Letters edition: datelines and signatures

// ═══ Postext Cookbook · Nº 064 · Letters edition: datelines and signatures ════════════
// https://postext.dev/en/cookbook/letters-edition
// Code: MIT · Text: Frederick II and Voltaire, letters of 1740 and 1778 (PD) · Cover: drawn in code
// Fonts: Crimson Pro, IM Fell French Canon, IM Fell DW Pica SC (SIL OFL) · Needs postext ≥ 1.4.1
import { buildDocument, renderPageToCanvas, clearMeasurementCache, registerResourceImage }
  from 'https://esm.sh/postext';

const LANG = 'en'; // @lang: the language of the sample document ('en' | 'es')
const RECIPE = 'letters-edition';

// ─── 1 · Design ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
// #region palette: iron-gall ink on cream paper, wax red, green morocco and gilt
const palette = {
  ink: '#2a2320', // the text: a warm near-black
  paper: '#f6efe2', // the page, and the lettering on the cover
  seal: '#9c2b24', // the letter numbers, and the wax on the cover
  leather: '#2a4536', // the cover: a green morocco binding
  gilt: '#d0b67c', // its tooled border and the names on it
  rule: '#c8b99f', // the folds drawn on the cover
  muted: '#75695d', // the running heads
};
// A design element paints the hex written beside its paletteId (gotcha: palette-skips-designs).
const col = (id) => ({ hex: palette[id], model: 'hex', paletteId: id });
const colorPalette = [
  ...Object.entries(palette).map(([id, hex]) => ({ id, name: id, value: { hex, model: 'hex' } })),
  // The engine's default colours, the italic of the headnote among them, link to 'main-color';
  // here it is the ink, not the default blue.
  { id: 'main-color', name: 'ink (defaults)', value: { hex: palette.ink, model: 'hex' } },
];
// #endregion
const TRIM = { width: 140, height: 210 }; // the French 14 × 21 format
const LEAD = 14.4; // pt: the body's leading, the grid every letter starts on
const LINES = 33; // lines of text on a full page
const TOP = 22; // mm: the top margin
const MARGIN = { top: TOP, inner: 17.5, outer: 14.5, // mm, mirrored
  bottom: TRIM.height - TOP - (LINES * LEAD * 25.4) / 72 }; // ends the page on line 33
const sc = { fontFamily: 'IM Fell DW Pica SC' }; // its lower case is cut as small capitals
const fell = { fontFamily: 'IM Fell French Canon', italic: true }; // the display italic
const crimson = { fontFamily: 'Crimson Pro' }; // the text face
const at = (to, edge, x = 0, y = 0) => ({ anchor: { to, edge }, offset: { x: mm(x), y: mm(y) } });

// #region answer: a letter head read from the heading, and styles for the letter's parts
// Each letter is a level-1 heading that carries its place and date as attributes:
//   # Frédéric à Voltaire {place="À Charlottembourg" date="6 juin 1740"}
// (a value holds no { or }, and one with " goes in single quotes: gotcha attr-values)
const letterHead = { enabled: true, slot: { elements: [
  // {number} prints numberingTemplate '{1:I}' (gotcha: heading-number-placeholders).
  { kind: 'text', id: 'number', content: 'Lettre {number}', ...sc, fontSize: pt(9),
    letterSpacing: pt(1.8), color: col('seal'), placement: at('container', 'top-left') },
  { kind: 'text', id: 'title', content: '{titleText}', ...fell, fontSize: pt(15),
    color: col('ink'),
    placement: at('#number', 'below', 0, 1) },
  // The dateline spans the measure under the title and sets its words flush right.
  { kind: 'text', id: 'dateline', content: '{attr.place}, le {attr.date}.', ...crimson,
    italic: true, fontSize: pt(10.4), color: col('ink'), align: 'right',
    placement: { ...at('#title', 'below', 0, 1.5), size: { width: 'fill' } } },
] } };
// The salutation, the signature and the postscript, each a :::paragraphs{style="…"} container:
//   :::paragraphs{style="signature"}
//   Fédéric.
//   :::
const letterParts = [
  { id: 'vedette', firstLineIndent: pt(0) }, // 'Sire,' on a line of its own, flush left
  { id: 'signature', ...sc, fontSize: pt(10.5), textAlign: 'right', marginTop: pt(LEAD / 2) },
  { id: 'postscript', fontSize: pt(9), lineHeight: pt(12.6), marginTop: pt(LEAD / 2) },
];
// Hooked up below: letterHead designs the level-1 heading, letterParts joins paragraphStyles.
// #endregion

// #region letters: numbered I, II, III and run on, two grid lines apart
const letters = { level: 1, numberingTemplate: '{1:I}', advancedDesign: letterHead,
  // Written out: 1.4.1 drops the H1 page break for any headings object (gotcha:
  // headings-drop-h1-break), and a fixed engine would put each letter on a recto.
  breakBefore: { enabled: false }, marginTop: pt(2 * LEAD),
  // The hidden heading line is measured in the heading face: italic keeps it the IM Fell cut
  // that FONTS loads (gotcha: fonts-first). Upright, it would need the roman, which FONTS
  // leaves out; the layout would change only for a title long enough to wrap.
  italic: true };
// #endregion

// #region running-heads: the correspondents on the verso, the date of the letter on the recto
const HEAD_Y = 12; // mm from the top edge
const head = (id, content, parity, placement, look = {}) => ({ kind: 'text', id, content,
  parity, pages: 'body', ...sc, fontSize: pt(8.5), letterSpacing: pt(0.9), color: col('muted'),
  placement, ...look });
const folio = { ...crimson, fontSize: pt(9), letterSpacing: pt(0), color: col('ink') };
const header = { elements: [
  head('verso-folio', '{pageNumber}', 'even', at('page', 'top-left', MARGIN.outer, HEAD_Y), folio),
  head('verso-names', '{author}', 'even', at('page', 'top-left', MARGIN.outer + 8, HEAD_Y)),
  // {attr.date} reads the last letter that starts on or before the page.
  head('recto-date', '{attr.date}', 'odd', at('page', 'top-right', -(MARGIN.outer + 8), HEAD_Y),
    { ...crimson, italic: true, fontSize: pt(9.5), letterSpacing: pt(0) }),
  head('recto-folio', '{pageNumber}', 'odd', at('page', 'top-right', -MARGIN.outer, HEAD_Y),
    folio),
] };
// #endregion

// #region cover: page 1 is a heading style with the drawing and the title; :::pagebreak ends it
// The Markdown: # Mon sort \\ est changé {style="cover"}, then :::pagebreak, or the headnote
// and the first letter start on the cover (gotcha: cover-pagebreak).
const onCover = (y) => at('page', 'top', 0, y); // centred, y mm below the top edge
// numbered: false keeps the cover out of the count, so the first letter is I.
const cover = { id: 'cover', numbered: false,
  // span: 'page' although the book has one column. Kept in the column, the design is clipped
  // to the column's top and bottom (paper above and below the leather, no names) and its title
  // loses the \\ break; page 1 would also count as a 'body' page and print the running heads.
  span: 'page', advancedDesign: { enabled: true, slot: { elements: [
    { kind: 'image', id: 'art', resourceId: 'cover',
      placement: { ...at('bleed', 'top-left'), size: { width: 'fill', height: 'fill' } } },
    { kind: 'text', id: 'names', content: '{author}', ...sc, fontSize: pt(9.5),
      letterSpacing: pt(2), color: col('gilt'), placement: onCover(18) },
    // \\ in the heading breaks the title here; lineHeight is a multiple (gotcha:
    // design-lineheight-multiple), and 'wrap' keeps the ellipsis off (overflow-ellipsis-default).
    { kind: 'text', id: 'title', content: '{titleText}', ...fell, fontSize: pt(50),
      lineHeight: 1, color: col('paper'), align: 'center', overflow: 'wrap',
      placement: onCover(24) },
    { kind: 'text', id: 'subtitle', content: '{subtitle}', ...crimson, italic: true,
      fontSize: pt(12), color: col('paper'), placement: onCover(62) },
  ] } } };
// #endregion

// #region text: Crimson Pro at 10/14.4 pt, set in French
// Justification, hyphenation, whole-paragraph line breaking and the widow, orphan and runt
// rules are defaults; locale 'fr' (in the config) picks the French patterns.
// The letters keep the transcription's unspaced ; : ? and !, because a narrow no-break
// space is a place to break the line in 1.4.1 (gotcha: nbsp-breaks).
const bodyText = { fontFamily: 'Crimson Pro', fontSize: pt(10), lineHeight: pt(LEAD),
  color: col('ink'), firstLineIndent: mm(5),
  // No :ref here, but 1.4.1 leaves this one blue whatever main-color says (gotcha:
  // palette-skips-designs), and the default-skin check reads it.
  referenceColor: col('ink'),
  // A word space never shrinks below 75 % of the font's. At the default 60 %, the tightest
  // line on page 5 sets its spaces at 0.70 (each VDT line carries its justifiedSpaceRatio).
  minWordSpacing: 0.75,
  // A runt fix may add tracking 1.4.1 measures but never paints (gotcha:
  // runt-tracking-unpainted); no paragraph here needs one, edited text might.
  maxRuntTracking: 0 };
// #endregion

const config = () => ({ // a factory: the engine caches resolved configs per object
  locale: 'fr', // the exact code of the bundled patterns (gotcha: hyphenation-locales)
  colorPalette,
  page: { sizePreset: 'custom', width: mm(TRIM.width), height: mm(TRIM.height), dpi: 150,
    backgroundColor: col('paper'), margins: { top: mm(MARGIN.top), bottom: mm(MARGIN.bottom),
      left: mm(MARGIN.inner), right: mm(MARGIN.outer), mirror: true } }, // left = inner
  layout: { layoutType: 'single' },
  bodyText,
  // A heading's own line is hidden under its design but still measured, in this face and weight.
  headings: { fontFamily: 'IM Fell French Canon', fontWeight: 400, levels: [letters] },
  headingStyles: [cover],
  paragraphStyles: [...letterParts,
    // Frederick's verses, one paragraph per line (a one-line paragraph is never stretched), with
    // a line of space above and below; the two closing alexandrines start 7 mm further left.
    { id: 'verse', firstLineIndent: mm(14), marginTop: pt(LEAD) },
    { id: 'verse-long', firstLineIndent: mm(7), marginBottom: pt(LEAD) },
    // The editor's headnote at 9.6 on 13 pt, italic through *…* in the Markdown, since a
    // paragraph style has no italic setting.
    { id: 'headnote', fontSize: pt(9.6), lineHeight: pt(13), firstLineIndent: pt(0) },
    { id: 'colophon', fontSize: pt(7.8), lineHeight: pt(10.8), textAlign: 'left',
      firstLineIndent: pt(0), marginTop: pt(3 * LEAD) }],
  header,
  footer: { elements: [] }, // the folios ride in the header
});

// #region art: the cover, drawn in code and seeded: two folded letters on green morocco
let seed = 1740; // Mulberry32, a tiny seeded PRNG: never Math.random() in a recipe
const rand = () => {
  let r = Math.imul((seed = (seed + 0x6d2b79f5) | 0) ^ (seed >>> 15), 1 | seed);
  r = (r + Math.imul(r ^ (r >>> 7), 61 | r)) ^ r;
  return ((r ^ (r >>> 14)) >>> 0) / 4294967296;
};
const n = (v) => v.toFixed(2);
const channel = (hex, i) => parseInt(hex.slice(i, i + 2), 16);
const mix = (a, b, k) => `#${[1, 3, 5].map((i) => Math.round(channel(a, i) * (1 - k)
  + channel(b, i) * k).toString(16).padStart(2, '0')).join('')}`; // a towards b by k
const W = TRIM.width;
const H = TRIM.height;
const SHEET = mix(palette.paper, '#ffffff', 0.35);
const SHADE = mix(palette.paper, palette.rule, 0.55);

// A line of handwriting in the ink of the text: each word a looped trochoid, one loop per
// letter, about one loop in five twice as tall, slanted forward.
function scrawl(x0, y0, length, size) {
  let d = '';
  let x = x0;
  while (x < x0 + length - size) {
    const loops = 3 + Math.floor(rand() * 5);
    const heights = Array.from({ length: loops }, () => (rand() < 0.22 ? 1.8 : 0.9));
    const pts = [];
    for (let t = 0; t <= loops * Math.PI * 2; t += 0.3) {
      const h = heights[Math.min(loops - 1, Math.floor(t / (Math.PI * 2)))] * size * 0.5;
      const y = -h * (1 - Math.cos(t)); // up and back to the baseline once a letter
      pts.push(`${n(x + t * size * 0.07 - Math.sin(t) * size * 0.18 - y * 0.3)} ${n(y0 + y)}`);
    }
    d += `M${pts.join(' L')}`;
    x += loops * Math.PI * 2 * size * 0.07 + size * (0.8 + rand() * 0.5);
  }
  return `<path d="${d}" fill="none" stroke="${palette.ink}" stroke-width="${n(size * 0.08)}" `
    + 'stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" opacity="0.85"/>';
}

// A sheet folded into a packet, turned by `angle` about its centre, shadow first.
function sheet(cx, cy, w, h, angle, inner) {
  const turn = `translate(${cx} ${cy}) rotate(${angle})`;
  return `<g transform="${turn}"><rect x="${n(-w / 2 + 0.8)}" y="${n(-h / 2 + 1.3)}" width="${w}" `
    + `height="${h}" fill="${mix(palette.leather, '#000000', 0.5)}" opacity="0.5"/>`
    + `<rect x="${n(-w / 2)}" y="${n(-h / 2)}" width="${w}" height="${h}" fill="${SHEET}"/>`
    + `${inner(w, h)}</g>`;
}

// The front of the first packet: the address in three lines and a flourish.
const address = (w, h) => scrawl(-w * 0.2, -h * 0.14, w * 0.4, 3)
  + scrawl(-w * 0.34, h * 0.06, w * 0.68, 3) + scrawl(-w * 0.06, h * 0.26, w * 0.42, 3)
  + `<path d="M${n(-w * 0.1)} ${n(h * 0.34)} C${n(w * 0.05)} ${n(h * 0.4)} ${n(w * 0.2)} `
  + `${n(h * 0.28)} ${n(w * 0.33)} ${n(h * 0.33)}" fill="none" stroke="${palette.ink}" `
  + 'stroke-width="0.3" stroke-linecap="round" opacity="0.8"/>';

// The back of the second: two side folds, the top flap down to its tip, and the seal on it.
function sealed(w, h) {
  const tip = [0, h * 0.1];
  const folds = [[-w / 2, h / 2], [w / 2, h / 2]].map(([x, y]) =>
    `<path d="M${n(x)} ${n(y)} L${n(tip[0])} ${n(tip[1])}" stroke="${SHADE}" stroke-width="0.4"/>`);
  const flap = `<path d="M${n(-w / 2)} ${n(-h / 2)} L${n(w / 2)} ${n(-h / 2)} L${n(tip[0])} `
    + `${n(tip[1])} Z" fill="${mix(SHEET, palette.rule, 0.18)}" stroke="${SHADE}" `
    + 'stroke-width="0.35"/>';
  return folds.join('') + flap + seal(tip[0], tip[1] - 1, 8.5);
}

// Sealing wax: an uneven disc, a pressed ring, a six-petal stamp and a light edge.
function seal(cx, cy, r) {
  const pts = [];
  for (let i = 0; i < 36; i++) {
    const a = (i / 36) * Math.PI * 2;
    const rr = r * (0.9 + rand() * 0.16 + (i % 9 === 4 ? 0.14 : 0));
    pts.push(`${n(cx + Math.cos(a) * rr)} ${n(cy + Math.sin(a) * rr)}`);
  }
  const dark = mix(palette.seal, palette.ink, 0.35);
  const petals = [0, 60, 120, 180, 240, 300].map((deg) => `<ellipse cx="${n(cx)}" `
    + `cy="${n(cy - r * 0.28)}" rx="${n(r * 0.12)}" ry="${n(r * 0.26)}" fill="${dark}" `
    + `transform="rotate(${deg} ${n(cx)} ${n(cy)})"/>`).join('');
  return `<path d="M${pts.join(' L')} Z" fill="${palette.seal}"/>`
    + `<circle cx="${n(cx)}" cy="${n(cy)}" r="${n(r * 0.66)}" fill="none" stroke="${dark}" `
    + `stroke-width="${n(r * 0.07)}"/>${petals}<circle cx="${n(cx)}" cy="${n(cy)}" `
    + `r="${n(r * 0.1)}" fill="${dark}"/><path d="M${n(cx - r * 0.72)} ${n(cy - r * 0.3)} `
    + `A${n(r * 0.8)} ${n(r * 0.8)} 0 0 1 ${n(cx - r * 0.2)} ${n(cy - r * 0.78)}" fill="none" `
    + `stroke="${mix(palette.seal, '#ffffff', 0.35)}" stroke-width="${n(r * 0.07)}" `
    + 'stroke-linecap="round"/>';
}

function coverSvg() {
  // The binding: green leather to the edges, a gilt double fillet and a lozenge at each corner.
  const tooling = [6, 7.6].map((inset, i) => `<rect x="${inset}" y="${inset}" `
    + `width="${W - 2 * inset}" height="${H - 2 * inset}" fill="none" stroke="${palette.gilt}" `
    + `stroke-width="${i ? 0.25 : 0.7}"/>`).join('') + [[6, 6], [W - 6, 6], [6, H - 6],
    [W - 6, H - 6]].map(([x, y]) => `<path d="M${x} ${y - 2.4} L${x + 2.4} ${y} L${x} ${y + 2.4} `
    + `L${x - 2.4} ${y} Z" fill="${palette.gilt}"/>`).join('');
  const body = `<rect width="${W}" height="${H}" fill="${palette.leather}"/>${tooling}`
    + sheet(W / 2 + 9, 152, 90, 58, 7, address) + sheet(W / 2 - 3, 102, 88, 55, -4, sealed);
  return `<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="${W * 10}" height="${H * 10}" `
    + `viewBox="0 0 ${W} ${H}">${body}</svg>`;
}
// The cover's resource: the design's image element names it by id, and loadSvg() below
// registers the drawing under its fileId.
const resources = [{ id: 'cover', typeId: 'figure', kind: 'svg', createdAt: 0, updatedAt: 0,
  svg: { fileId: 'cover.svg', width: W * 10, height: H * 10 },
  altText: 'A green leather cover with a gilt double fillet. Two folded letters lie on it: '
    + 'the lower one shows an address in brown-black handwriting, the upper one lies face down, '
    + 'its top flap closed by a red wax seal.' }];
// #endregion

// ─── 2 · Content ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
const markdown = String.raw`---
Markdown sample · 120 lines · content.en.md
title: "Mon sort est changé"
subtitle: "Trois lettres, 1740 et 1778"
author: "Frédéric II et Voltaire"
---

# Mon sort \\ est changé {style="cover"}

:::pagebreak

:::paragraphs{style="headnote"}
*Frédéric-Guillaume I^er^, roi de Prusse, meurt à Potsdam le 31 mai 1740. Six jours plus tard, son fils, qui règne désormais sous le nom de Frédéric II, écrit de Charlottembourg à Voltaire, son correspondant depuis août 1736. Les deux premières lettres de ce choix sont de ce mois de juin. La troisième, écrite de Paris le 1^er^ avril 1778, ferme le volume de 1889 d’où viennent ces textes. Voltaire meurt à Paris le 30 mai suivant. On garde l’orthographe de l’édition; la vedette et la signature sont détachées du texte.*
:::

# Frédéric à Voltaire {place="À Charlottembourg" date="6 juin 1740"}

:::paragraphs{style="vedette"}
Mon cher ami,
:::

Mon sort est changé, et j’ai assisté aux derniers moments d’un roi, à son agonie, à sa mort. En parvenant à la royauté, je n’avais pas besoin assurément de cette leçon pour être dégoûté de la vanité des grandeurs humaines.

J’avais projeté un petit ouvrage de métaphysique; il s’est changé en un ouvrage de politique. Je croyais joûter avec l’aimable Voltaire, et il me faut escrimer avec Machiavel. Enfin, mon cher Voltaire, nous ne sommes point maîtres de notre sort. Le tourbillon des événements nous entraîne, et il faut se laisser entraîner. Ne voyez en moi, je vous prie, qu’un citoyen zélé, un philosophe un peu sceptique, mais un ami véritablement fidèle. Pour dieu, ne m’écrivez qu’en homme, et méprisez avec moi les titres, les noms, et tout l’éclat extérieur.

Jusqu’à présent il me reste à peine le temps de me reconnaître; j’ai des occupations infinies: je m’en donne encore de surplus; mais malgré tout ce travail, il me reste toujours du temps assez pour admirer vos ouvrages et pour puiser chez vous des instructions et des délassements.

Assurez la marquise de mon estime. Je l’admire autant que ses vastes connaissances et la rare capacité de son esprit le méritent.

Adieu, mon cher Voltaire; si je vis, je vous verrai, et même dès cette année. Aimez-moi toujours, et soyez toujours sincère ami avec votre ami

:::paragraphs{style="signature"}
Fédéric.
:::

# Frédéric à Voltaire {place="À Charlottembourg" date="12 juin 1740"}

:::paragraphs{style="verse"}
Non, ce n’est plus du mont Rémus,

Douce et studieuse retraite

D’où mes vers vous sont parvenus,

Que je date ces vers confus:

Car dans ce moment le poète

Et le prince sont confondus.

Désormais mon peuple que j’aime

Est l’unique Dieu que je sers:

Adieu les vers et les concerts.

Tous les plaisirs. Voltaire même;

Mon devoir est mon Dieu suprême.

Qu’il entraîne de soins divers!

Quel fardeau que le diadème!

Quand ce dieu sera satisfait,

Alors dans vos bras, cher Voltaire,

Je volerai, plus prompt qu’un trait,
:::

:::paragraphs{style="verse-long"}
Puiser, dans les leçons de mon ami sincère,

Quel doit être d’un roi le sacré caractère.
:::

Vous voyez, mon cher ami, que le changement du sort ne m’a pas tout à fait guéri de la métromanie, et que peut-être je n’en guérirai jamais. J’estime trop l’art d’Horace et de Voltaire pour y renoncer; et je suis du sentiment que chaque chose de la vie a son temps.

J’avais commencé une épître sur les abus de la mode et de la coutume, lors même que la coutume de la primogéniture m’obligeait de monter sur le trône et de quitter mon épître pour quelque temps. J’aurais volontiers changé mon épître en satire contre cette même mode, si je ne savais que la satire doit être bannie de la bouche des princes.

Enfin, mon cher Voltaire, je flotte entre vingt occupations, et je ne déplore que la brièveté des jours, qui me paraissent trop courts de vingt-quatre heures.

Je vous avoue que la vie d’un homme qui n’existe que pour réfléchir et pour lui-même, me semble infiniment préférable à la vie d’un homme dont l’unique occupation doit être de faire le bonheur des autres.

Vos vers sont charmants. Je n’en dirai rien, car ils sont trop flatteurs.

Mon cher Voltaire, ne vous refusez pas plus longtemps à l’empressement que j’ai de vous voir. Faites en ma faveur tout ce que vous croyez que votre humanité comporte. J’irai à la fin d’auguste à Vesel, et peut-être plus loin. Promettez-moi de me joindre, car je ne saurais vivre heureux ni mourir tranquille sans vous avoir embrassé. Adieu.

:::paragraphs{style="signature"}
Fédéric.
:::

:::paragraphs{style="postscript"}
Mille compliments à la marquise. Je travaille des deux mains; d’un côté à l’armée, de l’autre au peuple et aux beaux-arts.
:::

# Voltaire à Frédéric {place="À Paris" date="1er avril 1778"}

:::paragraphs{style="vedette"}
Sire,
:::

Le gentilhomme français qui rendra cette lettre à Votre Majesté, et qui passe pour être digne de paraître devant Elle, pourra vous dire que si je n’ai pas eu l’honneur de vous écrire depuis longtemps, c’est que j’ai été occupé à éviter deux choses qui me poursuivaient dans Paris: les sifflets et la mort.

Il est plaisant qu’à quatre-vingt-quatre ans j’aie échappé à deux maladies mortelles. Voilà ce que c’est que de vous être consacré: je me suis renommé de vous, et j’ai été sauvé.

J’ai vu avec surprise et avec une satisfaction bien douce, à la représentation d’une tragédie nouvelle, que le public, qui regardait il y a trente ans Constantin et Théodose comme les modèles des princes, et même des saints, a applaudi avec des transports inouïs à des vers qui disent que Constantin et Théodose n’ont été que des tyrans superstitieux. J’ai vu vingt preuves pareilles du progrès que la philosophie a fait enfin dans toutes les conditions. Je ne désespérerais pas de faire prononcer dans un mois le panégyrique de l’empereur Julien: et assurément si les Parisiens se souviennent qu’il a rendu chez eux la justice comme Caton, et qu’il a combattu pour eux comme César, ils lui doivent une éternelle reconnaissance.

Il est donc vrai, Sire, qu’à la fin les hommes s’éclairent, et que ceux qui se croient payés pour les aveugler ne sont pas toujours les maîtres de leur crever les yeux! Grâces en soient rendus à Votre Majesté! Vous avez vaincu les préjugés comme vos autres ennemis: vous jouissez de vos établissements en tout genre. Vous êtes le vainqueur de la superstition, ainsi que le soutien de la liberté germanique.

Vivez plus longtemps que moi, pour affermir tous les empires que vous avez fondés. Puisse Frédéric le Grand être Frédéric l’immortel!

Daignez agréer le profond respect et l’inviolable attachement de

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Voltaire.
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*Correspondance de Voltaire avec le roi de Prusse* (Paris, Librairie de la Bibliothèque nationale, 1889), texte du Project Gutenberg, nº 25734. Composé en Crimson Pro et IM Fell (licence SIL OFL).
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`; // content.<lang>.md, inlined by the Cookbook

// ─── 3 · Fonts ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
const FONTS = { // text, display and label faces (gotcha: fonts-first)
  'Crimson Pro': ['400', '400i'], 'IM Fell French Canon': ['400i'], 'IM Fell DW Pica SC': ['400'] };

// ─── 4 · Build & show ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────
await loadSvg('cover.svg', coverSvg());
await loadFonts(FONTS, markdown);
const doc = await buildWithFonts(() => buildDocument({ markdown, resources }, config()), markdown);
showPages(doc, { title: t({ en: 'Letters edition', es: 'Edición de cartas' }) });

Kit · core, fonts, viewer, images: the same in every recipe · 270 lines
// ─── Kit ── helpers shared by every Cookbook recipe · postext.dev/cookbook ─────

// ─── Kit · core v1 ── the same in every recipe · postext.dev/cookbook ─────────
function mm(value) { return { value, unit: 'mm' }; }
function pt(value) { return { value, unit: 'pt' }; }
function em(value) { return { value, unit: 'em' }; }
/** The sample language's string: t({ en: 'Figure', es: 'Figura' }). */
function t(strings) { return strings[LANG] ?? Object.values(strings)[0]; }
/** A file in this recipe's assets folder, served from the Postext repo by jsDelivr. */
function asset(file) { return `https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/drnachio/postext@main/cookbook/${RECIPE}/assets/${file}`; }

// ─── Kit · fonts v1 ── the same in every recipe · postext.dev/cookbook ────────
// Postext measures text with the faces the browser has loaded, and caches the
// widths, so every face must be ready before the first build. Faces come from
// Fontsource: the same static files the PDF embeds, so screen and PDF agree.

/** faces = { 'Family Name': ['400', '400i', '700'] }. `text` is the sample:
 *  letters beyond Latin-1 (č, ł, ő…) also load the latin-ext files. With
 *  `optional`, a face Fontsource does not ship is skipped instead of failing.
 *  Resolves to the number of faces added. */
async function loadFonts(faces, text = '', { optional = false } = {}) {
  kitStatus('Loading fonts…');
  const ranges = {
    latin: 'U+0000-00FF,U+0131,U+0152-0153,U+02BB-02BC,U+02C6,U+02DA,U+02DC,U+0304,U+0308,U+0329,'
      + 'U+2000-206F,U+20AC,U+2122,U+2191,U+2193,U+2212,U+2215,U+FEFF,U+FFFD',
    'latin-ext': 'U+0100-02BA,U+02BD-02C5,U+02C7-02CC,U+02CE-02D7,U+02DD-02FF,U+0304,U+0308,U+0329,'
      + 'U+1D00-1DBF,U+1E00-1E9F,U+1EF2-1EFF,U+2020,U+20A0-20AB,U+20AD-20C0,U+2113,U+2C60-2C7F,U+A720-A7FF',
  };
  const subsets = /[Ā-˿Ḁ-ỿ]/.test(text) ? ['latin', 'latin-ext'] : ['latin'];
  const jobs = [];
  let added = 0;
  for (const [family, specs] of Object.entries(faces)) {
    const id = fontsourceId(family);
    const meta = optional ? await fontsourceMeta(family) : null;
    for (const spec of new Set(specs)) {
      const weight = parseInt(spec, 10);
      const style = spec.endsWith('i') ? 'italic' : 'normal';
      if (hasFace(family, weight, style)) continue;
      if (optional && !(meta?.weights.includes(weight) && meta.styles.includes(style))) continue;
      for (const subset of subsets) {
        const url = `https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@fontsource/${id}@5/files/${id}-${subset}-${weight}-${style}.woff2`;
        const face = new FontFace(family, `url(${url}) format('woff2')`,
          { weight: String(weight), style, unicodeRange: ranges[subset] });
        jobs.push(face.load().then((ready) => { document.fonts.add(ready); added++; }, () => {
          if (subset === 'latin' && !optional) throw new Error(`Fontsource has no ${family} ${weight} ${style}`);
        }));
      }
    }
  }
  await Promise.all(jobs).catch((error) => { kitFail(error); throw error; });
  return added;
}

/** Runs `build` (a buildDocument or buildBundle call) and checks the faces
 *  the pages use. A regular face missing from FONTS is loaded with a warning;
 *  bold and italic variants are loaded when the family ships them. Then the
 *  measurement caches are cleared and the build runs again. */
async function buildWithFonts(build, text = '') {
  const tried = new Set();
  for (let round = 0; round < 3; round++) {
    kitStatus('Laying out…');
    await new Promise(requestAnimationFrame);          // let the status paint first
    const result = await Promise.resolve().then(build).catch((error) => { kitFail(error); throw error; });
    const wanted = { base: {}, variants: {} };
    for (const { font, base } of [result].flat().flatMap(fontStringsOf)) {
      const { family, weight, style } = parseFont(font);
      const key = `${family}|${weight}|${style}`;
      if (tried.has(key) || hasFace(family, weight, style)) continue;
      tried.add(key);
      (wanted[base ? 'base' : 'variants'][family] ??= []).push(`${weight}${style === 'italic' ? 'i' : ''}`);
    }
    if (Object.keys(wanted.base).length) {
      console.warn(`[cookbook] FONTS does not list ${JSON.stringify(wanted.base)}: loading them.`);
    }
    const added = await loadFonts(wanted.base, text) + await loadFonts(wanted.variants, text, { optional: true });
    if (added === 0) return result;
    clearMeasurementCache();
  }
  throw new Error('The fonts did not settle after three builds.');
}

/** Every font string of the layout. `base` marks a block's own face; its
 *  bold, italic and bold-italic variants are listed whether or not used. */
function fontStringsOf(doc) {
  const found = new Map();
  const walk = (node) => {
    if (!node || typeof node !== 'object') return;
    if (Array.isArray(node)) { node.forEach(walk); return; }
    for (const [key, value] of Object.entries(node)) {
      if (typeof value === 'string' && /fontString$/i.test(key)) {
        found.set(value, found.get(value) || key === 'fontString');
      } else if (value && typeof value === 'object') walk(value);
    }
  };
  walk(doc.pages);
  walk(doc.blocks);
  return [...found].map(([font, base]) => ({ font, base }));
}

/** '700 37.5px Open Sans' / 'italic 400 13px "Source Serif 4"' → { family, weight, style }.
 *  A string with no weight ('95.8px Young Serif', from a design text) is 400. */
function parseFont(font) {
  const m = /^(?:(italic|oblique)\s+)?(?:small-caps\s+)?(?:(\d+|bold|normal)\s+)?[\d.]+px\s+(.+)$/.exec(font.trim());
  if (!m) throw new Error(`Unexpected font string: ${font}`);
  const weight = m[2] === 'bold' ? 700 : !m[2] || m[2] === 'normal' ? 400 : Number(m[2]);
  return { family: m[3].replace(/^["']|["']$/g, ''), weight, style: m[1] ? 'italic' : 'normal' };
}

/** True when a loaded FontFace covers exactly this family, weight and style
 *  (document.fonts.check() is also true for families nobody declared). */
function hasFace(family, weight, style) {
  for (const face of document.fonts) {
    if (face.status !== 'loaded' || face.style !== style) continue;
    if (face.family.replace(/^["']|["']$/g, '') !== family) continue;
    const [low, high = low] = face.weight.split(' ').map(Number);
    if (weight >= low && weight <= high) return true;
  }
  return false;
}

/** Fontsource's id for a family: 'Source Serif 4' → 'source-serif-4'. */
function fontsourceId(family) { return family.toLowerCase().replace(/\s+/g, '-'); }

/** The weights and styles a family ships ({ weights: [400, 700], styles: ['normal', 'italic'] }), or null. */
function fontsourceMeta(family) {
  fontsourceMeta.cache ??= new Map();
  const id = fontsourceId(family);
  if (!fontsourceMeta.cache.has(id)) {
    fontsourceMeta.cache.set(id, fetch(`https://api.fontsource.org/v1/fonts/${id}`)
      .then((res) => (res.ok ? res.json() : null), () => null));
  }
  return fontsourceMeta.cache.get(id);
}

// ─── Kit · viewer v1 ── the same in every recipe · postext.dev/cookbook ───────
/** Shows the pages as facing spreads on a dark desk: the first page is a
 *  recto on its own, then verso | recto pairs, as in a bound book. Pages
 *  are painted when they scroll near the screen. */
function showPages(docs, { title, width = 460 } = {}) {
  const root = viewer(title);
  const pages = [docs].flat().flatMap((doc) =>
    doc.pages.map((page) => ({ doc, page, n: (doc.pageIndexOffset ?? 0) + page.index })));
  const spreads = [];
  let verso = null;
  for (const p of pages) {
    if (p.n % 2 === 1) { if (verso) spreads.push([verso, null]); verso = p; }
    else { spreads.push([verso, p]); verso = null; }
  }
  if (verso) spreads.push([verso, null]);
  const density = Math.min(window.devicePixelRatio || 1, 2);
  showPages.painter?.disconnect();
  const painter = new IntersectionObserver((entries) => {
    for (const { isIntersecting, target } of entries) {
      if (!isIntersecting) continue;
      painter.unobserve(target);
      const { doc, page } = target.postext;
      renderPageToCanvas(page, doc, target, { scale: (width * density) / page.width });
    }
  }, { rootMargin: '800px' });
  showPages.painter = painter;
  root.replaceChildren(...spreads.map((pair) => {
    const spread = document.createElement('div');
    spread.className = 'pt-spread';
    for (const p of pair) {
      const figure = document.createElement('figure');
      if (p) {
        const label = p.page.pageLabel || String(p.n + 1);
        const canvas = document.createElement('canvas');
        canvas.postext = p;
        canvas.style.aspectRatio = `${p.page.width} / ${p.page.height}`;
        canvas.setAttribute('role', 'img');
        canvas.setAttribute('aria-label', `Page ${label}`);
        const folio = document.createElement('figcaption');
        folio.textContent = label;
        figure.append(canvas, folio);
        painter.observe(canvas);
      } else figure.className = 'pt-blank';
      spread.append(figure);
    }
    return spread;
  }));
  kitStatus(`${pages.length} ${pages.length === 1 ? 'page' : 'pages'}`);
  document.documentElement.dataset.postext = 'ready';
  return pages.length;
}

/** The desk, the bar and the error reporting, created once. */
function viewer(title) {
  if (!document.getElementById('pt-kit')) {
    document.head.insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend', `<style id="pt-kit">
      :root { color-scheme: dark; }
      body { margin: 0; background: #0e1014; color: #b9bcc4; font: 13px/1.45 system-ui, sans-serif; }
      #pt-bar { position: sticky; top: 0; z-index: 1; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; align-items: center;
        gap: 6px 16px; padding: 10px 16px; background: rgb(14 16 20 / .92); backdrop-filter: blur(6px);
        border-bottom: 1px solid #23262d; }
      #pt-bar strong { color: #f4f1ea; font-weight: 600; }
      #pt-actions { display: flex; gap: 12px; margin-left: auto; }
      #pt-actions a, #pt-actions button { color: #d8a21a; font: inherit; background: none; border: 0; padding: 0; cursor: pointer; }
      #pages { display: grid; justify-items: center; gap: 48px; padding: 32px 16px 72px; }
      .pt-spread { display: flex; }
      .pt-spread figure { margin: 0; width: min(460px, 44vw); }
      .pt-spread canvas { display: block; width: 100%; background: #fff;
        box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgb(0 0 0 / .5), 0 22px 44px -16px rgb(0 0 0 / .8); }
      .pt-spread figure:first-child canvas { box-shadow: inset -14px 0 14px -14px rgb(0 0 0 / .18), 0 1px 2px rgb(0 0 0 / .5), 0 22px 44px -16px rgb(0 0 0 / .8); }
      .pt-spread figcaption { margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; font: 600 10px/1 system-ui, sans-serif;
        letter-spacing: .18em; text-transform: uppercase; color: #6c7079; }
      .pt-blank { visibility: hidden; }
      @media (max-width: 760px) {
        .pt-spread { flex-direction: column; gap: 32px; }
        .pt-spread figure { width: min(460px, 92vw); }
        .pt-blank { display: none; }
      }
    </style>`);
    document.body.insertAdjacentHTML('afterbegin',
      '<header id="pt-bar"><strong id="pt-title"></strong><span id="pt-status" role="status"></span><span id="pt-actions"></span></header>');
    document.getElementById('pt-title').textContent = document.title || 'Postext';
    addEventListener('error', (event) => kitFail(event.error ?? event.message));
    addEventListener('unhandledrejection', (event) => kitFail(event.reason));
  }
  if (title) document.getElementById('pt-title').textContent = title;
  return document.getElementById('pages')
    ?? document.body.appendChild(Object.assign(document.createElement('main'), { id: 'pages' }));
}

function kitStatus(text) {
  viewer();
  document.getElementById('pt-status').textContent = text;
}

function kitFail(error) {
  document.documentElement.dataset.postext = 'error';
  kitStatus(`Error: ${error?.message ?? error}`);
}

// ─── Kit · images v1 ── recipes with pictures · postext.dev/cookbook ──────────
/** Registers a photo or PNG for the canvas and keeps its bytes for the PDF.
 *  fetch → ImageBitmap never taints the canvas (a plain cross-origin <img> would). */
async function loadImage(fileId, url) {
  const res = await fetch(url);
  if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`Image not found (${res.status}): ${url}`);
  const bytes = new Uint8Array(await res.arrayBuffer());
  registerResourceImage(fileId, await createImageBitmap(new Blob([bytes])));
  (loadImage.bytes ??= new Map()).set(fileId, bytes);
}

/** Registers SVG markup (drawn in code, or fetched) as a vector image. */
async function loadSvg(fileId, svg) {
  const img = new Image();
  img.src = `data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,${encodeURIComponent(svg)}`;
  await img.decode();
  registerResourceImage(fileId, img);
  (loadImage.bytes ??= new Map()).set(fileId, new TextEncoder().encode(svg));
}

/** renderToPdf({ resourceBytes: imageBytes }) */
function imageBytes(fileId) { return loadImage.bytes?.get(fileId); }

/** renderToHtml({ resourceImageUrl: imageUrl }) */
function imageUrl(fileId) {
  const bytes = imageBytes(fileId);
  if (!bytes) return undefined;
  imageUrl.urls ??= new Map();
  if (!imageUrl.urls.has(fileId)) {
    const type = /\.svg$/i.test(fileId) ? 'image/svg+xml' : /\.png$/i.test(fileId) ? 'image/png' : 'image/jpeg';
    imageUrl.urls.set(fileId, URL.createObjectURL(new Blob([bytes], { type })));
  }
  return imageUrl.urls.get(fileId);
}

// ─── /Kit ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────