On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 2:38 PM, John Wiegley <[email protected]> wrote: > On Apr 11, 2010, at 5:29 PM, David Glasser wrote: > >> Hmm, well, other than the fact that I can't use metadata since I don't >> know how to get a 3.0 build on Mac 10.5 :) I think that would work >> for the simplest bit of this (if I used a BudgetUtil201004 tag and >> tagged postings with it) but that wouldn't work for things like "this >> bill needs to be split across two months" or really any of the "split" >> things. The advantage of the thing I described is that I could use >> the ^^ macros for simple cases, but if I need to do something more >> complicated I can still just write numbers... using tags instead of a >> virtual account wouldn't give me that escape hatch, would it? > > I think then you best bet is to write a pre-processor to achieve the custom > functionality you need. The ^^ syntax you proposed is a bit too specialized. > But a pre-processor could do just what you want, and you could decide the > course of its development.
Yeah, that sounds reasonable enough. --dave PS: I've been using ledger for all of three days and I can already ask it the sort of question's about my organization's budget that I had no way of doing in Moneydance. (And converting from MD's TSV export was pretty easy.) Thanks for making this software; it's great! -- [email protected] | langtonlabs.org | flickr.com/photos/glasser/
