notes

NOTES

@@ -11,17 +11,19 @@ clever tricks like the plague." --Edsger Dijkstra
 * to do
 ** errors
 *** does not catch an unbalanced entry
-*** should accept - before currency symbol ?
 *** can't parse comment line immediately after or within an entry
+*** depth-limited balance report may not show final total
+*** print does not always give tidy layout
+*** should accept - before currency symbol ?
 ** features
-*** actual/effective entry & txn dates, for completeness
 *** speed
-**** easy profiling
+**** optimise
+**** generate big test files
 **** speed regression tests
 **** cache file ?
+*** actual/effective entry & txn dates, for completeness
 *** ~/.hledgerrc, for setting defaults
-*** more ledger features from README (?)
+*** more ledger features
-*** new features
 **** support complete period syntax ?
     every N days     # N is any integer
     every N weeks
@@ -30,14 +32,16 @@ clever tricks like the plague." --Edsger Dijkstra
     every N years
     biweekly
     bimonthly
+*** new features
 **** -Q quarterly interval option, for consistency/convenience ?
-**** easy timelog queries when called as hours
+**** easy timelog queries when called as "hours"
 **** curses gui
 **** web gui
 **** charts
 **** easier data entry
 **** parse more file formats - gnucash, qif, ofx, csv..
 **** in/out times in timelog entry descriptions
+**** parse in-progress timelog entries
 **** i18n
 ** tests
 *** test on more ledger files
@@ -64,16 +68,16 @@ clever tricks like the plague." --Edsger Dijkstra
 *** api docs
 *** developer intro
 *** user manual
+*** differences not noted in README
+**** ledger shows description comments as part of description
+**** ledger seems to get amounts' x-position wrong more than hledger
+**** ledger can't parse full smart dates in display expressions
+**** hledger print puts a blank line after the entry, not before it
+**** ledger can get timelog entry balance wrong, see mail list
+**** ledger reports timelog sessions as virtual transactions
 ** web presence
 *** clarify bugtracking process
 * misc
-** other differences not noted in README
-*** ledger shows description comments as part of description
-*** ledger seems to get amounts' x-position wrong more than hledger
-*** ledger can't parse full smart dates in display expressions
-*** hledger print puts a blank line after the entry, not before it
-*** ledger can get timelog entry balance wrong, see mail list
-*** ledger reports timelog sessions as virtual transactions
 ** things I want to know
 *** time
 where have I been spending my time in recent weeks ?
@@ -118,13 +122,11 @@ are there any cashflow, tax, budgetary problems looming ?
 *** squeak: LanguageGame, T-Gen, SmaCC
 *** lisp: ?
 *** ruby: too slow (?)
-
 ** data representation
 *** http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0327/
 *** http://www.n-heptane.com/nhlab/repos/Decimal/
 *** http://www.n-heptane.com/nhlab/repos/Decimal/Money.hs
 *** http://www2.hursley.ibm.com/decimal/
-
 ** lispy's template haskell for quickcheck
 -- find tests with template haskell
 import Language.Haskell.Parser