Notes-Memo confusion

[Carpet Nailz]

On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 14:42 +0100, Maf. King wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 April 2011 14:37:10 Carpet Nailz wrote:
> 
> > I'm still confused, since I'm usually not doing a "split," just a simple
> > entry with one credit and one debit in basic ledger mode. So why does it
> > not just capture what I'm entering there rather than pulling in
> > something from a "split" transaction that's not even being used now?
> >
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Don't forget that to GC, every transaction (internally, at least) is a 
> collection of at least 2 splits.
> 
> Maf,
> 
I can't "forget" something I didn't know. The only use of 'split' that
I've ever seen in GnuCash (been using it for about 8 years) refers to
split transactions. Where would one learn that the credit and debit
entries are each "Splits" (other than Derek's good explanation that I
just received)?