Wiki Conventions

The purpose of this page is to unify the appearance of the GnuCash wiki.

Categories

2-letter categories are reserved:

• Uppercase: ISO region codes like DE (Germany), NO (Norway), ... contain region specific items like setup of tax tables.
• Capitalized: ISO language codes like De page in "german|deutsch" - also readers from AT, CH, ... can use it.

• in theory this should be lowercase, but wikimedia does not accept that.
• at some point in time we might move them in subdomains.

Typography

In commands use the following Syntax:

• <replacable text> like variables for username, path, filename

alternative in shell scripts:

# Set MYPATH=<where you want to go>
cd "$MYPATH"

• [optional text] like optional parameters e.g. gnc-fq-dump [-v] <source> <symbol>...
• alternatives {on|off}
• Repetition ...

New Pages

Start new pages with an usually one sentence abstract before the first section. Explain the context, specific terms, and the planed coverage of the page.

Linking GnuCash Servers and List Archives

Host Overview

Currently there a 2 real hosts:

www.gnucash.org

holding the website and the published documentation

code.gnucash.org

has serveral aliases:

code.gnucash.org

authorative Git repository,

build server of the nightlies (program, source docs, documentation)

lists.gnucash.org

Mailing Lists,

IRC logs

wiki.gnucash.org

this wiki.

Please use the respective alias in your links.

Linking Source Files

By default link the Maintainance branch maint. Only if you are referencing a future feature link master.

Example: https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/blob/maint/README.dependencies

Linking Mails

Sometimes you wish to link a mail. Please use our own archives at lists.gnucash.org, no mirror service.

Background: There are several links to empty pages because Gmane lost many pages when it moved in 2016.

Subsections

Use subsections for versioning and OS specifics.

Updating and Versioning

While updating do not remove sections, which might for other users still relevant. Instead create subsections. Depending on the level and complexity it might be

Type	You Type	You Get
Subchapter	==Feature X== General text about Feature X. ===Gnucash 2.7.0 and newer=== We use fee. ===Gnucash 2.6.20 and before=== We use foo.	Feature X General text about Feature X. Gnucash 2.7.0 and newer We use fee. Gnucash 2.6.20 and before We use foo.
Bullet list	General text about Feature X. * Gnucash 2.7.0 and newer: :We use fee * Gnucash 2.4.0 to 2.6.20: :We use fie :... and have a 2. paragraph * Gnucash 2.3.1 and before: :We use foo.	General text about Feature X. Gnucash 2.7.0 and newer: We use fee Gnucash 2.4.0 to 2.6.20: We use fie ... and have a 2. paragraph Gnucash 2.3.1 and before: We use foo
Definition list	General text about Feature X. ;Gnucash 2.7.0 and newer: We use fee ;Gnucash 2.4.0 to 2.6.20: We use fie :... and have a 2. paragraph ;Gnucash 2.3.1 and before: We use foo	General text about Feature X. Gnucash 2.7.0 and newer We use fee Gnucash 2.4.0 to 2.6.20 We use fie ... and have a 2. paragraph Gnucash 2.3.1 and before We use foo

Note

Put newer versions before older versions because in the future they will become more important.

OS Specifics

It is almost the same:

General text and standards like from freedesktop.org.
;Linux: fee
;MacOS: fie
;Windows: NT and newer: foo
:; XP and before: xyzzy

This order of OSes is historical and alphabetical.

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