On Fri, Mar 01, 2013 at 01:11:59PM +0000, Eric S Fraga wrote:
> Harum Budi <harumb...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I was not being clear at all, sorry. Let me rephrase, but bear with me as
> > English is my secondary language.
>
> That's fine!
>
> I think I understand what you want. My view would be to avoid having
> two files, an org one and a ledger one, and instead combine them into an
> org file. You could create log capture templates for different kinds of
> activities and one of these could be financial. This latter one could
> create a ledger src block that is automatically tangled to the full
> ledger file consisting of all such entries. This is why I showed the
> ledger src blocks in my previous email.
>
> A financial entry could be
>
> ,----
> | * [2013-03-01 Fri] Bought a sandwich :food:
> | #+begin_src ledger :tangle "finances.ledger"
> | 2013/03/01 Bought a sandwich
> | expenses £3.50
> | cash
> | #+end_src
> `----
>
> or something similar... You could still grep on headings but actually
> tag searching would be better of course.
I'm doing something rather similar with Ledger, and it all works really well
unless I want to export to HTML, in which case I've had to increase the max
lisp eval depth about once a week lately
(setq max-lisp-eval-depth 2400)
I'm assuming I'm doing something wrong there. The datetree is not exported,
but reports are (I have an example of a report below):
#+name: savingscheckingsummary
#+begin_src ledger :cmdline balance esl:check savings -p "until tomorrow" :nowe$
<<budget>>
<<checking>>
<<savings>>
<<anotheraccount>>
<<creditcard>>
#+end_src
I find the noweb tangling to work really well for my purposes, and in
particular subsetting which bits I want exported to Ledger.
I've also included an example capture template
(setq org-capture-templates
(append '(("l" "Ledger entries")
("lc" "Bank:Checking" plain
(file+datetree+prompt "~/Documents/Ledger.org")
"
#+name: checking
#+begin_src ledger
%(org-read-date) * %^{Payee}
Expenses:%^{Account} %^{Amount}
Assets:Bank:Checking
#+end_src
"))))
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