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CLAUDE.md requires re-auditing the cross-reference rule after any change to it, and polish.py changed twice this session. tools/linkaudit.py does it: three classes checked mechanically, the fourth printed to be read. dangling targets 0 plate page mismatch (listed vs set) 0 (all 178) chapter page mismatch 0 `p. N` self-references 25 all read, all sound The finding: an elided range end is not a plate number of its own. plate_sub ran re.sub(r"\d+") over the whole range, so "pls. 146-8" linked its 8 to plate 8 (orig. p.35) and "pls. 142-5" linked its 5 to plate 5 (p.23). Three links, all pointing at the wrong plate — invisible to every other check, since the targets exist and the text is correct. The end is now expanded against the leading digits of the number it is elided against: 146-8 -> plate 148 (p.334), 142-5 -> plate 145 (p.329), both confirmed against the List of Plates and against where \plateop sets them. Worth noting what the audit also confirmed: in two footnotes the rule discriminates a citation page from a self-reference in the same sentence — "(London, 1962), p. 43; also see below, p. 63" links only the second. NOT YET BUILT: the Docker daemon is down, so make verify has not run against this change. polish.py was run on the host and the audit re-run against its output, but the PDF does not yet carry the fix. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Ross 1988 — re-typeset edition (work in progress)
Re-typesetting Fiona Ross's 1988 SOAS Ph.D. thesis The Evolution of the Printed Bengali Character from 1778 to 1978 from the ProQuest scan into a searchable PDF.
Quick start
make image # build the toolchain container (TeX Live/XeLaTeX, poppler, tesseract, python)
make check # consistency checks
make build # → ross-1988-retypeset.pdf (previous version archived in older-versions/)
Continue the conversion with Claude Code from this directory: it reads CLAUDE.md,
PLAN.md, CONTINUATION.md; /batch, /verify and /status are provided in .claude/commands/.
Layout
| Path | What |
|---|---|
source/10731406.pdf |
the scan (ProQuest), untouched |
src/preamble.tex, src/colophon.tex, src/pages/pNNNN.tex |
one file per original page (NNNN = PDF page) |
plates/ |
plate images cropped from the scan at native 300 dpi |
fonts/ |
Tiro Bangla (OFL) |
tools/ |
prep.sh (raster+OCR scaffold), ocr2tex.py (draft), crop_plate.py, check.py |
manifest.tsv |
page-by-page ledger: PDF page → printed page, kind, status, file |
PLAN.md / CONTINUATION.md / QUESTIONS.md / CLAUDE.md |
design · resume point · open readings · working rules |
older-versions/ |
every superseded PDF and preamble |
scans/, work/ |
scratch (regenerable; excluded from the archive) |