From 1f5ceb0db50df9ad0f9048ee02ad749507cbd737 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John Wiegley Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:08:07 -0400 Subject: Added beginning draft of manual for 3.0 This is being kept in Scrivener format, for ease of writing. --- doc/Ledger.scriv/snapshots/9.snapshots | 482 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 482 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/Ledger.scriv/snapshots/9.snapshots (limited to 'doc/Ledger.scriv/snapshots/9.snapshots') diff --git a/doc/Ledger.scriv/snapshots/9.snapshots b/doc/Ledger.scriv/snapshots/9.snapshots new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a89e7880 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/Ledger.scriv/snapshots/9.snapshots @@ -0,0 +1,482 @@ + + + + + $archiver + NSKeyedArchiver + $objects + + $null + + $class + + CF$UID + 37 + + NS.objects + + + CF$UID + 2 + + + + + $class + + CF$UID + 33 + + NS.keys + + + CF$UID + 3 + + + CF$UID + 4 + + + CF$UID + 5 + + + NS.objects + + + CF$UID + 6 + + + CF$UID + 7 + + + CF$UID + 35 + + + + Title + Text + Date + Untitled Snapshot + + $class + + CF$UID + 34 + + NSAttributes + + CF$UID + 10 + + NSDelegate + + CF$UID + 0 + + NSString + + CF$UID + 8 + + + + $class + + CF$UID + 9 + + NS.string + The most important part of accounting is keeping a good ledger. If +you have a good ledger, tools can be written to work whatever +mathematically tricks you need to better understand your spending +patterns. Without a good ledger, no tool, however smart, can help +you. + +The Ledger program aims at making ledger transaction as simple as possible. +Since it is a command-line tool, it does not provide a user interface +for keeping a ledger. If you like, you may use GnuCash to maintain +your ledger, in which case the Ledger program will read GnuCash's data +files directly. In that case, read the GnuCash manual now, and skip +to the next chapter. + +If you are not using GnuCash, but a text editor to maintain your +ledger, read on. Ledger has been designed to make data transaction as +simple as possible, by keeping the ledger format easy, and also by +automagically determining as much information as possible based on the +nature of your transactions. + +For example, you do not need to tell Ledger about the accounts you +use. Any time Ledger sees a posting involving an account it knows +nothing about, it will create it. If you use a commodity that is new +to Ledger, it will create that commodity, and determine its display +characteristics (placement of the symbol before or after the amount, +display precision, etc) based on how you used the commodity in the +posting. + +Here is the Pacific Bell example from above, given as a Ledger +posting: + +@smallexample +9/29 (100) Pacific Bell + Expenses:Utilities:Phone $23.00 + Assets:Checking $-23.00 +@end smallexample + +As you can see, it is very similar to what would be written on paper, +minus the computed balance totals, and adding in account names that +work better with Ledger's scheme of things. 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