Re: Virtual postings, and money transfers

2013-03-03 Thread Jeffrey Brent McBeth
On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 02:24:25PM -0600, John Wiegley wrote: > > mcbeth writes: > > > The best I've come up with so far is to transfer the money from Savings:Toys > > back into checking, then from Checking to Assets:Saving and from > > Assets:Saving to Savings:Toys again... Seems cumbersom

Re: Virtual postings, and money transfers

2013-03-04 Thread Jeffrey Brent McBeth
On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 06:47:47PM -0500, Sam Stuck wrote: > In the second transaction, you pull a *different* 100 to be > transferred. You move 100 into Savings:Toys, then move another 100 > into Assets:Checking. The amount must be in either Savings:Toys or > Assets:Savings, but cannot be in both.

Re: Virtual postings, and money transfers

2013-03-04 Thread Jeffrey Brent McBeth
Err, the second equity should read -200. That'll teach me to try to imitate Ledger's output by hand :) On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 07:08:56PM -0500, Jeffrey Brent McBeth wrote: > On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 06:47:47PM -0500, Sam Stuck wrote: > > In the second transaction, you pull a

Re: Some sort of --amount-format option?

2013-08-23 Thread Jeffrey Brent McBeth
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 09:53:26PM -0700, Charles Merriam wrote: >It's a nice idea.  I have no four digit amounts; this gives no output. >    ledger -w -f 2013.led register | grep "\.\d\d[1-9]"  >My guess is ledger is doing floats instead of paired fixed precision, so >some amount d

Re: Some sort of --amount-format option?

2013-08-23 Thread Jeffrey Brent McBeth
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 04:08:17PM -0700, Charles Merriam wrote: >Er, ok. >I now have an answer saying "ledger uses floats; you are hosed." and >"ledger does not use floats; you are hosed". >Is there a way to use the -d option to fix this? >Charles That is my fault. My first s

value expressions and automatic transactions

2014-05-10 Thread Jeffrey Brent McBeth
I'm struggling to get my head around how to write value expressions with respect to automatic transactions #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE = /^Liabilities:CrushingDebt/ and (d > [2014/04/15]) Assets:Checking 0.5 Assets:RichUncle -0.5 2014/04/01 * Foo Liabilities:CrushingDebt $100 Assets:Checking 2014

Re: value expressions and automatic transactions

2014-05-11 Thread Jeffrey Brent McBeth
On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 05:37:14PM +, John Wiegley wrote: > >>>>> Jeffrey Brent McBeth writes: > > > I'm struggling to get my head around how to write value expressions with > > respect to automatic transactions > > > > /^Liabili

Re: value expressions and automatic transactions

2014-05-12 Thread Jeffrey Brent McBeth
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 06:11:33AM +, John Wiegley wrote: > >>>>> Jeffrey Brent McBeth writes: > > > I swear I'm smarter than this > > #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE > > account =~ /^Liabilities:CrushingDebt/ and date > [2014/04/15] > > Assets:Check

Re: Ledger does not work with boost=1.56.0-1/boost-libs=1.56.0

2014-09-10 Thread Jeffrey Brent McBeth
On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 09:17:12PM +0200, Thorsten Jolitz wrote: > Johann Klähn writes: > > Hi Craig, Hi Johann, > > > I just built the master branch on arch linux using boost 1.56. > > > > On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 7:37 PM, Thorsten Jolitz > > wrote: > > > > acprep: DEBUG: configure does no

ledger print

2014-12-07 Thread Jeffrey Brent McBeth
I am having problems with queries of ledger when I pass in my ledger file (approximately 10k lines) If I make the same query of the file that results from a "ledger -f origFile.ledger print > foo.ledger" Then, the problem goes away (the resulting file is 13k-ish lines) This is causing me no end

Re: Tracking owed taxes

2015-07-23 Thread Jeffrey Brent McBeth
On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 12:45:28PM -0700, Leonardo Melo wrote: >Not sure it will help in any effective way. But I do the same with my >accounts and use my internet banking to match my postings. What I do for >that scenario is to transfer the owed money to one of my saving accounts >

Re: Date Issue - Might consider to discontinue ledger if this is major

2015-08-06 Thread Jeffrey Brent McBeth
On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 09:56:27AM -0700, Kev Lau wrote: >Hi, > >I reside in Asia and here we follow the date with the following format:- >DD/MM/ >I understand that Ledger was designed to read dates and post dates as >MM/DD/ . As an engineer, I've always preferred

Re: Re-naming accounts..

2016-01-04 Thread Jeffrey Brent McBeth
On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 02:04:38PM -0800, John Wiegley wrote: > > Douglas Philips writes: > > > What I have been doing as an experiment is to add in something additional: > > > 2016/01/01 Fix the thing > > Expenses:Thing $20.00 > > Liabilities:Credit Card:Pursuit