New issue 224: bean-format: allow specifying just the currency column
https://bitbucket.org/blais/beancount/issues/224/bean-format-allow-specifying-just-the
Jakob Schnitzer:
Currently, bean-format will determine the maximum width of prefix and number
"columns" and uses this to align the currencies at column number `prefix
(left-aligned) + 2 + number_width (right-aligned) + 1` if possible. The
recently added command line options allow specifying some preferred values for
these widths. I find these options a bit complicated and propose adding the
"simpler" option `currency-column` (or some other name): For this the algorithm
would be adapted to insert the necessary number of spaces between the prefix
and number so that the currency ends up in the given column. I think if one
wants to set these alignment options by hand, this is really the value that one
is interested in (and one doesn't need to study the code to see what the
options actually mean and where the +3 comes from). Currently, to achieve this,
one has to do some trial and error to see which combination of prefix-width and
num-width works best.
Note that this would also mean that the columns could overlap as follows. I
find this to be a slight improvement, but one might also see this as a
disadvantage.
longlonglonglonglonglonglonglongprefix 10.00 USD
shortprefix 10.00000000000000000000 USD
[I'd be happy to implement this in a PR]
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