For example, if you had 100 AU (onces of gold) and wanted to report it
in dollars, but at a price of $997 per ounce, you could now easily say:
ledger bal -X '$,AU=$997'
This means that final balance valuations (with -V or -X) will be done in
terms of the date given to --end, rather than based on the current day.
Fixes 647D5DB9-DBBB-47C8-80CE-F3F70E3B0253
This is necessary in order to redden negative amounts correctly under
all circumstances, such as component amounts of a multi-commodity
balance.
Fixes 727B2DF8-A2A1-4716-9C15-547F20D5F933
Although %(amount) inserts an item's amount, it only does exactly that.
There is no special consideration like stripping of lot details, or
reduction to the base commodity, etc. For those things, and to make
sure it was display in red if negative, the canonical form would be:
%(ansify_if(justify(scrub(amount), 12, -1, true), red if amount < 0))
You can now use the special %{} form as an alternate to this:
%12{amount, red if amount < 0}
The two expand to the same underlying expression.
This way, if the running total is off by a penny or two due to rounding
of one or more commodities in the account, the user will see it.
This commit also reorganizes the testing code a bit, which I did after
adding the ninth test series (ConfirmTests), to validate the new
rounding code.
These strings are now collected automagically in the file po/ledger.pot.
If you'd like to produce a translation, just run this command after
building Ledger:
msginit -l LOCALE -o LANG.po -i po/ledger.pot
Where LOCALE is a string like de or en_GB, and LANG is a short
descriptive word for your language.
Then send me this .po file so I can commit it to the Ledger sources
(alternatively, you could maintain the file in a fork on GitHub), and
setup the build script to format and install your new message catalog
during a "make install".
