Re: consolidate docs?

2012-03-09 Thread Doug Philips
On 2012 Mar 3, at 12:02 PM, Simon Michael wrote: On 3/1/12 9:29 PM, Doug Philips wrote: The manuals are a bit sparse (at least the ones linked from ledger-cli.org http://ledger-cli.org/), but the idea is to Aha, my cue! I set up ledger-cli.org so there was one easy place to find all ledger

New feature: virtual costs

2012-03-09 Thread John Wiegley
You can now surround the @ or @@ in a posting with parens to prevent it from being added as a historical price. This means that ask for a -V report will value that posting according to whatever conversion price was seen prior to it. This is useful if you have an exception transaction -- like,

Re: New feature: virtual costs

2012-03-09 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* John Wiegley jwieg...@gmail.com [2012-03-09 07:41]: You can now surround the @ or @@ in a posting with parens to prevent it from being added as a historical price. That's a great feature! -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/

Re: Simplified Python importing

2012-03-09 Thread Simon Michael
On 3/8/12 3:56 PM, David Whitmarsh wrote: On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 11:37, Simon Michaelsi...@joyful.com wrote: It's this word probably I don't like. For years we have been hearing people in #ledger trying to do this or that thing recommended by the docs which turn out to require a different

docs status (Re: consolidate docs?)

2012-03-09 Thread Simon Michael
On 3/9/12 4:56 AM, Doug Philips wrote: I'm sorry to say that I've been unable to follow all the responses to this as closely as I would have liked, and perhaps I missed some, was there any decision taken re: the various branch suggestions, etc? Thanks Doug. Current status is good: - we have

No rounding applied to transactions?

2012-03-09 Thread Robert Lehmann
When creating transaction posts through automatic transactions, no rounding is applied and the full-precision number seems to be applied to that account. Let me illustrate: = /Expenses:Bug Fixes/ Liabilites:Refactoring 0.01 2012/03/09 Automatically Incurring 0.044 Refactoring Expenses:Bug

Re: Simplified Python importing

2012-03-09 Thread Paul Lathrop
From my perspective as a noob to the community, you are nothing but a positive influence. The h/ledger split is the most amicable I've seen. Keep it up! On Mar 9, 2012 8:22 AM, Simon Michael si...@joyful.com wrote: On 3/8/12 3:56 PM, David Whitmarsh wrote: On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 11:37, Simon

Re: ledger v3 slower than ledger v2

2012-03-09 Thread thierry
My specs are now: - CPU is AMD Athlon(tm) Dual Core Processor 4850e, 2500MHz, 64 bits (unchanged) - RAM is 5474MiB (upgraded +4GB, anyway today ledger+OS did not pass the 1.8GB RAM usage) - OS is Ubuntu 11.10 (upgraded from 9.10) In Aug 2010, my ledger file was 24920 non empty lines (I do not

Improved the behavior of -X

2012-03-09 Thread John Wiegley
Up until now, -X support two forms: -X '$'Value everything in dollars, else don't try -X '$,EUR'Value everything in dollars, else Euros This behavior has now been refined. If you say -X '$,EUR', Ledger will no longer revalue EUR amounts into $. If something is

Re: New reporting option: --historical

2012-03-09 Thread John Wiegley
thierry thierry.daucourt-ganu6spq...@public.gmane.org writes: My understanding is that --historical will override the register report way of working described below, by always using the today's value (instead of value of last posting). Is this correct? It will use whatever value was current

Re: Simplified Python importing

2012-03-09 Thread John Wiegley
Simon Michael simon-jbxitmbj2llqt0dzr+a...@public.gmane.org writes: Just a little honest feedback, of a kind I never see here, offered in case it might be useful to improve ledger, which I care about, contribute to, and want to thrive. I hoped John knows me well enough to not take offense,

Re: No rounding applied to transactions?

2012-03-09 Thread John Wiegley
Robert Lehmann lehmannro-re5jqeeqqe8avxtiumw...@public.gmane.org writes: The automatic transaction (1%) should generate a post of $0.04 and one of $0.03 (which it does!). Then, when adding those posts for balance/ registers, it instead seems to sum up $0.044 and $0.033 (which is $0.077 and

Re: docs status (Re: consolidate docs?)

2012-03-09 Thread John Wiegley
Simon Michael simon-jbxitmbj2llqt0dzr+a...@public.gmane.org writes: Moving it, perhaps preserving history, requires a bit of git-fu. That type of moving I've done many times. If you're amenable, I already know the git-fu. It will basically be just like having two repos in a single

Re: docs status (Re: consolidate docs?)

2012-03-09 Thread Simon Michael
On 3/9/12 7:16 PM, John Wiegley wrote: That type of moving I've done many times. If you're amenable, I already know the git-fu. It will basically be just like having two repos in a single repository: they will just be differentiated by branch name rather than by clone URL. If you feel it's

Re: No rounding applied to transactions?

2012-03-09 Thread Robert Lehmann
On Mar 10, 5:15 am, John Wiegley jwieg...@gmail.com wrote: Robert Lehmann lehmannro-re5jqeeqqe8avxtiumw...@public.gmane.org writes: The automatic transaction (1%) should generate a post of $0.04 and one of $0.03 (which it does!).  Then, when adding those posts for balance/ registers, it

Understanding transactions

2012-03-09 Thread John Wiegley
The following mini-doc attempts to cover every syntactic corner of the Ledger transaction syntax. If I've missed anything, please let me know. Note that this is a subset of all the syntax allowed in a journal file. I haven't covered directives here or file-level comments. John # Basic format