>>>>> Craig Earls <[email protected]> writes:
> I tried this out and have a few questions. 1. Below, you used two colons > for the meta tag. It looks like it can work with any valued tag as long as > the value is a commodity A metadata tag with two colons is taken to have a value expression as its value, rather a string that gets converted to a value expression every time Ledger needs to. It's an optimization which can pay off big for large data files using certain kinds of reports. > 2. It appears to add an unbalanced posting using the name of the tag as the > account. > > Does that seem right? If so I will write it up. Yep, that's exactly what it does. Think of it as doing just when automated transactions does -- injects postings into matching transactions -- except this time you specific the new posting in situ, rather than via a predicate rule. John
