start a ledger and a finance page

Makefile

@@ -10,6 +10,16 @@ clean:
 
 PANDOC?=pandoc
 
+# help update finance.md from finance/* (manual edits needed)
+finance-md:
+	( \
+	echo 'Finances of the Plain Text Accounting org.'; \
+	echo '<!-- Generated by "make src/finance.md", do not edit directly. -->'; \
+	echo '```cli';     hledger -f finance/pta.journal bs;    echo '```'; \
+	echo '```cli';     hledger -f finance/pta.journal is;    echo '```'; \
+	echo '```hledger'; hledger -f finance/pta.journal print -x; echo '```'; \
+	) >src/finance.md
+
 # temporary workaround for cloudflare pages (pandoc is too old in V1, missing in V2)
 html-cfp:
 	pandoc --version || ( \

finance/pta.journal

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+2024-03-30 begin tracking finances of the plaintextaccounting org.
+
+2024-03-30 Discourse | begin $50/mo hosting at Discourse, with an advance from SM
+    expenses:hosting         $50
+    liabilities:payable:sm
+

src/finance.md

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+Finances of the Plain Text Accounting org.
+<!-- Generated by "make src/finance.md", do not edit directly. -->
+```cli
+Balance Sheet 2024-03-30
+
+                        || 2024-03-30 
+========================++============
+ Assets                 ||            
+------------------------++------------
+------------------------++------------
+                        ||          0 
+========================++============
+ Liabilities            ||            
+------------------------++------------
+ liabilities:payable:sm ||        $50 
+------------------------++------------
+                        ||        $50 
+========================++============
+ Net:                   ||       $-50 
+```
+```cli
+Income Statement 2024-03-30
+
+                  || 2024-03-30 
+==================++============
+ Revenues         ||            
+------------------++------------
+------------------++------------
+                  ||          0 
+==================++============
+ Expenses         ||            
+------------------++------------
+ expenses:hosting ||        $50 
+------------------++------------
+                  ||        $50 
+==================++============
+ Net:             ||       $-50 
+```
+```hledger
+2024-03-30 begin tracking finances of the plaintextaccounting org.
+
+2024-03-30 Discourse | begin $50/mo hosting at Discourse, with an advance from SM
+    expenses:hosting                   $50
+    liabilities:payable:sm            $-50
+
+```