Operator-found (and root-caused): the v0.11 card replace had silently
no-opped on an invisible NBSP in 'vs.\xa0today' — the page said 23 pages
and still carried the July-snapshot card one paragraph under the 'New in
v0.11' sentence. Fixed by byte-anchored replace with post-assert; a
source regression test now forbids the stale markers outright and
check-paper.sh binds the page-count claim to pdfinfo.
Executability (tested by actually running them): the printed curl had no
scheme and returned empty through the redirect -> https form; the
zero-install one-liner was missing its cd -> added; 'Standard-library
Python only' contradicted the openssl requirement stated 20 lines
earlier -> made honest; 'table above' pointed at a table that is below
-> below; '~25 lines of Python' vs the 346-line fail-closed verify.py ->
'one-page core (paper Appendix C), shipped verify.py wraps it'.
Comprehensibility (fresh-eyes audit, 28 findings triaged): first-use
glosses for STH, axiom cones, certificates, pinning, split view,
pins.json, trusted base, residual-risk list, R0-R5, signature tiers;
Lean 4 linked; Merkle accumulator glossed; operator=provider declared;
the ✗-leaves explained as the failed round 1 vs clean re-attest; the
flagship self-reference gets a plain lead sentence; TOFU named and
bounded; pacta install source at the first pacta command; coined verb
'machine-re-check' uncoined; pitch parenthetical trimmed (SLH detail
lives in its own block).
Suite 153 green (new: webdocs stale-claim regression test).
Triggered by the operator's hint (references flow into App A but a full
break sits between B and C). Full-document inspection found and fixed:
- ghost page 23 (~85% blank): the fossil \clearpage before Appendix C,
placed under an older pagination, removed; appendix policy now
DECLARED: the block starts on a fresh page, then flows with no
internal breaks
- claim matrix (the paper's honesty centerpiece): solid-set rows merged
visually and narrow justified columns gaped (badness-10000 in every
build log, never read) -- now ragged-right columns, 3pt row air,
EUF-CMA/SHA-256 unbreakable
- Figure 3 still drew the July 13-leaf snapshot in a v0.11 paper that
narrates 19 leaves -- extended: leaves 13-18, August-2026 brace,
dual-signed size-19 head box, pq-styled leaf 18
- ConsRec hyphenated as Con-sRec and set in serif vs sans elsewhere ->
math-face identifiers in the mechanization table
- 'tuple' stranded its last syllable as a whole line in Definition 1;
'timestamp' broke as times-tamp -> mbox + \hyphenation
- thesis box hyphenated its showcase slogan -> ragged-right no-hyphen
(first attempt justified+nohyphen was caught by the new gate itself)
- Appendix E header caps + layer-cell caps + continuation row cleanup;
related-work 3.4pt overfull removed
- NEW check-paper.sh: fails on overfull>10pt, any badness-10000, ghost
pages (<300 chars/page), missing version on title page, ?? refs;
4-check selftest; renders all pages for the mandatory eye pass
All 25 pages re-rendered and flipped by eye. Gate green. Tests green.
