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Two more Ledger terms
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Steve Purcell 2014-04-01 08:12:55 +01:00
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The Ledger software also has its own terms.
**Automated Transaction**: a command directive that modifies subsequent
transactions that match an expression. An automated transaction can add
additional postings to a transaction, add metadata, or change transaction
amounts. Reports can be filter postings modified or generated by an automated
transaction.
[§ Automated Transactions](http://www.ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html#Automated-Transactions);
[§ Concrete Example of Automated Transactions](http://www.ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html#Concrete-Example-of-Automated-Transactions)
**Command Directive**: a command in a journal file to change how subsequent
lines and transactions in a journal file are processed. Command directives
control processing, set default values for subsequent accounts and
@ -67,6 +75,8 @@ transactions, or override parts of subsequent transactions. A directive
line begins with name of the directive and may have addidtional arguments
or additional indented lines. The single letters *AbCDhIiNOoY* are aliased
to other command directives, providing compatiblity with the ancient past.
The characters **'='** and **'-'** are command directives for a automatic
transactions and periodic transactions, respectively.
[§ Command Directives](http://www.ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html#Command-Directives)
**Commodity**: any currency, stock, time or resource to be tracked
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of the line and include any indented lines following. The journal file is
expected to be encoded as ASCII or utf-8 text.
**Periodic Transaction**: the estimate of a transaction that would occur
periodically, e.g., a monthly expense. These estimates are only used in
budgeting and forecasting reports using the `--budget`,
`--forecast`, or `--unbudgeted` options.
[§ Budgeting and Forecasting](http://www.ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html#Budgeting-and-Forecasting)
**Transaction Metadata**: a term for comments and tags annotating a
transaction. Comments indented with a transaction will be stored with each
posting of a transaction. Tags are words in comments followed by colons.