From 7d7d8a3b9771ddbdc6741978dbdf836c63684c58 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Simon Michael <simon@joyful.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 11:10:48 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] intro: tell more of a story, credit JW by name

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 index.md   | 15 +++++++++++----
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/index.html b/index.html
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@@ -49,7 +49,11 @@ Plain Text Accounting
 </div>
 <div class="four columns">
 <h3 id="with-text">… with text</h3>
-<p>Ledger, hledger, beancount, and other <strong><a href="#ledger-likes">Ledger-likes</a></strong> are minimalist software tools for efficient double-entry-style accounting. <!-- **[double-entry-style](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10512418)** accounting. --> This site introduces them and their way of doing things.</p>
+<!-- Ledger, hledger, beancount, and other **[Ledger-likes](#ledger-likes)** -->
+<!-- are minimalist software tools for efficient double-entry-style accounting. -->
+<!-- <\!-- **[double-entry-style](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10512418)** accounting. -\-> -->
+<!-- This site introduces them and their way of doing things. -->
+<p>In 2003, John Wiegley invented Ledger: a plain text data format and command-line reporting tool for efficient double-entry-style accounting. This idea went viral among software developers and technical folk, and we now have 5+ actively-developed <strong><a href="#ledger-likes">Ledger-likes</a></strong> such as hledger and Beancount, with 40+ add-on tools and an active community. This site was created in 2016 to introduce our tools, documentation, workflows and principles.</p>
 <p>Accounting data is valuable; we want to know that it will be accessible for ever - even without software. We want to know when it changes, and revision-control it. We want to search and manipulate it efficiently. So, we store it as human-readable <strong><a href="http://ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html#The-Most-Basic-Entry">plain</a> <a href="http://hledger.org/manual.html#journal">text</a></strong>.</p>
 <p>We simplify debits and credits by using <strong><a href="http://ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html#Stating-where-money-goes">signed numbers</a></strong> instead - positive for inflows to an account, negative for outflows from an account.</p>
 <p>We define arbitrary <strong><a href="http://ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html#Structuring-your-Accounts">account</a> <a href="http://hledger.org/manual.html#account-names">hierarchy</a></strong> to suit our needs. This scales smoothly from simple to complex scenarios, and from high-level overview to fine detail.</p>
diff --git a/index.md b/index.md
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@@ -34,10 +34,17 @@ Transactions consist of
 
 ### … with text
 
-Ledger, hledger, beancount, and other **[Ledger-likes](#ledger-likes)**
-are minimalist software tools for efficient double-entry-style accounting.
-<!-- **[double-entry-style](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10512418)** accounting. -->
-This site introduces them and their way of doing things.
+<!-- Ledger, hledger, beancount, and other **[Ledger-likes](#ledger-likes)** -->
+<!-- are minimalist software tools for efficient double-entry-style accounting. -->
+<!-- <\!-- **[double-entry-style](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10512418)** accounting. -\-> -->
+<!-- This site introduces them and their way of doing things. -->
+
+In 2003, John Wiegley invented Ledger: a plain text data format and command-line reporting tool for efficient double-entry-style accounting.
+This idea went viral among software developers and technical folk, and we now have
+5+ actively-developed **[Ledger-likes](#ledger-likes)** such as hledger and Beancount,
+with 40+ add-on tools and an active community.
+This site was created in 2016 to introduce our
+tools, documentation, workflows and principles.
 
 Accounting data is valuable;
 we want to know that it will be accessible for ever - even without software.