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docs: journal: account: a gotcha when changing builtin account types

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@ -846,6 +846,7 @@ This is useful for certain accounting-aware reports, in particular [balancesheet
If you name your top-level accounts with some variation of If you name your top-level accounts with some variation of
`assets`, `liabilities`/`debts`, `equity`, `revenues`/`income`, or `expenses`, `assets`, `liabilities`/`debts`, `equity`, `revenues`/`income`, or `expenses`,
their types are detected automatically. their types are detected automatically.
More generally, you can declare an account's type by adding one of the letters `ALERX` More generally, you can declare an account's type by adding one of the letters `ALERX`
to its account directive, separated from the account name by two or more spaces. to its account directive, separated from the account name by two or more spaces.
Eg: Eg:
@ -858,6 +859,18 @@ account revenues R
account expenses X account expenses X
``` ```
Note: if you ever override the types of those auto-detected english account names mentioned above,
you might need to help the reports a bit:
```
; make "liabilities" not have the liability type, who knows why
account liabilities E
; better ensure some other account has the liability type,
; otherwise balancesheet would still show "liabilities" under Liabilities
account - L
```
)
#### Account comments #### Account comments
An account directive can also have indented comments on following lines, eg: An account directive can also have indented comments on following lines, eg: