>>>>> "MB" == Marcin Borkowski <mb...@mbork.pl> writes:
MB> 1. I can do MB> ~ Daily from 2022-01-01 to 2023-01-01 MB> ~ Daily from 2023-01-01 MB> (the intervals are closed-open, like with -b/-e). Right? Yes, intervals should always be closed-open, everywhere. MB> 2. The --invert option does nothing for the `budget` report. Correct? I wouldn't be surprised at all if that were the case. MB> 3. If I don't provide -b, the default for the budget seems to be what was MB> in `~ Daily from`, but the transactions from before that date also count MB> towards the actual expenses. That probably means that I should /always/ MB> provide -b to the `budget` report. Is that right? I would, yes. MB> 4. If I don't provide -e, the default (for the `budget` report) is MB> --current. Is that correct? That sounds right. MB> 5. If I don't provide `from` in `~ Daily`, the default seems to be the MB> date if the /first/ transaction on a given account. Right? Correct. MB> 6. (Almost) last but not least -- the `budget` report gives me a table MB> with 5 columns: - actual expenses - budgeted expenses - the difference MB> (negative means I spent less than the budget -- a bit counterintuitive, MB> but makes sense given the order of the previous two) - what percentage of MB> the budget was spent - name of the account MB> Using classical spreadsheet column names: C = A - B and D = A/B (as MB> percentage). Do I guess correctly? I think so? MB> If so, this means that the web app I wrote to present this exact MB> information is mostly irrelevant. %-P Still, it draws a nice chart which MB> is accessible from a smartphone. I have a post-commit hook which scp's the MB> file to my VPS, and the web app there serves the chart - that's a very MB> useful arrangement I plan to blog about one day. I'm glad it's useful, but definitely, custom code can always go further. MB> Now, my final question is this. Much of what we discuss here is apparently MB> undocumented in the Ledger manual. My book is my book, and it contains MB> examples and such, but I think it is fair to have these options at least MB> mentioned in the manual. I have just fetched the ledger repo, and I can MB> see that the last commit in `ledger/doc/ledger3.texi` was 7 years ago... MB> Would you accept a PR with a small manual update? (One minor issue with MB> that idea is that I don't speak texinfo, so you'd have to check every my MB> edit very carefully.) Absolutely! I'd be honored to accept your PR. 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 ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ledger-cli/m2bkmamw2k.fsf%40newartisans.com.
