On Sat, 4 Jul 2020 at 17:00, Martin Blais <bl...@furius.ca> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 10:54 AM James Cook <jc...@cs.berkeley.edu> wrote: >> >> On Sat, 4 Jul 2020 at 06:34, Martin Blais <bl...@furius.ca> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > Today I'm starting development on Beancount v3. >> > >> > This is going to be a pretty big change and will take a while. >> > I've laid down the details in this document: >> > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qPdNXaz5zuDQ8M9uoZFyyFis7hA0G55BEfhWhrVBsfc/ >> >> I have a question about the currency accounts section. >> >> For this example: >> >> 2020-06-02 * "Bought document camera" >> Expenses:Work:Conference 59.98 EUR @ USD >> Liabilities:CreditCard -87.54 USD >> Equity:CurrencyAccounts:EUR -59.98 EUR >> Equity:CurrencyAccounts:USD 97.54 USD >> >> is the idea that I just enter the first three lines in my .beancount >> file, and the last two postings will be implicitly added? > > > Yes. > > >> >> If so, that >> matches closely with what I already do, which is great. >> >> I do not separate my trading accounts by currency, so I have been able >> to get away with just writing something like this: >> >> 2020-06-02 * "Bought document camera" >> Expenses:Work:Conference 59.98 EUR >> Liabilities:CreditCard -87.54 USD >> Equity:Trade >> >> and let Beancount fill in the Equity:Trade amounts. This is not too >> painful to do manually. > > > There's a downside to the method you're using: there's no price and mistakes > will go unchecked. > It would be more robust to use @, let Beancount do its thing, and to write a > plugin to strip the price and insert the postings.
Yes, plugin support would be good. I think a simple plugin that sees Expenses:Work:Conference 60.00 EUR @ 2 USD and transforms that into Expenses:Work:Conference 60.00 EUR Equity:Trade -60.00 EUR Equity:Trade 120.00 USD would match my use case pretty well. I'm not sure if that's exactly what the existing trading accounts plugin you linked to does. If it's not, it's simple enough I might just write it. James -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beancount+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAHpmPOA8%3D_R%3DZQubFZLotdTPHWhwCEe_CD75REvWC%3Dv%2BHx1KDg%40mail.gmail.com.
