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authorJohn Wiegley <johnw@newartisans.com>2009-10-25 23:08:07 -0400
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+{\colortbl;\red255\green255\blue255;}
+\pard\tx560\tx1120\tx1680\tx2240\tx2800\tx3360\tx3920\tx4480\tx5040\tx5600\tx6160\tx6720\sl264\slmult1\ql\qnatural\pardirnatural
+
+\f0\fs28 \cf0 Whenever a commodity is exchanged for another in a posting, one of the\
+two is considered @emph\{primary\}, and the other secondary.\
+Primariness of a commodity is remembered, since the @option\{--market\}\
+option only renders balances into secondary commodities, never\
+primaries. To render primaries, use the @option\{--exchange=COMMODITY\}\
+option.\
+\
+In all of the following examples, the P commodity is considered primary\
+and the S is secondary (the P at the beginning of the line indicates a\
+price-setting directive):\
+\
+@smallexample\
+2009/01/01 Sample 1a\
+ Assets:Brokerage:Stocks 100 S\
+ Assets:Brokerage:Cash -100 P\
+\
+P 2009/01/15 00:00:00 S 2 P\
+\
+2009/02/01 Sample 2a\
+ Assets:Brokerage:Stocks 100 S @ 1 P\
+ Assets:Brokerage:Cash\
+\
+P 2009/02/01 00:00:00 S 4 P\
+\
+2009/03/01 Sample 3a\
+ Assets:Brokerage:Stocks 100 S @@ 100 P\
+ Assets:Brokerage:Cash\
+\
+P 2009/03/01 00:00:00 S 8 P\
+\
+2009/04/01 Sample 4a\
+ Assets:Brokerage:Cash 100 P\
+ Assets:Brokerage:Stocks -100 S @\{1 P@\}\
+\
+P 2009/04/01 00:00:00 S 16 P\
+@end smallexample} \ No newline at end of file