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doc: manual: promote some amount subtopics

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@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ However the display precision will be the highest precision seen in all posting
The precisions used in a price amount, or a D directive, don't affect the canonical display precision directly, but they can affect it indirectly, eg when D's default commodity is applied to a commodity-less amount or when an amountless posting is balanced using a price's commodity (actually this last case does not influence the canonical display precision but probably should).
##### Balance Assertions
#### Balance Assertions
hledger supports ledger-style
[balance assertions](http://ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html#Balance-assertions)
@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ while cleaning up old entries. You can disable them temporarily with
the `--ignore-assertions` flag, which can be useful for
troubleshooting or for reading Ledger files.
###### Assertions and ordering
##### Assertions and ordering
hledger sorts an account's postings and assertions first by date and
then (for postings on the same day) by parse order. Note this is
@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ account's balance on the same day, you'll have to put the assertion
in the right file.
###### Assertions and commodities
##### Assertions and commodities
The asserted balance must be a simple single-commodity amount, and in
fact the assertion checks only this commodity's balance within the
@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ that no matter how many assertions you add, you can't be sure the
account does not contain some unexpected commodity. (We'll add support
for this kind of total balance assertion if there's demand.)
###### Assertions and subaccounts
##### Assertions and subaccounts
Balance assertions do not count the balance from subaccounts; they check
the posted account's exclusive balance. For example:
@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ $ hledger bal checking --flat
2
```
##### Prices
#### Prices
<!-- ##### Transaction prices -->
@ -396,7 +396,7 @@ examples we get:
assets:foreign currency $135.00
assets:cash $-135.00
###### Prices are fixed
##### Prices are fixed
In hledger, the price used in a given posting is fixed.
This is what you want for eg recording purchases made while travelling abroad,
@ -408,7 +408,7 @@ Ledger has a different syntax for specifying
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 also parses, and currently ignores, ledger-style historical price directives:
<!-- (A time and numeric time zone are allowed but ignored, like ledger.) -->