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  • plaintextaccounting

    The plaintextaccounting.org website, a portal to Ledger, hledger, beancount and co. Also the PTA wiki.

    • Same: see also https://plaintextaccounting.org/

    ...the gist is "ledger.exe" (crufty-old-C-program) is the "perl" of plain-text-accounting. The implementation _is_ the specification.

    "HLedger" (haskell) is the mostly-compatible ("now you have 15 standards!") which cleans up a bit of the crufty accidents and is considered more "pure" and "correct".

    Mess with it for funsies, and consider using `hledger-ui` for browsing. It's really really powerful!

    Specifically this part is super cool: https://ledger-cli.org/doc/ledger3.html#Commodities-and-Curr...

    ...and: https://ledger-cli.org/doc/ledger3.html#Currency-and-Commodi...

    Implied exchange rates, arbitrary commodities/inventory. It gets into really heady territory pretty quick.

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