Thanks for the kind words. 5.5.3 was written by John. We'll need to punt this question to him as I haven't explored it that much.
As far as what other automatic transactions are done, I don't know. But I will put that on my list of things to put in the manual. On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 14:23, Chris Thompson <[email protected]>wrote: > There's no question in my mind that your work will help to make Ledger > accessible to many more people. > > One other related question I had was with 5.5.3... (I really like this > section -- it clears up a lot of things that mystified me before.) > With respect to the last example in 5.5.3, is there any way to control > which account gets the auto-generated posting, or is it hardcoded to > be Equity:Capital Losses? The reason I'm asking is because this type > of discrepancy seems more likely to happen as a result of currency > conversions, so I'd be interested in perhaps setting the default to be > something like "Equity:Currency Losses" or perhaps "Expenses:Currency > Conversion Fees". > > Maybe a more advanced related question is whether there are any other > places in Ledger where these type of auto-generated postings happen? > Auto-generation is only mentioned here (in 5.5.3) and briefly in > 7.2.5. This is really only out of my own curiosity... it's not > particularly important. > > -- Chris > > On Feb 4, 1:09 am, Craig Earls <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks for the feedback. Its nice to know someone besides me is reading > > it. I have slowed down on the manual for the last month or so. I will > add > > some beef to 5.5.2. > -- Craig, Corona De Tucson, AZ enderw88.wordpress.com
