Thanks for your feedback Martin. On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 01:33:34AM -0400, Martin Blais wrote: > Yes, that should be the goal, though I have in mind a perhaps more > restricted version where, like today, the options have to be set in the > top-level file; the only difference is that it'll barf when you try to set > options in included files (which it always should have, this is essentially > a bug fix).
But why? What's the added value of restricting options to only be in the master file? I'm having other family members read the textual version of our books and they can make sense of the double-accounting part, but the beancount-specific options don't make sense for them, so I'd really like to hide them away with a simple oneliner include at the beginning of the books. FWIW I do something similar with other textual document system (e.g., LaTeX), and I find that hiding low-level details in a single "you shouldn't care about this stuff" file has a lot of value. > > The main feature I lack to have feature parity with Ledger-CLI is > > the ability to add tags to individual transaction legs. I'm assuming > > this will go hand-in-hand with relaxing the distinction between > > metadata/ tags/ links (by making them syntactic sugar for metadata, > > I'm guessing), which is great, thanks! > > You mean you'd like to have the ability to add #.... at the end of a > posting line? That should be easy to add, but I'd have to change the > schema. Can you motivate it? When / how / why do you need to tag > individual postings whereby tagging the transaction isn't enough? > That would be added in v2. (This is https://github.com/beancount/beancount/issues/144 and we should probably have the discussion there, but just in case: ) A classic example for me is: 2020-07-08 * "foobar bookshop" "books + card game" Expenses:Books 32.90 EUR ; book A, B, and C Expenses:Games 15.00 EUR ; card game for kid #hulk Assets:Checking -47.90 EUR where I want to tag one of the lag has pertaining to my kid (no, he is not actually called Hulk), but not the rest of the transaction. (Yes, I can refactor this using two transactions, but it's annoying.) Cheers -- Stefano Zacchiroli . z...@upsilon.cc . upsilon.cc/zack . . o . . . o . o Computer Science Professor . CTO Software Heritage . . . . . o . . . o o Former Debian Project Leader & OSI Board Director . . . o o o . . . o . « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club » -- 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/20200714125021.ttl7dnzl4jdho2ao%40upsilon.cc.
