notes-on-water had become a kitchen sink: every feature from the last eight loops on one page, which demonstrates the engine and misrepresents the site. Now each lands where a real site would put it. The text marks, the abbreviation, authored <kbd> and the margin note go to writing/typography, which is already the page about what the engine does to words. Icons and the grouped panels go to pages/colophon, which is the page about the theme — install instructions are what tabs are actually for. about gets a lone expando, the-flood gets a chapter note, and notes-on-water keeps what it is really for: the include and its namespaced footnotes, the gauge table, the glossary and a contents list over its own headings. Seven bundles carry features now instead of two, and the demo cases moved with them, so each still names the page it proves.
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title, date, tags
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| Typography and Its Limits | 2026-03-28 |
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"Quotes become curly," she said -- and dashes become dashes, while an ellipsis... becomes one character. That is the whole of what the engine does to an author's words: a Markdown parser option, nothing more.
Inside a code span none of it happens: "quotes" -- and ellipses... survive byte for byte, because the
typographer works on the parsed tree rather than on the text.
Marks the dialect adds
Where prose needs more than CommonMark offers there are four marks: water is H2O, a millimetre is 10^-3^ m,
the ==second column== is the one that matters, and this phrase was cut. A subscript holds a formula and
never a phrase, so x^2 + y^2 stays exactly as typed.
Text in NFC is what the engine stores, and every use of that term expands.
*[NFC]: Normalization Form C
Where there is no mark for something, HTML does it: this reading is taken with Shift held.
:::aside{title="On line breaking"}
Widows are the browser's problem, not the engine's — text-wrap: pretty knows where the lines fall and no
Markdown transform does.
:::
Line breaking is not the engine's business at all. This paragraph is deliberately long enough to wrap several times on a narrow screen, which is where you would notice a lonely last word.
A code block, indented.
Also untouched.