Suggested documentation update

[Suyash Agrawal]

Hi,

I recently stumbled upon beancount and I'm loving it!

I accidentally discovered that beancount supports arithmetic expressions in postings (e.g. Assets:AccountsReceivable:Other 140.00/5 USD), but this is not mentioned anywhere in the docs (specifically the language syntax doc: link).

It'd be great if we could update the docs as it's quite a nifty feature that many users might miss.

On a separate note, I wasn't able to find any option to comment directly on the linked google doc. Is commenting disabled?

Thanks,

Suyash

[Martin Blais]

Yes, re. arithmetic it should be documented.

Commenting is disabled because I was getting too many fatfinger edits. If you want to edit, send a request through Docs 

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[Suyash Agrawal]

Hi Martin,

Thanks for creating such an awesome software!

As for updating the documentation, I'm not sure on the scope and limitations of the arithmetic parser, so I don't think I'd be able to write any comprehensive documentation regarding that.

Should we just mention that arithmetic operation is possible with an example?

[Martin Blais]

Sure!

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[Suyash Agrawal]

Hi Martin,

I added a paragraph as suggestion in the google doc.

Please review it when you find time and suggest any changes if necessary.