ANN: hledger-1.40

[Simon Michael]

I'm pleased to announce hledger 1.40, with a new config file system,

sortable register output, FODS output, and prettier tables.

- https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/releases/1.40

- https://hledger.org/relnotes.html#2024-09-09-hledger-140

- https://hledger.org/install

Best,

-Simon

hledger is free, robust, friendly, multicurrency, double-entry,

plain text accounting software for unix, mac, windows, and the web.

Written in Haskell for reliability and longevity,

it is built around human-readable, version-controllable plain text files,

inspired by and largely compatible with Ledger CLI,

and convertible to and from Beancount.

For more info or help, see https://hledger.org and the support page.

Newcomers, experts, contributors, sponsors, feedback are welcome!

[Henning Thielemann]

On Mon, 9 Sep 2024, Simon Michael wrote:

> I'm pleased to announce hledger 1.40, with a new config file system,
> sortable register output, FODS output, and prettier tables.

I like to add:

* The balance and budget reports can also export to HTML now.

* The FODS format is a merged and uncompressed ODS format, accepted by
LibreOffice Calc. If you use LibreOffice this is better than CSV because
it works across locales (decimal point vs. decimal comma, character
encoding stored in XML header, thus no problems with umlauts), it supports
fixed header rows and columns, cell types (string vs. number vs. date),
separation of number and currency (currency is displayed but the cell type
is still a number accessible for computation), styles (bold), borders.
Btw. you can still extract CSV from FODS/ODS with the ods2csv utility from
Hackage.

[Simon Michael]

Hi Henning, thanks for the updates.

On Tue, Sep 10, 2024, at 01:05, Henning Thielemann wrote:
> * The balance and budget reports can also export to HTML now.

This is in the Improvements section. (Even though it was a lot of work for you, I put it there as it fills out holes in an existing feature).

> * The FODS format is a merged and uncompressed ODS format, accepted by
> LibreOffice Calc. If you use LibreOffice this is better than CSV because
> it works across locales (decimal point vs. decimal comma, character
> encoding stored in XML header, thus no problems with umlauts), it supports
> fixed header rows and columns, cell types (string vs. number vs. date),
> separation of number and currency (currency is displayed but the cell type
> is still a number accessible for computation), styles (bold), borders.
> Btw. you can still extract CSV from FODS/ODS with the ods2csv utility from
> Hackage.

Nice extra details, now added. I condensed it slightly, I hope you won't mind.

Best
-Simon