Hi Will, At Sat, 19 Jul 2014 11:06:33 -0500, Will Monroe wrote: > > Hello, > > […] > *** > #+name: balance and budget > #+begin_src ledger :cmdline --budget register ^expenses :noweb yes > ~ Monthly > expenses:rent $500.00 > 2010/07/22 * Got paid > assets:bank:checking $1000.00 > income:salary > 2010/07/23 Rent > expenses:rent $500.00 > assets:bank:checking > #+end_src > ***
You need another side for your Monthly budget, e.g. ~ Monthly expenses:rent $500.00 assets > […] > > So it seems that the code is being evaluated successfully even though, > in this case, it doesn't balance. But the output only appears in the > Emacs Messages output and not just beneath the source block as happens > when I evaluate all other code. I suppose I could use ledger-cli to > output to a file. But I'd prefer to output directly to the org file itself. It’s not outputting anything because your budget transaction doesn’t balance. > So my questions here are two-fold: > > 1. (Specific) Can anyone advise me on how to begin troubleshooting the > lack of output to the org file as described above? > 2. (General) I'm aware that there seem to be other methods to generate > budgets using ledger and org-mode such as the excellent description > provided in Worg here http://bit.ly/1wIGq98 and Sacha Chua's example > http://bit.ly/1p4d1EU with an example file here http://bit.ly/UhV2zW > However, both are a bit beyond me at the moment. Would it be advisable > to use one of these approaches instead? I'd like to avoid spending a > lot of time learning how to create a budget only to find that there is a > simpler method. I didn’t find that ledger’s built in budgeting worked for the kind of budgeting I wanted to do (“envelope” budgeting), so I wrote: http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/weaving-a-budget.html but your mileage may vary. best, Erik -- Sent from my free software system <http://fsf.org/>. -- --- 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.
