.TH penny-suite 7
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.SH NAME
penny-suite - extensible double-entry accounting system
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.SH DESCRIPTION
.
This manual page lists all the different components of Penny and also
catalogues all the documentation files and manual pages that are
available.
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.SH PENNY PROGRAMS
.
Penny consists of many programs. Each has its own manual page.
.
.TP
.BR penny (1)
.
reports on postings in your ledger file
.
.TP
.BR penny-selloff (1)
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calculate capital gains and losses on commodity sales
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.TP
.BR penny-diff (1)
.
show differences between ledger files
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.TP
.BR penny-reprint (1)
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tidy up a ledger file, retaining comments
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.TP
.BR penny-reconcile (1)
.
marks cleared postings as reconciled
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.SH PENNY MANUAL PAGES
.
In addition to the manual pages shown above, a few more overview man
pages are available.
.
.TP
.BR penny-basics (7)
.
getting started with
.B penny
.
.TP
.BR penny-examples (7)
.
more examples of
.B penny
usage
.
.TP
.BR penny-commodities (7)
.
tracking multiple commodities, such as stocks, with Penny
.
.TP
.BR penny-fit (1)
.
describes how you might be able to create a program that automatically
parses downloaded statements from your financial institution and
merges the resulting postings into your ledger file.
.
.TP
.BR penny-custom (7)
.
how to make a custom \fBpenny\fR program with your own settings
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.SH SAMPLE FILES
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There are many files available filled with sample data. They are in the
.I examples
directory of the
.B penny-bin
tarball.
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.TP
.BR starter.pny
.
describes the basics of the Penny ledger file format, and contains
sample data. The
.BR penny-basics (7)
manual page uses the sample data from this file.
.
.TP
.BR stocks.pny
.
shows how to use Penny to track multiple commodities, like stocks
.
.TP
.BR stocks-realized.pny
.
shows an example of the results of using
.BR penny-selloff (1)
.
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.SH TEXT FILES
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Much documentation is available only in plain-text form. These files
are in the
.B doc
directory of the
.B penny-bin
tarball.
.
.TP
.BR amex-file-format.org
.
the file format American Express uses for its downloadable data
.
.TP
.BR bofa-file-format.org
.
the file format Bank of America uses for its downloadable data
.
.TP
.BR dependencies.dot
.
the dependencies between the various parts of the Penny library
.
.TP
.BR ledger-grammar.org
.
an EBNF grammar for the ledger file format
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.SH HADDOCK
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Feel free to examine the Haskell source code of the Penny library,
which also contains Haddock documentation markup.