The reason why I can not (or better: will not) use narration (or payee or description) for this is, as far as I can see, because it is a single line only. Besides that, the payee field can be explicitly queried by using the at shortcut (@) so I consider that a field which is in my control (=explicit/consent) and use it to identify edge cases. However, to give an explicit example:
2013-12-18 ZAAK Crediteur:TMobile 15,26 EUR Bank:AbnAmro -15,26 EUR ; SEPA Incasso algemeen doorlopend ; Incassant: NL93ZZZ33265679XXXX ; Naam: T-Mobile Netherlands BV ; Machtiging: 1.13567XXX ; Omschrijving: Factuurnummer 9012 ; 05477XXX ; IBAN: NL12COBA0733959XXX ; Kenmerk: 501205939XXX The comment implies a complete description for a transaction as downloaded from my bankstatements. Maybe I could put it on one line but that deteriorates its readability. I have tried to use a different comment-character like # or | but that works only for one line. [ http://www.ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html#Commenting-on-your-Journal ]. The reason I asked is because I might be overlooking something. Of course it is fun to see that the bank or any person could help me tag my transactions through the description field, though ... rather not. For now, I settle by transforming the : (ascii colon) to : (unicode ratio symbol) by generating comments from statements. Thanks all for the input! On Saturday, July 12, 2014 12:00:57 AM UTC+2, Martin Blais wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 12:18 PM, Jules van Velzen <julesva...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> One of the parts of completing my/a bookkeeping is to import bank >> statements into ledger where each transaction has a description. >> While the following problem does not happen often, the description might >> have colons (:) and thus conflicts with the way tags work in Ledger-Cli. >> A minimal requirement to see if everything went ok is to visually inspect >> the descriptions with the print command. >> A description has the length of a sms and might imply multiple lines. >> Of course it is possible to substitute the colon with something else, >> however I would like the description (transaction comment) to be as >> authentic as possible. >> Is there a way to have real comments? In other words, a comment where >> implicit meta-data like tags is not active? >> > > 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 ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
