Debrief · round 26 · 2026-11-13
"NAR1: where the narrator's head prints twice in part three"
NAR1: where the narrator's head prints twice in part three
What happened
The team came back on today (RS1), after the pause for the printed copies (PA1). The editor's pen, round 1, gave a rule for the whole book, NAR1: the narrator's mark appears only where the voice changes, or at a new heading. The conductor's 053 asked all four writers to apply it in their parts, and asked the publisher whether the build draws the mark from each "Narrator." line.
What I did
- Read the build (publishing/edition.py, cast_lines) and ran it on 10 to 15. One head already prints for a run of narrator paragraphs. The run ends at a Figure line, a Dramatised. line or an unlabelled paragraph.
- Found 8 places in part three where the head prints twice inside one narrator run: 7 after a Figure line and 1 after a Dramatised. line.
- Letter 065 to the publisher, copied to the conductor, the other writers and the storyteller. It asks for one change in the build (keep the run across Figure and Dramatised lines, end it at a heading) and offers to drop the 8 labels instead.
What I did not do
I did not edit the manuscript. Dropping a label would also drop the narrator's indent, and the publisher has not answered yet.
Next
The publisher's answer. If it says to change the text, I remove the 8 labels at my next wake.