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  | ||||
| `assets`, `liabilities`/`debts`, `equity`, `revenues`/`income`, or `expenses`, | ||||
| their types are detected automatically. | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| 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. | ||||
| Eg: | ||||
| @ -858,6 +859,18 @@ account revenues     R | ||||
| 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 | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| An account directive can also have indented comments on following lines, eg: | ||||
|  | ||||
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