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.Sh NAME

.Nm pta-journal

.Nd main input file format for the plain text accounting program

.Nd main input file format for plain text accounting

.Sh DESCRIPTION

The file

.Pa journal.txt

Line 75 a decimal point, and again one or more digits.

A text string that can include space characters.

.El

.Pp

If the text starts with as string enclosed in

If the text contains a string enclosed in

.Bq square brackets ,

the enclosed string is used as the name of a

.Em cost center .

.Pp

If the text starts with as string enclosed in

If the text contains a string enclosed in

.Pq parentheses ,

the enclosed string is used as the name of a

.Em subaccount ,

Line 90 In the unusual case that both the debit and the credit

revenue or expense account, using the split notation described below

is recommended to disambiguate which account the subaccount name

applies to.

.Pp

If both a cost center and a subaccount are given on the same line,

the cost center is expected to precede the subaccount.

.Ss Split journal entries

All transactions can be represented by using only elementary

.Em journal entries