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diff --git a/ledger.texi b/ledger.texi index 3d5300a9..87684ff5 100644 --- a/ledger.texi +++ b/ledger.texi @@ -3225,10 +3225,23 @@ Now money can be spent directly from a fund: @end smallexample When reports are generated, by default they will appear in terms of -the funds, income and expenses. If the @option{--real} option is -used, the report is in terms of the accounts. If more asset accounts -are needed as the source of a transaction, just list them as you would -normally, for example: +the funds, income and expenses. In this case, you will likely want to +mask out your @samp{Assets} account, becausue the balance won't make +much sense: + +@example +ledger bal -^Assets +@end example + +If the @option{--real} option is used, the report is in terms of the +real accounts: + +@example +ledger --real bal +@end example + +If more asset accounts are needed as the source of a transaction, just +list them as you would normally, for example: @smallexample 2004/03/25 Payment for books (paid from Checking) @@ -3606,8 +3619,12 @@ transaction has been cleared or not. There is also an user wishes. After the initial entry data, there must follow a set of transactions -marked with @samp{en:transactions}. Within this tag is a series of -one or more @samp{transaction}'s, which have the following form: +marked with @samp{en:transactions}. Typically these transactions will +all balance each other, but if not they will be automatically balanced +into an account named @samp{<Unknown>}. + +Within the @samp{en:transactions} tag is a series of one or more +@samp{transaction}'s, which have the following form: @smallexample <transaction> @@ -3705,9 +3722,9 @@ example: @end smallexample 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 it can read -such data as long as the @file{xmlparse} library was available at the -time Ledger was built. +output such data if the @command{xml} command is used, and can read +the same data as long as the @file{xmlparse} library was available +when Ledger was built. @node Extending with Python, , Using XML, Top @chapter Extending with Python |