Preserve comments when exporting to ledger

[blais]

Original report by Alen Šiljak (Bitbucket: Alen Siljak, GitHub: MisterY).

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bean-report ledger seems a good option to export/convert to ledger format directly. It would be useful to keep as much information as possible.

Since account directives store less information than in ledger format, it would be useful to preserve comments.

I.e. The account description, number, contact details, URLs, and other metadata may be stored in comments next to the account.

[tbm]

Can you move this ticket to https://github.com/beancount/beancount2ledger

There should be a link "Transfer issue" in the lower right corner (there's an arrow to the right).

[tbm]

@mistery unfortunately I don't think that's possible because the beancount data structures don't actually contain the comments.

So instead of using beancount to parse the file, we'd have to write our own parser.

@blais will v3 store comments somehow in its data structure?

[blais]

I don't think so.
Comments are comments and stripped by the parser.
You can move the notes to metadata.

I'll think about if more generally we might want a comment syntax that converts to a field on transactions and postings.