Thanks for the help. So I guess the first step is defining my metadata key 
*pn* for post-narrations.

Then the next step would be to see if a plugin can be written to parse 
strings that come after the amounts and insert them into the pn metadata 
automatically. I don't believe such a plugin exists already. I've found 
various plugins here and there but no centralized directory of user plugins 
to confirm this. I hope that the plugin can suppress Parser errors.


On Saturday, September 5, 2020 at 2:48:38 AM UTC-5 Máté Farkas wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 5, 2020, 08:33 Martin Michlmayr <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> * Mefju <[email protected]> [2020-09-05 08:23]:
>> > I also use narration for postings, and also miss that Beancount does not
>> > parse comments.
>>
>> IHMO that's a feature and not a bug.
>
>
> That's definitely not a bug, it is by design, I checked the source code.
>
> On the other hand I think there is information loss because of it. 
> Beancount has a cool syntax to comment a transaction, a posting, 
> unfortunately I cannot access it progmamatically. So I have to use the not 
> so cool "put your comment in metadata" feature, so I can access it. (Having 
> metadata is amazing by the way.)
>
>>

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