Thanks to both of you for your research and your commitment to improve
such a great tool in my life.

Have a nice day,

Roland Everaert.
Martin Blais writes:

> 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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