Re: RFC: Bug in currency display in the main window

2000-04-22 Thread ich
Hi Dave! Dave Peticolas wrote: <...> > First, as far as displaying the currency symbol in the balance, > I would prefer to make this configurable rather than take it out > altogether. Yes, you can turn on the currency column, but that > takes up a lot more space than printing the currency with

Re: multiple currencies

2000-04-22 Thread ich
Dave Peticolas wrote: > > The engine works as you describe above. I should mention that > the engine also computes the cost basis, which is what I believe > you are talking about above. Really? Great! How can I access the cost basis in the GUI? Can I see it in the current verion of GnuCash? He

Re: Reversed-balance accounts (never ending story)

2000-04-30 Thread ich
John Hasler wrote: > With double entry total debits equal total credits. Neither word is a > synonym for 'negative'. Gnucash uses negative numbers for debits > internally (apparently this is about to reverse), but it does so only for > computational convenience. IMHO the only reason negative nu