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| author | Hieu Van <hieu.van@posteo.net> | 2020-07-17 09:37:29 +0700 |
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| committer | Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> | 2020-07-21 11:34:03 +0800 |
| commit | 315d428f6a3b1965b10d2477cccc71f85548490c (patch) | |
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| parent | 0db50b5e31c85437ece1f70d52f8c3420ce35979 (diff) | |
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docs: improve the example of displaying amount in another commodity
The current one doesn't work; also Ledger has got a much neater
command-line option to achieve the goal.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/ledger3.texi | 11 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/doc/ledger3.texi b/doc/ledger3.texi index aafb079f..0e05ae6f 100644 --- a/doc/ledger3.texi +++ b/doc/ledger3.texi @@ -1102,18 +1102,13 @@ wanted to know how many ounces of gold that would buy, in terms of the current price of gold: @smallexample -$ ledger -T "@{1 AU@}*(O/P@{1 AU@})" balance checking +$ ledger -X AU balance checking @end smallexample -Although the total expression appears complex, it is simply saying -that the reported total should be in multiples of AU units, where the -quantity is the account total divided by the price of one AU. Without -the initial multiplication, the reported total would still use the -dollars commodity, since multiplying or dividing amounts always keeps -the left value's commodity. The result of this command might be: +The result of this command might be: @smallexample -14.01 AU Assets:Checking +12.50 AU Assets:Checking @end smallexample @menu |