Alternative balance/price syntax

yegle

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Apr 19, 2016, 10:19:36 PM4/19/16

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Can beancount support alternative balance/price syntax like this?

2016-04-01 balance

Account:One 10.00 USD

Account:Two 20.00 USD

2016-04-01 price

TickOne 1.23 USD

TickTwo 4.56 USD

The reason is that I usually have monthly statement for banking account and quarterly statement for investment account, which means I have multiple balance/price entries on the first day of month and quarter. If this alternative syntax can be supported it could make the file cleaner.

A side effect of supporting this syntax is that when bean-format lining up the decimal point, the max line width can be reduced.

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Martin Blais

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Apr 19, 2016, 10:22:15 PM4/19/16

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Just to be clear, the point is just to make input more compact, right?

yegle

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Apr 19, 2016, 10:37:57 PM4/19/16

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Yes. I'm fine if internally one of such directive would be treated as multiple ones.

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