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| 1 | = Field Notes on Structure |
| 2 | |
| 3 | This document exists to exercise a real heading hierarchy and the two kinds of |
| 4 | list side by side, so a reader's contents outline has something to nest and the |
| 5 | list-fidelity gate has something to measure. The paragraph you are reading now |
| 6 | is deliberately long enough to wrap across several lines, because the gate reads |
| 7 | the body baseline pitch off a wrapped paragraph and then asks whether a tight |
| 8 | list sets its items at that same pitch. Everything below is ordinary prose, |
| 9 | headings and lists, with nothing set by hand. |
| 10 | |
| 11 | == Bullets, Set Tight |
| 12 | |
| 13 | A tight bullet list carries no blank line between its items, so it sets at the |
| 14 | body pitch, its markers seated on each item's own baseline: |
| 15 | |
| 16 | - clay was heavy and awkward to carry; |
| 17 | - papyrus was brittle and cracked when folded; |
| 18 | - parchment was superb but ruinously dear; |
| 19 | - paper answered all three at once. |
| 20 | |
| 21 | == Steps, Set in Order |
| 22 | |
| 23 | A numbered list shares the same metrics, its enumerators aligned on the baseline |
| 24 | where a reader expects a number to sit: |
| 25 | |
| 26 | + ret the raw fibre until the cellulose loosens; |
| 27 | + beat the sodden pulp until the individual fibres separate and swell, a stage that cannot be hurried and on which the strength of every later sheet depends; |
| 28 | + lift a thin, even layer on a fine screen; |
| 29 | + press and dry the couched sheet until it is flat. |
| 30 | |
| 31 | === A Nested Turn |
| 32 | |
| 33 | A sub-list hangs under its parent item at a deeper indent, keeping the parent's |
| 34 | pitch and its own: |
| 35 | |
| 36 | - the papermaker's core tools are two: |
| 37 | - the mould is a screen on a frame; |
| 38 | - the deckle is the rim that bounds the sheet; |
| 39 | - the practised shake felts the fibres. |
| 40 | |
| 41 | == Loose, for Contrast |
| 42 | |
| 43 | A list whose items are parted by blank lines sets loose, with a block's worth of |
| 44 | space between one item and the next: |
| 45 | |
| 46 | - permanence is a property to be designed for, deliberately and at some cost, and never simply assumed; |
| 47 | |
| 48 | - the cheap paper that democratised the written word proved far less durable than the dear materials it replaced; |
| 49 | |
| 50 | - the task that remains is to keep what we have written from forgetting itself. |