Simon Michael

Independent software developer & consultant, plain text accounting expert, creator of #hledger, haskeller, technoyogi.
Mastodon: @[email protected]

[Simon Michael @simonkwmichael]

@diprex83 PS I am noting your use case, perhaps there is some option we could add to make it possible.

[Simon Michael @simonkwmichael]

@diprex83 > Define the characters to be used

We can do that in the journal - that's what you are doing with the commodity or decimal-mark directives. But those directives don't appear in print's output (yet, at least) - so the decimal mark is forced there.

[Simon Michael @simonkwmichael]

@diprex83 To be precise: "1,000 JPY" is not printed because it's ambiguous in pipelines like
hledger print ... | hledger -f ....
But it's not in your journal (with commodity/decimal-mark directive).
So after import you could fix it with (eg):
sed -E -e 's/([0-9])\./\1/g' -i $LEDGER_FILE.

[Simon Michael @simonkwmichael]

@diprex83 In short: it won't print amounts with a digit group mark but without a decimal mark. It can print both, neither, or just a decimal mark. (To avoid ambiguity.)

[Simon Michael @simonkwmichael]

@diprex83 example:

commodity 1,000.00 USD
commodity 1,000. JPY

2026-01-01
(a) 1,000.00 USD ; parsed as one thousand
(b) 1,000 JPY ; also parsed as one thousand

[Simon Michael @simonkwmichael]

@diprex83 PS: decimal-mark was probably the wrong suggestion, since it is file-wide not per-commodity. But commodity directives for USD and for JPY should work. Remember to write a decimal mark in both directives.

[Simon Michael @simonkwmichael]

@DanielW_Kiwi @davefuller I was intrigued, found the book and paper linked at https://t.co/j19cGuhrN4 , so gave David Ellerman's paper a re-read (re-skim..)
I think #hledger and similar programs use exactly the model it describes: Single-sided accounts, Signed numbers, Multiple dimensions (commodities).

[Simon Michael @simonkwmichael]

I may not have announced it here: I moved to Mastodon a while back. See https://t.co/3cyGkcqg06 , or follow @[email protected] in any Mastodon client.

[Simon Michael @simonkwmichael]

@kerckhove_ts @MatthewCroughan @locallycompact You might ask, should #hledger auto-generate a small "rounding adjustment" posting in such cases to help keep balances exact ? Possibly a good idea! I think it would annoy some but be very satisfying to others.

[Simon Michael @simonkwmichael]

@kerckhove_ts @MatthewCroughan @locallycompact This is an intentional convenience since people often want to use data from brokerages etc, which is usually inexact and where the small decimals in prices and balances are often irrelevant. So, we get to choose the precision we want enforced.
Related: https://t.co/J7GmCNA9UF

[Simon Michael @simonkwmichael]

@mattoflambda Matrix! And the Haskell discourse.

[Simon Michael @simonkwmichael]

I'm pleased to announce #hledger 1.28! More details at
https://t.co/j8eps1d1sq
Peace and prosperity.
#plaintextaccounting

[Eckhart Tolle @EckhartTolle]

“To stay present in everyday life, it helps to be deeply rooted within yourself; otherwise, the mind, which has incredible momentum, will drag you along like a wild river.” - Eckhart Tolle

[Cory Muscara @corymuscara]

I meditated 15 hours a day for 6 months straight with one of the toughest Buddhist monks on the planet.

Here's what I learned:

[Manchán Magan @ManchanMagan]

Rince vs. Damhsa (Rinkeh vs. Dow-suh)

Damhsa means the dancing of humans, while rince is what the young calf would be doing when it was let out first out of the stables.

From Pap Murphy, Leithinis an Mhuirthead, Co Maigh Eo

Audio edited by @Brine_Byrne

Photo by @lvarian

[Simon Michael @simonkwmichael]

How to set up hoogle in a stack project:

stack hoogle --rebuild # install hoogle, build haddocks & hoogle db, takes a long time
$BROWSER http://localhost:8080 & # safari won't work
stack --verbosity=warn hoogle --server # start web app

#haskell