doc: manual: more flat/depth rewrites

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##### Flat mode
To see a flat list of full account names instead of the default hierarchical display, use `--flat`.
In this mode, each account's balance is the "exclusive" balance - it excludes subaccount balances -
except for any depth-limited accounts (see below), which do include the balance from any hidden subaccounts.
In this mode, accounts (unless depth-clipped) show their "exclusive" balance, excluding any subaccount balances.
In this mode, you can also use `--drop N` to omit the first few account name components.
##### Depth limiting
With `--depth N`, balance shows accounts only to the specified depth.
In flat mode, it also aggregates and summarises deeper accounts at the depth limit.
This is very useful to summarise complex charts of accounts.
This is very useful to show a complex charts of accounts in less detail.
In flat mode, balances from accounts below the depth limit will be shown as part of a parent account at the depth limit.
<!-- $ for y in 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010; do echo; echo $y; hledger -f $y.journal balance ^expenses --depth 2; done -->