:
> > PLEASE, plan before you implement.
> "plan before you implement"? Do you want me to start quoting the
> MONTHS of correspondence that led to my most recent proposal?
And you have yet to address the objections that I, and others, have been
raising fo
On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 06:36:04AM -0500, Richard Wackerbarth wrote:
> I view Bill's implementation like Southwest Parkway, a multi-million
> dollar roadway leading nowhere. It was a fine roadway, but did not
> serve a real purpose because it addressed a non-existant need. It
> cost additional mil
On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 08:14:47AM -0500, Christopher Browne wrote:
> Unfortunately, all Bill has provided is a way of representing and
> manipulating rational values.
>
> But I don't think it represents what people really need to do with
> _financial amounts_.
>
> Once we get that library, the c
On Sat, Jul 29, 2000 at 12:40:25AM +1000, Robert Graham Merkel wrote:
> Maybe what we need is to have the derived HTML files in releases, but
> only the source SGML in the CVS tree. That way, people who just wish to
> build GnuCash don't need the Jade tools, but we keep the CVS archive
> nice and
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Robert Graham Merkel wrote:
> Richard Wackerbarth writes:
> > On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Robert Graham Merkel wrote:
> > > > - If only SGML, then that forces anyone that gets a CVS archive
> > > > to add yet another component to those that they install.
> > >
> > > And the pe
Ralf Gorholt writes:
> Hi Robert,
>
> I had already started the translation of some of the HTML pages into german
> before I left for my holidays. Now that I am back I have again some time to
> continue. Niklaus Giger has already contacted me in the past and asked to
> coordinate our work.
Richard Wackerbarth writes:
> On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Robert Graham Merkel wrote:
>
> > > - If only SGML, then that forces anyone that gets a CVS archive
> > > to add yet another component to those that they install.
> >
> > And the people who will scream most loudly are those who are trying
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Christopher Browne wrote:
> Unfortunately, all Bill has provided is a way of representing and
> manipulating rational values. There's nothing particularly _wrong_ or
> awful about having that.
> But I don't think it represents what people really need to do with
> _financial
At 08:14 AM 7/28/00 -0500, Christopher Browne wrote:
>I'd rather put the emphasis on that next higher level library, which
>might look more like:
>
>struct finamt {
> numerator Q; /* Might be a rational value, if need be... */
> commodity C;
>};
>
>struct commodity {
> string IDENTIFIER;
On Thu, 27 Jul 2000 19:42:37 -0400, the world broke into rejoicing as
Terry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Richard, I'm curious (sometimes fatal :-) ) Bill has put together a fairly
> detailed proposal and implementation using rationals. I haven't seen
> a similar single discription and correspondin
On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Terry wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> > Bill's proposal is to implement operations on a representation that can
> > express not only integral SCUs, but more general expressions. In using
> > this representation, it will be necessary to add appropriate constraints
>
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Robert Graham Merkel wrote:
> > - If only SGML, then that forces anyone that gets a CVS archive
> > to add yet another component to those that they install.
>
> And the people who will scream most loudly are those who are trying to
> build gnucash on anything other than Lin
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Christopher Browne wrote:
> here, and am decidedly _NOT_ taking an accounting approach...>
>
> We could probably do _pretty well_ with some fixed base if we used a base
> with quite a lot of useful divisors. For instance, 360 has, as factors:
> 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12
Hi Robert,
I had already started the translation of some of the HTML pages into german
before I left for my holidays. Now that I am back I have again some time to
continue. Niklaus Giger has already contacted me in the past and asked to
coordinate our work. So, if a decision is taken as far as th
Christopher Browne writes:
> Should we have HTML, or SGML in the source tree? is the question.
>
> - If both, then there is the risk that someone may modify the HTML,
> and then watch it get overwritten the next time someone upstream runs
> "make," and builds fresh HTML.
>
> - If only SGM
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