On Apr 11, 2010, at 5:29 PM, David Glasser wrote: > Hmm, well, other than the fact that I can't use metadata since I don't > know how to get a 3.0 build on Mac 10.5 :) I think that would work > for the simplest bit of this (if I used a BudgetUtil201004 tag and > tagged postings with it) but that wouldn't work for things like "this > bill needs to be split across two months" or really any of the "split" > things. The advantage of the thing I described is that I could use > the ^^ macros for simple cases, but if I need to do something more > complicated I can still just write numbers... using tags instead of a > virtual account wouldn't give me that escape hatch, would it?
I think then you best bet is to write a pre-processor to achieve the custom functionality you need. The ^^ syntax you proposed is a bit too specialized. But a pre-processor could do just what you want, and you could decide the course of its development. John -- To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.
