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The Glossary explains some often used terms.

==A==

;[http://www.aqbanking.de AqBanking] : a library, which implements the german ''Home Banking Computer Interface'' '''[[#H|HBCI]]''' and ''Electronic Banking Internet Communication Standard'' '''EBICS''', besides '''[[#O|OFX]]''' Direct Connect and '''Paypal'''. It is the successor of ''openHBCI''. See [[AqBanking]] for use in GnuCash.

==D==

; [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBMS DBMS] : Data Base Management System, like mySQL or Postgres.

;[http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/ Doxygen] : a tool for the automated generation of source code documentation. [http://www.doxygen.org doxygen.org] says that "Doxygen is a documentation system for C++, C, Java, IDL (Corba and Microsoft flavors) and to some extent PHP and C#."

==G==

;[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAAP GAAP] : stands for "Generally Accepted Accounting Principles", the rules by which Business Accounting has to be done, especially in the U.S. and some other countries.

; [http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ GConf] : Gnome's Configuration Sytem is used by GnuCash to store its configuration.

;[http://www.nongnu.org/g-wrap g-wrap] : a tool for creating Scheme interfaces to C libraries and vice versa. (replaced by swig for SVN-trunk and gnucash >= 2.2.0 anymore.)

;[http://www.gtk.org gtk+] : the ''GIMP Tool Kit''. It is the underlying graphical library that is used by GIMP, the ''GNU Image Manipulation Program'', but also by the whole Gnome desktop. [http://www.gtk.org gtk.org] says that "GTK+ is a multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces. Offering a complete set of widgets, GTK+ is suitable for projects ranging from small one-off projects to complete application suites."

;[http://www.gnu.org/s/guile/ guile] : ''GNU Ubiquitous Intelligent Language for Extensions'' is an interpreter for the Scheme programming language, packaged as a library which can be incorporated into your programs. Other interpreters for Scheme are e.g. MIT Scheme, UMB Scheme, Luna, Hobbit, and many others.

;[http://www.gnome.org/projects/guppi/ Guppi] : a GNOME-based framework for graphing and interactive data analysis. This library created the pie charts and bar charts in GnuCash. Unfortunately, its development has been abandoned.

==H==

;[http://www.hbci-zka.de/english/ HBCI/FinTS] : a bank-independent online banking protocol used by German banks. HBCI (Home Banking Computer Interface) has been developed by the German Central Banking Committee ZKA (Zentraler Kredit-Ausschuss). The standard is publicly available and is used by approx. 50% of German banks, but nowhere else in this world. Since 2002 it is called „Financial Transaction Services“ (FinTS).

==L==

;[http://sourceforge.net/projects/libofx/ LibOFX] : an Open Source library for OFX ([[#O|see below]]). It was created by one of the GnuCash developers (Benoit Gregoire), originally to be the OFX interface for GnuCash.

==M==

;MT940 : a financial information standard defined by [http://www.swift.com SWIFT] and used by several European banks. It is also used internally in HBCI. Unfortunately, you can't download the MT940 standard, but some banks (like [http://www.omikron.de/english/Service/Kunde/Formate/mt940_S.htm this one]) publish it on their web site.

==O==

;[http://www.ofx.net/AboutOFX/AboutOFX.aspx OFX] : the Open Financial eXchange format. This is a financial information standard (i.e. a file format standard) documented at http://www.ofx.net/DeveloperSolutions.aspx

;[http://openhbci.sourceforge.net/ OpenHBCI] : was an Open Source implementation of the German [[#H|HBCI]]. It was replaced in 2004 by [[#A|AqBanking]].

==S==

;[http://schemers.org Scheme] : a functional programming language, a dialect of Lisp. There's a little more information at http://www.swiss.ai.mit.edu/projects/scheme/, where they'll tell you that "Scheme is a statically scoped and properly tail-recursive dialect of the Lisp programming language invented by Guy Lewis Steele Jr. and Gerald Jay Sussman.", but there are several tutorials like [http://pheattarchive.emporia.edu/courses/2002/cs220f02/anotherSchemeTtutorial/default.htm anotherSchemeTtutorial]. Use your preferred web search to find them.

;[http://www.swig.org/ SWIG] : The ''Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator'' is 'a tool that connects programs written in C and C++ with a variety of high-level programming languages', here for creating Scheme interfaces to C libraries and vice versa. (Replacement for g-wrap since gnucash 2.2.0 )