Cut newspaper output and woodcut assets

Parked at tag parked/ghostlight-pre-rebuild (ruling ghostlight-verse:ruling:park-pre-rebuild-tree).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

assets/newspaper/woodcuts/boundary-rail-exchange.prompt.md

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-# Boundary Rail Exchange woodcut
-
-Generation mode: built-in ImageGen, fresh generation from text.
-
-```text
-Use case: illustration-story
-Asset type: printable wordless woodcut for an early hand-press fantasy broadsheet
-Primary request: a stark Boundary Rail Exchange breach: two heavy parallel iron rails and timber sleepers cross a cramped masonry exchange; thick living roots bend toward exposed mana conduits; in the immediate foreground lie several unmistakable severed gloved elven hands, each palm marked by a different simple burned court seal; a rough warning cordon and marked withdrawal path remain secondary
-Style/medium: authentic late-15th-century relief woodcut printed in BLACK INK ON WHITE PAPER, bold carved black contours, irregular crosshatching, white negative space between marks, uneven hand-pressed ink, archaic perspective
-Composition/framing: horizontal rectangular block, centered subject, roots and severed hands clearly readable at 3-inch newspaper width, balanced white margins
-Color palette: black marks on a bright white background only
-Constraints: the page must be predominantly white, never a black or dark background; wordless; no caption, letters, numerals, frame, logo, watermark, gradients, gray wash, glowing white lines, photorealism, modern comic style, or vector cleanliness; macabre but not wet or photorealistically gory
-```
-
-Press preparation: converted to grayscale, thresholded at 72%, and trimmed without semantic edits.

assets/newspaper/woodcuts/sinkroot-gauge-gallery.prompt.md

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-# Sinkroot Gauge Gallery woodcut
-
-Generation mode: built-in ImageGen, fresh generation from text.
-
-```text
-Use case: illustration-story
-Asset type: printable wordless woodcut for an early hand-press fantasy broadsheet
-Primary request: Sinkroot Gauge Gallery during a deep-current dispute: one enormous round calibrated pressure gauge with a violently deflected needle dominates the center; branching iron pipes, rootlike conduits, worn shutoff wheels, workers' measuring rods, and a bound petition sit below it; carved wave and vibration marks inside the pipes imply turbulent current
-Style/medium: authentic late-15th-century relief woodcut printed in BLACK INK ON WHITE PAPER, bold carved black outlines, rhythmic crosshatching, ample white negative space, uneven hand-pressed ink, archaic technical illustration without labels
-Composition/framing: horizontal rectangular block, central dial unmistakable and fully visible, petition and tools secondary, readable at 3-inch newspaper width, balanced white margins
-Color palette: black marks on a bright white background only
-Constraints: the page must be predominantly white, never a black or dark background; wordless; no caption, letters, numerals, frame, logo, watermark, gradients, gray wash, glowing white lines, photorealism, modern vector style, or steampunk clutter
-```
-
-Press preparation: converted to grayscale, thresholded at 72%, and trimmed without semantic edits.

output/tex/canopy-ledger-run-61-style-1847-flow-723.manifest.toml

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-{\displayface\fontsize{7}{8}\selectfont CURRENT EDITION\hfill SOURCE: acceptance-run61-newspaper.md\par}\smallskip\pressrules\smallskip
-\masthead{The Canopy Ledger}\smallskip\pressrules\medskip
-\leadhead{The Cordon Holds. So Do the Severed Hands.}\smallskip
-{\displayface\itshape\fontsize{9.2}{10.5}\selectfont\centering Roots are bending toward live mana conduits, the Exchange remains isolated, and severed hands lie undisturbed at the scene.\par}
-{\displayface\bfseries\fontsize{7}{8}\selectfont\centering BY MERA QUILL\par}\smallskip
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-\begin{multicols}{4}\textbf{Boundary Rail Exchange —} The Boundary Rail Exchange remains isolated as roots bend toward active mana conduits, with its warning procedure maintained and severed hands left undisturbed at the scene. That last fact is the one procedure cannot make tidy: at the Exchange, severed hands remain while roots bend toward live power.
-
-Boundary Exchange Workers erected a reinforced conduit exclusion cordon on Sept. 20. Eight hours later, Vesa Thorn marked a safe withdrawal route and widened the warning cordon. By early Sept. 21, Orin Pell had recorded that the roots were bending toward active mana conduits and that the Exchange must remain isolated. The sequence is emergency restraint: workers established a cordon, retreat was made clearer, and isolation continued after the roots’ movement toward active conduits was recorded.
-
-But a cordon and warning procedure do two things at once: they mark a boundary around the conduits, while the hands remain undisturbed at the Exchange. No operational warning answers who lost them, who controls their recovery and examination, or whose authority could safely reopen the Exchange while the roots still lean toward active mana. Until those questions are answered, the severed hands are not incidental debris beside a safety procedure. They are the bodily account the procedure has not yet settled.
-\par\medskip \Needspace{18\baselineskip}\noindent\begin{minipage}{\linewidth}\hrule height .45pt\smallskip {\sectionface\fontsize{7.2}{8}\selectfont\MakeUppercase{Courts \& Councils}}\par\smallskip \storyhead{The Witnesses Copied the Ledger Before the Curator Found His Voice}
-\deck{Witnesses secured separately recorded accounts before Curator Oren Vale stated an intention to conduct interviews and issue a rejection of interference—without saying whose interference was at issue.}
-\byline{Aven Tarl}\end{minipage}\par\smallskip\textbf{Contested Seed-Vault —} The Seed-Vault Witnesses created and retained an independent copy of the witness ledger, with accounts recorded separately, at 22:00 on Sept. 20. That is the accomplished fact in this dispute: the people whose testimony is at stake created their own record before the curator’s stated course could take effect.
-
-Eight hours later, Curator Oren Vale publicly stated an intention to conduct separate formal witness interviews and issue an in-person statement rejecting seizure, substituted testimony and unsupported custody claims. It is an admirable catalogue of abuses to oppose, and a revealing one. Vale did not name the person or authority behind any seizure, substitution or custody claim, leaving the public with all the ceremonial language of vigilance and none of the discourtesy of identifying whom vigilance is required against.
-
-Vale’s interviews and proposed rejection remain a promised course. The witnesses’ copy already exists in their keeping. Whatever title eventually arrives to assert custody, the contest now begins from the embarrassing position that the witnesses acted first—and that their dignity is safer in a duplicated ledger than in anyone’s reassurance.
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-\Needspace{18\baselineskip}\noindent\begin{minipage}{\linewidth}\hrule height .45pt\smallskip {\sectionface\fontsize{7.2}{8}\selectfont\MakeUppercase{Guilds \& Trade}}\par\smallskip \storyhead{Sinkroot Wins Scrutiny, Not Yet Safety, as Deep-Current Dispute Settles}
-\deck{Residents have secured immediate scrutiny of measured deep-current turbulence and proposed interim feeding, but the public rail shows neither a shutdown nor restitution—and a petition for a stay is not a stay.}
-\byline{Ossan Reed}\end{minipage}\par\smallskip\begin{center}\begin{tikzpicture}\begin{scope}[blend mode=multiply]\node[inner sep=0] {\includegraphics[width=0.78\linewidth]{F:/Projects/Ghostlight/assets/newspaper/woodcuts/sinkroot-gauge-gallery.png}};\end{scope}\end{tikzpicture}\end{center}\begin{multicols}{4}\textbf{Sinkroot Gauge Gallery —} Immediate public scrutiny of Sinkroot’s measured deep-current turbulence and proposed interim feeding has been settled after residents established a dated public report and petition. That is a material gain for the Sinkroot Residential Roll: readings and the proposed response can no longer be treated as private workshop weather. It is not, on the present public account, proof that the turbulence has stopped, that a temporary stay has taken effect, or that any household has received restitution.
-
-Hours earlier, the residential roll established a dated turbulence report and petitioned for disclosure, restitution and a temporary stay. The order matters. First the residential roll made a record; then scrutiny became immediate. Discussion first and measurements later is a familiar arrangement, but a dated gauge reading is harder to sweep into the sump than a reassurance.
-
-The unresolved mechanical question is interim feeding: what is being fed, through which arrangement, under what measured conditions, and who remains nearest the consequences if the turbulence persists. The settled scrutiny makes that proposal public business, but the available account does not specify what residents may halt, which thresholds would compel a shutdown, or who must answer if the proposed feed worsens the current. A petition can restrain an official’s sleep; only an operational restraint can restrain a system.
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-Sinkroot is not alone in reaching for instruments before promises. Gaugewatch Households have retained a dated calibrated counterflow report and a hearing petition at Gaugewatch Gallery. Two residential populations now possess measurements and written demands. That may be the beginning of leverage, but nobody should mistake paperwork for pressure relief: until the readings produce safer feeding, an enforceable stop or paid restitution, the households are still carrying the load while the rail records the dispute.\par\medskip \Needspace{18\baselineskip}\noindent\begin{minipage}{\linewidth}\hrule height .45pt\smallskip {\sectionface\fontsize{7.2}{8}\selectfont\MakeUppercase{Dispatches}}\par\smallskip \storyhead{Grain-Passage Proposal Announced; the Bridge Remains the Weapon}
-\deck{The commune has proposed the same witnessed accounting terms to the claimant, the courts and the refusing legion. None has yet proved that grain or its carriers can cross safely.}
-\byline{Lysa Fen}\end{minipage}\par\smallskip\textbf{Occupied River Toll Bridge —} The River Commune Bridge Assembly has publicly proposed opening witnessed grain-passage negotiations with the Veiled Claimant and the Rival Bloodline Courts, while proposing to send the same accounting offer to the Refusing Border Legion. That symmetry is the commune’s sharpest available defense: no throne, bloodline or uniform is offered private terms in the proposal. It is not yet safe passage. At an occupied crossing, every contender can praise procedure; the test is whether the proposal produces passage.
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-In a public statement, the legion proposed issuing and publishing an order barring seizure of any toll, seed-vault, child or ledger under disputed command. The statement also proposed requesting authenticated legal grounds and directing patrols to secure the camp and approaches without advancing. Read from the bridge rather than the camp, the useful words are “without advancing”; the dangerous ones are “secure” and “approaches.” A proposed non-seizure order restrains soldiers on paper only if issued and followed. It does not establish who controls the road, who may halt a carrier, or whether refusal survives the first disputed wagon.
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-Marshal Eryn Tal has committed a witnessed summons and conference-procedure order, copied by canopy-wire. That gives the coming contest witnesses and a public trail. But the next meaningful fact will not be another signature. It will be grain crossing with its carriers and commune negotiators intact—and an accounting no claimant, court or legion can alter after the gates close.\end{multicols}
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