GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 719484
Add documentation for financial functions
Last modified: 2018-05-22 11:49:21 UTC
Created attachment 263013 [details] Original DocBook version of the documentation I, For One, Welcome Our New Dialog Boxes Overlords, but still without some more explanation, I am lost. E.g., I have some understanding of the present and future value, but still I haven't been able to compute with the Calculator even simple =FV(0.05,10,0,1000) (using LibreOffice notation). I have been surprised to find that the old gcalctool, although it had awful UI had much better documentation, so it would be probably a good idea to revive it back to Mallard form. The last change to the original documentation (as far as I have been able to find out) was at https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-calculator/commit/?id=5ef567aa365313594a285bedbb9d5c3c5b030f2e (and whole file was removed in 5d9395d0236ebb5a02c34fe24d20557dbd0d7486 with rewrite to Mallard).
Created attachment 263014 [details] generated HTML version of the documentation
Patches welcome. You will need to rewrite the help from scratch, not copy/paste it from the old help because the current help is under a different license. Alternatively, describe what you want to see in the help in more detail so that it can be fixed.
It would have to be retyped anyway (Docbook is different than Mallard, isn't it? And certainly layout and document organization is rather different), but I wonder how much true creativity there is ... these are just rather straightforward descriptions of the mathematical calculations. But basically what I would like to get is exactly the same ... precise description (with examples!) of each calculation. * what is being calculated (e.g, what I have to pay monthly as repayment for the 30 year fixed rate 11% mortgage of 120000?), * which values go to which textbox and why, and * what is the result. One or two screenshots would be lovely
See also bug #624965
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