Ah, perhaps you already know perfectly well about that site. I just went to 
look at the github repo for it and see your name there. :-)

On Tuesday, June 19, 2018 at 6:44:08 AM UTC-5, Scott Carpenter wrote:
>
> There is lots of stuff here, that may provide ideas, too:
>
> https://plaintextaccounting.org
>
> Someone kindly added my python tool there, ledgerbil, with which I crudely 
> extend ledger for my own purposes. In some cases I wrap ledger, capturing 
> its output and reformatting/calculating things, e.g a grid to show expenses 
> over months or years, or an investment view that puts number of shares 
> together with the value of them. In others I read the ledgerfile and do my 
> own stuff with the data (there is a scheduler that adds recurring 
> transactions, and an interactive reconciler).
>
> John's comment here makes me wonder if I'd be better off taking csv output 
> from ledger for some of the stuff I do.
>
> Anyway, this isn't to promote my program so much as point you at the 
> goodies at that site. I could certainly benefit from studying them more, 
> although I greatly enjoy just making things up from scratch, too.
>
> Scott
>
> On Sunday, June 17, 2018 at 5:51:31 PM UTC-5, Colin Dean wrote:
>>
>> So far, most of my needs for reporting have been satisfied by simple 
>> balance reporting, sometimes with some custom formatting.
>>
>> For some more advanced stuff, I've got a Ruby script that captures the 
>> output of a few ledger balance reports and then runs some further 
>> calculations. For example, I want to sum the total expenses of a few 
>> accounts, half of the expenses of another few accounts, and then some more 
>> complex logic for some others. Is there a way to do this within ledger?
>>
>> Next up, I want to try to calculate my savings rate. Is there something 
>> that would let me effectively capture the output of two balance reports? 
>> E.g. ledger bal --start "Jan 1" (Assets / (Income - Expenses:Taxes))
>>
>> I'm working up in my head some kind of wrapper around ledger that would 
>> let me define simple and complex reports in some kind of manifest format 
>> and then dump that output to a nice-looking report. I've kinda already 
>> cobbled something together for the non-profit for which I use ledger, but I 
>> want to refactor it into something more maintainable than a 1000 line 
>> Makefile ;-)
>>
>

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