A pin's position is generalised, so a cluster of pins is not a claim about where people groups live
or about a population centre. keyCities map.title is now "Clusters of people-group pins", and
list.intro counts "{named} named clusters (names from a cited gazetteer), across {clusters} located
clusters", in all 11 locales. The country-level copy is unchanged: its rows are per country.
A pin's position is generalised, so it does not tell a reader the locality or where a group is
centred.
- pins.sharedPoint in all 11 locales and ApproxPinNote.vue's fallback: the groups sharing the point
are named and counted ("{n} groups share this dot"); the locality claim is gone.
- keyCities map.note, map.sheetNote and list.caveat.row in all 11 locales: a cluster is of
people-group pins, not centroids, and each pin marks a people group, not a town.
- The key-cities and languages-per-city caveats in build-tabulator-tables.mjs and in every committed
copy of those two tables (only that one field changes), derive-city-candidates.mjs's caveat, and
the matching comments in key-cities, name-clusters and the poster generator.
- check-approx-pin-note's pass line no longer calls pins localities. Two UI-strings baseline entries
whose strings no longer exist in their files are dropped.
Locations are generalised, so a dot's position is not a claim about where a people group lives.
The pin notes now say only what is certain: a dot marks a people group, not a town or a boundary,
and its position is approximate.
- pins.approximate in all 11 locales, and ApproxPinNote.vue's fallback and header.
- gospelInternet notice.pin / notice.pins / notice.standing / facet.provinceNote in all 11 locales,
their T() fallbacks (GiDrawer, GiMap, GiFacetRail, board) and the README line. notice.pin no longer
takes {country}. The shared-point and internet-figure clauses are unchanged.
- gospel-resources: the province sheet's English sentence, and the `approximate` notes that
build-gospel-by-province.mjs writes into the shipped tables. Both tables and gospel-internet.json
are regenerated: only those notes and the generated dates change, every row is identical.
- Comments and the embed README say the same. The UI-strings baseline follows the new sentence.
clusters.json (one decision_pending value; the field is not in the built tree), retag-adm1.mjs (a
comment and a console message), search-index.js and uncovered-proof.mjs (comments) state the reason
without a persona. derive-city-candidates.mjs's safety_note no longer repeats "separate".
Seventeen lines in 15 files. Six quoted short fragments from feedback; eleven used "design note" where a
person once stood ("design note selects 2+ rows", "a design note design call"). Each now states the
reason in neutral terms and keeps the technical content and dates.
All edits are comments, except one string: the safety_note text in
library/scripts/research/derive-city-candidates.mjs, a research script that is not bundled and whose
output is not committed. No logic changes.
New library/packet/pins-in-state.js: a deterministic pixel-space pin
de-overlap for the whole-India poster that also keeps every pin inside
its own ADM1 state (multipolygon + holes), pulling a pushed-out pin to
the nearest point just inside. Reports displacement, remaining overlaps,
pins-outside (0), and an infeasible list for states too small to hold
their pins — never a silent overlap. Imitates the poster-render pin
relaxation (read, not called). Adds check:pins-in-state (real India data
when present, else a 60x96 fixture; hole/island + poison arms).
globalThis.DXM_PREVIEW_UNRELEASED lets a page show what is withheld from the public (the whole-India country
poster). defineMapElement.js, every element's first module, now sets it behind import.meta.env.DEV: true only
under the Vite dev server (the pilot's hot-reload preview), a compile-time false in every build, so the build
drops the line. The built tree, which goes to the research landing and DX Life's /dx-maps, never carries it.
check:preview-flag-dev-only (gates:pre; self-test in gates:post): no file under public/ assigns the flag in any
spelling a minifier writes, and every source assignment is behind import.meta.env.DEV (2 planted defects).
- The post-drag click guard (400 ms) was armed by every drag, but a drag that claimed its touchstart
produces no browser click to guard against, so it only ate the reader's next real tap (a caret tap right
after a drag did not collapse the sheet). It is now armed only for a drag that did not claim its start.
- A claimed touch becomes a drag only past 6 px (a thumb tap moves 1-3 px), so a slightly moving tap on the
caret or the ✕ keeps its click.
- A comment no longer names an internal role.
The section the Country Posters tab draws (a collapsible region head + its poster cards) is now usable on its
own, for any poster set, by parameters:
- library/components/poster/posterTypes.js: a TYPE REGISTRY. A type is an adapter (items for a scope, the
section's title, the print actions). The library registers 'country' (library data + the shared sheet path,
so a withheld whole-country poster stays withheld); plugins register their own types from their own code
(UPG 100 lists, regions, continents later). No plugin code in the library.
- 'country' scopes: a region key in any spelling. DX Life's /regions slug ('latin-america-and-caribbean'),
the API's value, the wall's slug and the English name all reduce to one canonical key.
- PosterSectionView.vue: one section, drawn by a PosterWall in a new SECTION-ONLY mode (no wall head; off by
default, so every existing wall renders as before), embedded so the page scrolls it.
- <dxm-poster-section type scope collapsible collapsed locale assets-base api-base-url is-dark>: the
attributes map onto the standard element's profile-config (posterSectionConfig.js, pure), so it keeps the
per-instance i18n and store. registerPosterSectionElement() from any bundle; Country Posters ships it first.
- country-posters/poster-section: a page showing two sections (Africa open, Oceania collapsed).
- poster.sectionNone (11 locales): an unknown type or an empty scope says so, never a blank.
check:poster-section (gates:pre) + self-test: the registry, DX Life's 8 scopes covering every country once,
withheld India, the attribute mapping, and PosterSection.vue injecting every name its template uses; 3 poisons.
The known collapse-while-scrolled landing is left exactly as it is.
- MapControlMenu dispatches 'dxmaps:panel-close' (composed, bubbling), the twin of 'dxmaps:panel-open', when a
panel closes by ✕, an outside tap or Esc, or is unmounted while open. A host can then hide its own chrome
while a panel is up (DX Life's top scroll strip sat over the Share panel's ✕).
- The mobile legend's resize drag scrolled the page. Only the strip and the title rows carried
touch-action:none, so a drag that began elsewhere in the 44px grab zone let the browser start panning
before touchmove could cancel it, and its later touchmoves were not cancelable. touchstart in the grab zone
now claims the gesture (preventDefault), and a touch that never becomes a drag is clicked on release
(inputs keep their native tap). The height is written once per frame (rAF), and the last frame lands
before the snap.
A section of a poster wall (its head: the name, the count, the collapse toggle; and its cards: the preview,
"show on map", the print options) is now its own component, library/components/poster/PosterSection.vue. The
markup moved VERBATIM; PosterWall renders every group through it and PROVIDES what a section uses (its props,
its collapse state, the print actions and their progress overlay) under POSTER_WALL_CTX. The section's CSS stays
in PosterWall's one shadow-style string, which applies to this markup in the same root.
Every wall renders the same DOM: measured in the shared browser, before (the pilot's built tree) vs after, at
1440 and 390, en and ar: Country Posters, UPG 100's poster wall, Poster Design's styles and the Regions list
(with every region's posters open) are identical once the server port and the root's scope hash are normalised;
the same cards, sections, intro text and scroll widths. The first step towards a reusable poster section.
A MapInfo mounted at the top of a map's own shadow tree has no parentElement, so it attached no listener and a
standalone leaf would have kept the pointer over Share. It now falls back to its root node (the shadow root),
which the panel's event reaches.
On a phone, at first load, the onboarding pointer could sit over the open Share panel and cover its ✕
(cities-with-internet). The pointer can be drawn by the host page, outside the map's shadow root, so no
z-index inside the map can lift a panel above it. Instead, MapControlMenu (Share, and every menu built on it)
announces that it opened with a composed 'dxmaps:panel-open' event, and MapInfo, hearing it on its own
container (so only that map's panels count), hides its pointer; a page-load pointer is then done for this
load, as if its popup had been opened.
- WEB MODE GETS THE TOP BAR BACK. The corner ☰ with no header was rejected on a real phone. Both shell modes
now show the one top bar on a phone, the ☰ at its start and the language at its end; web mode's bar takes no
camera inset (the shell is not at the top of the screen in a website). The corner circle and the drawer-foot
language are gone. check:shell-header renders both modes (13 planted defects).
- THE FLOOR NEVER EXCEEDS A SIZED HOST. ProfileLoader's 100svh floor is for a host sized by its content (the
scroll-page leaf). Inside a host with a definite height (DX Life's map slot, overflow hidden) it made the map
taller than the host, which clipped the map's bottom and its legend footer, and tied the map's height to the
window's. ProfileLoader now MEASURES the host (the floor at 0 and at a huge value: a sized host keeps its
height) and drops the floor inside a sized one, re-measuring when the host resizes (a ResizeObserver on the
host, not a window resize).
- LegendDesktop caps itself at the map's height (100% - 80px), not the window's (100vh - 80px).
- On a phone the drawer started OPEN (navOpen = initialNavOpen) and mounted() closed it, so every load drew it
on screen and slid it away (measured: up to ~1.6 s, both shells, app and web mode). data() now reads the
same (max-width: 760px) query, so the first render is already the phone's closed state; mounted() still
tracks breakpoint crossings.
- In web mode the language at the drawer's foot sat right under the last row: margin-top:auto needs the nav's
flex column (.has-rail-end), which only the desktop rail-end set. The phone drawer's foot sets it too.
- check:shell-header asserts the flex column in web mode (14 planted defects).
ONE HEADER ON A WEBSITE. Inside a host site that has its own header, the shell's 44px phone bar stacked a
second white bar under it. VerticalTabsLayout gains shellMode (prop, or the host element's shell-mode
attribute): web | app | auto.
- app (a Capacitor or standalone app, or a DX Maps leaf page): the phone bar, unchanged.
- web: no bar. The rail opens from a 40px corner ☰ at the pane's bottom-start, which publishes its footprint
(--map-fab-clearance / --map-fab-beside) so the legend sheet, the pin hint and back-to-top step aside; the
language menu moves to the drawer's foot.
- auto: the host's shell-mode attribute, else app for Capacitor, display-mode standalone or a leaf
(window.MAP_OWNS_PAGE), else web.
Desktop is unchanged. check:shell-header renders both modes (13 planted defects); check:nav-reachable-mobile
accepts the corner ☰.
MAPS HOLD THEIR SIZE. ProfileLoader floored every map at min-height 100dvh, and the leaf pages' slot did the
same. dvh follows the mobile URL bar, so scrolling grew every map mid-scroll and moved its legend sheet. Both
now use 100svh (the viewport with the bar showing, which never changes on scroll), with 100vh where svh is
unsupported.
India's whole-country poster does not ship yet; a solution is in progress. countrySheet.js gains WITHHELD (India)
and sheetWithheld(item):
- makeCountrySheet draws nothing for a withheld country, in any format, before fetching a single record.
- largeSheet() is null for it, so the Country Posters wall and the Regions list show their existing
messages.countryPosterTooMany ("Too many people groups to fit on one poster legibly — a solution is in
progress.", all eleven locales) on the card instead of a poster.
- Both callers also withhold its list, packet and cards with the same sentence (about a thousand pages, offered
when the poster is).
- India's STATE and union-territory posters are separate cards (indiaState) and are untouched; so are the India
section and its first place.
- sheetFormatFor keeps the large-sheet size rule itself (it returns with the poster).
check:country-sheet-one-path arm G: India stays withheld (no sheet in any of 7 formats, 0 records fetched, its
state cards never withheld, both callers show the sentence and reject its rows), with a poison for un-withholding
it and one for a wall that prints its list.
The facts row's COUNTRIES cell is ISO3_NAME[iso3] || iso3, and 13 territories that have country posters were
missing from the table, so their shipped sheets printed the raw code there (CCK, CXR, ESH, GIB, HKG, JEY, KOS,
MAC, MCO, NFK, SJM, SXM, TKL). Kosovo's own label in country-posters.json was the code too, so its title and
its wall card read "KOS".
- ISO3_NAME gains the 13 (the short names the posters already print as each label; SXM "Sint Maarten").
- KOS's label is "Kosovo".
Every country in country-posters.json now has a name, and no label is a raw code.
Measured on the shipped India sheets in the browser (getBBox, Lato loaded): 74 of 151 photos on the 60x96 and
32 on the 66x66 overlapped their own name, by up to 7 px (half a letter at 20.7 pt). The photo was placed from
an ESTIMATED text width, and the real width runs wider.
Now the photo sits in a fixed slot on the LEADER side of its name, and the name moves out by the slot. A
side-lane name is anchored at its leader-side end (left column: text-anchor end; right: start), so its glyphs
lie wholly on the far side of that anchor and the photo wholly on the near side: they cannot overlap whatever
width the font draws. Only a name with a photo takes the slot, so the columns and the type keep their size
(India 60x96 stays 20.7 pt).
Measured after: India 60x96 and 66x66 have 0 photos on, and 0 touching, their name. 0 proper crossings on all
three India formats. 36x60 (no photos) is byte-identical. Re-pinned.
- check:side-lanes: every photo on its name's anchor side, at the 4 px gap (a source twin, always measured).
A self-test poison restores the estimated-width placement: 167 photos off their side, caught.
- check:side-lane-photo-pixels (browser): every photo box clear of its name's real drawn box (getBBox), with
the same poison in its self-test.
A collapsible section head is a <button> with width:100%, but it keeps the
2px side margins of .sec-head, so it overflowed the wall's content box by 4px.
Its full-bleed ::before (left/right -20px) then reached 2px past the wall on each
side, so every collapsible wall (Poster Design's Styles, Country Posters) had
scrollWidth = clientWidth + 4 at 390, 768 and 1024. The head is now
calc(100% - 4px), the width a non-collapsible head already gets.
Measured on the built poster-design and country-posters bundles (div.wall
scrollWidth vs clientWidth at 390/768/1024/1440): before, +4 at the first three
widths on both walls; after, equal at all four. UPG-100's wall (no toggles)
was already equal.
countryPosters.stateNames x11, keyed by ISO 3166-2, for the India section's CARD labels (the wall, the print HUD, the
packet and list titles). The printed sheet stays English by recorded decision, like every country poster.
Generated, not typed: scripts/emit-india-state-names.mjs reads Wikidata labels by ISO 3166-2 (P300), dissolved items
excluded; Wikidata is CC0 (source, licence, query, date and every fallback in data/india-state-names.meta.json).
- Four codes ISO has renamed (IN-CT/OR/TG/UT -> CG/OD/TS/UK) are queried under the current code.
- English is the table's own name. Where the table is briefer than its item ("Delhi" vs "National Capital Territory
of Delhi"), the same-named item's labels win, so hi/ru match the English.
- Reviewed by eye (hi, ar, zh): two explicit overrides with their evidence (ar Odisha = the ar.wikipedia title,
not the pre-2011 label; zh Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu = Simplified, the only label being
Traditional). A zh name from a plain "zh" label with no reviewed override FAILS the generator (poisoned: it did).
The India section retries a failed table fetch at 5 s, 20 s and 60 s (bounded, cancelled on unmount), instead of
staying hidden until the filter changes.
check:country-sheet-one-path ARM D: every locale's stateNames == the table's 36 codes (a runtime-built key the i18n
call-site gates cannot see), English == the table, and the licence recorded; its two poisons join the self-test.
The Styles tab now draws the Bless wall panels from the shared panel
geometry, so missing.bless no longer says the gallery cannot draw them.
It says the sheets, the glue strips and the card rows come from the
shared geometry, and the cards are shown as a layout because the Bless
wall draws its cards in its own plugin.
The Styles tab now draws the prayer packet's page 1 and every card stock,
so missing.packet and missing.cards are referenced nowhere. Only the notes
for the two templates still not drawn (the Bless panels, the map print)
remain.
The Sizes tab now draws every ladder size, so it needs its own words: the
intro, the to-scale lineup, the paper names (Letter / A4), the dimension
patterns in feet and inches, the per-size rows (sheets, each sheet, glued
overlap, photos beside names, how it prints) and the note that the sheets
show the 3 x 3 layout. The placeholder sentence that said the tab was
waiting for the size table is removed. Only the posterDesign area changes.
On a phone, India's Prayer List (Full detail, Lightweight) reported "that list has no people groups to print" on a
card of 855: its rows resolved [] and the print path read that as an empty list. Now, in the wall and the Regions
list alike, a desktop-only card's rows REJECT with the notice before any record is fetched, and the card shows the
same words: a new poster.phoneLimitAll ("This needs a desktop or laptop computer.", all eleven locales). The
existing "the largest sizes are off" stays for cards that are only partly blocked.
check:country-sheet-one-path arm F asserts it for both callers, with a poison for each.
Measured on the 60x96 print: every photo beside a name rasterised as the browser's broken-image glyph. An SVG
rasterised through <img> is an isolated document that fetches no external resource, and none of the people-group
photo hosts (media.joshuaproject.net, joshuaproject.net, images.peoplegroups.org and its resizer,
peoplegroupspublic.blob.core.windows.net, s3.doxa.life) sends CORS, so a photo cannot be inlined as data: in the
browser either.
- poster-raster.js: rasterPoster drops every <image> whose href is not data: (the basemap tiles are data: and stay),
so a download shows the paper, never the glyph. hasExternalImages() says when a sheet carries such photos.
- PosterWall: printing a generated sheet that carries photos prints THE SHEET ITSELF through printDocument, where
the photos load, on its own @page (60in 96in), instead of a raster shrunk onto letter. Same HUD steps.
- check:side-lanes: photo arms (0 external images reach the raster; the wall prints such a sheet as a document),
each with a poison in its self-test.
- check:side-lane-photo-pixels: the pixel side, a browser gate (a data: photo draws red; 99/99 external slots stay
flat; without the strip 0/99 do). Declared on-demand until its first browser-seat run.
A new experimental generator (Posterverse) that renders an ENTIRE BOOK of the Bible
in justified, phone-width columns with a bold book-name header, in the languages of
the unreached people groups. Text is fetched at render time from public-domain
translations via the Free Use Bible API; no Bibles are stored in the repo or public/.
v1 offers strict public-domain texts only, with a per-poster credit line: the World
English Bible plus the prayer packet's Reina-Valera 1909, Ostervald, Luther 1912,
Synodal and Van Dyck (Arabic, right-to-left). Book, text-language and size pickers;
the generator reports which size fits a book at a readable type size, and standard
paper is honestly shown as too small for a whole book. Interface strings are
localized in all 11 locales. Starts from the 12 books the UPG-100 packet cites.
