Account name components start with a capital letter.
On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 3:46 PM Travis Arnold <tlarnold1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello all, > I am new to PTA and Beancount. I am trying to begin entering transactions > and I get errors when I run bean-check and I am not sure why, I get invalid > tokens on the line I list my Expenses:dentist, Expenses:auto:gas etc. > > I added the expense accounts to the list of open accounts and that did not > solve my problem. I am using Emacs bean count mode and I did notice the > Assets and Liabilities are bold however next to the open directive and also > bold under my initial balance transaction. The getting started says have a > section, but does not say to add the expenses with the open directive, I am > just not sure what I am doing wrong. > > Here is the contents of my file: > > ;; -*- mode: beancount; coding: utf-8; fill-column: 400; -*- > option "title" "My Personal Ledger" > option "operating_currency" "USD" > > > 2022-05-06 open Assets:Checking USD > 2022-05-06 open Assets:Savings USD > 2022-05-06 open Liabilities:Chase:Credit-Card USD > 2022-05-06 open Equity:Opening-Balances USD > 2022-05-06 open Expenses:date-night USD > 2022-05-06 open Expenses:medical:dental: USD > 2022-05-06 open Expenses:auto:gas:joseph USD > 2022-05-06 open Expenses:auto:gas:secundus USD > 2022-05-06 open Expenses:true-expenses:home-maintainence USD > > 2022-05-09 * "Initial Balance" > Equity:Opening-Balances USD > Assets:Checking 18,183.68 USD > Liabilities:Chase:Credit-Card -1160.88 USD > > 2022-05-08 ! "Ticketmaster" "concert" > Expenses:date-night 50 USD > Liabilities:Chase:Credit-Card -50 USD > > 2022-05-09 ! "Dentist" "invisalign" > Expenses:medical:dental 862.00 USD > Liabilities:Chase:Credit-Card -862.00 USD > > 2022-05-09 ! "Gas Station" "Secundus" > Expenses:auto:gas:secundus 40.35 USD > Liabilites:Chase:Credit-Card -40.35 USD > > 2022-05-09 note 'Expenses:auto:gas:secundus' tank 548.1 67.1 avg 82 empty > 8.51 gal at 4.73 gal > > 2022-05-09 ! "Gas Station" "Joseph" > Expenses:auto:gas:joseph 41.40 USD > Liabilities:Chase:Credit-Card -41.40 USD > > 2022-05-09 ! "Amazon" "fly killing" > Expenses:true-expenses:home-maintainence 13.02 USD > Liabilities:Chase:Credit-Card -13.02 USD > > Here are the errors I get when I run bean-check, I've since commented my > note out. > > bean-check 1.beancount > > /Users/travisarnold/1.beancount:10: Invalid token: > 'Expenses:date-night' > > > /Users/travisarnold/1.beancount:11: Invalid token: > 'Expenses:medical:dental:' > > > /Users/travisarnold/1.beancount:12: Invalid token: > 'Expenses:auto:gas:joseph' > > > /Users/travisarnold/1.beancount:13: Invalid token: > 'Expenses:auto:gas:secundus' > > > /Users/travisarnold/1.beancount:14: Invalid token: > 'Expenses:true-expenses:home-maintainence' > > > /Users/travisarnold/1.beancount:22: Invalid token: > 'Expenses:date-night' > > > /Users/travisarnold/1.beancount:26: Invalid token: > 'Expenses:medical:dental' > > > /Users/travisarnold/1.beancount:30: Invalid token: > 'Expenses:auto:gas:secundus' > > > /Users/travisarnold/1.beancount:33: Invalid token: > ''Expenses:auto:gas:secundus'' > > > /Users/travisarnold/1.beancount:33: Invalid token: 'tank' > > > /Users/travisarnold/1.beancount:33: Invalid token: 'avg' > > > /Users/travisarnold/1.beancount:33: Invalid token: 'empty' > > > /Users/travisarnold/1.beancount:33: Invalid token: 'gal' > > > /Users/travisarnold/1.beancount:33: Invalid token: 'at' > > > /Users/travisarnold/1.beancount:33: Invalid token: 'gal' > > > /Users/travisarnold/1.beancount:36: Invalid token: > 'Expenses:auto:gas:joseph' > > > /Users/travisarnold/1.beancount:40: Invalid token: > 'Expenses:true-expenses:home-maintainence' > > -- > 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/7a37ead4-76bd-483e-88e8-9f727a048556n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/7a37ead4-76bd-483e-88e8-9f727a048556n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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/CAK21%2BhN%2Bt1OF0RP-amAnqy9_pzZj3bJBR68T3sE1t8FfpS9-VQ%40mail.gmail.com.
