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Recette numéro 27

Recettes · Chapitre 1 · Page et grille

La une d’un journal

La une et la page 2 d’un hebdomadaire local en deux colonnes à filet, gros titres en encadrés pleine page et bandeau de brèves sur quatre colonnes en pied.

  • Exemple en anglais : pas encore d’édition française
  • Format 246 × 328 mm
  • 2 colonnes, Gouttière de 6 mm
  • PT Serif 9,4/12,6
  • Grenze Gotisch
  • Libre Franklin
  • 2 pages
  • Niveau
  • Postext 1.31.0
  • Mis en page en 132 ms
  • 232 lignes de code

En bref

La une et la page 2 d’un hebdomadaire local. On y voit comment faire courir de gros titres sur toute la largeur de la page et placer un bandeau de brèves en bas.

Ce que vous allez composer

La une et la page 2 de The Elverdale Courier, un hebdomadaire imaginaire d’une vallée, sur une feuille de 246 × 328 mm. Un titre en gothique se place entre une oreille météo et une oreille prix, au-dessus d’un filet gras, d’un filet maigre et de la ligne de date. L’article principal s’ouvre sur une manchette de deux lignes en Libre Franklin Black de 56 pt sur les deux colonnes, un sous-titre en italique et une bande photo de 222 mm de large, puis court sur deux colonnes justifiées séparées par un filet fin. En pied, quatre brèves se partagent un bandeau teinté, une par colonne, chacune ouverte par une pastille rouge. La page 2 s’ouvre sur un drapeau de rubrique rouge et porte l’article sur le pont avec un dessin réalisé en code, des prévisions sur cinq jours en tête de la colonne de droite, un second titre sur toute la page, le courrier des lecteurs et un tableau des votes par quartier avec une barre sur chaque ligne.

Cette recette répond à

  • Postext peut-il composer trois colonnes de texte ou plus, ou habiller une image avec du texte ?
  • Comment composer un encadré sur les deux colonnes au milieu de la page, comme un panneau « en chiffres » à trois volets ?
  • Comment choisir où va une figure : en haut de page, sur les deux colonnes, exactement ici ou dans la marge ?
  • Comment composer un titre de chapitre sur toute la largeur de la page, avec le texte en deux colonnes en dessous ?

La réponse courte

script.js · lignes 82–99dans le code complet
const layout = { layoutType: 'double', gutterWidth: mm(GUTTER), // the body of every page
  columnRule: { enabled: true, color: col('rule'), lineWidth: pt(0.5) } };
// The strip is a tinted, titled box, so its four columns are a :::columns group in a :::callout.
// The fence spans the page and floats the box to the foot, so the story fills the columns above:
//   :::callout{type="briefs" span="page" placement="bottom" title="In brief"}
//   :::columns{count=4 breaks="2,3,4"}   ← each brief opens a column (child 2, 3 and 4)
//   …four paragraphs…
//   :::
//   :::
// The style could carry span and placement too; on the fence they stay in sight in the text.
// hook-up: config() takes layout as it is and lists briefs in calloutStyles.
const briefs = { id: 'briefs',
  background: col('tint'), // one device: a tint, no stripe or border
  padding: { top: mm(3), right: mm(4), bottom: mm(4), left: mm(4) },
  columnGap: mm(GUTTER), // the inner columns keep the page's gutter
  titleStyle: { ...caps(9, 800, 'flag'), gap: mm(2) },
  body: { fontFamily: 'PT Serif', fontSize: pt(8.6), lineHeight: pt(11.4), textAlign: 'left',
    firstLineIndent: pt(0) } }; // ragged and unindented, unlike the columns

Ingrédients

Typographie
Grenze Gotisch, PT Serif, Libre Franklin (SIL OFL 1.1)
Ressources
  • ridge-2400.jpg
  • Wind turbines on a snowy ridge (the front-page photograph, cropped to a band) (Jason Blackeye, CC0 1.0)
  • The bridge drawing and the bars in the ward table, drawn in code in the page's palette (Ignacio Ferro, CC BY 4.0)

Préparation

#1 · Papier journal, encre et un seul rouge

script.js · lignes 14–27dans le code complet
const palette = {
  ink: '#111315', // text and the heavy rules: a cold near-black
  paper: '#f8f5ee', // newsprint, and type reversed out of ink or red
  flag: '#a6192e', // the one accent: section flags, kickers, the Yes bars
  tint: '#ebe6db', // the In brief strip
  rule: '#9a978f', // hairlines: the column rule, table rules
  muted: '#5d5a55', // bylines, the folio line's title and date, credit notes, the imprint
};
// Every colour is linked to its palette entry by id.
const col = (id) => ({ hex: palette[id], model: 'hex', paletteId: id });
const colorPalette = [ // defaults link to 'main-color': point it at the ink, never blue
  ...Object.entries(palette).map(([id, hex]) => ({ id, name: id, value: { hex, model: 'hex' } })),
  { id: 'main-color', name: 'ink (defaults)', value: { hex: palette.ink, model: 'hex' } },
];

La page est en papier journal (#f8f5ee) et le texte en encre presque noire (#111315). Le seul rouge, #a6192e, va sur les drapeaux de rubrique, les surtitres, les pastilles et les barres du oui. Chaque couleur est reliée à son entrée de palette par paletteId. main-color pointe vers l’encre : le gras, l’italique, les deux renvois de la page 2 et toutes les valeurs par défaut que la configuration ne touche pas s’impriment donc à l’encre ; laissés à leur propre valeur, ils s’imprimeraient dans le bleu par défaut, #295AA3.

#2 · Le titre du journal est le H1 de la une

script.js · lignes 50–78dans le code complet
const NAME = 52; // pt: the blackletter nameplate
const EAR = 31; // mm: each ear, in the room the nameplate leaves at either side
const EAR_DROP = 1.8; // mm: measured so the ears' big figures sit on the nameplate's baseline
const AIR = 2; // mm between the lower rule and the masthead's foot, where the banner box starts
const ear = (side, lines) => lines.map(([id, content, look], i) => text(id, content,
  { ...look, align: side }, { ...(i === 0 ? at('container', `top-${side}`, 0, EAR_DROP)
    : at(`#${lines[i - 1][0]}`, 'below', 0, 1)), size: { width: mm(EAR) } }));
const serif = { fontFamily: 'PT Serif', fontSize: pt(9), italic: true, color: col('ink'),
  lineHeight: 1.25 };
const nameplate = { enabled: true, slot: { elements: [
  depth(7), // the masthead is seven grid lines deep; the rules and dateline hang from its foot
  { kind: 'rule', id: 'foot', thickness: pt(0.5), color: col('ink'),
    placement: { ...at('#depth', 'align-bottom', 0, -AIR), size: { width: 'fill' } } },
  ...[['left', '{attr.issue}'], ['center', '{publishDate}'], ['right', '{attr.area}']].map(
    ([align, content]) => text(`date-${align}`, content, { ...caps(7.5, 600), align },
      { ...at('#foot', 'above', 0, -1.4), size: { width: 'fill' } })),
  rule('thin', '#date-left', 0.5, 1.6), rule('heavy', '#thin', 2.5, 0.6), // the Oxford rule
  text('name', '{titleText}', { fontFamily: 'Grenze Gotisch', fontSize: pt(NAME),
    fontWeight: 700, lineHeight: 1, align: 'center' },
  { ...at('#heavy', 'above', 0, -1.2), size: { width: 'fill' } }), // centred between the ears
  ...ear('left', [['w-kicker', 'Weather', caps(7, 700, 'flag')],
    ['w-outlook', '{attr.outlook}', serif], ['w-temps', '{attr.temps}', franklin(15, 800)]]),
  ...ear('right', [['p-kicker', '{attr.since}', caps(7, 700, 'flag')],
    ['p-day', '{attr.day}', serif], ['p-price', '{attr.price}', franklin(15, 800)]]),
] } };
// hook-up: headingStyles gets { id: 'front', advancedDesign: nameplate, header: { elements:
// [] } }, H1 already spans the page, and the Markdown opens with
// # The Elverdale Courier {style="front" issue="…" area="…" outlook="…" temps="…" since="…"
//   day="…" price="…"}

# The Elverdale Courier prend le style de titre front, qui remplit la manchette avec le texte du titre et sept de ses attributs (issue, area, outlook, temps, since, day et price) ; la date vient de publishDate dans le frontmatter. Une boîte vide de sept lignes de grille de haut (31,1 mm) fixe la hauteur de l’ouverture. Les filets, la ligne de date et le nom sont suspendus à son pied : l’ouverture finit donc sur une ligne de la grille.

#3 · Un titre sur les deux colonnes est un encadré

script.js · lignes 103–116dans le code complet
// :::callout{type="banner" span="page" title="Transport"} ← an optional kicker, then the H2
const banner = { id: 'banner', backgroundEnabled: false,
  padding: { top: pt(0), right: pt(0), bottom: pt(0), left: pt(0) },
  titleStyle: { ...caps(8, 800, 'flag'), gap: mm(1.2) }, // a kicker, when the fence has a title
  marginTop: pt(0), // flush under the nameplate or the section flag
  marginBottom: pt(LEAD / 2), // half a line, then the columns start on the next grid line
  body: { fontFamily: 'PT Serif', fontSize: pt(13), lineHeight: pt(16.5), textAlign: 'left' } };
// A story that starts mid-page: the same box under a rule. The columns above it are cut level.
const story = { ...banner, id: 'story', marginTop: pt(LEAD),
  stripe: { enabled: true, side: 'top', width: pt(1), color: col('ink') }, // its one device
  padding: { top: mm(2.5), right: pt(0), bottom: pt(0), left: pt(0) } };
// Inside the box the headline is an H2 in a heading style: one size for each rank of story.
const headline = (id, size, look = {}) => ({ id, fontSize: pt(size), lineHeight: pt(size * 1.02),
  marginBottom: pt(size * 0.2), ...look }); // tight leading, a fifth of it below

Un titre ne couvre les deux colonnes qu’en tant qu’ouverture, et une ouverture commence une nouvelle page. Mettez span: 'page' sur le H2 de l’article sur les quartiers au lieu de son encadré, et cet article passe sur une troisième page. Un encadré sans cadre avec span="page" peut commencer en milieu de page. En page 2, les colonnes sont coupées à hauteur égale au-dessus de lui et reprennent dessous. L’encadré contient le H2 dans l’un des trois styles de titre (56, 30 ou 22 pt), le sous-titre en italique et, sur la une, la photographie. Sa marginBottom d’une demi-ligne fait commencer les colonnes sur la ligne de grille suivante, 3,4 mm sous le sous-titre en page 2. Avec la marge par défaut, l’écart est de 7,8 mm et le courrier des lecteurs déborde sur une troisième page.

#4 · Le bandeau de quatre colonnes est un encadré à colonnes

Le code de cette étape se trouve dans la réponse courte plus haut. Le corps des deux pages court sur deux colonnes (Types de mise en page). Les brèves n’ont besoin de quatre colonnes qu’au pied de la page 1, sous un titre et sur une teinte : elles vont donc dans un encadré, ici un encadré pleine page qui contient un groupe :::columns. breaks compte les blocs du groupe, un par brève : les brèves 2, 3 et 4 ouvrent donc les colonnes 2, 3 et 4. Chaque colonne mesure 49 mm de large, avec la gouttière de 6 mm de la page entre elles.

:::callout{type="briefs" span="page" placement="bottom" title="In brief"}
:::columns{count=4 breaks="2,3,4"}
:chip[TRANSPORT]{style="flag"} **Bus 44 back on Sundays.** The Elverdale to Kirkby bus …
 
:chip[SCHOOLS]{style="flag"} **An orchard for Brook Lane.** Pupils at Brook Lane …
…
:::
:::

placement="bottom" fait flotter l’encadré au pied de la page 1, où il occupe 36,9 mm, et l’article remplit les 83 mm de colonnes au-dessus. La photo principale reste une bande sur les deux colonnes à l’intérieur de l’encadré de la manchette : le texte court à côté d’une image plus étroite que sa colonne, d’un seul côté, jamais autour d’une image sur deux colonnes. Le dessin du pont, en page 2, a son texte à côté de lui (étape 5).

#5 · Les images dans le texte, les tableaux en flottants

script.js · lignes 339–375dans le code complet
// A caption label prints only when captionPrefix has text: '' leaves no "Figure 1".
const unnumbered = (id, name, captionStyle) => ({ id, name, shortLabel: name, captionPrefix: '',
  numberingTemplate: '', resetOn: 'never', counterFormat: 'decimal', captionStyle });
const resourceTypes = [unnumbered('picture', 'Picture'), // captions under the picture
  unnumbered('panel', 'Panel', { position: 'above', fontSize: pt(9.5) })]; // tables: titled above
const resource = (id, typeId, kind, body, extra) => ({ id, typeId, kind, [kind]: body,
  createdAt: 0, updatedAt: 0, ...extra });
const resources = [
  // Set inline in the page-span banner box: a 'top' float never lands above the line that
  // cites it (gotcha: top-float-next-page). It keeps the float gap above it, inside the box too.
  // 2400 px at 150 dpi is 406 mm: the photo shrinks to the box (gotcha: bitmap-print-size).
  resource('ridge', 'picture', 'bitmap', { fileId: 'ridge-2400.jpg', format: 'jpeg', width: 2400,
    height: 800 }, { placement: { position: 'here' },
    altText: 'Wind turbines on a snow-covered ridge under a bright, cloudy sky.',
    caption: '**File picture:** turbines on an upland ridge. Each of the three planned for '
      + 'Harrow Ridge would generate 2.3 megawatts.',
    note: 'Photograph: Jason Blackeye, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons' }),
  // Drawn in code (the art region) and set inline, where ::resource puts it in column 1,
  // at the column's right with the next paragraph running beside it (text wrap).
  resource('bridge', 'picture', 'svg', { fileId: 'bridge.svg', width: 1190, height: 460 },
    { placement: { position: 'here', wrap: 'right', width: 0.47 },
      altText: 'Drawing of a two-arch stone bridge between sloping river banks; under its '
        + 'central pier, a red concrete footing.',
      caption: '**The rebuilt pier.** Its new concrete footing (red) goes six metres below the '
        + 'riverbed. Both arches were relaid with their own stones.',
      note: 'Drawing: The Courier' }),
  // A page-span 'bottom' float sits under both columns of the page that cites it. On the last
  // page it follows the balanced columns, so the copy there is fitted to bring it to the foot.
  resource('wards', 'panel', 'table', { styleId: 'results', model: resultsTable() },
    { placement: { position: 'bottom', span: 'page' }, caption: '**How the wards voted**',
      note: 'Red: yes. Grey: no. The black line marks half the vote. '
        + 'Source: Elverdale Town Council.' }),
  // A column 'top' float waits for the head of the next column with room.
  resource('forecast', 'panel', 'table', { styleId: 'forecast', model: forecastTable() },
    { placement: { position: 'top', span: 'column' }, caption: '**The next five days**',
      note: 'Sunrise 6.57, sunset 19.03 on Thursday. Forecast: Wend Valley Weather Station.' }),
];

La photographie est dans le texte de l’encadré de la manchette, car un flottant top pleine page ne tombe jamais au-dessus de la ligne qui le cite ; en flottant, la photo ouvrirait la page 2 (voir Erreurs fréquentes). Le dessin du pont est lui aussi dans le texte, après le paragraphe sur la pile, et wrap: 'right' avec width: 0.47 le place à droite de la colonne 1, sur 47 % de la largeur de la colonne, les paragraphes suivants courant à côté de lui puis dessous, sur toute la justification (habillage). À cette largeur, aucune ligne à côté de lui n’est lâche ; le texte de l’article a été recalibré pour le dessin plus court. Les prévisions flottent en tête d’une colonne et tombent en haut de celle de droite. Le tableau des quartiers flotte sous les deux colonnes, là où s’arrête le filet de colonne. Sur la dernière page, il se place juste sous les colonnes équilibrées : le texte au-dessus a donc été calibré pour le faire descendre jusqu’au pied. Les deux types de ressources règlent captionPrefix: '', et l’étiquette d’une légende ne s’imprime que si le préfixe a du texte : aucune légende ne commence donc par « Figure 1 ».

#6 · Une page intérieure s’ouvre sur un drapeau de rubrique

script.js · lignes 120–138dans le code complet
const section = { enabled: true, slot: { elements: [
  depth(2), // two grid lines: the flag sits on a 3 pt bar, 1.6 mm above the foot
  { kind: 'rule', id: 'bar', thickness: pt(3), color: col('ink'),
    placement: { ...at('#depth', 'align-bottom', 0, -1.6), size: { width: 'fill' } } },
  text('flag', '{titleText}', { ...caps(11, 800, 'paper'), box: { backgroundColor: col('flag'),
    padding: { top: mm(1.3), right: mm(3), bottom: mm(1.1), left: mm(3) } } },
  at('#bar', 'above')),
] } };
const FOLIO = 6; // mm from the top edge to the folio line; its rule 4 mm lower
const folio = (parity, side, s) => [ // s: +1 on a verso (folio on the left), −1 on a recto
  text(`n-${parity}`, '{pageNumber}', { ...franklin(9, 800), align: side },
    at('page', `top-${side}`, s * MARGIN.side, FOLIO)),
  text(`t-${parity}`, '{title} · {publishDate}', { ...caps(7, 600, 'muted'), align: side },
    at(`#n-${parity}`, s > 0 ? 'right-of' : 'left-of', s * 3, 0.9)),
].map((element) => ({ ...element, parity }));
const header = { elements: [...folio('even', 'left', 1), ...folio('odd', 'right', -1),
  { kind: 'rule', id: 'folio-rule', thickness: pt(0.5), color: col('ink'),
    placement: { ...at('page', 'top-left', MARGIN.side, FOLIO + 4), size: { width: mm(TRIM.width
      - 2 * MARGIN.side) } } }] };

# Town & Valley est un H1 dont le breakBefore a la parité 'any' : la rubrique ouvre donc la page 2 sans page blanche avant elle. Sa maquette est un drapeau rouge sur une barre de 3 pt, suspendu à une boîte vide de deux lignes de grille de haut. La ligne de folio est un en-tête ancré 6 mm sous le bord supérieur de la page, avec une version pour les pages paires et une pour les impaires. Le style de la une vide l’en-tête : aucune ligne de folio ne s’imprime donc au-dessus du titre du journal.

La recette complète

Sandbox
// ═══ Postext Cookbook · Nº 027 · Newspaper front page ═══════════════════════════
// https://postext.dev/en/cookbook/newspaper-front-page
// Code: MIT · Text: original (CC BY 4.0) · Photo: Jason Blackeye (CC0)
// Fonts: Grenze Gotisch, PT Serif, Libre Franklin (SIL OFL 1.1) · Needs postext ≥ 1.25.0
import {
  buildDocumentWithFonts, renderPageToCanvas, registerResourceImage,
} from 'https://esm.sh/postext';

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

// ─── 1 · Design ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
// #region palette: newsprint, ink and one red for the section flags
const palette = {
  ink: '#111315', // text and the heavy rules: a cold near-black
  paper: '#f8f5ee', // newsprint, and type reversed out of ink or red
  flag: '#a6192e', // the one accent: section flags, kickers, the Yes bars
  tint: '#ebe6db', // the In brief strip
  rule: '#9a978f', // hairlines: the column rule, table rules
  muted: '#5d5a55', // bylines, the folio line's title and date, credit notes, the imprint
};
// Every colour is linked to its palette entry by id.
const col = (id) => ({ hex: palette[id], model: 'hex', paletteId: id });
const colorPalette = [ // defaults link to 'main-color': point it at the ink, never blue
  ...Object.entries(palette).map(([id, hex]) => ({ id, name: id, value: { hex, model: 'hex' } })),
  { id: 'main-color', name: 'ink (defaults)', value: { hex: palette.ink, model: 'hex' } },
];
// #endregion
const TRIM = { width: 246, height: 328 }; // mm: a 3 : 4 compact, smaller than a tabloid
const MARGIN = { top: 14, bottom: 15, side: 12 }; // newspaper margins: narrow, not mirrored
const GUTTER = 6; // mm between the two body columns, and between the In brief columns
const LEAD = 12.6; // body leading in pt: the baseline grid
const franklin = (size, weight, look = {}) => ({ fontFamily: 'Libre Franklin',
  fontSize: pt(size), fontWeight: weight, color: col('ink'), ...look });
const caps = (size, weight, colour = 'ink') => franklin(size, weight, { color: col(colour),
  textTransform: 'uppercase', letterSpacing: pt(size * 0.16) }); // capitals tracked 0.16 em
const at = (to, edge, x = 0, y = 0) => ({ anchor: { to, edge }, offset: { x: mm(x), y: mm(y) } });
const text = (id, content, look, placement) => ({ kind: 'text', id, content, align: 'left',
  overflow: 'wrap', color: col('ink'), ...look, placement }); // design text defaults to centred
// and black, and a header's text to an ellipsis
// A rule across the slot whose bottom sits `gap` mm above the element it names.
const rule = (id, under, weight, gap = 0) => ({ kind: 'rule', id, thickness: pt(weight),
  color: col('ink'), placement: { ...at(under, 'above', 0, -gap), size: { width: 'fill' } } });
// An empty box exactly `lines` grid lines deep sets an opener's depth, and the rest hangs from
// its foot: the opener ends on a grid line, where the columns and their rule begin.
const depth = (lines) => ({ kind: 'box', id: 'depth', style: {}, placement: {
  ...at('container', 'top-left'), size: { width: 'fill', height: pt(lines * LEAD) } } });

// #region nameplate: the front page's H1 is the paper's name, between two ears
const NAME = 52; // pt: the blackletter nameplate
const EAR = 31; // mm: each ear, in the room the nameplate leaves at either side
const EAR_DROP = 1.8; // mm: measured so the ears' big figures sit on the nameplate's baseline
const AIR = 2; // mm between the lower rule and the masthead's foot, where the banner box starts
const ear = (side, lines) => lines.map(([id, content, look], i) => text(id, content,
  { ...look, align: side }, { ...(i === 0 ? at('container', `top-${side}`, 0, EAR_DROP)
    : at(`#${lines[i - 1][0]}`, 'below', 0, 1)), size: { width: mm(EAR) } }));
const serif = { fontFamily: 'PT Serif', fontSize: pt(9), italic: true, color: col('ink'),
  lineHeight: 1.25 };
const nameplate = { enabled: true, slot: { elements: [
  depth(7), // the masthead is seven grid lines deep; the rules and dateline hang from its foot
  { kind: 'rule', id: 'foot', thickness: pt(0.5), color: col('ink'),
    placement: { ...at('#depth', 'align-bottom', 0, -AIR), size: { width: 'fill' } } },
  ...[['left', '{attr.issue}'], ['center', '{publishDate}'], ['right', '{attr.area}']].map(
    ([align, content]) => text(`date-${align}`, content, { ...caps(7.5, 600), align },
      { ...at('#foot', 'above', 0, -1.4), size: { width: 'fill' } })),
  rule('thin', '#date-left', 0.5, 1.6), rule('heavy', '#thin', 2.5, 0.6), // the Oxford rule
  text('name', '{titleText}', { fontFamily: 'Grenze Gotisch', fontSize: pt(NAME),
    fontWeight: 700, lineHeight: 1, align: 'center' },
  { ...at('#heavy', 'above', 0, -1.2), size: { width: 'fill' } }), // centred between the ears
  ...ear('left', [['w-kicker', 'Weather', caps(7, 700, 'flag')],
    ['w-outlook', '{attr.outlook}', serif], ['w-temps', '{attr.temps}', franklin(15, 800)]]),
  ...ear('right', [['p-kicker', '{attr.since}', caps(7, 700, 'flag')],
    ['p-day', '{attr.day}', serif], ['p-price', '{attr.price}', franklin(15, 800)]]),
] } };
// hook-up: headingStyles gets { id: 'front', advancedDesign: nameplate, header: { elements:
// [] } }, H1 already spans the page, and the Markdown opens with
// # The Elverdale Courier {style="front" issue="…" area="…" outlook="…" temps="…" since="…"
//   day="…" price="…"}
// #endregion

// #region answer: a two-column body, and the four-up strip as a box with columns of its own
const layout = { layoutType: 'double', gutterWidth: mm(GUTTER), // the body of every page
  columnRule: { enabled: true, color: col('rule'), lineWidth: pt(0.5) } };
// The strip is a tinted, titled box, so its four columns are a :::columns group in a :::callout.
// The fence spans the page and floats the box to the foot, so the story fills the columns above:
//   :::callout{type="briefs" span="page" placement="bottom" title="In brief"}
//   :::columns{count=4 breaks="2,3,4"}   ← each brief opens a column (child 2, 3 and 4)
//   …four paragraphs…
//   :::
//   :::
// The style could carry span and placement too; on the fence they stay in sight in the text.
// hook-up: config() takes layout as it is and lists briefs in calloutStyles.
const briefs = { id: 'briefs',
  background: col('tint'), // one device: a tint, no stripe or border
  padding: { top: mm(3), right: mm(4), bottom: mm(4), left: mm(4) },
  columnGap: mm(GUTTER), // the inner columns keep the page's gutter
  titleStyle: { ...caps(9, 800, 'flag'), gap: mm(2) },
  body: { fontFamily: 'PT Serif', fontSize: pt(8.6), lineHeight: pt(11.4), textAlign: 'left',
    firstLineIndent: pt(0) } }; // ragged and unindented, unlike the columns
// #endregion

// #region banner: a headline across both columns is a frameless page-span box
// :::callout{type="banner" span="page" title="Transport"} ← an optional kicker, then the H2
const banner = { id: 'banner', backgroundEnabled: false,
  padding: { top: pt(0), right: pt(0), bottom: pt(0), left: pt(0) },
  titleStyle: { ...caps(8, 800, 'flag'), gap: mm(1.2) }, // a kicker, when the fence has a title
  marginTop: pt(0), // flush under the nameplate or the section flag
  marginBottom: pt(LEAD / 2), // half a line, then the columns start on the next grid line
  body: { fontFamily: 'PT Serif', fontSize: pt(13), lineHeight: pt(16.5), textAlign: 'left' } };
// A story that starts mid-page: the same box under a rule. The columns above it are cut level.
const story = { ...banner, id: 'story', marginTop: pt(LEAD),
  stripe: { enabled: true, side: 'top', width: pt(1), color: col('ink') }, // its one device
  padding: { top: mm(2.5), right: pt(0), bottom: pt(0), left: pt(0) } };
// Inside the box the headline is an H2 in a heading style: one size for each rank of story.
const headline = (id, size, look = {}) => ({ id, fontSize: pt(size), lineHeight: pt(size * 1.02),
  marginBottom: pt(size * 0.2), ...look }); // tight leading, a fifth of it below
// #endregion

// #region inside: an inside page opens with a section flag and carries a folio line
const section = { enabled: true, slot: { elements: [
  depth(2), // two grid lines: the flag sits on a 3 pt bar, 1.6 mm above the foot
  { kind: 'rule', id: 'bar', thickness: pt(3), color: col('ink'),
    placement: { ...at('#depth', 'align-bottom', 0, -1.6), size: { width: 'fill' } } },
  text('flag', '{titleText}', { ...caps(11, 800, 'paper'), box: { backgroundColor: col('flag'),
    padding: { top: mm(1.3), right: mm(3), bottom: mm(1.1), left: mm(3) } } },
  at('#bar', 'above')),
] } };
const FOLIO = 6; // mm from the top edge to the folio line; its rule 4 mm lower
const folio = (parity, side, s) => [ // s: +1 on a verso (folio on the left), −1 on a recto
  text(`n-${parity}`, '{pageNumber}', { ...franklin(9, 800), align: side },
    at('page', `top-${side}`, s * MARGIN.side, FOLIO)),
  text(`t-${parity}`, '{title} · {publishDate}', { ...caps(7, 600, 'muted'), align: side },
    at(`#n-${parity}`, s > 0 ? 'right-of' : 'left-of', s * 3, 0.9)),
].map((element) => ({ ...element, parity }));
const header = { elements: [...folio('even', 'left', 1), ...folio('odd', 'right', -1),
  { kind: 'rule', id: 'folio-rule', thickness: pt(0.5), color: col('ink'),
    placement: { ...at('page', 'top-left', MARGIN.side, FOLIO + 4), size: { width: mm(TRIM.width
      - 2 * MARGIN.side) } } }] };
// #endregion

const label = { fontFamily: 'Libre Franklin', fontSize: pt(8), firstLineIndent: pt(0) };
const config = () => ({
  locale: 'en-us', colorPalette, resourceTypes, // locale: the edition's language
  page: { 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.side), right: mm(MARGIN.side) } },
  // An inline picture or drawing keeps a line of air above it, in a box too, and none below:
  // the caption's note sits on the text that follows, which keeps the copy fitted.
  layout: { ...layout, inlineResourceGap: 'above' },
  // Hyphenation stays at its defaults: on, in 'en-us'.
  // Bold, italics and :ref labels print in ink through main-color.
  bodyText: { fontFamily: 'PT Serif', fontSize: pt(9.4), lineHeight: pt(LEAD), color: col('ink'),
    textAlign: 'justify', firstLineIndent: mm(3.5), indentAfterHeading: false,
    minWordSpacing: 0.75, maxWordSpacing: 1.6 }, // tighter than the 0.6–2 defaults
  headings: { fontFamily: 'Libre Franklin', fontWeight: 800, // in ink, through main-color
    marginBottom: pt(0), levels: [
      // parity 'any': a section opens the next page, whichever side it falls on.
      { level: 1, span: 'page', breakBefore: { enabled: true, parity: 'any' },
        advancedDesign: section },
      { level: 2, fontSize: pt(17), lineHeight: pt(19) }, // Letters; banners restyle it
      { level: 3, fontSize: pt(10), lineHeight: pt(LEAD), fontWeight: 700, marginTop: pt(LEAD) },
    ] },
  headingStyles: [
    { id: 'front', advancedDesign: nameplate, header: { elements: [] } }, // no folio line
    headline('lead', 56, { fontWeight: 900 }), headline('wide', 30), headline('second', 22),
  ],
  calloutStyles: [banner, story, briefs],
  chipStyles: [{ id: 'flag', background: col('flag'), color: col('paper'), borderWidth: pt(0),
    borderRadius: pt(0), fontFamily: 'Libre Franklin', fontSize: em(0.875), bold: true,
    paddingX: em(0.4), paddingY: em(0.15) }],
  paragraphStyles: [{ ...label, id: 'byline', textAlign: 'left', color: col('muted') },
    { id: 'flush', firstLineIndent: pt(0) }, // a story's first paragraph, the second letter
    { ...label, id: 'jump', textAlign: 'right' }, // "…: page 2", where a story turns
    { id: 'sign', textAlign: 'right', firstLineIndent: pt(0) }, // a letter's signature
    { id: 'imprint', fontFamily: 'Libre Franklin', fontSize: pt(6.8), lineHeight: pt(9),
      textAlign: 'left', firstLineIndent: pt(0), color: col('muted'), marginTop: pt(LEAD) }],
  captionStyle: { fontFamily: 'Libre Franklin', fontSize: pt(8), gap: mm(1.6),
    note: { fontSize: pt(6.8), color: col('muted') } }, // the credit line
  tableStyle: { rules: 'horizontal', borderColor: col('rule'), borderWidth: pt(0.5),
    headerBackground: col('ink'), headerColor: col('paper'), headerFontFamily: 'Libre Franklin',
    headerFontSize: pt(7.5), bodyFontFamily: 'Libre Franklin', bodyFontSize: pt(8.5),
    cellPadding: mm(1.3) },
  tableStyles: [{ id: 'results', cellPadding: mm(1) }, // tighter rows: the bars read as one chart
    { id: 'forecast', headerBackground: col('flag'), bodyFontSize: pt(8), // the weather box
      cellPadding: mm(1.2) }],
  header, footer: { elements: [] }, // newspapers put the folio at the head, if anywhere
});

// ─── 2 · Content ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
// #region art: the two tables as data, and the bridge and the ward bars drawn in code
const WARDS = [ // Tuesday's parish poll: yes, no (they add up to 3,904 and 2,393)
  ['Market', 942, 418], ['Riverside', 861, 402], ['St Oswald’s', 896, 471],
  ['Brook Lane', 736, 591], ['Harrow', 469, 511]];
const cell = (content, extra = {}) => ({ content, ...extra });
const head = (content, align = 'left') => cell(content, { isHeader: true, align });
const num = (n) => n.toLocaleString('en-GB');
const share = (yes, no) => `${Math.round((100 * yes) / (yes + no))}%`;
function barSvg(yes, no) { // 1000 × 34 units: yes in red from the left, no in grey, 50% marked
  const split = (1000 * yes) / (yes + no);
  return '<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="1000" height="34" viewBox="0 0 1000 34">'
    + `<rect width="${split.toFixed(1)}" height="34" fill="${palette.flag}"/>`
    + `<rect x="${(split + 4).toFixed(1)}" width="${(996 - split).toFixed(1)}" height="34" `
    + `fill="${palette.rule}"/><rect x="499" y="-1" width="2" height="36" fill="${palette.ink}"/>`
    + '</svg>';
}
const TOWN = WARDS.reduce(([, y, n], [, yes, no]) => ['Whole town', y + yes, n + no], ['', 0, 0]);
const bars = [...WARDS, TOWN].map(([ward, yes, no], i) => ({ ward, yes, no,
  id: i < WARDS.length ? `bar-${i + 1}` : 'bar-town', svg: barSvg(yes, no) })); // one per row
function mulberry32(seed) { // a seeded PRNG: the same stones on every run
  return () => {
    seed = (seed + 0x6d2b79f5) | 0;
    let r = Math.imul(seed ^ (seed >>> 15), 1 | seed);
    r = (r + Math.imul(r ^ (r >>> 7), 61 | r)) ^ r;
    return ((r ^ (r >>> 14)) >>> 0) / 4294967296;
  };
}
const channel = (hex, i) => parseInt(hex.slice(i, i + 2), 16);
const mix = (a, b, k) => `#${[1, 3, 5].map((i) => Math.round(channel(a, i) * (1 - k)
  + channel(b, i) * k).toString(16).padStart(2, '0')).join('')}`; // a towards b by k
function bridgeSvg() { // 119 × 46 mm, 1 unit = 1 mm, about 2.6 mm to the metre
  const rand = mulberry32(1791); // the year the bridge was built, as far as the Courier knows
  const f = (v) => v.toFixed(2);
  const [W, H, TOP, DECK, WATER, BED] = [119, 46, 4.5, 8, 25, 30]; // heights from the top, mm
  const stone = mix(palette.tint, palette.muted, 0.35);
  const joint = mix(palette.tint, palette.ink, 0.55);
  const arches = [[16, 57], [62, 103]]; // two spans; the central pier stands between them
  const [SPRING, CROWN] = [WATER - 7, 13]; // the arches spring 7 mm above the water
  const CTRL = 2 * CROWN - SPRING; // the Bézier control point that puts the top at CROWN
  // The banks: road level at each end, down under the outer half of each arch to the water's
  // edge, 24 mm in, and on at the same slope to the bed.
  const EDGE = 24;
  const run = ((BED - WATER) * (EDGE - 10)) / (WATER - DECK);
  const bank = [[0, DECK], [10, DECK], [EDGE, WATER], [EDGE + run, BED]];
  const profile = [...bank, ...bank.map(([x, y]) => [W - x, y]).reverse()];
  const groundAt = (x) => { // the height of the ground at x, between two profile points
    const i = profile.findIndex(([px]) => px >= x);
    if (i <= 0) return profile[Math.max(i, 0)][1];
    const [[x0, y0], [x1, y1]] = [profile[i - 1], profile[i]];
    return y0 + ((y1 - y0) * (x - x0)) / (x1 - x0);
  };
  const water = mix(palette.paper, palette.ink, 0.14);
  let out = `<rect x="0" y="${WATER}" width="${W}" height="${BED - WATER}" fill="${water}"/>`;
  out += `<path d="M${EDGE} ${WATER}H${W - EDGE}" stroke="${palette.muted}" stroke-width="0.3"/>`;
  for (let i = 0; i < 9; i++) { // ripples on the river, between the banks
    const [x, y] = [EDGE + 3 + rand() * (W - 2 * EDGE - 12),
      WATER + 1.2 + rand() * (BED - WATER - 2.4)];
    out += `<path d="M${f(x)} ${f(y)}h${f(3 + rand() * 5)}" stroke="${palette.paper}" `
      + 'stroke-width="0.4"/>';
  }
  // The masonry: parapet to riverbed, less the two arch openings (even-odd fill). The banks
  // are drawn over it, so only the stone above the ground shows.
  const opening = ([a, b]) => `M${a} ${BED}L${a} ${SPRING}Q${(a + b) / 2} ${CTRL} `
    + `${b} ${SPRING}L${b} ${BED}Z`;
  const outline = `M4 ${BED}L10 ${DECK}V${TOP}H${W - 10}V${DECK}L${W - 4} ${BED}`;
  out += `<path fill-rule="evenodd" fill="${stone}" `
    + `d="${outline}Z${arches.map(opening).join('')}"/>`;
  // Where the masonry is at height y: inside the sloping ends, outside the arch openings.
  const solid = (x, y) => {
    const end = y < DECK ? 10 : 10 - (6 * (y - DECK)) / (BED - DECK);
    if (x < end || x > W - end) return false;
    return !arches.some(([a, b]) => { // the opening's half width at y (a parabola)
      const c = (SPRING - y) / (2 * (SPRING - CTRL)); // t(1 − t) at height y
      const half = c <= 0 ? 0.5 : c >= 0.25 ? -1 : Math.sqrt(0.25 - c);
      return Math.abs(x - (a + b) / 2) <= half * (b - a);
    });
  };
  for (let y = TOP + 2.2; y < BED; y += 2.2) { // courses of stone, joints staggered
    for (let x = 4; x < W - 4; x += 0.5) {
      if (solid(x, y) && solid(x + 0.5, y)) {
        out += `<path d="M${f(x)} ${f(y)}h0.5" stroke="${joint}" stroke-width="0.2"/>`;
      }
    }
    for (let x = 4 + rand() * 4; x < W - 6; x += 3 + rand() * 4) {
      if (solid(x, y) && solid(x, y - 2.2)) {
        out += `<path d="M${f(x)} ${f(y - 2.2)}v2.2" stroke="${joint}" stroke-width="0.2"/>`;
      }
    }
  }
  for (const [a, b] of arches) { // the voussoirs: a ring of stones round each opening
    const cx = (a + b) / 2;
    for (let t = 0; t <= 1.0001; t += 1 / 14) {
      const x = a + (b - a) * t;
      const y = SPRING - 2 * t * (1 - t) * (SPRING - CTRL);
      const [dx, dy] = [x - cx, y - (WATER + 2)];
      const k = 3 / Math.hypot(dx, dy);
      out += `<path d="M${f(x)} ${f(y)}l${f(dx * k)} ${f(dy * k)}" stroke="${joint}" `
        + 'stroke-width="0.25"/>';
    }
    out += `<path d="${opening([a, b]).replace(/Z$/, '')}" fill="none" stroke="${palette.ink}" `
      + 'stroke-width="0.35"/>';
  }
  out += `<path d="${outline}" fill="none" stroke="${palette.ink}" stroke-width="0.4"/>`;
  // The ground in section: the banks and the riverbed, hatched below the profile.
  const edge = profile.map(([x, y]) => `${f(x)} ${f(y)}`).join('L');
  out += `<path d="M${edge}L${W} ${H}L0 ${H}Z" fill="${palette.paper}"/>`;
  for (let x0 = -H; x0 < W; x0 += 1.6) { // 45° hatching, cut where it leaves the ground
    let from = null;
    for (let t = 0; t <= H + 0.05; t += 0.1) {
      const [x, y] = [x0 + t, H - t];
      const inside = x >= 0 && x <= W && y > groundAt(x);
      if (inside && !from) from = [x, y];
      if (from && (!inside || t + 0.1 > H + 0.05)) {
        out += `<path d="M${f(from[0])} ${f(from[1])}L${f(x - 0.1)} ${f(y + 0.1)}" `
          + `stroke="${palette.rule}" stroke-width="0.25"/>`;
        from = null;
      }
    }
  }
  out += `<path d="M${edge}" fill="none" stroke="${palette.muted}" stroke-width="0.3"/>`
    + `<rect x="55.5" y="${BED}" width="8" height="15.6" fill="${palette.flag}"/>` // 6 m deep
    + `<path d="M9.4 ${TOP}H${W - 9.4}" stroke="${palette.ink}" stroke-width="1.2"/>`; // coping
  return `<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="${W * 10}" height="${H * 10}" `
    + `viewBox="0 0 ${W} ${H}">${out}</svg>`;
}
function resultsTable() {
  const row = (name, yes, no, bar, bold = '') => [cell(`${bold}${name}${bold}`),
    cell('', { image: { resourceId: bar } }), cell(`${bold}${num(yes)}${bold}`,
      { align: 'right' }), cell(`${bold}${num(no)}${bold}`, { align: 'right' }),
    cell(`${bold}${share(yes, no)}${bold}`, { align: 'right' })];
  return { headerRowCount: 1, columnWidths: [22, 110, 14, 14, 14], rows: [
    [head('Ward'), head('Share of the vote'), head('Yes', 'right'),
      head('No', 'right'), head('Yes share', 'right')],
    ...bars.map((b) => row(b.ward, b.yes, b.no, b.id, b.id === 'bar-town' ? '**' : ''))] };
}
function forecastTable() {
  const days = [['Thu', 'Bright spells', 16, 8, 'W 18'], ['Fri', 'Showers', 14, 9, 'W 22'],
    ['Sat', 'Heavy rain', 12, 9, 'SW 30'], ['Sun', 'Clearing', 13, 6, 'NW 20'],
    ['Mon', 'Sunny, cold start', 15, 4, 'N 8']];
  return { headerRowCount: 1, columnWidths: [10, 40, 12, 12, 16], rows: [
    [head('Day'), head('Outlook'), head('High', 'right'), head('Low', 'right'),
      head('Wind mph', 'right')],
    ...days.map(([day, sky, hi, lo, wind]) => [cell(`**${day}**`), cell(sky),
      cell(`${hi}°`, { align: 'right' }), cell(`${lo}°`, { align: 'right' }),
      cell(wind, { align: 'right' })])] };
}
// #endregion

// #region floats: the photo sits in its box, the results float to a foot, the forecast to a head
// A caption label prints only when captionPrefix has text: '' leaves no "Figure 1".
const unnumbered = (id, name, captionStyle) => ({ id, name, shortLabel: name, captionPrefix: '',
  numberingTemplate: '', resetOn: 'never', counterFormat: 'decimal', captionStyle });
const resourceTypes = [unnumbered('picture', 'Picture'), // captions under the picture
  unnumbered('panel', 'Panel', { position: 'above', fontSize: pt(9.5) })]; // tables: titled above
const resource = (id, typeId, kind, body, extra) => ({ id, typeId, kind, [kind]: body,
  createdAt: 0, updatedAt: 0, ...extra });
const resources = [
  // Set inline in the page-span banner box: a 'top' float never lands above the line that
  // cites it (gotcha: top-float-next-page). It keeps the float gap above it, inside the box too.
  // 2400 px at 150 dpi is 406 mm: the photo shrinks to the box (gotcha: bitmap-print-size).
  resource('ridge', 'picture', 'bitmap', { fileId: 'ridge-2400.jpg', format: 'jpeg', width: 2400,
    height: 800 }, { placement: { position: 'here' },
    altText: 'Wind turbines on a snow-covered ridge under a bright, cloudy sky.',
    caption: '**File picture:** turbines on an upland ridge. Each of the three planned for '
      + 'Harrow Ridge would generate 2.3 megawatts.',
    note: 'Photograph: Jason Blackeye, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons' }),
  // Drawn in code (the art region) and set inline, where ::resource puts it in column 1,
  // at the column's right with the next paragraph running beside it (text wrap).
  resource('bridge', 'picture', 'svg', { fileId: 'bridge.svg', width: 1190, height: 460 },
    { placement: { position: 'here', wrap: 'right', width: 0.47 },
      altText: 'Drawing of a two-arch stone bridge between sloping river banks; under its '
        + 'central pier, a red concrete footing.',
      caption: '**The rebuilt pier.** Its new concrete footing (red) goes six metres below the '
        + 'riverbed. Both arches were relaid with their own stones.',
      note: 'Drawing: The Courier' }),
  // A page-span 'bottom' float sits under both columns of the page that cites it. On the last
  // page it follows the balanced columns, so the copy there is fitted to bring it to the foot.
  resource('wards', 'panel', 'table', { styleId: 'results', model: resultsTable() },
    { placement: { position: 'bottom', span: 'page' }, caption: '**How the wards voted**',
      note: 'Red: yes. Grey: no. The black line marks half the vote. '
        + 'Source: Elverdale Town Council.' }),
  // A column 'top' float waits for the head of the next column with room.
  resource('forecast', 'panel', 'table', { styleId: 'forecast', model: forecastTable() },
    { placement: { position: 'top', span: 'column' }, caption: '**The next five days**',
      note: 'Sunrise 6.57, sunset 19.03 on Thursday. Forecast: Wend Valley Weather Station.' }),
];
// #endregion
resources.push(...bars.map((b) => resource(b.id, 'panel', 'svg', // the bars the table cells draw
  { fileId: `${b.id}.svg`, width: 1000, height: 34 },
  { altText: `${b.ward}: ${num(b.yes)} yes, ${num(b.no)} no` })));
const markdown = String.raw`---
Exemple Markdown · 124 lignes · content.en.mdtitle: "The Elverdale Courier" author: "The Elverdale Courier" publishDate: "Thursday 24 September 2026" --- # The Elverdale Courier {style="front" issue="Vol. 116 · No. 39" area="Elverdale, Harrow and the Upper Wend" outlook="Bright spells, breezy" temps="16° · 8°" since="Est. 1911" day="Every Thursday" price="90p"} :::callout{type="banner" span="page"} ## Harrow Ridge turbines win the town’s vote {style="lead"} *Elverdale backs its own wind farm by 62% on a 71% turnout. Now the cooperative must raise £9.8 million* ::resource{id="ridge"} ::: :::callout{type="briefs" span="page" placement="bottom" title="In brief"} :::columns{count=4 breaks="2,3,4"} :chip[TRANSPORT]{style="flag"} **Bus 44 back on Sundays.** The Elverdale to Kirkby bus will run every two hours on Sundays from 4 October, paid for by the county for a year. The first leaves the Market Place at 8.10. :chip[SCHOOLS]{style="flag"} **An orchard for Brook Lane.** Pupils at Brook Lane Primary planted 24 apple and pear trees on Friday, all of them varieties grown in the valley before 1900. :chip[ARTS]{style="flag"} **Book Weekend full.** Every ticket for the fourteen events of the Book Weekend, 9 to 11 October, has gone. The Saturday talks will be screened free in the Corn Exchange. :chip[COUNCIL]{style="flag"} **Bin day moves.** Recycling north of the river goes out on Tuesdays instead of Mondays, starting in the week of 5 October. New calendars come with next week’s Courier. ::: ::: :::paragraphs{style="byline"} By **Martha Quayle** · Local Democracy Reporter ::: :::paragraphs{style="flush"} Elverdale will build a wind farm of its own. In the first town-wide poll since the 1974 vote to save the Corn Exchange, 3,904 residents backed plans for three turbines on Harrow Ridge, and 2,393 voted against. ::: The count at the Corn Exchange finished shortly before midnight on Tuesday. Turnout was 71%, the highest the town clerk, Anjali Rees, can remember at any election. “People queued in the rain outside St Oswald’s,” she said. “We ran out of pencils at eleven.” The last ballot box, from Harrow, came in at twenty to ten. The scheme belongs to Wend Valley Energy, a cooperative that residents formed in 2023 so that the wind on the ridge would pay the valley rather than a distant landlord. Its three turbines of 2.3 megawatts each would supply about 6,500 homes in an average year, far more than the 4,700 in the parish. ### Who pays and who gains The cooperative must now raise £9.8 million. A share offer opens next Thursday, with a minimum stake of £50. It hopes to find £2.4 million in the valley and to borrow the rest from a community energy lender. Members would earn up to 4% a year, and £120,000 a year would go to a town fund, spent by a panel that residents elect. “Two thousand households putting in £1,200 each would do it,” said Tom Ashby, who chairs the cooperative and farms at Low Harrow. “We had 312 pledges by Wednesday lunchtime.” ### Objectors turn to the planners The Harrow Ridge Action Group, which campaigned against the scheme, says the turbines, 125 metres to the tip of the blade, will dominate the view from the Wend Way and disturb the curlews that nest on the moor. “A poll is not a planning permission,” said its secretary, Clare Whitlock. “We will make our case to the district council, and we expect to be heard.” The planning application is due in the spring, after a year of bird and wind surveys. If it succeeds, work could start in 2028, and the turbines would be turning by the autumn of 2029. The cooperative’s 640 founding members have paid £180,000 for the surveys. :::paragraphs{style="jump"} How each ward voted, and what happens next: **page 2** ::: # Town & Valley :::callout{type="banner" span="page" title="Transport"} ## Old Mill Bridge reopens after 14 months {style="wide"} *Cars, buses and the Saturday market cross the Wend again. Lorries must wait for a load test next spring* ::: :::paragraphs{style="byline"} By **Owen Pryce** ::: :::paragraphs{style="flush"} The Old Mill Bridge reopened to traffic at seven o’clock on Monday morning, fourteen months after the flood of July 2025 scoured out the footing of its central pier and cracked both of its arches. ::: The repair cost £1.9 million, most of it from the county council’s flood recovery fund. Engineers rebuilt the pier on a new concrete footing sunk six metres into the riverbed, and relaid the arches with 3,100 of their own stones, each one numbered as it came down and set back in the same place. ::resource{id="bridge"} It reopened just five days before the first storm of the autumn is due. Heavy rain is forecast for Saturday :ref{id="forecast" text="(Weather, right)"}, and the county’s engineers will be on the bridge to watch the river rise. The first vehicle across was Keith Barlow’s dairy van, which has spent more than a year on the eleven-mile detour through Kirkby. “Forty minutes each way, six days a week,” he said. “I’d rather not add it up.” The bridge is open to cars, vans and buses, and closed to goods vehicles over 7.5 tonnes. The county says heavy traffic had weakened the old structure long before the flood, and it will not let lorries back until the new pier has passed a load test next spring. That has disappointed some traders. “It’s half a bridge for us,” said Priya Chandra, who runs the builders’ merchant on Mill Lane. “Our timber still comes round by Kirkby, eleven miles each way.” For the market, it came just in time. Stallholders from the south bank have carried their stock over the footbridge for a year, and Saturday’s market will be the first in more than a year with every pitch taken. The bell will ring at eight, as it did before the flood, and the council is running a free bus from the station car park for the first four Saturdays. The county will inspect the town’s two other bridges, at Kirkby Lane and over the mill race, before the winter, and has promised to publish both reports. The first, on the Kirkby Lane bridge, is due in November, and the county’s engineers will present it at the Corn Exchange. The meeting is open to anyone who uses the bridges. :::callout{type="story" span="page" title="The wind farm vote"} ## Harrow was the one ward to say no {style="second"} ::: :::paragraphs{style="flush"} Every ward but one voted for the wind farm in Tuesday’s poll. Market gave it the biggest majority, with 69% voting yes, and Brook Lane the smallest, 736 votes to 591 :ref{id="wards" text="(Results, below)"}. ::: Harrow, the ward beneath the ridge, voted against by 511 votes to 469, on a turnout of 76%, the highest of the five wards. “Most of the people who voted no can see the ridge from their front doors,” said its councillor, Ruth Okafor, who has asked the cooperative to meet Harrow residents before the application goes in. The first meeting is on 8 October. Tom Ashby, the cooperative’s chair, said it had expected Harrow to be the hardest ward to win. He has offered to move the nearest turbine 200 metres further from the village, which would cost about 4% of its output, and will put both sites to Harrow residents at the October meeting. The poll does not bind the district council, which expects to decide the planning application in the summer of 2027. Anyone may comment on it for 21 days after it is published. :::columnbreak ## Letters **Tea at the count.** I was one of 22 volunteers who sorted 6,297 ballots in the Corn Exchange on Tuesday night. When the urn ran dry at ten, the cricket club lent us theirs, and we finished at a quarter to twelve. Thank you to the Rotary Club for the sandwiches, and to whoever left a tin of flapjacks on the returning officer’s table. :::paragraphs{style="sign"} *Margaret Oyelaran, Brook Lane* ::: :::paragraphs{style="flush"} **The view belongs to all of us.** Those of us who walk the Wend Way every week were outvoted by people who have never climbed the ridge. I counted eleven pairs of curlews up there in May. I hope the district council will remember that the moor is not the town’s to sell, whatever the count says. ::: :::paragraphs{style="sign"} *David Hurst, Low Harrow* ::: :::paragraphs{style="imprint"} An imaginary weekly. Text CC BY 4.0. Set in Grenze Gotisch, PT Serif and Libre Franklin (SIL OFL). :::
`; // content.en.md, inlined by the Cookbook // ─── 3 · Fonts ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── const FONTS = { // text, display and label faces, loaded before the build 'PT Serif': ['400', '400i', '700'], 'Grenze Gotisch': ['700'], 'Libre Franklin': ['400', '600', '700', '800', '900'] }; // ─── 4 · Build & show ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────── await Promise.all([loadImage('ridge-2400.jpg', asset('ridge-2400.jpg')), loadSvg('bridge.svg', bridgeSvg()), ...bars.map((b) => loadSvg(`${b.id}.svg`, b.svg))]); const doc = await buildDocumentWithFonts({ markdown, resources }, config(), kitFonts(FONTS)); showPages(doc, { title: 'Newspaper front page' });
Kit · core, fonts, viewer, images : identique dans toutes les recettes · 270 lignes// ─── 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 v3 ── the same in every recipe · postext.dev/cookbook // Postext loads the faces a config asks for before layout (prepareFonts, // buildDocumentWithFonts) and asks the kit for the files: Fontsource's, the // files the PDF embeds too. /** The options of buildDocumentWithFonts / prepareFonts / withLoadedFonts: * the Fontsource resolver, and the faces of FONTS loaded with the ones the * config names. FONTS = { 'Family Name': ['400', '400i', '700'] }. */ function kitFonts(FONTS = {}) { const faces = Object.entries(FONTS).flatMap(([family, specs]) => specs.map((spec) => ({ family, weight: parseInt(spec, 10), style: spec.endsWith('i') ? 'italic' : 'normal' }))); return { resolve: fontsourceResolver, faces }; } /** A face's Fontsource files, in a fixed order: latin, then latin-ext and greek * when `text` needs them and the family ships them (kitSubsetsFor), each with * its unicode-range. Null for a weight or slant Fontsource does not ship. */ async function fontsourceResolver(family, weight, style, { text = '' } = {}) { const id = fontsourceId(family); const meta = await fontsourceMeta(family); if (meta && !(meta.weights.includes(weight) && meta.styles.includes(style))) return null; kitStatus('Loading fonts…'); const at = await fontsourceAt(id); return ['latin', ...kitSubsetsFor(text, meta)].map((subset) => ({ source: `${at}files/${id}-${subset}-${weight}-${style}.woff2`, unicodeRange: kitRanges()[subset], })); } /** The unicode-range of each Fontsource file the kit loads (a function: the * kit is inlined after the pen's code, which runs before a const would be set). */ function kitRanges() { return { latin: 'U+0000-00FF,U+0131,U+0152-0153,U+02BB-02BC,U+02C6,U+02DA,U+02DC,U+0304,U+0308,U+0329,' + 'U+2000-206F,U+20AC,U+2122,U+2191,U+2193,U+2212,U+2215,U+FEFF,U+FFFD', 'latin-ext': 'U+0100-02BA,U+02BD-02C5,U+02C7-02CC,U+02CE-02D7,U+02DD-02FF,U+0304,U+0308,U+0329,' + 'U+1D00-1DBF,U+1E00-1E9F,U+1EF2-1EFF,U+2020,U+20A0-20AB,U+20AD-20C0,U+2113,U+2C60-2C7F,U+A720-A7FF', greek: 'U+0370-03FF', }; } /** For the cjk, arabic and comics blocks, which add their own files: the * faces of `faces` = { 'Family Name': ['400', '400i', '700'] }. `text` is the sample: * č ł † α χ also load latin-ext and greek files (kitSubsetsFor). With * `optional`, a face Fontsource does not ship is skipped instead of failing. * The files are added once all have loaded, in the order asked (latin, then * latin-ext, then greek), whatever order they arrive in: the last one added * wins a character two files hold. Resolves to the number of faces added. */ async function loadFonts(faces, text = '', { optional = false } = {}) { kitStatus('Loading fonts…'); const ranges = kitRanges(); const jobs = []; for (const [family, specs] of Object.entries(faces)) { const id = fontsourceId(family); const todo = [...new Set(specs)].map((spec) => [parseInt(spec, 10), spec.endsWith('i') ? 'italic' : 'normal']) .filter(([weight, style]) => !hasFace(family, weight, style)); // before any await const at = fontsourceAt(id); const meta = optional || /[^\0-ÿ]/u.test(text) ? await fontsourceMeta(family) : null; const subsets = ['latin', ...kitSubsetsFor(text, meta)]; for (const [weight, style] of todo) { if (optional && !(meta?.weights.includes(weight) && meta.styles.includes(style))) continue; for (const subset of subsets) { const url = `${await at}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().catch(() => { if (subset === 'latin' && !optional) throw new Error(`Fontsource has no ${family} ${weight} ${style}`); })); } } } const ready = await Promise.all(jobs).catch((error) => { kitFail(error); throw error; }); return ready.filter((face) => face && document.fonts.add(face)).length; } /** A loaded FontFace covers this family, weight and style (fonts.check() would * also say yes for families nobody declared). */ function hasFace(family, weight, style) { for (const face of document.fonts) { if (face.status !== 'loaded' || face.style !== style) continue; if (face.family.replace(/^["']|["']$/g, '') !== family) continue; const [low, high = low] = face.weight.split(' ').map(Number); if (weight >= low && weight <= high) return true; } return false; } /** The files beyond latin `text` needs that `meta`'s family ships. */ function kitSubsetsFor(text, meta) { return [[/[Ā-˿ᴀ-ᶿḀ-ỿ†ℓⱠ-Ɀ꜠-ꟿ]/u, 'latin-ext'], [/[Ͱ-Ͽ]/u, 'greek']] .filter(([re, x]) => re.test(text) && meta?.subsets?.includes(x)).map(([, x]) => x); } /** Fontsource's id for a family: 'Source Serif 4' → 'source-serif-4'. */ function fontsourceId(family) { return family.toLowerCase().replace(/\s+/g, '-'); } /** A package's folder at the one version @5 names now (#766). */ function fontsourceAt(id, u = `https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@fontsource/${id}@`) { return (fontsourceAt.c ??= {})[id] ??= fetch(u + '5/package.json').then((r) => r.json()) .then((p) => p.version || 5, () => 5).then((v) => `${u}${v}/`); } /** The family's Fontsource metadata (weights, styles, subsets), or null. */ function fontsourceMeta(family) { fontsourceMeta.cache ??= new Map(); const id = fontsourceId(family); if (!fontsourceMeta.cache.has(id)) { fontsourceMeta.cache.set(id, fetch(`https://api.fontsource.org/v1/fonts/${id}`) .then((res) => (res.ok ? res.json() : null), () => null)); } return fontsourceMeta.cache.get(id); } // ─── Kit · viewer v2 ── the same in every recipe · postext.dev/cookbook /** The pages as spreads on a dark desk, page 1 alone, then verso | recto, * each painted when it scrolls near. Other options go to renderPageToCanvas. */ function showPages(docs, { title, width = 460, ...render } = {}) { 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, { ...render, 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: ${error?.message ?? error}`); } // ─── Kit · images v3 ── recipes with pictures · postext.dev/cookbook /** Registers a photo or PNG for the canvas and keeps its bytes for the PDF. * fetch → ImageBitmap never taints the canvas (a plain cross-origin <img> would). */ async function loadImage(fileId, url) { const res = await fetch(url); if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`Image not found (${res.status}): ${url}`); const bytes = new Uint8Array(await res.arrayBuffer()); registerResourceImage(fileId, await createImageBitmap(new Blob([bytes]))); (loadImage.bytes ??= new Map()).set(fileId, bytes); } /** Registers SVG markup as a vector image, its fonts inside (inlineSvgFonts, ≥ 1.25). * `options` go to registerResourceImage: { singleInk: true } tints it on the canvas. */ async function loadSvg(fileId, svg, options) { if (typeof inlineSvgFonts === 'function') svg = await inlineSvgFonts(svg, svgFaces); const img = new Image(); img.src = `data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,${encodeURIComponent(svg)}`; await img.decode(); registerResourceImage(fileId, img, options); (loadImage.bytes ??= new Map()).set(fileId, new TextEncoder().encode(svg)); } /** A face's Fontsource files: nearest weight; latin + what the SVG sets. */ async function svgFaces(family, weight, style, { codePoints = [] } = {}) { const [id, m] = [fontsourceId(family), await fontsourceMeta(family)]; const w = m?.weights.reduce((a, b) => (Math.abs(b - weight) < Math.abs(a - weight) ? b : a)) ?? weight; const s = m?.styles.includes(style) === false ? 'normal' : style; return Promise.all(['latin', ...kitSubsetsFor(String.fromCodePoint(...codePoints), m)].map(async (x) => new Uint8Array( await (await fetch(`${await fontsourceAt(id)}files/${id}-${x}-${w}-${s}.woff2`)).arrayBuffer()))); } /** renderToPdf({ resourceBytes: imageBytes }) */ function imageBytes(fileId) { return loadImage.bytes?.get(fileId); } /** renderToHtml({ resourceImageUrl: imageUrl }) */ function imageUrl(fileId) { const bytes = imageBytes(fileId); if (!bytes) return undefined; imageUrl.urls ??= new Map(); if (!imageUrl.urls.has(fileId)) { const type = /\.svg$/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 ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

Le script.js composé s’exécute tel quel : collez-le dans le script de module de n’importe quelle page, ou ouvrez la recette sur CodePen. Dossier de la recette sur GitHub ↗ (s’ouvre dans un nouvel onglet)

Variantes

#Garder les brèves sous la photographie

Sans placement="bottom" dans content.en.md, le bandeau reste là où se trouve son bloc, juste sous la photographie, et l’article principal court dessous jusqu’au pied de la page.

-:::callout{type="briefs" span="page" placement="bottom" title="In brief"}
+:::callout{type="briefs" span="page" title="In brief"}

Erreurs fréquentes

Erreur fréquente

Un flottant 'top' va à la page qui suit sa citation, sauf s’il peut ouvrir la page qui le cite

Par défaut, un flottant ne passe jamais au-dessus de son propre renvoi : un flottant 'top' sur toute la largeur cité en page N ouvre donc la page N+1. Réglez placement.citingPage: true sur la ressource ou sur le defaultPlacement de son type (ou layout.floatsAtCitingPage pour tout le livre, depuis postext 1.25) et il ouvre plutôt la page N, le texte au-dessus du renvoi descendant sous lui, quand il tient dans layout.maxTopFraction et que la ligne qui le cite reste sur cette page. Il n’ouvre jamais la première page d’un chapitre ni une page qui suit un saut forcé : là, il ouvre toujours la page suivante, et 'auto' ou 'bottom' peut prendre le pied de la page qui le cite. Placement des figures →

Erreur fréquente

Les images matricielles tirent leur taille d’impression d’une résolution : déclarez-la, pas des pixels à la taille d’impression

Une image matricielle sans résolution est mise en page à raison d’un pixel par pixel de mise en page à la résolution du document : une photo de 2 400 px fait donc 406 mm de large sur une page à 150 dpi. Déclarez les pixels réels du fichier et donnez à l’image sa résolution (bitmap.resolution: 300), ou réglez layout.bitmapResolution pour toutes les images matricielles : une valeur en ppi, ou 'file' pour lire celle qu’indique le fichier. La colonne limite toujours la taille de l’image. Figures et tableaux comme ressources →

  • Donnez à la photographie placement: { position: 'top', span: 'page' }, et elle quitte la page 1 pour se retrouver seule en page 2. L’article de la page 1 finit alors 92 mm au-dessus du bandeau de brèves, et la rubrique passe en page 3.

Crédits

Texte
Texte original, CC BY 4.0
Images
  • Wind turbines on a snowy ridge (the front-page photograph, cropped to a band) · Jason Blackeye · CC0 1.0
  • The bridge drawing and the bars in the ward table, drawn in code in the page's palette · Ignacio Ferro · CC BY 4.0
Polices
Grenze Gotisch (SIL OFL 1.1) · PT Serif (SIL OFL 1.1) · Libre Franklin (SIL OFL 1.1)
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