On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 06:58:56PM -0700, Craig Earls wrote: > On Friday, July 11, 2014, Martin Blais <[email protected]> wrote: > > The narration is the descriptive string that comes after the date > > and the flag: > > > > 2014/05/06 * Hi I am the narration > > ... > > ... > > > > I call that the 'payee'
Ledger naming on this front is overloaded and, IMHO, troublesome. Ledger's documentation uses payee for both (1) the narration---according to Martin's terminology, which I find quite intuitive---and (2) the homonymous "special metadata field" [*]. It gets worse at the CLI level, because "ledger payees" uses payee's meaning (1), whereas "ledger --by-payee ..." uses meaning (2). It would be great if this ambiguity could be solved in the future, because it could be really puzzling for newbies (speaking out of personal experience here). I'm unsure about the actual term used by accountants though, is it really "narration"? Cheers. [*]: http://www.ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html#Payee-metadata-tag -- 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.
