Re: New to ledger - how to ease in from gnucash?

[Simon Michael]

On 11/10/16 11:54 PM,
ngoone...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Friday, November 11, 2016 at 2:11:39 AM UTC+8, John Wiegley wrote:
>
>>
>> You could certainly use Ledger 2 for a one-time export of your GnuCash
>> data.
>> Then you can use any of the three tools after that.
>>
>
> Thanks, that'd be one-way though. I suppose I could give it a month of
> entering in two systems to see how I get along with ledger. I understand
> hledger is mostly syntax compatible, beancount isn't though?

beancount is more different but still pretty close, it's not too hard to
convert it by search-replace/emacs macro/sed script. I think beancount
must also have a tool for importing ledger format.

(Obligatory pta.o link) This syntax comparison may be useful if you
haven't already seen it:

http://plaintextaccounting.org/quickref

[yegle]

On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 8:03 AM, Simon Michael <si...@joyful.com> wrote:

http://plaintextaccounting.org/quickref

The syntax for beancount txn should be

DATE txn [["PAYEE"] "DESCRIPTION"]
   ACCOUNT    AMOUNT
   ACCOUNT    [AMOUNT]

--

Yuchen Ying
http://about.me/yegle

[Simon Michael]

On 11/11/16 9:32 AM, yegle wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 8:03 AM, Simon Michael <si...@joyful.com> wrote:
>
>> http://plaintextaccounting.org/quickref
>
>
> The syntax for beancount txn should be
>
> DATE txn [["PAYEE"] "DESCRIPTION"]
> ACCOUNT AMOUNT
> ACCOUNT [AMOUNT]

Thanks! I have updated it. Pull requests welcome for further improvements.

[Oon-Ee Ng]

Well, as I haven't started using any the significance of those
differences aren't obvious to me (yet) =)