Re: GnuCash Guide CH8

2006-04-29 Thread Bengt Thuree
On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 08:24 -0600, Dave Herman wrote: > Bengt Thuree wrote: > > In the chapter for selling stocks, the following is stated. > > --- > > The proper recording of the stock sale *must* be done using a split > > transaction. In the split transaction, you must account for the profit (or

Re: GnuCash Guide CH8

2006-04-29 Thread Dave Herman
Bengt Thuree wrote: In the chapter for selling stocks, the following is stated. --- The proper recording of the stock sale *must* be done using a split transaction. In the split transaction, you must account for the profit (or loss) as coming from an Income:Capital Gains account (or Expense:Capit

Re: GnuCash Guide CH8

2006-04-28 Thread Bengt Thuree
In the chapter for selling stocks, the following is stated. --- The proper recording of the stock sale *must* be done using a split transaction. In the split transaction, you must account for the profit (or loss) as coming from an Income:Capital Gains account (or Expense:Capital Loss). --- But in

Re: GnuCash Guide CH8

2006-04-28 Thread Bengt Thuree
Hi Another small comment. Regarding: chapter Configuring Finance::Quote To find out which filename you have in GnuCash, I do not think you can do the following; File -> Open -> Open ... and check the highlighted file name. My highlighted file name is the first GnuCash file in this directory, whi

Re: GnuCash Guide CH8

2006-04-27 Thread Bengt Thuree
Hi On Fr, 2006-04-28, 11:16, David V Herman skrev: > Attached is the TAR of the latest update for Guide Chapter on Investing. Brilliant :) > > I've worked off of the "prettied up" XML from Bengt, then went through > his steps from 16 April. Should be ok, since Chris had submitted it. Otherwise a

Re: GnuCash Guide CH8

2006-04-24 Thread Dave Herman
Patrick Schweiger wrote: David V Herman wrote: > I'm adding this to the section 6.4. The main account window will by default only shows the ^^ I noticed this while skimming messages. Loose the "will" and sentence conjugate

Re: GnuCash Guide CH8

2006-04-23 Thread Chris Lyttle
Bengt Thuree wrote: Several other screens? I only remember it in chapter 2 I think. Anyway, good with a refreshment in Chapter 8 anyway also. Did you see my comment regarding xref links, instead of hardcoded "See Chapter 8..." Unfortunately I think someone will have to modify the XLST scripts i

Re: GnuCash Guide CH8

2006-04-23 Thread Patrick Schweiger
David V Herman wrote: > I'm adding this to the section 6.4. The main account window will by default only shows the ^^ I noticed this while skimming messages. Loose the "will" and sentence conjugates correctly. ___

Re: GnuCash Guide CH8

2006-04-22 Thread Bengt Thuree
On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 20:59 -0600, David V Herman wrote: > On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 08:16 +0800, Bengt Thuree wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 15:13 -0600, David V Herman wrote: > > I was debating if I should modify a screenshot with a big circle or > > something. Comments? > > > I tried adding text

Re: GnuCash Guide CH8

2006-04-21 Thread David V Herman
On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 08:16 +0800, Bengt Thuree wrote: > On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 15:13 -0600, David V Herman wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 13:08 +0900, Bengt Thuree wrote: > > > > > > Don't understand this ?? > > > Where do you see an "Options button" in the screenshot? > > > > Yes - once you fi

Re: GnuCash Guide CH8

2006-04-21 Thread Bengt Thuree
On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 15:13 -0600, David V Herman wrote: > On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 13:08 +0900, Bengt Thuree wrote: > > > > Don't understand this ?? > > Where do you see an "Options button" in the screenshot? > > Yes - once you find it, it is really neat ! You are correct it is not > obvious. >

Re: GnuCash Guide CH8

2006-04-20 Thread Bengt Thuree
On Fr, 2006-04-21, 11:45, Dave Herman skrev: > I remember checking this, no idea where "Starting Balances" was found. It was in the original Guide. >> So perhaps just (which is what you have in Expenses) >> Income >>Investement >> Capital Gains >> I*

Re: GnuCash Guide CH8

2006-04-20 Thread David Reiser
On Apr 20, 2006, at 10:45 PM, Dave Herman wrote: 5.2 Commission? Some people wants to track it, and some don't. Perhaps we should show how to track it? Other members thoughts ? Depends on the taxing authority, I suppose. I briefly entertained thoughts of tracking it, but since libofx

Re: GnuCash Guide CH8

2006-04-20 Thread Chris Shoemaker
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 08:45:46PM -0600, Dave Herman wrote: > Works here - however I did a svn update today and downloaded a number of > files. When I try to MAKE I get > a number of errors, never completes. The files have << & >> > throughout. > These are svn conflict markers. It m

Re: GnuCash Guide CH8

2006-04-20 Thread Dave Herman
Bengt Thuree wrote: Hi Dave Very nice with some examples for selling with profit as well as with a loss. I have not checked, but is there any report(s) that can be included as well to illustrate it a bit more? Some small comments Missed the ".png" for the first screenshot Wha

Re: GnuCash Guide CH8

2006-04-19 Thread Bengt Thuree
On To, 2006-04-20, 07:34, David Herman skrev: > Attached is a TAR of the updated screen-shots for GnuCash V2.0 Guide for > Investing chapter (currently 8). Also included is the SVN -DIFF and the > new XML. > Hi Dave Very nice with some examples for selling with profit as well as with a loss. I

Re: GnuCash Guide CH8

2006-04-13 Thread Bengt Thuree
On Fr, 2006-04-14, 13:16, Chris Lyttle skrev: > Thanks Dave, I'll look it over and xmllint it this weekend then commit it. > > Chris Any particular parameters to xmllint? yelp works superb by the way :) Hopefully I will have the first two chapters more or less ready this weekend as well. Can I

Re: GnuCash Guide CH8

2006-04-13 Thread Chris Lyttle
Thanks Dave, I'll look it over and xmllint it this weekend then commit it. Chris David Herman wrote: Attached is a TAR of the updated screen-shots for GnuCash V2.0 Guide for Investing chapter (currently 8). Also included is the SVN -DIFF. I've tar them as it is already 2+M. At this point I b

Re: GnuCash Guide CH8

2006-04-13 Thread Bengt Thuree
On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 15:00 -0600, David Herman wrote: > Attached is a TAR of the updated screen-shots for GnuCash V2.0 Guide for > Investing chapter (currently 8). Also included is the SVN -DIFF. Great, I will have chapter 1 and 2 ready within 24 hours I hope > > I've tar them as it is already

Re: GnuCash Guide CH8

2006-04-12 Thread Chris Lyttle
Ah, was late and I missed that. Indeed a script to convert from docbook to html should be easy to do, in fact I think this is being done with some gnome docs already. Chris Derek Atkins wrote: Chris Lyttle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bengt Thuree wrote: With the great responce on t

Re: GnuCash Guide CH8

2006-04-11 Thread Derek Atkins
Chris Lyttle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bengt Thuree wrote: >> With the great responce on the Wiki for concept guide, I guess we will do >> it directly in docbook and diff's or? At least until we get an indication >> it is worth it to do the manual work from Wiki to DocBook (that is people >> a

Re: GnuCash Guide CH8

2006-04-10 Thread Bengt Thuree
On Ti, 2006-04-11, 13:55, Chris Lyttle skrev: > Bengt Thuree wrote: >> With the great responce on the Wiki for concept guide, I guess we will >> do >> it directly in docbook and diff's or? At least until we get an >> indication >> it is worth it to do the manual work from Wiki to DocBook (that is

Re: GnuCash Guide CH8

2006-04-10 Thread Chris Lyttle
Bengt Thuree wrote: With the great responce on the Wiki for concept guide, I guess we will do it directly in docbook and diff's or? At least until we get an indication it is worth it to do the manual work from Wiki to DocBook (that is people actually add to the wiki...) Perhaps Derek can arrange

GnuCash Guide CH8

2006-04-10 Thread Bengt Thuree
On Ti, 2006-04-11, 01:56, David Herman skrev: > > This message is deliberately off-list due to size of attachment. > I've been having all kinds of problems getting my message(s) into the > list in the places I've be intending to send them. > > Attached is the archive of the GnuCash Investment upda