A paragraph is its sentences concatenated. Nothing was put between them, which
is right for Chinese — 「。」 already separates — and wrong for English, where
`Adaptive capacity rises.` followed by `Relocation follows.` printed as
`...rises.Relocation...`: a sentence boundary the reader cannot see. CJK output
hid it, so it would have surfaced as an English bug later rather than now.
`sentence_separator` now returns "" or a single space per seam, and the document
carries it as `SentenceRead.separator_before`. The rule is about the seam, not
the language: a space goes in unless both sides are CJK. Mixed seams take the
space. Empty sentences take none. It is derived on every read and never stored,
so it cannot drift from the text, and the client prints `separator_before +
content` and adds no spacing of its own.
No splitting was added anywhere, and none exists: a sentence is one line in the
editor and nothing parses it. The single split this project has ever performed
was the one-time move of the old abstract column, which cut after 「。」 only —
conservative on purpose, since an English abstract is better left in one row
than cut at the first `et al.`.
Five smoke checks cover the seam (Chinese, English, the assembled paragraph,
and that no separator is stored inside the content). 45 checks pass.
A template's abstract paragraph (`0 Abstract`) *is* the paper's abstract: it has
a position in the document, the heading and typography the template gives it,
and the same sentence-by-sentence editing as everything else. `paper.abstract`
was a second home for that text — one the document never reads, so a paper
could show two different abstracts and the column could drift from the body.
The column is gone, from the table, the model, the schemas, the API payloads,
the paper form, the list subtitle and the paper page. Nothing else changed.
The text already written into it is not gone. Revision a83f5c21d7b6 writes each
stored abstract into the paper's body first — one sentence per 。 at the
paragraph carrying the abstract heading, appended after anything already there
rather than replacing it. A template without such a heading keeps the text too,
one position above its first paragraph, where the document renders it under
未设定. Verified against the one paper that had an abstract: 450 characters in,
450 out, identical including `|J| ≤ α · I⁻ᵝ`, split into six sentences in the
`0 Abstract` paragraph, still with its own edit button.
The smoke test no longer assumes an empty database: it records the paper total
before it starts and compares against that, so it can run on a real one.
A paper is a document written against a template. Its structure is never
copied into it: `paper` points at a template and the outline is read live on
every render, so switching `template_id` re-shapes the whole document in one
write.
Sentences are addressed by *position* rather than by a template row id:
`paper_sentence.paper_template_filed_sort` holds the sort of the placement the
sentence belongs to, and `sort` holds its place inside that paragraph. That
indirection is what makes a template switch non-destructive — a sentence that
remembers "position 7" lands on whatever the new template puts at position 7 —
and it is why a paragraph is any position either the template or the content
mentions: the structure survives with no content, and content whose position
the template does not define is still rendered, in order, under 未设定.
Citations are a table rather than a column, since one sentence may quote
several references. `quote` is required — a citation that does not say what it
quotes is refused with 422 — while `reference_id` is a plain nullable integer
with no foreign key, because the reference library does not exist yet.
Deleting a template a paper is written against is refused with 409 and a count,
matching how the field library refuses to drop a field still in use.
scripts/smoke_papers.py walks the whole loop — create, empty structure, write a
paragraph with citations, switch templates, keep unmatched positions, move a
paragraph, delete — in 40 checks, and cleans up after itself.
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