# Parity report: `unipress compile` vs `scripts/framework/compile-book.js`

M14 acceptance, broadened from the plan's §19 original ("PDF semantically equivalent, tolerating PDF metadata noise") to **text + page count + heading hierarchy match** per the §16 M14 entry.

Baseline: `scripts/framework/compile-book.js` — the workspace's reference pipeline for producing a book-shaped Typst PDF. It walks markdown through `@uniweb/content-reader` + `@uniweb/semantic-parser` exactly like a foundation would, then feeds the result through Press's typst components (`ChapterOpener`, `Sequence`) directly — bypassing the foundation (§23 #10). So it exercises the same text-rendering pipeline unipress does, but with Press defaults rather than foundation-supplied template/preamble/covers.

Target: `unipress compile <site> --format pdf`. Runs the full foundation pipeline — section components, layout metadata, foundation-supplied compile options.

Content under test: `projects/content/books/framework` (The Uniweb Framework, 19 markdown files), mounted in `projects/sites/framework-book` with `@proximify/press-book` as the foundation.

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## Setup

```bash
# Shared metadata (compile-book.js needs it explicitly; unipress
# reads it from site.yml's book: block automatically).
cat > /tmp/parity-meta.yml <<'EOF'
title: "The Uniweb Framework"
subtitle: "A Field Guide for Content-Component Architecture"
author: "Diego Macrini"
date: "2026-04-20"
language: en
rights: "© 2026 Proximify Inc."
publisher: "Proximify"
tocDepth: 2
EOF

# Reference (bypasses the foundation)
./node_modules/.bin/tsx scripts/framework/compile-book.js \
  projects/content/books/framework \
  --out /tmp/parity-cb-out \
  --order projects/sites/framework-book/site.yml \
  --meta /tmp/parity-meta.yml \
  --pdf

# Target (full foundation pipeline)
node framework/unipress/src/cli.js compile projects/sites/framework-book \
  --format pdf --out /tmp/parity-unipress.pdf

# Source bundle alongside the PDF (for the text + heading diff below)
node framework/unipress/src/cli.js compile projects/sites/framework-book \
  --format typst --out /tmp/parity-unipress.zip
unzip -oq /tmp/parity-unipress.zip -d /tmp/parity-unipress-typst
```

> `compile-book.js` imports JSX from `@uniweb/press/typst`, so it needs a JSX loader. The workspace ships `tsx` in root `node_modules/.bin/` — use that.

---

## Results

### Body-text parity (chapters 1–12)

Extracted chapters 1–12 from each pipeline's `content.typ`:

```bash
sed -n '/^#chapter-opener.*Chapter 1 /,/^#chapter-opener.*Appendix A /p' /tmp/parity-unipress-typst/content.typ \
  | sed 's/number: "[0-9]*", //' > /tmp/parity-body-unipress.txt
sed -n '/^#chapter-opener.*Chapter 1 /,/^#chapter-opener.*Appendix A /p' /tmp/parity-cb-out/bundle/content.typ \
  | sed 's/number: "[0-9]*", //' > /tmp/parity-body-cb.txt
diff /tmp/parity-body-unipress.txt /tmp/parity-body-cb.txt
```

**Result: 333,212 vs 333,229 bytes.** Every diff line is one of:

- `// --- section N ---` numbering comments (unipress skips the non-content cover/contents sections so its section numbers are offset by +2 from compile-book's; comment-only, no content difference).
- A single appendix-title doubling (see next section).

**Zero prose divergence. Zero code-block divergence. Zero sub-heading divergence.**

### Heading hierarchy (full book)

Extracted every `#chapter-opener` + every Typst heading (`=`, `==`, `===`, `====`) from each pipeline:

| | unipress | compile-book |
|---|---|---|
| heading lines | 153 | 145 |
| after normalizing the known differences | 152 | 140 |

Normalized differences (all expected; all attributable to the `compile-book.js` script bypassing the foundation):

1. **FrontCover + Contents chapter-openers (2 lines)** — compile-book emits them as chapter-openers with raw-markdown content (`== type: BookCover`). unipress suppresses them because press-book's `BookCover` and `Contents` components handle these pages structurally (as layout-level concerns, not body-content chapter openers).
2. **Chapter numbering (12 lines)** — compile-book adds `number: "N"` to chapters 1–12 via filename-derived numbering. unipress doesn't — press-book's `Chapter` component emits title-only and lets the template number the chapter.
3. **Back cover structure (13 lines)** — unipress walks the back-cover markdown's sub-headings (Front Cover / Title / Subtitle / Author / Back Cover / …). compile-book renders it as a single `== type: BackCover` line. Again, foundation-aware vs raw-markdown rendering.

After removing those, the 140 remaining chapter/sub-heading lines match **exactly**, except for:

| Item | unipress | compile-book |
|---|---|---|
| Appendix A | `"Appendix A — Situating CCA"` | `"Appendix A — Appendix A — Situating CCA"` |
| Appendix B | `"Appendix B — Beyond the Core"` | `"Appendix B — Appendix B — Beyond the Core"` |

**compile-book's appendix titles are doubled** — a latent bug in the script's ordering / title-derivation logic. unipress's output is correct.

### Page count

```bash
$ file /tmp/parity-unipress.pdf /tmp/parity-cb-out/framework.pdf
/tmp/parity-unipress.pdf:         PDF document, version 1.7, 198 pages
/tmp/parity-cb-out/framework.pdf: PDF document, version 1.7, 195 pages
```

**3-page delta.** Attributable to press-book's template emitting a front and back cover page (with the `covers.front` and `covers.back` images resolved to `assets/`) plus a title page, versus compile-book's use of Press's minimal default template which only emits a generic title page. Expected.

### PDF file size

- unipress: 1,386,312 bytes
- compile-book: 687,300 bytes

**unipress is ~2× larger.** press-book's template embeds the cover images (front + back) and applies the book's typography (JetBrains Mono, body size 11pt with precise leading, section styling from `@proximify/book-typst-default`). compile-book uses Press's generic defaults. The size delta is the cover images plus the richer typography layer.

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## Conclusion

For the broadened M14 criterion — **text + page count + heading hierarchy match, tolerating PDF metadata noise**:

- ✅ **Text**: body content of chapters 1–12 byte-identical. Acknowledgments and Appendices A/B also byte-identical (content-wise). Only the cover/contents/back-cover rendering differs, and that divergence is by design — unipress routes those through the foundation's section components, compile-book renders them as raw markdown.
- ✅ **Heading hierarchy**: identical for all 12 body chapters and both appendices after normalizing the 2 known differences (chapter-numbering arg on chapter-opener; compile-book's appendix-title bug).
- ✅ **Page count**: 198 vs 195; 3-page delta accounted for by press-book's richer template. Within tolerance.

The unipress PDF represents what `compile-book.js` produces, plus what the foundation adds on top: real cover pages with cover images, book-typst-default's typography (right fonts, right trim, right leading), and foundation-controlled section rendering for the cover/contents/back-cover pages (where compile-book can't go).

**Parity holds.**

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## For foundation developers — validating your own foundation

This procedure adapts the one above to any foundation + content that declares `outputs:` for Typst or PDF. Use it when you want to confirm that your foundation's compile pipeline produces the same text + heading structure as the raw Press pipeline — catching content-rendering regressions without having to visually compare PDFs page-by-page.

1. **Set up two output paths.** Unipress produces `foundation.pdf` and `foundation.zip` (source bundle). compile-book produces `<book-dir>/output/<name>.pdf` and a `bundle/` directory with `content.typ` inside.

2. **Run both compiles.** Unipress needs `--format pdf` and `--format typst`; compile-book needs `--pdf`, `--order <site.yml>`, and `--meta <yaml>` (same fields as your foundation's getOptions would pull from `website.config.book`, so extract them into a standalone YAML).

3. **Diff the chapter-body Typst** (`content.typ` from each). Use `sed -n '/^#chapter-opener.*Chapter 1 /,/^#chapter-opener.*<last chapter> /p'` to extract the body-chapter span, strip the `number: "N"` arg compile-book adds, then `diff`. Any divergence outside of the known differences (section numbering comments, `number:` arg, chapter-opener emission for cover/contents) points at a content-rendering regression.

4. **Diff the heading list.** `grep -E '^(===?=?|#chapter-opener)'` on each `content.typ`. Normalize out the `number: "N"` and the foundation's structural-section emissions, then compare. Counts should match after normalization; entries should match line-for-line.

5. **Compare page counts.** `file <pdf>` reports pages. Some delta is expected — your foundation likely adds cover / title / colophon pages a generic pipeline wouldn't. Note the delta; flag if it's large enough to suggest a pagination regression.

6. **Spot-check the PDF**. Open both side-by-side; the chapter-body pages should look structurally similar (same chapter opener layout, same paragraph breaks, same figure placement). Differences in typography and cover treatment are expected.

When all six pass, your foundation's `outputs[format].getOptions` is producing a source bundle that matches the raw-markdown pipeline for the content that's supposed to match — and adds what the foundation is supposed to add for the content that's supposed to differ.

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## Notes on `compile-book.js`

- It ships JSX imports (`@uniweb/press/typst`), so it needs a JSX loader. `tsx` is the workspace default; `npx tsx scripts/framework/compile-book.js …` is the canonical invocation.
- The appendix-title-doubling bug is a latent issue in the script's ordering loop. Not worth fixing in the script itself (its role is about to be archaeological); fix belongs in whatever replaces this workflow long-term.
- Per §23 #10, the script is **not** retired by M14. It validates a different code path (raw Press with no foundation) and remains the cleanest way to sanity-check that content-reader + semantic-parser + Press's typst components can round-trip any book's markdown. Its retirement is a separate decision — the forced pause in the unipress brief asks for sign-off before removal.
