diff --git a/tren.rst b/tren.rst index 2f8c6c0..f479366 100644 --- a/tren.rst +++ b/tren.rst @@ -1455,10 +1455,17 @@ In short, sequences are just strings of numbers used to put things in some order. -You can always tell the difference between an attribute- -and sequence renaming token, because sequence renaming tokens -always start with either a ``+`` or ``-`` sign (to indicate -ascending or descending counting respectively). +You can always tell the difference between an attribute- and sequence +renaming token, because sequence renaming tokens always start with +either a ``+`` or ``-`` sign (to indicate ascending or descending +counting respectively). This distinction is important because some +attribute- and sequence renaming tokens share the same name. For +instance, ``/FNAME/`` is an attribute token representing the original +name of the file before it was renamed. However, ``/+FNAME::003/`` is +a sequence renaming token that returns the position of the file name +in alphabetic order starting counting from ``003``. Although they are +both based on the file name (hence the common renaming token symbol), +they do very different things. How **tren** Uses File Metadata @@ -1956,7 +1963,7 @@ :: - $Id: tren.rst,v 1.163 2010/03/29 21:41:13 tundra Exp $ + $Id: tren.rst,v 1.164 2010/03/30 00:42:10 tundra Exp $ You can find the latest version of this program at: