Setting default currency for a Ledger file
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Aggelos Orfanakos
Dec 8, 2010, 5:10:18 PM12/8/10
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Hello.
Is there a way to set a default currency for transactions? So, instead
of typing €100, €23, etc in each transaction, you'd simply write 100,
23 etc and when something is not €, you'd explicitly write its symbol.
Thanks in advance.
Is there a way to set a default currency for transactions? So, instead
of typing €100, €23, etc in each transaction, you'd simply write 100,
23 etc and when something is not €, you'd explicitly write its symbol.
Thanks in advance.
John Wiegley
Dec 10, 2010, 3:02:12 PM12/10/10
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There is no way to do this, since "commodityless" figures have their own
meaning to Ledger.
John
Simon Michael
Dec 10, 2010, 6:03:13 PM12/10/10
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hledger allows it:
http://hledger.org/MANUAL.html#default-commodity
I guess ledger 2.x did ?
John Wiegley
Dec 10, 2010, 6:15:10 PM12/10/10
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Nope, uncommoditized amounts have always been special. There has never.
been any "implied" commodity. The "D" directive is used to setup default
display characteristics, not a default commodity.
John
Simon Michael
Dec 10, 2010, 6:31:55 PM12/10/10
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Interesting! I thought otherwise from "Specifies the default commodity to use, by specifying an amount in the expected
format. The entry command will use this commodity as the default when none other can be determined." in the 2.x manual.
Still, I'm happy with how I'm doing it.
format. The entry command will use this commodity as the default when none other can be determined." in the 2.x manual.
Still, I'm happy with how I'm doing it.
John Wiegley
Dec 10, 2010, 6:35:40 PM12/10/10
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On Dec 10, 2010, at 6:31 PM, Simon Michael wrote:
> Interesting! I thought otherwise from "Specifies the default commodity to use, by specifying an amount in the expected format. The entry command will use this commodity as the default when none other can be determined." in the 2.x manual. Still, I'm happy with how I'm doing it.
Ah, for the "entry" command, yes, it does do that. I'd forgotten. But never
for a Ledger data file.
John
Aggelos Orfanakos
Dec 14, 2010, 3:14:24 AM12/14/10
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OK, thanks for the reply!
John Wiegley
Jan 12, 2013, 2:22:52 PM1/12/13
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>>>>> Pavneet Arora <pavnee...@gmail.com> writes:
> John, even though you have mentioned that currency-less numbers in the
> ledger do not take on the default currency, is it possible to have generic
> commodities to be formatted with commas, and 2 decimals on the register
> report?
At present there is no support for this. Pure numbers are a special case
throughout the Ledger source code, and in fact are used in some places just
for this effect, so it wouldn't be such a simple matter to enable commodity
style formatting for them. At least not just yet.
John
> John, even though you have mentioned that currency-less numbers in the
> ledger do not take on the default currency, is it possible to have generic
> commodities to be formatted with commas, and 2 decimals on the register
> report?
At present there is no support for this. Pure numbers are a special case
throughout the Ledger source code, and in fact are used in some places just
for this effect, so it wouldn't be such a simple matter to enable commodity
style formatting for them. At least not just yet.
John
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