This Week In Hledger 2024-02-23

[Simon Michael]

This Week In Hledger 2024-02-23

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Miscellaneous updates:

• use a symbolic link's target's directory for relative include paths
  
• interpret glob patterns in $LEDGER_FILE
  
• implicitly declare the date/date2/type tags
  
• add close --assertion-type option
  
• tweak close --assert's default description
  
• stack:9.8: can now build all packages
  
• doc: add Text encoding section
  
• doc: clarify description/payee/note
  
• doc: improve the tags doc
  
• doc: clarify combining csv matchers
  
• plaintextaccounting.org: Choosing accounts tips
  

Robert Nielsen

Inspired by a recent podcast, I look at the theme of getting the most good from limited resources. Oh, and I don't forget to mention hledger. 🙂

https://hledgerfan.com/creating-a-positive-impact

Misc

Jonathan Dowland added a dark theme to hledger-ui.

Mail list

• Forex Accounts Receivable, timing difference between invoice and payment
  
• Balancing "equity:conversion" split across postings.
  

Reddit

• How do you all handle grouping your transactions? (business)
  
• hledger: csv rule to match amount higher or equal to 200
  
• hledger periodic transaction every month except two
  
• Mass edit journal entries based on a filter
  

Mastodon

Fund accounting, PTA sign convention, unspaced account names, reddit monetisation..

Matrix chat

Tools for investment tracking, description/payee/note semantics, tag checking,

arithmetic amount expressions, Money Manager EX, CSV conversion situations,

categorising tools, utf-8 encoding, timedot budgets, tax preparation, if tables,

payee cleanup..

Quotes

• Thank you for writing hledger (and -ui and -web), it's wonderful work. --Michael Iles
  

• Use physical order to create mental order.
  

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