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diff --git a/doc/ledger.texi b/doc/ledger.texi index b2ac29dd..3b0785eb 100644 --- a/doc/ledger.texi +++ b/doc/ledger.texi @@ -3942,6 +3942,45 @@ That is the extent of the XML data format used by Ledger. It will output such data if the @command{xml} command is used, and can read the same data. +@chapter Random things + +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 + @chapter Anatomy of a journal file Everything begins with a journal file---the anatomy of which is covered |