Eric, thank you very much. Would you mind if I used the explanation below and portions of your tutorial in the official documentation?
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 02:23, Eric S Fraga <[email protected]> wrote: > John Rakestraw <[email protected]> > writes: > > > Hi -- > > > > On Wed, 26 Oct 2011, TR wrote: > >> I have a Reports.org file that has some babel blocks that call bash > >> scripts that shoot reports back to the Reports file. These reports > >> are folded into an outline format, each heading (usually) contains a > >> table; payables, receivables, inc stmts, expense reports, etc. > > > > I'm interested in trying something like this for our personal finance > > reports, so I'd love to have more info. > > > > Thanks. > > Org mode has a sub-system known as babel which allows for literate > programming. This allows you to mix text and code within the same > document and automatically execute code which may generate results which > will then appear in the text. > > One of the languages supported by org+babel is ledger so that you can > have ledger commands embedded in a text file and have the output of > ledger commands also appear in the text file. The output can be > updated whenever any new ledger entries are added. > > For instance, the following org mode text document snippet illustrates a > very naive but still useful of the org+babel system: > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > * A simple test of ledger in an org file > The following are some entries and I have requested that ledger be run > to generate a balance on the accounts. I could have asked for a > register or, in fact, anything at all the ledger can do through command > line options. > > #+begin_src ledger :cmdline -s bal :results value > 2010/01/01 * Starting balance > assets:bank:savings £1300.00 > income:starting balances > 2010/07/22 * Got paid > assets:bank:chequing £1000.00 > income:salary > 2010/07/23 Rent > expenses:rent £500.00 > assets:bank:chequing > #+end_src > > #+results: > : £1800.00 assets:bank > : £500.00 chequing > : £1300.00 savings > : £500.00 expenses:rent > : £-2300.00 income > : £-1000.00 salary > : £-1300.00 starting balances > > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > Hiting C-c C-c anywhere in the "ledger source code block" will invoke > ledger on the contents of that block and generate a "results" > block. The results block can appear anywhere in the file but, by > default, will appear immediately below the source code block. > > You can combine multiple source code blocks before executing ledger and > do all kinds of other wonderful things with babel (and org). Highly > recommended. I only use ledger through org these days (in fact, most of > my programming and day to day management is done from within org mode in > Emacs!). > > I wrote a tutorial that shows how to use ledger from org. You can find > this on the Worg website: > > http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages/ob-doc-ledger.html > > HTH, > eric > > -- > : Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 24.0.90.1 > : using Org-mode version 7.7 (release_7.7.473.g23b81) > > -- Craig, Corona De Tucson, AZ enderw88.wordpress.com
