This Week In Hledger 2023-10-13

[Simon Michael]

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This Week In Hledger 2023-10-13

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Merged

• feat: balance: Add only-summary flag (#1012) #2086 (Stephen Morgan)
• feat: CSV rule negation #2088 (bobobo1618)
• imp: web: include account declaration info in accounts JSON #2097 (S. Zeid)

WIP

• more control of display precision with print
• more consistent precision handling in general
• displaying zeros with consistent commodity symbol, precision etc. when possible
• bug wrangling

Docs

• How to record journal entries
• hledgermatic , a simple up-to-date workflow
• Cleanups: Common workflows, Simon's old setup

danielchappell

What I like about the data format

• Double Entry accounting in human readable files, the journal files.
• Balance assignments (to check in on my cash-wallet occasionally)
• Virtual transactions (to track funds)

What I like about HLedger specifically

• static analysis cf. https://hledger.org/hledgermatic.html

What I need to do my homework on

• The limitations of balance assertions in HLedger
• study haskell

What makes me cry about HLedger

• A lack of amount expressions - github issue #183, https://hledger.org/ledger.html?highlight=expression#amount-expressions