That is a rather ambigous syntax. Especially because in my world there is always a payee and "narration" is optional. It would be more logical to always use the first position for payee... and use a comment line for any "narration"
Op zaterdag 12 juli 2014 06:17:20 UTC+2 schreef Martin Blais: > > I thought I recalled there being a payee and a narration. > Maybe it changed in Ledger and this moved to a "tag". > Back in the day, if i recall correctly, the idea was to have optional > payee + narration. > It is still like that in Beancount: > > ; with payee > 2014-05-20 * "Whitman's" | "Burger with friends" > > ; with just narration > 2014-05-20 * "Dinner w/ family" > > The "|" is now optional, because the v2 Beancount syntax has a notion of > "strings", so it provides a natural delimiter. > One string -> narration > Two strings -> payee + narration > > Anyhow. > > > > > On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 9:58 PM, Craig Earls <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> I call that the 'payee' >> >> >> On Friday, July 11, 2014, Martin Blais <[email protected] <javascript:>> >> wrote: >> >>> It's just the inverse of the arration. >>> No, just kidding. >>> >>> The narration is the descriptive string that comes after the date and >>> the flag: >>> >>> 2014/05/06 * Hi I am the narration >>> ... >>> ... >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 6:56 PM, Craig Earls <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> What is "narration"? >>>> >>>> >>>> On Friday, July 11, 2014, Martin Blais <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 12:18 PM, Jules van >>>>> >>>>> Can you not use the narration for this? >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> >>>>> --- >>>>> 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. >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> --- >>> 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] <javascript:>. >> 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.
