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What is eguile?

eguile is a way of processing a template file to create a guile script.

More specifically, within GnuCash, guile is used to combine HTML and guile code to create a report, such as an invoice or balance sheet.

The GnuCash version of eguile is eguile-gnc.scm, written in early 2009 by Chris Dennis, and based on Neale Pickett's eguile.scm.

For example,

<h3><?scm:d coyname ?></h3>
<h2><?scm:d reportname ?> as at <?scm:d (gnc-print-date opt-date-tp) ?></h2>

could be become

(display "<h3>")(display "Acme Tools Ltd.")(display "</h3>
<h2>)(display "Balance Sheet")(display " as at ")
(display "05/04/2009")(display "<h2">)

which is then evaluated as guile code to create the text of the report.

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How to install an eguile report

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How to create an eguile report

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Available Reports

The following eguile-based reports are available. More will be contributed soon (hopefully).

Tax Invoice

| Report file | taxinvoice.scm | | Template file | taxinvoice-eguile.scm | | CSS file | none | | Author | Chris Dennis | | Version | 0.01 | | Last update | June 2009 |

Balance Sheet

Report file

balsheet-eg.scm

Template file

balsheet-eg.eguile.scm

CSS file

balsheet-eg.css

Author

Chris Dennis

Version

0.01

Last update

June 2009