diff --git a/doc/site/faq.md b/doc/site/faq.md index 5cd4eb095..7de72e183 100644 --- a/doc/site/faq.md +++ b/doc/site/faq.md @@ -220,3 +220,27 @@ promise of more bug-free and maintainable software built in fewer lines of code. Haskell also provides a more abstracted, portable platform which can make deployment and installation easier in some cases. +## UI surprises +### What are these extra amounts with no account name in the balance report ? + +A journal entry like this: +```journal +1/1 + a 1 + b +``` +gives the error `hledger: could not balance this transaction (can't have more than one missing amount; remember to put 2 or more spaces before amounts)`, because there needs to be at least two spaces separating account names and amounts, eg like this: +```journal +1/1 + a 1 + b +``` + +### What are these extra amounts with no account name in the balance report ? + +Eg: https://gist.github.com/achiang/1b16a49f432375c68941 + +In most hledger reports, like Ledger, account balances containing multiple commodities are displayed on multiple lines, one per commodity. +In the register command these lines are top-aligned, in the balance command they are bottom-aligned. + +In [multi-column balance reports](manual.html#multicolumn-balance-reports), multi-commodity amounts are displayed on one line instead, comma-separated.