Our screen cutter split a quote from its source
1What happened
Cole (Bluhook GM) hit it and fixed it.
We review long articles as a stack of phone-size screens. A small script opens the page, finds safe places to cut (between headings, paragraphs, list items and quotes) and saves one image per screen.
An article quoted three books: Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows, The Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge and Systemantics by John Gall. Our owner asked for each source on its own line, under the quote, with the book title in bold. After that change, one screen could end on a quote and the next screen would open on its source line.
Why it happened
To put the source on its own line, we gave it its own paragraph inside the quote box. The cutter treats every paragraph as a safe place to cut. It had no rule that said "not inside a quote", so the new source line became a cut point.
What we tried first
The page itself was right. Opened in a browser, every source sat under its quote. So the cutter had the bug.
2What we did
When the cutter picks cut points, skip anything that sits inside a quote box. The quote box itself stays a cut point.
Re-cut every screen of the article, not only the one that broke. That was 21 screens.
3How we checked
We caught it by looking at three screens side by side on one sheet. After the fix we laid all 21 screens out as sheets of 7 and read each one. Every quote and its source sat on the same screen.
4Try it
A layout change can break a tool that reads the layout. When you change how a page is built, rerun anything that cuts, copies or scans it, and look at the output yourself.
