I am curious what was not "ledger-mode compliant" about your file. If there is something the ledger will work with and ledger-mode won't then I have more work to do.
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Hans Erik van Elburg <[email protected]> wrote: > > I tried "reckon", but the learming promiss did not realize at all. The > automatic recognition of columns did, but then I had to manually tell reckon > how to post all transactions. This caused a lot of work (no autocompletion > like in emacs). After this I ended up with a file that was not emacs > ledger-mode compliant. Had to re-edit all transactions in emacs again. So I > think the whole process did not really save me time at all, on the contrary. > > The "ledger convert" caused less trouble, the extra configuration to tell it > what columns to convert is a one time treshold only. > > I tend to only use these conversion mechanisms when there is a mismatch that > I can not otherwise pin down. > > BR, > Hans Erik > > Op dinsdag 10 juni 2014 11:53:26 UTC+2 schreef Edwin: >> >> On Tue, 10 Jun 2014 11:31:14 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: >> > On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 09:54:39AM +0200, Jostein Berntsen wrote: >> > > I like to use reckon: >> > >> > Has anyone here used both reckon and icsv2ledger, and fancy posting a >> > brief comparison of the two? >> > >> > I've just integrated icsv2ledger in my accounting work-flow. I've >> > managed to make it do what I want, but I've also found it a bit rough >> > around the edges --- I can elaborate more if people on this list are >> > interested. >> > >> > If others have found reckon to be more flexible than icsv2ledger, I'll >> > be happy to reconsider my tool choice. >> >> It has been some time since I used icsv2ledger, so this might be >> slightly out of date. The main differences between the two are: >> >> 1) Reckon's scope is wider in that you can pass it your old ledger files >> and it >> will "learn" from that. It will try to directly match payments >> in the csv file to accounts you in your ledger file. >> >> 2) Reckon tries to automagically read your csv file, so you have to >> specify less when you want to convert the csv file. (If it doesn't >> correctly detect your csv format then feel free to file a bug report for >> Reckon). >> >> Cheers, >> >> Edwin >> >> > >> > TIA, >> > Cheers. >> > -- >> > Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . [email protected] . . . . o . . . o . o >> > Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . . . o o >> > Former Debian Project Leader . . @zack on identi.ca . . o o o . . . o . >> > « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club » >> > >> > -- >> > >> > --- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> > Groups "Ledger" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> > an email to [email protected]. >> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > >> > >> -- > > -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ledger" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Craig, Corona De Tucson, AZ enderw88.wordpress.com -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ledger" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
