I'll look at adding an option to set it directly, this causes a lot of
friction.

On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 11:51 AM <[email protected]> wrote:

> I just encountered this myself and I wanted to write down what I figured
> out.
>
> Beancount uses a "display context" to track statistics about precisions it
> sees in the input. Fava displays numbers using the "most common" precision.
> I guess this is the "mode" of the precisions Beancount has seen in a file:
> https://bitbucket.org/blais/beancount/src/945f4154f1af6b07674355c1798a27ff5d6c2794/beancount/core/display_context.py?at=default&fileviewer=file-view-default#display_context.py-163
>
> It seems that Beancount may not track this number across files -- moving a
> bunch of transactions from a "main" file into a file imported using the
> "include" directive can change the precision.
>
> As far as I know there is no parameter or option you can use to set this
> "display context" precision.
>
> Ethan
>
> On Wednesday, December 12, 2018 at 6:34:05 AM UTC-5, Roland Everaert wrote:
>>
>> Fava is effectively much better than bean-web. However, it still suffer
>> from the fact that most columns are rounding-up values to the next integer
>> instead of displaying the real number with its decimals :(
>>
>> I hope this will be fixed soon, or maybe their is some parameters I can
>> modify to set the precision to 1 or 2 digits after the decimal point.
>>
>> Le mercredi 28 novembre 2018 16:29:26 UTC+1, Roland Everaert a écrit :
>>>
>>> Is bean-query also affected by the same limitation?
>>>
>>> I will try fava when times permit, thanks.
>>> Martin Blais writes:
>>>
>>> > On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 6:46 AM Roland Everaert <[email protected]>
>>> > wrote:
>>> >
>>> >>
>>> >> Thanks for the link.
>>> >>
>>> >> What will be deleted? bean-web?
>>> >>
>>> >
>>> > Yes, eventually, or if anything, it would be replaced by a bare-bones
>>> > minimal thing fed by SQL queries only.
>>> > Please find long email on this list from previously.
>>> > Switch to Fava, it's much better.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > I also think that adding some option in the beancount file, with
>>> regards
>>> >> to precision, is way better, because it is 100% predictable.
>>> >>
>>> >
>>> > I agree.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Martin Blais writes:
>>> >>
>>> >> > Tolerances and precision for rendering are inferred, see this doc:
>>> >> > http://furius.ca/beancount/doc/tolerances
>>> >> > I don't remember if bean-web has ever been converted to use those
>>> though.
>>> >> > It's bound to be deleted anyway, not going to update it.
>>> >> >
>>> >> > I'd like to add explicit options to force a desired precision at
>>> some
>>> >> > point, this seems like a better default than atempting to infer
>>> >> everything
>>> >> > automatically.
>>> >> >
>>> >> >
>>> >> >
>>> >> >
>>> >> > On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 12:13 PM Roland Everaert <
>>> [email protected]>
>>> >> > wrote:
>>> >> >
>>> >> >> Hello,
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> How can I tell bean-web the number of digits to display after the
>>> >> period?
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> I often see, in the balance sheet to name one page, thatvalues are
>>> >> rounded
>>> >> >> and no decimal is shown.
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> I want to see number with 1 or 2 digits after the decimal comma.
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> Example:
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> - Current configuration
>>> >> >> Real value: 3.67
>>> >> >> Displayed value: 4
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> - Expected configuration
>>> >> >> Real value: 3.67
>>> >> >> Displayed value: 3.67
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> I have seen some section about rounding and tolerance but my
>>> >> comprehention
>>> >> >> is that they have nothing to do with how numbers are displayed
>>> with
>>> >> >> bean-web.
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >>
>>> >> >> Roland.
>>> >> >>
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