Re: Gnucash 2.3.0 released

I'm confused. I go to gnucash.org and see no news about 2.3. I go to the downloads page and see no 2.3. What am I doing wrong? Thanks. -Tom ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-de

Re: Gnucash 2.3.0 released

le release): http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=192 -Tom Tom Browder Niceville, Florida USA ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel

Re: Gnucash 2.3.0 released

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 19:02, Phil Longstaff wrote: ... > do.  I also don't know how to upload to sourceforge.  I tried to follow what Yep, sourceforge could improve those procedures IMHO. -Tom ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org

Re: GnuCash Documentation in PDF format

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 17:51, Clark wrote: > Tom, > > Spet 30 2008 you posted a note "Producing GnuCash Guide PDF [SOLVED]". I > would dearly love to have the current (2006) versions of both "Tutorial and > Concepts Guide" and the "GnuCash Help Manual" in PDF format. > > It sounds like you created

Re: GnuCash Documentation in PDF format

On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 20:35, Clark wrote: > Tom, > > I appreciate what you are doing, and would like to have it (as it appears > would many others!).  Whenever I try to build something like that myself I You're welcome--I want it, too! > feel like I am groping in the dark, it takes a very long

Re: GnuCash Documentation in PDF format

On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 15:39, Tom Browder wrote: > On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 17:51, Clark wrote: ... > Ray, I tried to use the gnucash-docs trunk and get an fop failure > while making the guide pdf.  I'm investigating--first trying to use > the latest fop. Well, I used the trunk ag

Re: GnuCash Documentation in PDF format

houldn't affect the same figure in other products--just pdf). I have done similar things to lots of figures with LaTeX and ConTeXt. Regards, -Tom Tom Browder Niceville, Florida USA ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https

Re: GnuCash Documentation in PDF format

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 18:35, Clark wrote: > Yes, I would like the guide.  If the help manual could be built, that also. > > What is the best way to get it? Ray, I can send you a copy of the guide. If you saw earlier messages, note that many of the screenshot figures are too big (mainly too wide

Re: GnuCash Documentation in PDF format

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 20:20, Clark wrote: > Tom, > > It got through, apparently successfully.  However when I save the > attachment, Firefox says that it is a 9.2MB attachement, but stops saving it > about 2/3 of the way through on the "save" progress indicator, and the > resulting file is only 6

Re: GnuCash Documentation in PDF format

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 08:40, Derek Atkins wrote: ... > Tom Browder writes: > >> Derek, I'll be happy to take a look and see if I can fix at least a >> couple of the bad figures to see what kind of effort is involved.  I ... > That would be most excellent!  Thank you

Re: GnuCash Documentation in PDF format

age to image. ... > Hope this helps.  Hope this works! Ray, I'm sure it will be helpful. I hope to root around in the xml code soon. Regards, -Tom Tom Browder Niceville, Florida USA ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https

Re: GnuCash Documentation in PDF format

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 21:01, Clark wrote: .. > Forgive me if I am being redundant, but I want to be sure I am understood. > > I don't think it is in the XML code, I don't think it has anything to do > with DocBook or the XML.  I think it is in the .png, .jpg, .tif, .whatever > image file that it

Re: GnuCash Documentation in PDF format

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 10:15, Derek Atkins wrote: > Quoting Tom Browder : > >> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 08:40, Derek Atkins wrote: >> ... >>> >>> Tom Browder writes: >>> >>>> Derek, I'll be happy to take a look and see if I can fix

Documentation: PDF Cleanup for the Guide

Now that I can reliably generate the Guide in PDF format, I'm investigating docbook markup to improve the looks. The first thing I've done (for the first ten or so figures) is to make a copy of the elements and make one have the role of html and the other the role of fo. That way I can scale the

PDF Cleanup for the Guide [PING]

Last call for comments on this message, otherwise I'm pressing on as indicated therein: http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2009-June/025701.html Regards, -Tom Tom Browder Niceville, Florida USA ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gn

Re: PDF Cleanup for the Guide [PING]

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 08:53, Derek Atkins wrote: > Sounds good to me. > I'm happy to commit changes for you.. And can you or anyone please point me to the source of the splash screen that comes up when GnuCash starts? I would like to use it on the cover of the Guide but all I've found in both r

Re: PDF Cleanup for the Guide [PING]

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 13:46, Cristian Marchi wrote: > I think the file is this: > http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/browser/gnucash/trunk/art/splash.svgz; this is That's it--I must have used a bad viewer before--thanks, Cristian. > Thanks for working on the pdf generation of the guide. That would be

Re: Recommended C Compiler

On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 13:51, Tom Bullock wrote: ... > If you agree, tell me the compiler and version web source you use, so I can > download from there. I can't speak for anyone else, but I suspect most folks who develop on non-Windows use, as I do, gcc (current release is version 4.4.1):

Re: Common code indentation (follow-up to 2007 discussion)

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 15:56, Tim Abell wrote: > Late to the party, but currently I prefer tab indents to spaces as it allows > each developer to decide for themselves how big the indent is. ... >> -ce     Cuddle else and preceeding `}´. Ugly! -Tom ___

Re: Can I Do This?

On 10/7/07, Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting Tom Browder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On 10/7/07, Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Quoting Tom Browder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > ... > >> > But what about the

Re: Can I Do This?

On 10/7/07, Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting Tom Browder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: .. > > One important reason for doing it is to audit or reconcile statements > > I get from the brokerage firms (but perhaps there is a better way). ... > I don'

Documentation Nightly Builds

What about generating pdf versions of the nightly build docs? Thanks. -Tom Tom Browder Niceville, FL USA ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel

Re: Documentation Nightly Builds

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 7:37 AM, Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Tom Browder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ... >> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 7:49 AM, Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... >> What I meant is that maybe whatever it takes (withi

Re: Documentation Nightly Builds

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 8:49 AM, Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Tom Browder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> We try really hard not to load our tree with dependencies. There >>> are, however, times when we do need to for one reason

Re: Documentation Nightly Builds

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 7:40 AM, Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > I appreciate it. If I knew someone else was working on it I would > have said something ;) > > Thanks for working on this! You're welcome--just don't start a timer. And it's my pleasure to try: it's really for me 'cau

Docbook Vs. Other Formats for Gnucash Documents

I've once more looked at docbook and all its promises, but see no significant progress with free tools to convert it to other than html. Not only that, docbook-xml isn't even guaranteed to ever be powerful enough to produce beautiful documents using all the power of TeX (see

Re: Docbook Vs. Other Formats for Gnucash Documents

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 4:11 AM, Christian Stimming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 24. September 2008 04:21 schrieb Tom Browder: >> I've once more looked at docbook and all its promises, but see no >> significant progress with free tools to convert it to othe

Docbook Source FIles and Subversio

Given the rather fluid nature of xml and xml editors (non-value white space generally insignificant), is there any agreed-upon procedure to minimize white space changes in docbook source files affecting subversion operations? It seems to me that somehow enforcing xml code under version control to

Producing GnuCash Guide PDF [SOLVED]

I got a reasonable pdf version of the guide (at 8+ Mb) from the trunk. It's not perfect, but it looks like it can be fine tuned through docbook source settings. Someone very familiar with the gnucash guide docbook source may be able to spot required changes quickly (Christian?). Anyone intereste

[PATCH] gnucash-docs README

I recently reported successful pdf generation under Linux Fedora Core 7 (see ). Attached is a patch to the gnucash-docs README which adds the special requirements to generate pdf using the fop tool chain which I recomme

[PATCH] gnucash-docs HACKING

he "JDK 6 Update 7" download.) + + b. ant >= 1.7 + available at: http://ant.apache.org + +You may need additional xml tools, but they should be available through the yum +update if they are not already installed. + +Tom Browder

[PATCH] gnucash-docs/guide/C/Makefile.am

+28,14 @@ include $(top_srcdir)/xmldocs.make dist-hook: app-dist-hook DISTCLEANFILES = gnucash-guide-C.omf.out -# 2007-06-30, jsled: PDF creation "support". This sucks. +# 2008-10-02, Tom Browder: PDF creation. # -# http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/May2000/article152.sht

Re: [PATCH] gnucash-docs/guide/C/Makefile.am

On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 6:21 AM, Tom Browder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Attached is a modified gnucash-docs/guide/C/Makefile.am to use the new > fop tool chain to generate a pdf version of the Guide. Well, that patch is no good--not well tested. Attached is one that should be corre

Plan for PDF

In previous messages I have shown my solution for generating a PDF version of the Guide. I have also submitted patches for a quick fix to the build system to capture the steps I found success with. I am considering developing changes to 'configure.in' ( have submitted an enhancement request to ha

Re: Plan for PDF

On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Christian Stimming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Samstag, 4. Oktober 2008 14:10 schrieb Tom Browder: >> I am considering developing changes to 'configure.in' > > That's good. On the other hand I wouldn't spend too much ti

Scheduled Transactions

I would like to see the scheduled transactions (sx) capability enhanced (see enhancement bug # 521285) to be more like Quicken. I would like to see a split-pane in the account window showing due and buttons to push like 'enter', 'edit', and 'skip'. I would like to see the same buttons in the sx e

Re: Scheduled Transactions

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 8:07 AM, Charles Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > Congratulations on taking this up! I don't know anything about the sx code, Thanks for the enthusiastic vote, Charles. -Tom ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucas

Re: Scheduled Transactions

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 8:49 AM, Josh Sled <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Tom Browder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I would like to see the scheduled transactions (sx) capability >> enhanced (see enhancement bug # 521285) to be more like Quicken. I ... >

Re: GnuCash Hardware renewal: call for input

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 9:56 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: > "Tom Browder" writes: ... >> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 8:04 PM, Derek Atkins wrote: ... >> I like the ECC memory for config 2--highly recommended feature. > > For some reason this company <http://www.pcsfo

Re: GnuCash Hardware renewal: call for input

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 8:04 PM, Derek Atkins wrote: ... > I'm looking at two difference potential boxes and looking ... > Config 1 ($2974): > - 2x Quad-Core Intel(R) Xeon(R) L5420 2.50GHz 1333FSB 12MB Cache (50W) > - Low Voltage > - 4x 4GB PC2-5400 667MHz FB-DIMM > - 4x 750GB SATA 7200RPM - 3.5"

Installing SLIB 3b1 with Guile 1.8.6 (to work with Gnucash 2.8.8) [SOLVED]

8 didn't work either. I hope someday to know enough about the two packages to find out why the interface is not more robust. Good luck slib users, especially those trying to install gnucash from source! Cheers, -Tom Tom Browder Niceville, Florida USA

Re: Installing SLIB 3b1 with Guile 1.8.6 (to work with Gnucash 2.8.8) [SOLVED]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: Hi, Ludo', thanks for the response. ... > Tom Browder writes: > >> [Note that instructions need to be updated to work with slib 3b1; note also >> that the link to the SLIB installation is broken.] > > IIUC,

Re: Installing SLIB 3b1 with Guile 1.8.6 (to work with Gnucash 2.8.8) [SOLVED]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: ... > Tom Browder writes: ... >> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > >>> The important point with this sentence is that SLIB is third-party >>> software, so it's the section of t

Re: GnuCash Manual Translation to spanish (MX Locale)

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Noe Nieto wrote: > Hi Tom. > > I'm going to try to translate the GnuCash Manual to spanish (MX Locale). Is > anybody else doing this? > > Regards. I don't know. You'll have to ask the gnucash developers, Noe. Regards, -Tom __

Re: 2.2.8 (2.0) Documentation in PDF?

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:31 AM, James Schroeter wrote: > Hello, > > I was looking for the 2.2.8 documentation in PDF. I saw on the gnucash site > there was a 1.8 PDF, but no 2.0. > Will there be 2.0 documentation in PDF format? James, there should be information in the svn trunk about how to

gnucash on WIndows

Has anyone tryied to get gnucash 2.0 working on Windows? Can someone knowledgeable update the notes on the wiki about the steps that are needed to compile under a native Windows OS? Thanks. -Tom Tom Browder Niceville, FL ___ gnucash-devel mailing

Re: gnucash on WIndows

On 7/18/06, Christian Stimming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > Which part of http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Windows is unclear to you? > That whole wiki page talks about "a native Windows OS". Everything that > is currently known is collected on that page, so to my knowledge there > isn't anything t

Gnucash Under Windows

The discussion on the wiki is about compiling gnucash under the mingw environment. Has anyone tried it under the cygwin environment? Thanks. Tom Browder Niceville, Florida USA ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https

Re: Gnucash Under Windows

On 8/6/06, Christian Stimming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible to start guile without anything? Like > $ guile Yes, but now that I've looked at some e-mail messages with discussion of slib and guile and the same types of errors (circa Oct 2005, and cygwin is using guile version 1.6.7),

My Wish List

I would like to operate gnucash under Windows, not because I am a Windows fan but for ease of transitioning from Quicken to gnucash (I have too many years of data for a quick test). I am currently trying to make gnucash work under the cygwin environment with the current version of gnucash, and the

Re: My Wish List

On 8/8/06, Conrad Canterford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > Unfortunately, that would be an absolutely enormous amount of work (any > of them). ... > Converting to C++ might sound easy, but since you're on the -devel email > list I'm assuming you know just how much code there is in this program >

Re: My Windows Wish List

On 8/8/06, Christian Stimming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -convert the whole C code base to C++ > > The programming language itself doesn't change any of our current > problems. This won't happen. I must politely ask, why not? I have volunteered to do it, and there should be very little, if

Re: My Wish List - convert to c++?

On 8/8/06, Christian Stimming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > However, I can think of a few downsides of this transition, mainly > concerning portability: Currently gnucash can compiler on a *lot* of > platforms (*BSD, Solaris, Mac OSX), which is clearly one benefit of > using only C. I doubt whet

Re: Gnucash Under Windows

I've made slow progress with getting gnucash under cygwin but am hacking on. I've made a few stupid mistakes, but some of the blame is due to the various congure scripts! The state of configuration and detection of required dependencies is terrible--starting with gnucash that couldn't find severa

Re: Gnucash Under Windows

On 8/12/06, Christian Stimming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Windows . The Gnome stuff is on their FTP > server, which I have noted in the respective section of the wiki page. What > else were you looking for? Among others, libgsl, but I found all those in gnome's c

Compile Failure -Trunk - Revision 14688

. I might try renaming the file, but there must be something else wrong. Any suggestions? Thanks. -Tom Tom Browder Niceville, Florida USA ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel

Re: Compile Failure -Trunk - Revision 14688

On 8/18/06, Christian Stimming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The error is shown when the gnucash build system tried to run the > program "svnversion". Try it yourself: Go into any directory of your > gnucash SVN tree and run > > svnversion . I'm a dummy! Thanks, Christian, I had removed my old s

Newbie Thoughts

After my first pass at starting a new gnucash data file importing from a QIF file, I see a couple of things that would help me: -If I read the converted file correctly, commodities are carried to 5 decimal places by default. Since several of my account sources are carried to 6 decimal plac

Possibly Invalid Types DTD

parameter references must have been defined earlier in the DTD. -Tom Tom Browder Niceville, Florida USA ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel