I think this is a very interesting idea but I am not really getting it.
Imagine that ledger does exactly what you want. Could you put together a
brief example command line, the input and output?

On Wednesday, July 16, 2014, Red Street <[email protected]> wrote:

> The preamble route perhaps solves some requirements, but not others. For
> example, I'd like to be able to use tags and dates (and even just other
> pieces of text) in account meta-data that I'd like to be able to use with
> Ledger's filtering and reporting capabilities. I'm hoping the note
> sub-directive will help in this regard.
>
> On Wednesday, July 16, 2014 10:56:10 AM UTC-7, Craig Earls wrote:
>>
>> OK. I think I get it. You want a way to dump account metadata to produce
>> custom reports. The ledger metadata methodology uses metadata to determine
>> which transaction or posting to display and use in calculations. If you
>> want, for example, a preamble with account metadata dumped prior to a
>> register report for that account it would be best to develop a custom
>> script that grabbed the account level data you want them ran ledger to
>> produce the report.
>>
>> On Wednesday, July 16, 2014, Red Street <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wednesday, July 16, 2014 10:39:23 AM UTC-7, Craig Earls wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I am not aware of that "note" directive. Where did you find it?
>>>>
>>>> I too wonder what adding meta data to an account would bring to the
>>>> party.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I should add to my previous post with examples of how it could be
>>> helpful:
>>>
>>> Ledger is an excellent tool, but what it does not have (and for
>>> excellent reasons) is a GUI of some sort which makes presentation, and
>>> sometimes even filtering super easy. My workflow involves feeding csv
>>> output from ledger into a custom spreadsheet which makes presentation and
>>> filtering extremely easy, and also allows me to share the output with
>>> others (payees, accountants, etc.) who don't use ledger. One of the vital
>>> parts I'm missing here is account meta-data, which explains my question.
>>>
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