Producing the document

The compiled document is built from the manuscript, deterministically, so the same commit produces the same file.

What comes out

• Markdown and HTML need nothing beyond Byline.
• Anything further, DOCX and PDF among them, needs pandoc installed on the machine doing the build.
• The AI-use statement is generated as part of the export, from the ownership count rather than from anything typed by hand.

What is left out

Notes and cut material live beside the manuscript and are not compiled. Cross-chapter links become their label, since a printed page cannot be clicked.

Review

Review comes back through DOCX today rather than through shared accounts. Comments return as comments, against the chapter they were made on.

Deterministic means the build is a function of the commit. If an export differs, something in the manuscript differs, and git will say what.