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Bring CONTINUATION.md up to date for session 5

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It still announced itself as end-of-session-4 and had never heard of
XCharter, which matters because CLAUDE.md tells the next session to read
it first. Records the font switch, the small-caps removal, the link
styling, the nine diacritic corrections, and the next four items in the
order I would take them.

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# CONTINUATION — Ross 1988 re-typeset
## State (end of session 5, 2026-09-15)
Edition complete and verified: **455 output pages**, `make verify` clean — 431/431, 0 overfull,
0 underfull *font* warnings, `reprocheck` 0 tokens short. 84 underfull boxes remain, the documented
cost of ragged right without hyphenation. Git is the history; the PDF is not tracked (`make` remakes it).
Changed this session:
- **Text face is XCharter**, replacing TeX Gyre ScholaX (Sammay). Chosen on metrics: ScholaX had the
smallest lowercase relative to its capitals of the faces tested, x-height/cap 0.645 vs 0.717, so it
read as decorative. Bengali needed no manual scale — `Scale=MatchLowercase` re-derived Tiro Bangla
and the measured Bengali-to-Latin ratio held (2.12 → 2.08). Page count 470 → 455; underfull boxes
123 → 84. **The measure is now ~73 characters a line against the ~70 that 5.95in was chosen for —
an open decision, see below.**
- **Small caps removed entirely.** A typescript cannot set them, so the source defines none.
- **Clickable regions marked**: 0.4pt hairline rule, RGB(95,125,165), on Contents/List-of-Plates page
numbers and resolved cross-references. Endnote superscripts and whole-line entries stay unmarked.
`polish.py` emits `\xref` for the marked kind and `\hyperlink` for the unmarked.
- **Nine diacritic corrections**, all verified against the page image at 500–900 dpi. Full record and
the ~30 still unchecked are in QUESTIONS.md.
- The edition's one editorial `[sic]` was removed: **it now interpolates nothing into the author's prose.**
- Plates inside quotations are full-measure again (`\platefullmeasure`); plate 1's `\plx` entry is in
`build_maps()`, so `pl. 1` links at last.
### Next, in the order I would take them
1. **Link audit.** CLAUDE.md requires re-auditing the cross-reference rule after any change to it, and
`polish.py` changed twice this session (`\xref`, and `\plx` added to `build_maps`). Print every link
with its context and read them. Never done; nothing else validates that a link lands on the right page.
2. **The measure** — hold ~70 characters (about 5.7in) or accept 73. One line in `geometry`.
3. **Diacritic sweep remainder**, ~30 occurrences listed by page in QUESTIONS.md. Last five batches
found nothing, so the yield looks low; unchecked is not cleared.
4. **Quotation slips** — 10 checkable in a library, 5 in archives nobody outside them can reach.
### Earlier state
## State (end of session 4, 2026-09-14)
- **All 431 PDF pages transcribed.** No `\unsure` readings outstanding.
- Chapter 5 `Vincent Figgins and Richard Watts` closed at orig. p.211 (PDF 213, notes 1–93, plates 89–96).