{
  "id": "semantic-responsive-typesetting",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "status": "working",
  "title": "Semantic Responsive Typesetting",
  "subtitle": "The page is a rendition, not the document.",
  "authors": [
    "Chen Enjiao (Ernie)"
  ],
  "updated": "2026-07-13",
  "abstract": "We investigate whether one semantic scholarly document can produce coherent renditions for print, e-ink, and continuous reading while preserving identity, relationships, reading position, and annotations.",
  "nodes": [
    {
      "id": "sec-proposition",
      "type": "heading",
      "text": "1. Proposition",
      "level": 1,
      "source": "PRD §1"
    },
    {
      "id": "p-proposition-1",
      "type": "paragraph",
      "text": "Documents are usually flattened into pages too early. Once meaning becomes coordinates, every new screen or sheet becomes a repair job. Semantic Responsive Typesetting reverses that relationship: the document stays persistent; pages, columns, and line breaks are computed for a target.",
      "source": "PRD §2"
    },
    {
      "id": "q-core",
      "type": "quote",
      "text": "One semantic document. Multiple computed renditions. Persistent identity, relationships, reading position, and annotations.",
      "source": "PRD core proposition"
    },
    {
      "id": "sec-model",
      "type": "heading",
      "text": "2. Composition model",
      "level": 1,
      "source": "PRD §11"
    },
    {
      "id": "p-model-1",
      "type": "paragraph",
      "text": "A canonical graph is combined with a target profile, a deterministic composition policy, and optional target-specific overrides. The renderer selects component variants, measures flow, records violations, and emits both the rendition and an inspectable manifest.",
      "source": "PRD §3, §11"
    },
    {
      "id": "fig-pipeline",
      "type": "figure",
      "title": "Canonical composition pipeline",
      "caption": "Stable semantic content flows through target constraints; geometry is output, never source truth.",
      "source": "PRD §3",
      "relationships": {
        "caption": "cap-pipeline"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "sec-gap",
      "type": "heading",
      "text": "3. Apparent research gap",
      "level": 1,
      "source": "Literature review §1"
    },
    {
      "id": "p-gap-1",
      "type": "paragraph",
      "text": "Adaptive layout, PDF reflow, scholarly reconstruction, and robust annotation anchoring each have substantial prior art. The credible contribution is their integration into a fidelity-constrained, finite-height system and its evaluation across materially different reading surfaces.",
      "source": "Literature review §1"
    },
    {
      "id": "sec-method",
      "type": "heading",
      "text": "4. First experiment",
      "level": 1,
      "source": "PRD §14"
    },
    {
      "id": "p-method-1",
      "type": "paragraph",
      "text": "The first experiment holds content constant and varies representation geometry: A4 print, reMarkable Paper Pro, reMarkable Paper Pro Move, and continuous mobile. We test structural preservation, layout quality, anchor continuity, and composition time.",
      "source": "PRD §7, §14"
    }
  ]
}