Thanks a lot! I think I mainly thought in the wrong direction. Either I can use the Liabilities-header I used for this month as a template for the next ones or I will plan the associated expenses as a budget. I think these would be solutions I can live with.
I now know also about the scheduled transactions I can use in org-mode. So, with small steps proceed ;) Am Sonntag, 18. Januar 2015 19:41:34 UTC+1 schrieb John Wiegley: > > >>>>> Phil Gee <[email protected] <javascript:>> writes: > > > Thanks for the answers. Apologies for these starter questions, I am > fairly > > new to ledger. One additional question regarding ledger I have though > > regarding scheduled transactions: Are you talking about auxiliary dates > or > > writing transactions in the future? In these cases this method would be > of > > little use for me as I oftentime don't know exactly when certain > Liabilities > > have to be met. > > Just as a general principle, Ledger never adds, changes or removes > information > from your data file. If you want future transactions to be posted, you > either > have to enter them with a future date, or use an external script to > generate > them and append them to the file. > > Ledger does have an "xact" command that can generate new entries based on > prior information found in your ledger file, but you will have to append > them > to the file yourself. > > John > -- --- 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.
