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RCS file: /cvs/pta/pta-journal.5,v
retrieving revision 1.2
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -p -r1.2 -r1.3
--- pta/pta-journal.5	2020/09/27 15:36:43	1.2
+++ pta/pta-journal.5	2020/11/10 19:08:06	1.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $Id: pta-journal.5,v 1.2 2020/09/27 15:36:43 schwarze Exp $
+.\" $Id: pta-journal.5,v 1.3 2020/11/10 19:08:06 schwarze Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2020 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
 .\"
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
 .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: September 27 2020 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: November 10 2020 $
 .Dt PTA-JOURNAL 5
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -48,14 +48,13 @@ Fields are given in the following order:
 The date in the eight-digit form YYYYMMDD;
 entries have to appear in chronological order.
 .It
-A booking identifier, consisting of one or more capital latin letters
-in the range
-.Bq A\(enZ ,
-optionally followed by a pair of numbers separated by a slash.
-Typically, the letters are used to identify a bank account, a credit card,
-or a cash office, the digits before the slash represent the number of a
-bank statement or cashbook sheet, and the digits after the slash a sheet
-or entry number within the bank statement or cashbook sheet.
+A booking identifier, consisting of one or more non-blank characters.
+For example, it might begin with a few letters to identify a bank
+account, a credit card, or a cash office, the ordinal number of a
+bank statement or a cashbook sheet might follow, and it might end
+with an entry number within the bank statement or cashbook sheet.
+Following a consistent format within each journal file is recommended
+but not required.
 Booking identifiers need not be unique.
 .It
 A debit