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>

tools/polish.py

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ should have:
 
   * ties, so a reference or a unit never breaks across a line
   * en-dashes for numeric ranges (1778-1978, pp. 315-320)
-  * small caps for institutional acronyms (explicit whitelist below)
+  * (no small caps: see smallcaps() below — the pass was removed 2026-09-15)
   * p./pp., pl./pls. and chapter references become links to the original page
     they name — note that the original's page numbers are the targets, not the
     edition's, since `\origpage{N}` plants `page.N` where original page N begins
@@ -22,8 +22,9 @@ import re, glob, os, sys
 
 SRC, OUT = "src/pages", "work/pages"
 
-ACRONYMS = ["CSBC", "MSS", "SOAS", "BMS", "IOL", "IOR", "OUP", "SPG", "EIC",
-            "DCL", "FRS", "BEN", "MS", "BL"]
+# Kept only as a record of what the removed pass covered. See smallcaps().
+_FORMER_ACRONYMS = ["CSBC", "MSS", "SOAS", "BMS", "IOL", "IOR", "OUP", "SPG",
+                    "EIC", "DCL", "FRS", "BEN", "MS", "BL"]
 
 def build_maps():
     plate, chap, subsec = {}, {}, {}
@@ -140,8 +141,19 @@ def endashes(t):
     return re.sub(r"(?<=\d)-(?=\d)", "--", t)
 
 def smallcaps(t):
-    for a in ACRONYMS:
-        t = re.sub(r"(?<![A-Za-z0-9\\])%s(?![A-Za-z0-9])" % a, r"\\textsc{%s}" % a.lower(), t)
+    """No-op since 2026-09-15 (Sammay): abbreviations stay plain uppercase.
+
+    The pass small-capped an explicit whitelist of institutional acronyms. That
+    whitelist could only ever be partial, and on the Abbreviations and
+    Conventions page the gap was plain: BFBS, LMS and MLCo sat in one column
+    against small-capped BL, BMS, EIC, IOL, OUP, SOAS and SPG. It also split a
+    shelfmark, setting a small-cap MS against a full-cap EUR in "MS EUR 30".
+
+    Completing the list was the obvious fix and is the wrong one. The original
+    is a typescript: a typewriter cannot set small caps, so the source defines
+    no abbreviation in them and every acronym on the page is plain uppercase.
+    Small caps were this edition's invention, and an inconsistent one. Rule 3 —
+    the original's typography stands — settles it."""
     return t
 
 def mbox_specimens(t):