I'm in a similar boat. I've been using ledger for over a year now, but long
for a good data visualization tool to work with ledger. I tried a solution
mentioned in http://plaintextaccounting.org/, but it doesn't seem to work.
Your scripts seem like a step in the right direction. Would be great if
On Sat, Jan 14, 2017, at 06:26 PM, APL wrote:
> I'd like to use Ledger to track the finances of a two-person
> household, recording transactions to both aggregate household accounts
> and individual ownership stakes.
>
> Two questions:
> * Is there a preferred way to do this?
> * Supposing I
> "A" == APL writes:
A> Is it possible to embed Python code in a Ledger file and use it to add
A> virtual postings to existing transactions based on tag values?
Yes, that should be possible.
The "python" directive lets you inject arbitrary Python code, such as a
I do something like this to run my sinking funds and have documented it
here:
https://www.petekeen.net/program-your-finances-envelope-budgeting
Basically you can use automated transactions to get close to what you want,
although I'm not sure how you use the value of a tag like that to cook an
I'd like to use Ledger to track the finances of a two-person household,
recording transactions to both aggregate household accounts and individual
ownership stakes.
Two questions:
- Is there a preferred way to do this?
- Supposing I do this using tags to identify "shadow accounts," how
I just wrote a lengthy post about using shadow accounts in Ledger, but it
seems to have disappeared. Instead of re-composing it, let me ask a simple
question:
Is it possible to embed Python code in a Ledger file and use it to add
virtual postings to existing transactions based on tag values?
Thanks for posting. These look great!
On Monday, January 2, 2017 at 12:38:48 PM UTC-6, Shaodong Di wrote:
>
> Hi, I've been using Ledger for a year now. I made 6 script with Gnuplot
> based on Ledger's default report script. They plot good graphs, detailed
> can be found on my blog post:
>