Keeping price conversion syntax when using bean-report

[papageno]

Price conversion syntax will be formatted as rate of conversion despite that the total cost syntax is used in the original posting.

For example, 691.00 JPY @@ 5.00 USD will become 691.00 JPY @ 0.007235890014471780028943560058 USD.

The command I originally used was bean-report [-f beancount] [-o OUTPUT] FILENAME.beancount {print}. I always use this command to 'prettify' my ledger file, i.e., to automatically add commas to amounts, or to re-order postings by their dates...

Is there a workaround to keep the original price conversion syntax used in the posting when using bean-report?

Thank you.

[dnicolodi]

This is not possible. The cost is stored as a price during parsing of the ledger. This is a known limitation of the current parser and it is been worked on.

The work-around I use is to replace the beancount ledger serializer with one that uses some heuristic to determine whether a price annotation or a cost annotation is more appropriate for a given posting. I have an implementation of this but I realize that I haven't published it anywhere. I'll try to remedy this ASAP. There isn't any possible work-around using only the command line tools provided by Beancount.