From 7e332fda201196f69b9798d1358637eeb7b05a5d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Caleb Maclennan Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2019 15:09:29 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] docs: Explain in more detail the parsing of the payee vs. notes fields --- hledger-lib/hledger_journal.m4.md | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/hledger-lib/hledger_journal.m4.md b/hledger-lib/hledger_journal.m4.md index 9add01c59..854aa4c3d 100644 --- a/hledger-lib/hledger_journal.m4.md +++ b/hledger-lib/hledger_journal.m4.md @@ -238,10 +238,10 @@ or left blank. Transaction descriptions can be queried, unlike [comments](#comme ### Payee and note -You can optionally include a `|` (pipe) character in a description to -subdivide it into a payee/payer name on the left and additional notes on the right. -This may be worthwhile if you need to do more precise -[querying](/hledger.html#queries) and [pivoting](/hledger.html#pivoting) by payee. +You can optionally include a `|` (pipe) character in descriptions to subdivide the description +into separate fields for payee/payer name on the left (up to the first `|`) and an additional note +field on the right (after the first `|`). This may be worthwhile if you need to do more precise +[querying](/hledger.html#queries) and [pivoting](/hledger.html#pivoting) by payee or by note. ## Account names