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doc: price doc cleanups

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@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ account does not contain some unexpected commodity. (We'll add support
for this kind of total balance assertion if there's demand.)
#### Prices
##### Prices
<!-- ##### Transaction prices -->
@ -349,26 +349,29 @@ examples we get:
assets:foreign currency $135.00
assets:cash $-135.00
##### Fixed Lot Prices
###### Prices are fixed
ledger has another syntax for
[fixed lot prices](http://ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html#Fixing-Lot-Prices).
(`{=PRICE}`). In ledger, this is equivalent to `@ PRICE`, except you
can provide both and then ledger generates an automatic Capital Losses
posting covering the difference.
In hledger, the price used in a given posting is fixed.
This is what you want for eg recording purchases made while travelling abroad,
but you can't (yet) track the value of stocks whose price fluctuates.
hledger will parse this syntax, but ignore it.
This is different from Ledger, where prices fluctuate by default.
Ledger has a different syntax for specifying
[fixed prices](http://ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html#Fixing-Lot-Prices): `{=PRICE}`.
hledger parses that syntax, and (currently) ignores it.
<!-- hledger treats this as an alternate spelling of `@ PRICE`, for greater compatibility with Ledger files. -->
##### Historical prices
###### Historical prices
hledger will parse and ignore ledger-style historical price directives:
hledger also parses, and currently ignores, ledger-style historical price directives:
<!-- (A time and numeric time zone are allowed but ignored, like ledger.) -->
; Historical price directives look like: P DATE COMMODITYSYMBOL UNITPRICE
; These say the euro's exchange rate is $1.35 during 2009 and
; $1.40 from 2010/1/1 on.
P 2009/1/1 € $1.35
P 2010/1/1 € $1.40
```
; Historical price directives look like: P DATE COMMODITYSYMBOL UNITPRICE
; These say the euro's exchange rate is $1.35 during 2009 and
; $1.40 from 2010/1/1 on.
P 2009/1/1 € $1.35
P 2010/1/1 € $1.40
```
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