Drop small caps for acronyms; ninth diacritic fix; verify forces a build

Abbreviations are now plain uppercase throughout (Sammay). The pass
small-capped an explicit whitelist, which could only ever be partial: on
the Abbreviations and Conventions page BFBS, LMS and MLCo stood
unconverted in one column beside small-capped BL, BMS, EIC, IOL, OUP,
SOAS and SPG, and "MS EUR 30" split a single shelfmark across two styles.

Completing the whitelist was the obvious fix and the wrong one. The
original is a typescript — a typewriter cannot set small caps — so the
source defines none, and rule 3 leaves every acronym as the plain
uppercase it prints. smallcaps() is now a documented no-op.

p0431: Rtusamhāra -> Ṛtusaṃhāra, verified at 700 dpi (dot under the R,
dot under the m). It was catchable because it broke the Bibliography's
own pattern: the author gives a title in full transliteration and its
anglicised form plain — "Ānanda Bājāra Patrikā (Ananda Bazar Patrika)" —
so a Bibliography entry with the marks stripped is an anomaly, while most
of the remaining flags there are her distinction rather than our error.

Makefile: verify now depends on `build`, not `pdf`. `pdf` is
timestamp-conditional, and a source edited while a build is running
leaves a PDF newer than the source it does not contain — make then skips
the rebuild and verify passes against stale output. That happened here,
and reprocheck caught it correctly twice while I twice misread it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -91,8 +91,12 @@ the latter. **The transcription in `src/pages` always stays exactly as typed**
polished copies. The pass applies what the typewriter could not (Sammay, 2026-09-13):
* ties, so a reference or unit never breaks across a line (`p.~63`, `Part~II`, `240~lbs`)
* en-dashes for numeric ranges (1778--1978)
* small caps for institutional acronyms — an explicit whitelist in the script (IOL, BMS, OUP, SOAS,
MS, BL …). Fount codes (CW1, SB4, BM V, VF1) and Roman numerals are deliberately excluded
* **no small caps.** The pass small-capped a whitelist of institutional acronyms until 2026-09-15
(Sammay). Abbreviations are now plain uppercase throughout: the whitelist could only ever be
partial, and on the Abbreviations page BFBS, LMS and MLCo stood unconverted beside small-capped
BL, BMS, EIC, IOL, OUP, SOAS, SPG — it also split `MS EUR 30` across two styles. Completing the
list is the wrong fix: the original is a **typescript**, a typewriter cannot set small caps, so
the source defines none and rule 3 leaves every acronym as the plain uppercase it prints
* `\mbox` round every inline specimen so it never breaks from adjacent punctuation
* **cross-reference links**: `pl. N` and `chapter N` always link (they can only be this thesis's own);
`p. N`/`pp. N` link **only where the thesis cites itself**. A page reference inside a citation