I'm not sure what level of deprecation the total cost syntax has, but using
that seems like a pretty decent solution.
You can also do math just about anywhere where a number is accepted, so you
could do this AFAIK:
Assets:Bank 100 FOO { 5000 / 100 USD }

On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 7:49 PM Samuel Lotz <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have statements from an inheritance in which I know I have a certain
> number of shares of an asset but I don't know the cost these were obtained
> at and I was hoping to use something like the deprecated {{total cost}}
> syntax.
>
> I found this issue https://github.com/beancount/beancount/issues/369
> but I didn't quite understand how to use the alternative { # commodity}
> syntax and this isn't documented AFAICT.
>
> Any ideas besides just calculating it manually (which in the end isn't
> that big of a deal for these few accounts).
>
> Also not sure why that issue got closed as the deprecated syntax is still
> on the cheatsheet.
>
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