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I'm looking at creating a custom contribution pdf letter/email so I since I code mostly by example I looked at the customized workflow templates for contribution receipt.

It has a bunch of things I'm not sure about and I can't seem to find anything in the documentation though maybe I'm looking in the wrong place.  So...

1.  What does {ts}some text{/ts} do?
2.  I assume things like {$formValues.contributionType_name} are tokens.  Does it take this value from, in this case, the resulting form from find contributions? 
3.  In {$formValues.total_amount|crmMoney:$currency} what does the crmMoney:$currency do?

Is there documentation on this stuff?

Thanks.

Thanks.  That does answer a couple of the questions.  For the others I guess it's standard trial, error and reverse engineering.

The interesting thing is I don't think I knew about that guide.  It doesn't seemed to be linked from the main documentation very well.  Maybe only from the main documentation page. 

I would think it should be listed in the box in the lower left hand corner that says CiviCRM Books! but then only lists one, Understanding.  Listing the developer guild in this box as well would be nice.  Maybe also at the top of the Develop section right below the link about being new see Understanding  on http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC40/Develop.  I suppose I could add it there.

Also, I would think the Understanding FLOSS manual should link to Developer guide.  Not sure where, maybe as an appendix or under basic setup as the last topic, (not that it's really basic setup but...)

As an aside, is there a way to search in a FLOSS manual?