[Orgmode] Re: Org-Babel and Ledger

[Eric Abrahamsen]

On Thu, Jul 29 2010, Sébastien Vauban wrote:


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>
> As you can see, the tables are completely wrongly made, because they're based
> on spaces ("à la Awk") and not on fixed position of fields ("à la Cut").
>
> What can I do about this?
>
> - Post-process every ledger command with some awk or cut command that will do
>   whatever is needed
>
> - Exploit the CSV export format (never tried, don't have Ledger 3 installed
>   yet -- and I'm also using hledger...)
>
> - Other ideas?

 Couldn't you use ledger's format strings for fine-tuned control of
 the command output? I don't know how you're snarfing the output, but it
 seems like you could using formatting to produce something that already
 looks very much like an org table, or perhaps CSV.

Eric

>
> Do you have suggestions about the best way to go?
>
> Best regards,
>   Seb