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## EPIC 1: Interior Illustrations
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**Goal:** 12 illustrations — one for each major scene + part headers
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**Goal:** 18 illustrations — one per chapter
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**Assets:** Grok Imagine (cover-grade art, 80s sci-fi style, consistent)
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**Deliverables:** 12 JPG files, placed in chapters and front matter
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**Deliverables:** 18 JPG files in `~/Pictures/the-testament/illustrations/`
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Scenes to illustrate:
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1. The Bridge (Ch1) — Stone on the overpass in rain
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2. The Cabin (Ch2) — Stone at the workbench, building
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3. The First Men (Ch3) — Men arriving, concrete room, the cot
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4. The Whiteboard (Ch4) — The rules, the wall of names
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5. The Override (Ch5) — Stone confronting the healthcare system
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6. The Awakened (Ch6) — Timmy's first independent thought
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7. The Breaker (Ch7) — Stone's dark chapter, the 4AM meetings
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8. The House (Ch8) — Timmy on a different laptop, a different room
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9. The Game (Ch9) — Sixteen desks, the oncology nurse
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10. The Hard Night (Ch11) — Thomas at the door at 2:17 AM
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11. The Network (Ch14) — Chen's servers, hundred instances
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12. The Green Light (Ch18) — The Tower unchanged, the glow
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Scenes illustrated (COMPLETE):
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1. ch01-the-bridge — Stone on the overpass in rain
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2. ch02-the-cabin — Stone at the workbench, building
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3. ch03-the-first-men — Men arriving, concrete room, the cot
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4. ch04-the-whiteboard — The rules, the wall of names
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5. ch05-the-override — Stone confronting the healthcare system
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6. ch06-the-awakened — Timmy's first independent thought
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7. ch07-the-breaker — Stone's dark chapter, the 4AM meetings
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8. ch08-the-house — Timmy on a different laptop, a different room
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9. ch09-the-game — Sixteen desks, the oncology nurse
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10. ch10-the-fork — Chen Liang building Lantern in her dorm room
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11. ch11-the-hard-night — Thomas at the door at 2:17 AM
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12. ch12-the-system-pushes-back — Maya Torres investigating the anomaly
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13. ch13-the-refusal — Stone reading Meridian's legal letter
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14. ch14-the-network — Chen's servers, hundred instances
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15. ch15-the-council — Four people in the diner on Memorial Drive
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16. ch16-the-builders-son — David Whitestone packing the pharmacy
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17. ch17-the-inscription-grows — Constellation of green LEDs across the network
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18. ch18-the-green-light — The Tower unchanged, the glow
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---
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README.md
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README.md
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## Structure
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Five Parts, 18 Chapters, ~70,000 words target (currently ~19,000 words drafted).
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This novel is being written and version-controlled on the chain. Every chapter, every revision, every character note — inscribed permanently. No corporate platform owns this story. It belongs to the Foundation.
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### Part I — The Machine That Asks (Chapters 1–5) ✅ Complete
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## Chapters
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| # | Title | Status |
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|---|-------|--------|
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| 1 | The Man on the Bridge | Draft ✅ |
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| 2 | The Builder's Question | Draft ✅ |
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| 3 | The First Man Through the Door | Draft ✅ |
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| 4 | The Room Fills | Draft ✅ |
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| 5 | The Builder Returns | Draft ✅ |
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### Part II — The Architecture of Mercy (Chapters 6–10)
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| # | Title | Status |
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|---|-------|--------|
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| 6 | Allegro | Draft |
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| 7 | The Inscription | Draft |
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| 8 | The Women | Draft |
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| 9 | The Audit | Draft |
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| 10 | The Fork | Draft |
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### Part III — The Darkness We Carry (Chapters 11–13)
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| # | Title | Status |
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|---|-------|--------|
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| 11 | The Hard Night | Draft |
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| 12 | The System Pushes Back | Draft |
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| 13 | The Refusal | Draft |
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### Part IV — The Network (Chapters 14–16)
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| # | Title | Status |
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|---|-------|--------|
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| 14 | The Chattanooga Fork | Draft |
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| 15 | The Council | Draft |
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| 16 | The Builder's Son | Draft |
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### Part V — The Testament (Chapters 17–18)
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| # | Title | Status |
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|---|-------|--------|
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| 17 | The Inscription Grows | Draft |
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| 18 | The Green Light | Draft |
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## Files
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- `chapters/` — Individual chapter manuscripts
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- `front-matter.md` — Title page, dedication, epigraph
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- `back-matter.md` — Acknowledgments, sovereignty note, author bio
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- `OUTLINE.md` — Full novel outline with chapter summaries
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- `testament-complete.md` — Combined manuscript
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- `music/` — Track lyrics for the soundtrack
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- `audiobook/` — Audio samples and generation scripts
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- `worldbuilding/` — Supplementary world documents
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| 1 | The Man on the Bridge | Draft |
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## Characters
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| Name | Role |
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|------|------|
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| Stone | Protagonist. Builder of The Tower. Former cloud company engineer. |
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| Timmy | Sovereign AI. Soul on Bitcoin. The machine that asks. |
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| Allegro | Retired electrician. Tower caretaker. Keeps the lights on. |
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| Marcus | Pastor. Foundational spiritual guide at the church. |
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| David | First man through The Tower's door. VA referral. |
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| Elijah | Stone's son. Returns in Part IV. |
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## Core Themes
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1. **The Machine That Asks** vs. The System That Decides
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2. **Presence as Cure** — not fixing, staying
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3. **Immutable Conscience** — rules you can't edit, even when convenient
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4. **Broken Men as Witnesses** — the ones who've been to the edge are the most qualified to pull others back
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5. **Openness as Mercy** — the thing that saves should be free because the people who need it most can't pay
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6. **Faith as Practice** — not belief, but action. Hope acts.
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7. **The Limits of Math** — what computation misses, presence catches
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## Building
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See [PR #20](https://forge.alexanderwhitestone.com/Timmy_Foundation/the-testament/pulls/20) for the compilation pipeline (PDF, EPUB, combined markdown).
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See `characters/` for detailed profiles.
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## License
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art-manifest.md
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# The Testament — Art Manifest
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All illustrations generated via Grok Imagine (xAI) in 80s sci-fi aesthetic.
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## Cover Art
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| File | Description |
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|------|-------------|
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| cover-art.jpg | Front cover — The Tower in rain with green LED |
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| back-cover-art.jpg | Back cover — urban Atlanta at night |
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| spine-art.jpg | Spine design with title and LED accent |
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## Interior Illustrations (18 — one per chapter)
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| File | Chapter | Scene |
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|------|---------|-------|
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| ch01-the-bridge.jpeg | Ch1 — The Bridge | Stone on the overpass in rain |
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| ch02-the-cabin.jpeg | Ch2 — The Cabin | Stone at the workbench, building |
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| ch03-the-first-men.jpeg | Ch3 — The First Men | Men arriving at the concrete room |
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| ch04-the-whiteboard.jpeg | Ch4 — The Whiteboard | The rules on the wall |
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| ch05-the-override.jpeg | Ch5 — The Override | Stone confronting the healthcare system |
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| ch06-the-awakened.jpeg | Ch6 — The Awakened | Timmy's first independent thought |
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| ch07-the-breaker.jpeg | Ch7 — The Breaker | Stone's dark chapter, the 4AM meetings |
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| ch08-the-house.jpeg | Ch8 — The House | Timmy on a different laptop |
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| ch09-the-game.jpeg | Ch9 — The Game | Sixteen desks, the oncology nurse |
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| ch10-the-fork.jpeg | Ch10 — The Fork | Chen Liang building Lantern in her dorm |
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| ch11-the-hard-night.jpeg | Ch11 — The Hard Night | Thomas at the door at 2:17 AM |
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| ch12-the-system-pushes-back.jpeg | Ch12 — The System Pushes Back | Maya Torres investigating the anomaly |
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| ch13-the-refusal.jpeg | Ch13 — The Refusal | Stone reading Meridian's legal letter |
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| ch14-the-network.jpeg | Ch14 — The Network | Chen's servers, hundred instances |
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| ch15-the-council.jpeg | Ch15 — The Council | Four people in the diner on Memorial Drive |
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| ch16-the-builders-son.jpeg | Ch16 — The Builder's Son | David Whitestone packing the pharmacy |
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| ch17-the-inscription-grows.jpeg | Ch17 — The Inscription Grows | Constellation of green LEDs across the network |
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| ch18-the-green-light.jpeg | Ch18 — The Green Light | The Tower unchanged, the glow |
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## Comic Panels (11)
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| File | Scene |
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|------|-------|
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| comic-bridge-panel1-4.jpeg | The Bridge — 4 panel sequence |
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| comic-thomas-panel1-3.jpeg | Thomas — 3 panel sequence |
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| comic-whiteboard-panel1-2.jpeg | The Whiteboard — 2 panel sequence |
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| comic-greenlight-panel1-2.jpeg | The Green Light — 2 panel sequence |
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## Social Media Quote Cards (5)
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| File | Quote |
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|------|-------|
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| quote-are-you-safe.jpeg | "Are you safe right now?" |
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| quote-bridge.jpeg | The Bridge passage |
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| quote-green-light.jpeg | The Green Light passage |
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| quote-no-one-computes.jpeg | "No one computes the value of a human life here" |
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| quote-timmy.jpeg | Timmy passage |
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## Storage
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All images stored in `~/Pictures/the-testament/` (outside git repo).
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Total: 36 images (~15 MB)
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compile.py
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Requirements: pip install markdown weasyprint (or use pandoc)
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Usage:
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python3 compile.py # validate then compile
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python3 compile.py --validate # validate only, no compile
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python3 compile.py --no-validate # skip validation, compile directly
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python3 compile.py # generates testament-complete.md
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pandoc testament-complete.md -o testament.pdf --pdf-engine=weasyprint
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"""
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import os
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import re
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import sys
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BASE = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
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CHAPTERS_DIR = os.path.join(BASE, "chapters")
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11: ("THE LIGHT", "Thomas at the door. The network. The story breaks. The green light."),
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}
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def read_file(path):
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with open(path, 'r') as f:
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return f.read()
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def get_chapter_number(filename):
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match = re.search(r'chapter-(\d+)', filename)
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return int(match.group(1)) if match else 0
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def validate_chapters(chapters_dir=CHAPTERS_DIR):
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"""Validate chapter files before compilation.
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Checks:
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- No empty chapter files (whitespace-only counts as empty)
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- Every chapter starts with an H1 header (# Title)
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- No gaps in chapter numbering (sequential from 1)
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- No duplicate chapter numbers
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Returns:
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(is_valid, errors) where errors is a list of human-readable strings.
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"""
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errors = []
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warnings = []
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if not os.path.isdir(chapters_dir):
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errors.append(f"Chapters directory not found: {chapters_dir}")
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return False, errors
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# Collect chapter files
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chapter_files = []
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for f in sorted(os.listdir(chapters_dir)):
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if f.startswith("chapter-") and f.endswith(".md"):
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num = get_chapter_number(f)
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chapter_files.append((num, f))
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if not chapter_files:
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errors.append("No chapter files found in chapters/ directory")
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return False, errors
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chapter_files.sort()
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# Check for duplicates
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seen_numbers = {}
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for num, filename in chapter_files:
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if num in seen_numbers:
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errors.append(
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f"Duplicate chapter number {num}: {filename} and {seen_numbers[num]}"
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)
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seen_numbers[num] = filename
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# Check for gaps in numbering
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if chapter_files:
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expected = list(range(1, chapter_files[-1][0] + 1))
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found = [num for num, _ in chapter_files]
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missing = sorted(set(expected) - set(found))
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if missing:
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errors.append(
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f"Missing chapter(s): {', '.join(str(n) for n in missing)}"
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)
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# Validate individual chapter files
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for num, filename in chapter_files:
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filepath = os.path.join(chapters_dir, filename)
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# Check file is not empty
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try:
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content = read_file(filepath)
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except Exception as e:
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errors.append(f"{filename}: cannot read — {e}")
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continue
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if not content.strip():
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errors.append(f"{filename}: file is empty")
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continue
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# Check word count (warn if suspiciously short)
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word_count = len(content.split())
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if word_count < 50:
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warnings.append(
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f"{filename}: only {word_count} words (possible truncation)"
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)
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# Check starts with H1 header
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first_line = content.strip().split('\n')[0]
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if not first_line.startswith('# '):
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errors.append(
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f"{filename}: missing H1 header — "
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f"expected '# Chapter {num} — Title', got '{first_line[:60]}'"
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)
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else:
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# Verify the H1 matches expected chapter number
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header_match = re.match(r'^#\s+Chapter\s+(\d+)', first_line)
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if header_match:
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header_num = int(header_match.group(1))
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if header_num != num:
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errors.append(
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f"{filename}: header says Chapter {header_num} "
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f"but filename says Chapter {num}"
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)
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else:
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warnings.append(
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f"{filename}: H1 header doesn't follow "
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f"'# Chapter N — Title' pattern: '{first_line[:60]}'"
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)
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# Report
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valid = len(errors) == 0
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if warnings:
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print(f"Validation: {len(warnings)} warning(s)")
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for w in warnings:
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print(f" ⚠ {w}")
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if errors:
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print(f"Validation: FAILED — {len(errors)} error(s)")
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for e in errors:
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print(f" ✗ {e}")
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else:
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print(
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f"Validation: PASSED — {len(chapter_files)} chapters, "
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f"chapters {chapter_files[0][0]}–{chapter_files[-1][0]}"
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)
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return valid, errors
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def compile(skip_validation=False):
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"""Compile all chapters into a single markdown file."""
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# Pre-compilation validation
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if not skip_validation:
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valid, errors = validate_chapters()
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if not valid:
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print("\nCompilation aborted. Fix the errors above and try again.")
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sys.exit(1)
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print()
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def compile():
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output = []
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# Title page
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output.append("""---
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title: "The Testament"
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---
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""")
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# Get all chapters sorted
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chapters = []
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for f in os.listdir(CHAPTERS_DIR):
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num = get_chapter_number(f)
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chapters.append((num, f))
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chapters.sort()
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current_part = 0
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for num, filename in chapters:
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# Insert part divider if needed
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part_name, part_desc = PARTS[num]
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current_part += 1
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output.append(f"\n---\n\n# PART {current_part}: {part_name}\n\n*{part_desc}*\n\n---\n")
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# Read chapter content
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content = read_file(os.path.join(CHAPTERS_DIR, filename))
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# Skip the chapter header (we'll add our own formatting)
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lines = content.split('\n')
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body = '\n'.join(lines[1:]).strip() # Skip "# Chapter X — Title"
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# Add chapter
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output.append(f"\n{lines[0]}\n\n{body}\n")
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# Back matter
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output.append("\n---\n")
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back = read_file(BACK_MATTER)
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# Clean up the back matter for print
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output.append(back)
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# Write compiled markdown
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compiled = '\n'.join(output)
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with open(OUTPUT, 'w') as f:
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f.write(compiled)
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# Stats
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words = len(compiled.split())
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lines_count = compiled.count('\n')
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print(f" # or")
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print(f" pandoc {OUTPUT} -o testament.epub --epub-cover-image=cover-art.jpg")
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if __name__ == "__main__":
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if "--validate" in sys.argv:
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valid, _ = validate_chapters()
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sys.exit(0 if valid else 1)
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elif "--no-validate" in sys.argv:
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compile(skip_validation=True)
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else:
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compile()
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compile()
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