Thanks for pointing me in the direction of the commands and document
resources I can use to debug my file. I'll re-read your trading
documentation, as well as the docs on beancount's many tools. I had no idea
the book_conversions plugin is ancient.
Regarding my Bitcoin use, my primary use is
BTW, Ledger won't solve the problem either. There's simply no booking
against inventory state in Ledger.
The only reason "it works" in your Ledger example is that it simply sums up
all the lots, and you can aggregate units or cost at reporting time. You
can do exactly the same thing in Beancount,
Hello,
So, since I got the plugin for dealing with lots and capital gains running,
I'm attempting to import my balanced ledger journal files into beancount so
I can have the plugin deal with reducing my lots rather than doing it
manually. But I've a significant number of transactions that
Duh! I found it in the documentation,
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QftxNvQPdH-MikMBHupftU6F4IsNZP5FlFh1LCbVgk8/edit:
a plugin is added to the input file via the optional syntax.
In my case, that was simply adding this line:
plugin "beancount.plugins.book_conversions"