Martin Michlmayr
Martin Michlmayr
Comment author: John Wiegley (@jwiegley) I tried running a cleared report today using the command ``` ledger cleared Assets ``` The report seems bit garbled, there are unexpected line feeds....
Just to add: ### Describe alternatives you've considered I guess the major downside of what I'm proposing is the potential for a slippery slope. We start with simple cleanup scripts...
> Why is this happening in the first place? It's happening because beancount doesn't allow this. I call it an implicit conversion, although I'm not sure that's an official term....
Some of this is documented, btw: https://ledger2beancount.readthedocs.io/guide/#implicit-conversions
> The smarttags will be removed in future Perl versions (5.42) so this should be refactored. Thanks, I'll look into that
This is something implemented by @zacchiro. @zacchiro do you remember why you did it this way? IIRC, `name` has some meaning in beancount whereas `note` does not? I looked at...
But yeah, at the very least, the l2b docs should explain why we change `note` to `name`. The docs say we do this but not why.
> In particular, when I have multiple note rows/entries Can you show an example? Is that even legal in ledger? I suspect they just override each other and the last...
@zacchiro can you comment on this? Do you remember why you added this special casing?
It's because it's a quoted commodity which has to be quoted, i.e. "EXV6_DE". However, ledger isn't very consistent about this. It seems the quotes are not needed in price declarations:...