Re: Gnucash "close books" functionality, remove transactions when import to beancount?

2016-12-25 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 05:24:14AM +0800, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > Regarding performance, perhaps there can be a convention regarding > splitting input files by year. A note of warning: last time I checked, file inclusion in Beancount was not (yet) completely transparent. There is stuff you can move to

Re: Gnucash "close books" functionality, remove transactions when import to beancount?

2016-12-25 Thread Martin Blais
Just put all the plugins and options in the top-level file. On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 3:27 AM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 05:24:14AM +0800, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: > > Regarding performance, perhaps there can be a convention regarding > > splitting input files by year. > > A not

Re: Gnucash "close books" functionality, remove transactions when import to beancount?

2016-12-25 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 12:45:27PM -0500, Martin Blais wrote: > Just put all the plugins and options in the top-level file. My point is precisely that that doesn't work. More precisely: it will have the effect of making the plugins effective when you process the top-level file, but ineffective wh

Re: Gnucash "close books" functionality, remove transactions when import to beancount?

2016-12-25 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
As of now that's not (yet) a huge concern for me starting from ground zero, but I can see how that would be (maybe?) an issue going forward. Another option would be to declare the plugins at the top of each file (there won't be a ton of files this way) in that situation? My other concern with mult

Re: Gnucash "close books" functionality, remove transactions when import to beancount?

2016-12-25 Thread Martin Blais
If the close directive is absent, it just means that the account isn't closed. Presumably if you don't include the 2016 file your intent is not to consider history from those times. Frankly... just put everything in one file. Let the reporting do the work. That's how it's designed to be used. Some

Re: Gnucash "close books" functionality, remove transactions when import to beancount?

2016-12-25 Thread Martin Blais
Tell me, how would you expect / like that the options and plugins directives be interpreted over multiple files? What seems to be a good behavior in your view? On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 1:25 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 12:45:27PM -0500, Martin Blais wrote: > > Just put

How Inventories Work

2016-12-25 Thread Martin Blais
I've finally completed the "How Inventories Work" document and opened it up for public access. Here: http://furius.ca/beancount/doc/booking Or equivalently: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11a9bIoNuxpSOth3fmfuIFzlZtpTJbvw-bPaQCnezQJs/ Enjoy, -- You received this message because you are subs

Re: Gnucash "close books" functionality, remove transactions when import to beancount?

2016-12-25 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 02:35:08PM -0500, Martin Blais wrote: > Tell me, how would you expect / like that the options and plugins > directives be interpreted over multiple files? > What seems to be a good behavior in your view? JFTR: I use a single "big ledger" file, so I don't personally suffer f