>>>>> Martin Michlmayr <tbm-r+vwnyxsfmfqt0dzr+a...@public.gmane.org> writes:
> Well, this is the question I was trying to ask: are commodities with lot > tags different commodities or not? My belief so far was that they are *not* > different commodities (i.e. the lot tags are just some meta info), but the > example I posted indicates otherwise. Lot tags/prices/dates represent a new commodity within Ledger itself, but they are only *displayed* as unique commodities when you use --lots or --lot-dates/prices/tags options. So, say you have: Expenses $10 (a) Expenses $10 (b) Although by default this total is displayed as $20, internally the real amount is "$10 (a) + $10 (b)". The --lot-tags option is what differentiates display. There is a value expression function strip() whose job is to remove/collapse lot annotations, and scrub(), which only conditionally collapses them (based on whether you use one of the above-mentioned options). It's this latter function which is used by all the built-in reports. John
