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;doc:add: balance assertions/assignments: edits [#2494]

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@ -72,11 +72,11 @@ will influence how the new balance assertion is checked.
## add and balance assignments ## add and balance assignments
When `add` runs, all balance assignments have already been processed and converted to balance assertions. You can't add a new balance assignment using `add`.
So balance assignments will not be recalculated during a `hledger add` session. Also, existing balance assignments will not be recalculated during a `hledger add` session.
(Because by the time `add` runs, they have been converted to explicit amounts plus balance assertions.)
This means that if you try to `add` a new posting which is dated earlier than an existing balance assignment This means that if you try to `add` a new posting which is dated earlier than an existing balance assignment,
(now a balance assertion), that posting will break the assertion and be rejected. it will be rejected (because it would break the corresponding assertion).
To allow it, you could disable assertions temporarily with `hledger add -I`. Unless you disable assertions temporarily with `hledger add -I`.
Also, you can't add a new balance assignment using `add`.