Brief A1 item 1. The 2x10 card grid becomes 20 full-width rows, each one
picture | generated localized description | three prayer checkboxes.
PER_PAGE stays 20, so this changes the layout SHAPE and not the
pagination -- which is what lets check-packet-render's dropped-groups
assertion keep passing unrelaxed. That assertion refuses a +/-1 tolerance
because slack is exactly where a lost list page hides, so a rewrite
needing it loosened would be the wrong rewrite.
The description column is ~1036px. An entire card in the old grid was
683px, so the sentence alone is 50% wider than a whole card was; that is
the point, since a generated sentence needs width a name and two metadata
lines did not.
The geometry closes with ZERO SLACK -- 20 rows plus 19 gutters fill the
sheet to exactly the bottom margin. That is the finding, not the
reassurance: a description wrapping to a third line overflows by ~16px.
Hence FIT BEFORE CLAMP: step 17 -> 15 -> 14px, and truncate at a WHOLE
WORD only as a last resort, because a mid-word cut reads as a rendering
fault rather than an editorial one -- especially inside a people-group's
name, where a reader cannot tell it from a misspelling.
Deterministic by character count, never a DOM measure, because this module
runs under Node for the offline generator as well as in the browser. The
0.52em advance is deliberately wider than Georgia's true ~0.50 so a locale
wider than English is absorbed by the estimate rather than by an overflow.
Measured against the real catalogue, every shipped locale fits at full
size -- German is longest at 178 chars against a 234 budget -- so the
ladder is insurance, not routine.
describeGroup is INJECTED, not imported: its country resolver reaches a
Vite-only alias and imports JSON without an attribute, which would make
every `node internal/check-*.mjs` unrunnable. usePosterPrints composes it
on the browser path and tolerates its absence, so a packet that cannot
resolve a describer still prints, degrading to the metadata line.
check-profile-table.mjs was mutation-tested, and two of my own assertions
were dead. "The rows close on the bottom margin" is a TAUTOLOGY -- the row
height is derived by dividing the page by PER_PAGE, so it holds for any
row count; a 21-row mutant sailed through it. It is replaced by the real
constraint, that a row stays tall enough for its content (fires at 24
rows). And the word-aware check fed 'word word word', where a mid-word cut
is indistinguishable from a clean one; with distinct words it now names the
broken token.
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