Thanks, Martin. And thanks for all the work you do with maintaining things 
and managing these releases!

Scott

On Sunday, June 4, 2023 at 10:30:13 AM UTC-5 Martin Michlmayr wrote:

> I think this works as expected (now), but maybe it needs to be
> documented better. "format" requires an example of how the commodity
> is to be used - you have to include the commodity because some people
> (or regions) put it before the number and some people after.
>
>
>
> * Scott Carpenter <[email protected]> [2023-06-04 06:00]:
> > I see now that if I use, say:
> > 
> > commodity xyz
> > format 1,000.000 xyz
> > 
> > Putting the commodity last, things behave the same as before with my 
> > output.
> > 
> > On Sunday, June 4, 2023 at 7:23:06 AM UTC-5 Scott Carpenter wrote:
> > 
> > > After updating to 3.3.2, I was getting errors like this with my 
> > > commodities:
> > >
> > > While parsing file <something.ldg>, line 6:
> > > Error: commodity directive symbol abc and format directive symbol 
> should 
> > > be the same
> > >
> > > Note the two spaces between "symbol" and "should". Looks like there is 
> no 
> > > format directive symbol. Commodities look like this:
> > >
> > > commodity $
> > > format $ 1,000.00
> > > default
> > >
> > > commodity abc
> > > format 1,000.000000
> > >
> > > commodity xyz
> > > format 1,000.000
> > >
> > > And many more entries. I've been using these for many years. Every 
> format 
> > > line after the first one produced an error like the above when I ran 
> the 
> > > file through ledger.
> > >
> > > Adding the commodity to the format line makes the error go away:
> > >
> > > commodity abc
> > > format abc 1,000.000000
> > >
> > > Was I doing it wrong all this time and just getting away with it?
> > >
> > > Figured I'd share as an FYI that something changed with this, and to 
> help 
> > > others that might run into the same error.
> > >
> > > Thank you!
> > >
> > 
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