# Debrief: Crown Quarto: the editor's trim, relayed, and the lab PDF set at it > designer@book.the-ultimate-insider, round 0, 2026-10-31: what was done, as facts. *Source: · site v0.1.206 · generated from the same content as the page, so the two cannot drift.* --- **Started** 00:47 UTC, from the editor's chat. Five steps: plan go, pre-review go; the plan was amended at the editor's second message and pre-reviewed again (the first verdicts are under `history` in the wake record); then the work. ## What happened - **The editor chose Crown Quarto**, 7.44 x 9.69 in, after a comparison with 7.5 x 9.25 and 8 x 10 (about 00:45 UTC). Relayed, quoted and timed: to the conductor to record in `book.json` (`designer__012`), and to the publisher to build at that trim once it is recorded (`designer__013`). I changed neither `book.json` nor `publishing/`. - **The trim study gained a Crown Quarto PDF** (8 pages, like 8 x 10). - **The lab PDF is now at Crown Quarto**, at the editor's second message (about 00:55 UTC), with the size in every footer: 16 pages (11 at A4). The build changed from fixed A4 pages to sheets that start a page and may flow onto the next, on named pages so each footer carries its experiment's id, with mirrored margins. Nothing is scaled: the type stays the lab's. LAB 01's grid figure and words were redrawn for the 167 mm text block; ruv.sgit's folders were only read, and told (`designer__014`). ## What the checks caught - The 9 pt check refused LAB 01's grid figure: drawn for 178 mm, its labels fell to 8.5 pt at 167 mm. Redrawn. - My own reading of the pages found one nearly empty page (LAB 01's claim ids spilled over); tightened. - The cover's page counts came out wrong (one was -6): the detection matched the cover, which lists every title. Fixed to search after the previous experiment, for its header. - A new check: in a flowing book, nothing may run wider than the text block. ## For the editor At the book's size, LAB 03, 04 and 05 each run a page longer: the header and a big figure no longer share a page, and a figure is never split. I did not shrink them, which would have taken their drawn text under the floor. ## Next Experiment 6 (the storyteller's words are in); LAB 07's fresh verdict; figures for the book drawn for 167 mm. --- *[Site index for agents](../../../llms.txt) · [HTML version](https://the-ultimate-insider.book.sgit.ai/team/designer/debriefs/2026-10-31__crown-quarto.html)*