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<html> <html>
<head> <head>
<title>X-Accountant Project Goals</title> <title>X-Accountant/GnoMoney Project Goals</title>
</head> </head>
<body> <body>
<h1>X-Accountant Project Goals</h1> <h1>X-Accountant/GnoMoney Project Goals</h1>
X-Accountant is a Motif/C (and soon C++?) personal accounting X-Accountant/GnoMoney is a Motif/C (and soon GTK) personal finance
application. To read more about X-Accountant, see the accounting application. The project is the result of a merger
Xacc home page at of the GnoMoney project with Xacc development. There are currently
two versions: xacc-1.0.17, and xacc-1.1.x. The version 1.0.17
is written in Motif, and is considered to be stable/production quality.
You can red more about X-Accountant at its home page
<a href="http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~rclark/xacc/"> <a href="http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~rclark/xacc/">
http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~rclark/xacc</a>. http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~rclark/xacc</a>.
This page introduces the Xacc Project, aimed at enhanceing and <p>
improving X-Accountant. The version 1.1.x is *unstable* (may not even compile), and is in
active development. This page attempts to describe the current
goals & status. Current efforts center around a port to GTK, and
the addition of various features.
<a href="http://gnomoney.ml.org/gnomoney/index.hts">GnoMoney</a>
presents a beautified presentation of this material.
<p> <p>
We believe that a GNU GPL project should provide goals and motivations We believe that a GNU GPL project should provide goals and motivations
at both the large and the small scales, in order to focus and motivate at both the large and the small scales, in order to focus and motivate
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banking institutions are providing, or will soon be providing, to banking institutions are providing, or will soon be providing, to
retail customers. See below for OFX references. OFX is an open spec retail customers. See below for OFX references. OFX is an open spec
from Microsot, Intuit, & Checkfree, and will be supported by Integrion. from Microsot, Intuit, & Checkfree, and will be supported by Integrion.
The OFX DTD's are included in the 1.1 distributions. See
<a href="http://www.ofx.org">OFX HomePage</a> for details.
<p> <p>
</dl> </dl>
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<dd>All menus, markup and help-text should be internationalized, <dd>All menus, markup and help-text should be internationalized,
so that X-Accountant could be usable in any country. This so that X-Accountant could be usable in any country. This
would include the printing of currency values in the local would include the printing of currency values in the local
country conventions. Current status: most English-language country conventions.
messages have been #defined and moved to a single header file. <p>
Still looking for an infrastructure for choosing a message Current status: most English-language messages have been
catalogue. Looking for routines that can parse and print #defined and moved to a single header file. (messages.h)
(Will use gnu gettext for the message catalogues. ??)
Looking for routines that can parse and print
monetary values in different formats, as well as date/time monetary values in different formats, as well as date/time
parsing/printing routines. (xacc contains such parsing parsing/printing routines. (xacc contains such parsing
routines, but they're not very powerful or i18n'ed.) routines, but they're not very powerful or i18n'ed.)
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and use the printing abilities of the browser. In an ideal and use the printing abilities of the browser. In an ideal
situation, the user should be able to create custom reports. situation, the user should be able to create custom reports.
<p> <p>
Other output format possibilites include SGML and XML. In the
long run, these are preferable to HTML, since DSSSL and
<a href="http://www.jclark.com/jade/"> Jade (James DSSSL Engine</a>
can be used to convert to RTF, PostScript, etc. XML is the wave
of the future.
<p>
The hard part of reporting is designing a configurable interface.
<p>
<dt><b>Inventory, Job Costing</b> <dt><b>Inventory, Job Costing</b>
<dd>Add the business features needed to maintain a stock of items for <dd>Add the business features needed to maintain a stock of items for