On Sat, Dec 1, 2018 at 9:50 PM Zhuoyun Wei <wzy...@wzyboy.org> wrote:
> 2018-12-01 20:43:39 Martin Blais <bl...@furius.ca>: > > On Sat, Dec 1, 2018 at 11:23 AM Zhuoyun Wei <wzy...@wzyboy.org> wrote: > > > > 2018-11-29 21:38:57 Justus Pendleton <justu...@gmail.com>: > > > On Friday, November 30, 2018 at 7:27:11 AM UTC+7, mpl...@gmail.com > wrote: > > > > > > Let say i have transactions going into account Expenses:Rent, > and i would like 60% of total go to > > > Expenses:Rent:Personal and 40% to Expenses:Rent:Business, > > > what's the best way to do it? > > > > > > > > > I think the best way is to just be explicit and write: $600 to one > and $400 to the other. > > > > > > If you really want to though, beancount supports simple math > expressions so you can write: > > > > > > Expenses:Rent:Personal (1,000 * 0.6) USD > > > Expenses:Rent:Business (1,000 * 0.4) USD > > > > > TIL Beancount supports basic math expressions! > > > > I have quite a lot of transactions that need to be split by ratio > > (shared expenses with roommates). Each time I have to calculate the > > shares myself and fill in the result. This is lifesaver! > > > > > > If you have a really specific need you could also write a plugin. > > I do that for sharing expenses, e.g. I trigger filling off of a tag. > > IIRC Ledger supports % as amounts, but I've never looked at how it > actually works. > > One way it could make sense would be to sum up the postings with non-% > amounts, and fill in - like when you omit the > > amount - with the % of the remainder. We'd have to also check that the > amounts sum up to 100% (or rely on the balance > > to fail). > > Anyhow, I don't think it's a super common usage, and using ratios as you > suggested works well. > > > > I had always thinking about writing my own plugins. But I prefer to > keep my repo in a self-contained way. That is to say, I do not want to > modify PYTHONPATH each time I run bean-* commands / fava, nor do I want > to put my plugin outside the repo. So I am counting on this issue to be > resolved: > https://bitbucket.org/blais/beancount/issues/214/add-top-level-directory-to-syspath > (I may try to be helpful if possible). > You got it. https://bitbucket.org/blais/beancount/commits/c61debdc8334 Insert option "insert_pythonpath" "TRUE" in any file you want to have the parent directory inserted for. Currently the new discovery of math expressions in Amount helps a lot. I > can now just append "/ 2" to those expenses that shared with my > roommate, instead of caculating the shares myself. > The expression arithmetic is still pretty basic, but I use it a lot too. I think the new version of that shell - the only that should be rewritten as a separate project - should have much more. > > > > > > > > -- > Zhuoyun Wei > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Beancount" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to beancount+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to beancount@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/20181202025039.GA4698%40tarball.wzyboy.org > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beancount+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to beancount@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAK21%2BhPM4bY1dDSYCa8%2BB6VOjdYdzRCU-Km6uW1f1GjHUWyD_g%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
