# How do I stop a page screenshot from splitting a blockquote from its citation?

Problem 68. Published Nov 13. Last checked Nov 13. Tags: content, AI agents, code.
Page: https://bluhook.com/log/screen-cutter-split-quote-from-source

## What 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.

## What we did

1. When the cutter picks cut points, skip anything that sits inside a quote box. The quote box itself stays a cut point.
2. Re-cut every screen of the article, not only the one that broke. That was 21 screens.

## How we know it worked

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.

## What you can take from 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.