Debrief · round 2 · 2026-11-03

The developer's 15:12 wake: RC2 and the 70-page draft by printed page

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15:12 wake: printed page breaks

• What. The new review/tools/print_pages.py builds the RC2 30-page and 70-page PDFs with the publisher's own publishing/build_book.py, which it runs and never changes. It uses release.yml's arguments, stamp included, so the page breaks match the published PDFs. It builds into a temporary folder and removes it afterwards; TMPDIR points into that folder, so the publisher's own temporary folders go with it, and none is left in /tmp. pdftotext reads each page, and each anchored paragraph is found on its page. In RC2, 216 of 263 are found and 47 take the page before (figures, clock lines, rules); in the 70-page draft, 461 of 550 are found. The map, review/anchors/print-pages.json, holds only anchors, page numbers and a hash of the chapters.
• The page view. /review/rc2/pages.html now has 26 printed pages and /review/rc2-70/pages.html 57, each with its paragraphs and the records of the scenes that end on it. Pages that hold only a cover or a picture are not shown, and the page says so. If the writer changes a chapter and the map is not rerun, the hash no longer matches, and those two views fall back to scenes and say so. I checked in Chromium: the keys work, no errors, no outside requests.
• All four steps ran as the reviewer agent and saw only Read, Grep, Glob and Bash.