Hello Dee, The ledger parser (the part of the program that reads the data) needs to be very strict about formatting of each line. While it may be easy for a human to look at a line of text and determine the meaning of the different elements in the text, it is not easy for a computer. Traditionally, numerical values must be "all together". The negative sign is part of the value. Spaces inside the values are not allowed but you can use commas to separate thousands. If you are in a region which uses commas to break the decimal then you can use periods as thousand separators.
Please feel free to forward any notes you might take and they can be incorporated into the documentation. Craig On Monday, September 22, 2014, o1bigtenor <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings > > I have embarked on the odyssey of moving from an accounting system > (modeled to be a double entry system) that I devised using spreadsheets to > a more report oriented system and have chosen ledger as my platform of > choice. > > I have found some things in trying to make my first few entries work that > prompt me to ask questions (hopefully that being allowed!!). > > Assets: xxxxxx: xxxx.xx.20.00 $ -69.79 > > (I'm using terse identifiers and GIFI codes with multiple suffixes.) > > I found that the negative sign MUST be just before the number or it is not > recognized. > Why can I not have it right after the currency symbol say? > > (Wanted to bump out the currency symbol and then any negative number would > be quite obvious looking at the chart.) > > > Assets: xxxx.xx.60.00: $ 57000.00 > > Is there a way to put a spacer in larger numbers (like the just previous > example)? > > I would have rather had the entry look like this: > > Assets: xxxx.xx.60.00: $ 57 000.00 > > As when you get larger numbers (and lots of them) ease of reading helps in > keeping track of things. > > > Would there be an easy way to develop a 'guide' or some kind of cheat > sheet from some of the things I have had to work my way through these > initial steps? > (See this as one way to pass back to the community.) > > TIA > > Dee > > -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ledger" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ledger-cli%[email protected]');> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Craig, Corona De Tucson, AZ enderw88.wordpress.com -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ledger" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
