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docs: Explain in more detail the parsing of the payee vs. notes fields

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### Payee and note
You can optionally include a `|` (pipe) character in a description to
subdivide it into a payee/payer name on the left and additional notes on the right.
This may be worthwhile if you need to do more precise
[querying](/hledger.html#queries) and [pivoting](/hledger.html#pivoting) by payee.
You can optionally include a `|` (pipe) character in descriptions to subdivide the description
into separate fields for payee/payer name on the left (up to the first `|`) and an additional note
field on the right (after the first `|`). This may be worthwhile if you need to do more precise
[querying](/hledger.html#queries) and [pivoting](/hledger.html#pivoting) by payee or by note.
## Account names