I released version 2.5 of ledger2beancount, a ledger to beancount converter. Here are the changes in 2.5:

• Don't create negative cost for lot without cost
• Support complex implicit conversions
• Handle typed metadata with value 0 correctly
• Set per-unit instead of total cost when cost is missing from lot
• Support commodity-less amounts
• Convert transactions with no amounts or only 0 amounts to notes
• Fix parsing of transaction notes
• Keep tags in transaction notes on same line as transaction header
• Add beancount config options for non-standard root names automatically
• Fix conversion of fixated prices to costs
• Fix removal of price when price==cost but when they use different number formats
• Fix removal of price when price==cost but per-unit and total notation mixed
• Fix detection of tags and metadata after posting/aux date
• Use D directive to set default commodity for hledger
• Improve support for postings with commodity-less amounts
• Allow empty comments
• Preserve leading whitespace in comments in postings and transaction headers
• Preserve indentation for tags and metadata
• Preserve whitespace between amount and comment
• Refactor code to use more data structures
• Remove dependency on Config::Onion module

Thanks to input from Remco R nders, Yuri Khan, and Thierry. Thanks to Stefano Zacchiroli and Kirill Goncharov for testing my changes. You can get ledger2beancount from GitHub

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