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@ -832,17 +832,18 @@ You can use this to export your hledger data to [Beancount], eg to use the [Fava
hledger will try to adjust your data to suit Beancount, automatically.
Be cautious and check the conversion until you are confident it is good.
If you plan to export to Beancount often, you may want to follow its [conventions], to make conversion easier:
- Beancount-friendly account names
- currency codes instead of currency symbols
- costs instead of conversion postings
- no virtual postings, etc.
If you plan to export to Beancount often, you may want to follow its [conventions], for a cleaner conversion:
- use Beancount-friendly account names
- use currency codes instead of currency symbols
- use cost notation instead of equity conversion postings
- avoid virtual postings
[conventions]: https://plaintextaccounting.org/#other-features
Note there is one big adjustment you must handle yourself:
when exporting data for Beancount, your top level account names must be `Assets`, `Liabilities`, `Equity`, `Income`, and/or `Expenses`.
If needed you can use [account aliases](#alias-directive) to rewrite your account names temporarily.
There is one big adjustment you must handle yourself:
for Beancount, the top level account names must be `Assets`, `Liabilities`, `Equity`, `Income`, and/or `Expenses`.
You can use [account aliases](#alias-directive) to rewrite your account names temporarily, if needed,
as in this [hledger2beancount.conf](https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/blob/master/examples/hledger2beancount.conf) config file.
<!-- (see also "hledger and Beancount" <https://hledger.org/beancount.html>). -->