Here you are:
This block in one file (fake_journal I called it):
===============
year 2017
account assets:ff:cash:wallet:Extalticana:S
alias ffCaE
assets:hh:cash:wallet:Agelica Simpson:S
alias hhCaA
commodity "Those super crypto coins"
bucket hhCaA
2017/10/01 ff
ffCaE 3000 "Those super crypto coins" {=BTC 3000}
===============
then run:
$ ledger -f fake_journal --pedant print
If this is a quirk of my current edger 3.0.3-20140608 then I'll have to
install a newer version, if it wants to run on Fedora 18.
By the way, I'm using ledger-cli 'in the field', which means on a
smartphone.
Formatting a transaction with new lines and whitespaces is then a bit
cumbersome because it requires more 'thumb clicks' and uses more 'screen
estate' then I'd liked to.
So, in order to speed up entering transactions and to save space on the
screen, I have now input every transaction in a daily file in which only
the first transaction gets the (full) date prefix and every transaction set
(date, payee, multiple lines) is entered on one line only (those lines
separated by one or more empty lines), after which a little bash script
cleans up the mess and re-formats the file into a valid ledger file.
In order to not confuse the script, amazingly enough it suffices to start
every transaction line (as I call it) with a period immediately preceding
the account name (abbreviation) and comments of course start with a
semi-colon.
The script then takes care of proper translation.
A transaction input will then look like this one-liner:
2017/10/01 ff .ffCaE 3000 "Those super crypto coins" {=BTC 3000} ; comment
blahblah .apples 0.000000000000000001 BTC ; Another comment I didn't
check the value for real .c
(c is the balancing account abbreviation)
It only requires a bit of care to make sure every 'textual' period is
followed by white space.
Anyone interested in the script can have it. It's small and built with lots
of great help from the ingenious Stack Exchange (TM) community, because I
wasn't proficient enough in bash to work it out all on my own.
Thanks for looking into this.
On Thursday, November 30, 2017 at 7:16:30 PM UTC, John Wiegley wrote:
>
> >>>>> "EL" == Ella Lobatina <[email protected] <javascript:>> writes:
>
> LE> Obviously I'm doing it wrong, but how should I go about it in order to
> get
> LE> those balancing transactions included in my output?
>
> Can you show me an example of a single transaction (fake) within the
> context
> of the other settings you have in your Ledger file? I'd like to try it
> here.
>
> LE> Thanks for the nice program, it's the only one that works for me.
>
> You're welcome! :)
>
> John
>
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