Patch for guide file "ch_basics.xml"

2010-10-16 Thread Tom Bullock
Geert and Juergen, Earlier exchanges stated: > "Assets" is the sum of all accounts of types Bank, Cash, Asset, Stock, Mutual > Fund, Credit Card, Liability, A/Payable and A/Receivable, obviously taking the > proper sign into account. Calling this "Assets" would indeed be confusing at > le

Re: GC Concept Guide Review and Wiki Pages

2010-10-16 Thread Tom Bullock
On 10/16/2010 3:43 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: On Saturday 16 October 2010, Geert Janssens wrote: On Friday 15 October 2010, Thomas Bullock wrote:> I do have some remarks on what you have written also though: Step 9: you don't have to list yourself as wanting to be notified explicitly when y

Re: GC Concept Guide Review and Wiki Pages

2010-10-16 Thread Tom Bullock
On 10/15/2010 6:11 PM, Geert Janssens wrote: On Friday 15 October 2010, Thomas Bullock wrote: Hi Geert, Thank you very much for your offer. I too would like the information to be available as soon as possible for general use by any interested persons. Your putting it into a wiki would reli

Re: Documentation Bug 630652 created to install Guide update for Other Assets

2010-10-04 Thread Tom Bullock
Sorry, forgot to reply all! Tom Original Message Subject: Re: Documentation Bug 630652 created to install Guide update for Other Assets Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 08:08:01 -0400 From: Tom Bullock Reply-To: Thomas Bullock To: Yawar Amin Yawar, You said

Documentation Bug 630652 created to install Guide update for Other Assets

2010-09-26 Thread Tom Bullock
Developers, Thanks to all who have supported my efforts to this point. Due to your help I have created documentation bug 630652 and attached to it 5 files supporting: the differences identified, the changes I made to 3 existing files, and a new Chapter 16 dealing with Other Assets for inclusi

Re: Unexpected results in attempting a patch

2010-09-25 Thread Tom Bullock
Hi Yawar, On 09/20/2010 09:36 PM, Yawar Amin wrote: You’re right that there is actually a program that transforms our source XML files into browser-friendly HTML. I don’t have a script per se, I just run the command directly (the following assumes you’re in the guide/whatever-locale/ director

Unexpected results in attempting a patch

2010-09-20 Thread Tom Bullock
2. gnucash-guide.xml:293: element xref: validity error : IDREF attribute linkend references an unknown ID "ch_oth_assets.xml" I have listed ch_oth_assets.xml in gnucash-guide.xml both as (given on line 19) and also as&chapter16; (given on line 284) OK, this means that you’ve def

Re: version references in documentation

2010-09-20 Thread Tom Bullock
On 09/19/2010 04:12 PM, Yawar Amin wrote: Hi Tom, On 2010-09-19, at 15:30, Tom Bullock wrote: Hi Yawar, I am pulling together the pieces of my patch. When I ran it thru "xmllint", I got these xml error messages that I hope you understand and can tell me what is my error: 1.

Questions re Documentation in Bugzilla

2010-09-19 Thread Tom Bullock
I tested the process of creating a bug for the purpose of enabling easy developer review. I found that Chris Lyttle, last heard from (as far as I know) in 2006, is currently having bugs assigned to him, just because he was last recognized as the documentation go-to guy. Would this mean that s

version references in documentation

2010-09-19 Thread Tom Bullock
Hi Yawar, I am pulling together the pieces of my patch. When I ran it thru "xmllint", I got these xml error messages that I hope you understand and can tell me what is my error: 1. validity error: Element xref was declared EMPTY this one has content Chapter 16 of this Guide. [the messag

Re: Draft content now in new location

2010-09-04 Thread Tom Bullock
On 9/3/2010 10:52 AM, Geert Janssens wrote: Tom, I am reading through your draft content. Nice work so far, thanks. Below are some suggestions that could help you improve on it. Feel free to agree or disagree with any of them though :) * Some words are split across lines, like amoratization

Re: Version references in documentation

2010-09-04 Thread Tom Bullock
On 9/2/2010 9:46 PM, Yawar Amin wrote: [...] Thanks for your status above.You are correct. I do need to rebuild my working copy. I Found that out when I discovered changes made by others that I did not know about. So I am Waiting to do that rework until I find a block of time to get i

Re: Version references in documentation

2010-08-25 Thread Tom Bullock
On 8/25/2010 1:59 AM, Yawar Amin wrote: In the meantime, what's the best way to look for version-specific differences in the docs? Do a diff in the sources between revisions tagged 2.2 and 2.4, or something like that? Yawar, I forgot to say that right now I also am working on developing a

First look at Guide update

2010-08-13 Thread Tom Bullock
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Manual and Guide Versions in the documentation

2010-08-03 Thread Tom Bullock
<> Message: 8 Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 12:50:20 -0700 From: John Ralls Subject: Website Links Also, the online manual and guide seem to be for 2.0; it should be updated to 2.2. Regards, John Ralls <> John, Your comment raises the question: What is the process/method that documentation v

Will text be lost by over extending the right column boundary?

2010-07-28 Thread Tom Bullock
Developers, In working on making a patch, I use gedit as my text editor and set the right column boundary to 80. Because I wrote some of my patch without regard to the boundary, I found that when I inserted it into the module, there was much that overflowed that boundary. I then changed eac

Documentation Revision Description & Authors List

2010-07-28 Thread Tom Bullock
Hi John, <> You don't need to generate it: It's in the SVN repository, so you'll get it when you check out gnucash-docs. (It's at guide/C/gnucash-guide.xml). You needn't modify it unless you add a new chapter or appendix, though you may want to add yourself to the authors list and add a descri

Results of xmllint command

2010-07-28 Thread Tom Bullock
Developers, Because this is the first time I used the command: "xmllint --valid gnucash-guide.xml > GC-docs1-Results" I have attached that to ask that someone verify that it looks as expected from the command's execution. I was expecting to see a fully expanded set of include modules. Inste

Re: xml changed file validation

2010-07-25 Thread Tom Bullock
pt or process that generates that file. Can you point me to it? Thanks. Tom On 7/24/2010 10:54 AM, John Ralls wrote: On Jul 24, 2010, at 3:04 PM, Frank H. Ellenberger wrote: Am Samstag, 24. Juli 2010 um 14:30:52 schrieb Tom Bullock: In the wiki for translating the GnuCash Guide& Help fi

Re: xml changed file validation

2010-07-25 Thread Tom Bullock
2010 um 14:30:52 schrieb Tom Bullock: In the wiki for translating the GnuCash Guide& Help files there is the instruction to that "xml file has no syntax errors" and it indicates using the command: "xmllint --valid --noout gnucash-guide.xml" This instruction assumes the rea

Re: Confirming that no one else is working on Guide Documentation, Chapter 3

2010-07-25 Thread Tom Bullock
On 7/23/2010 5:47 PM, Tommy Trussell wrote: On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Tom Bullock wrote: Is anyone else working on Chapter 3? If so, I would like to coordinate with that person. If not, can you all tell me to proceed with sending in a patch? Assuming you did tell me to proceed

xml changed file validation

2010-07-24 Thread Tom Bullock
Developers, Documentation instructions require that xml module changes be validated before building a patch. Reading the README file for http://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash-docs/trunk/ I see that "GnuCash-docs is written using docbook-xml, using xml (not sgml). In that file 'xmlto' is men

Confirming that no one else is working on Guide Documentation, Chapter 3

2010-07-23 Thread Tom Bullock
Developers All, I just now am realizing I should have made this inquiry/request several weeks ago before I started doing any documentation. Sorry to be delayed. Based on a user sending a question to the developer's list I learned that the documentation was silent as to his question. While D

Fixing broken links on www.gnucash.org/docs.phtml

2010-07-23 Thread Tom Bullock
Hello developers, Here are the current web links for 3 broken web links, all found on the second page of this web site: http://www.gnucash.org/docs.phtml. Link wording = GNOME Human Interface Guidelines current link = 404 not found should be = http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/s

Re: Working on building a patch

2010-07-12 Thread Tom Bullock
Christian, thanks! see below. On 07/12/2010 03:24 PM, Christian Stimming wrote: Am Monday 12 July 2010 schrieb Thomas Bullock: I will try the text file route for the SAMPLE file. To my knowledge I pulled everything. The command I used was: "svn checkout http://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucas

Working on building a patch

2010-07-11 Thread Tom Bullock
Hi, I am sending this to the developer's list because in building a patch, that when successful will be sent here, I encountered some problems that raised some questions for me. I was successful in using "svn" to copy gnucash-docs to my computer. Following your advice, I focused on these tw

Re: gnucash-devel Digest, Vol 87, Issue 15 -- Reimbursable/non reimbursable expenses (Derek Atkins)

2010-06-13 Thread Tom Bullock
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Recommended C Compiler

2009-08-09 Thread Tom Bullock
Hello all, I have been researching C compilers on the internet and find many. Since GnuCash is written in C, I think it would be good to use a compiler that matches the compiler version that most of you use. By following your lead it seems to me I would be most likely not to introduce compi

C Compiler Question

2009-05-24 Thread Tom Bullock
I don't have access to a C compiler at work. So I want to download a free compiler at home. Since currently all I run at home is Windows XP, would I still be able to use the gcc compiler in that operating system, or would I first have to set up a linux environment in order to use that? If I