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 DocBoo
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 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 Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 12:52:03PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> FYI,
>
> (goose == gnu object oriented statistics environment)
>
> --linas
>
> Forwarded message:
> > Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 01:19:10 -0400
> > From: Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: Goose needs a maintainer
>
(I'm now back from vacation, and still digging out from under about
1300+ e-mails).
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 08:02:28PM -0500, Bill Gribble wrote:
> On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 03:02:34PM +1000, Robert Graham Merkel wrote:
> > The second one is a bit of a brain-strainer. While displaying fine as an
>
On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 04:20:51PM -0400, Greg Stark wrote:
>
> Buddha Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > We must be able to handle a large range of values precisely, ranging from
> > $0.01 to $20,000,000,000,000.00 or more.
>
> For what it's worth this isn't a large range, it's within the
hough
> Partially true, but stock prices are an important part of gnucash, and
> while the US stock exchange is going decimal "pretty soon", there are
> historical prices which will always be in 64ths and the bond market is
> not likely to decimalize any time soon (according t
; > and drag the slices around !
>
> That's one of the first fruits of corporate (gnumatic) support for
> gnucash: we were able to hire Jon Trowbridge, the guppi author (are
> you out there, jon?)
Yes, I'm here. :-) Thanks for the compliments on Guppi, Martin. I'm
jus
On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 12:33:04PM -0500, Richard Wackerbarth wrote:
>
> The difference is in the storage.
>
> You propose to store
> (numerator, denominator==f(currency), currency)
> for each entry
> and hope that someone enforces the == relation.
>
> I, on the other hand would store only
> (n
On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 09:51:39PM -0500, Christopher Browne wrote:
> So I disagree with Jon, in that the "great pain and suffering" is
> a _given_, and equally affects _both_ schemes.
This is (basically) correct: the BG system works well (IMHO) for
things like decimalizations of markets, but doe
On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 11:56:33AM -0500, Richard Wackerbarth wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Jul 2000, John Hasler wrote:
> > Richard Wackerbarth writes:
> > > Besides, "milk" and "sugar" are poor examples. They are seldom sold by
> > > the gallon (pound) but rather by the "container".
> >
> > Actually, milk
On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 01:03:10PM -0500, Richard Wackerbarth wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Jul 2000, Jon Trowbridge wrote:
>
> > Of course, with futures the value of the instrument doesn't change per
> > se;
>
> I think that the "value" does change. The "a
On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 02:40:29PM -0500, Richard Wackerbarth wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Jul 2000, Jon Trowbridge wrote:
> > Remember, "margin" in futures trading means something totally
> > different than "margin" in stock trading. Futures margin is a
> > perf
On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 01:16:01PM -0500, Bill Gribble wrote:
> Budman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This isn't referring to QT the graphics toolkit; it's QThreads, the
> guile cooperative threading library. qthreads should be a part of the
> standard guile distribution; try running 'guile-confi
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 any
> mnemonic or nickname that is used for trading or quoting purposes
> ("IBM", "USD"), and the namespa
On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 03:45:20PM -0400, Terry wrote:
> but what about something like:
>
> 234 3/8 1/5 == 234 + 3/8 + 1/5 USD
>
> That could equivalently be expressed as
>
> 234 23/40
>
> But that's not my point - I have never seen the use of more than one fraction.
>
> My question - has an
On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 11:37:02AM -0700, Eric Hanchrow wrote:
>
> I've got the latest CVS stuff (namely 1.5.2), and libgnomeprint-dev
> from Helix -- 0.23-helix1.
>
> gcc
> /usr/lib/libgnomeprint.so: undefined reference to `unicode_iconv_open'
> /usr/lib/libgnomeprint.so: undefined reference t
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