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Verification record — Phase 1 (mechanical conversion)

Checks applied to this edition, 2026-09-10.

  1. Structure counts. Source: 42 numbered \section + 4 unnumbered (Preface, Abstract, Afterword, Acknowledgements) → 46 section files. 192 \fn footnotes in the source: 33 substantive footnotes inlined as [fn: …]; 159 were bare section cross-references, of which 151 duplicated an adjacent [phrase](→§N) link and were dropped, 8 are rendered as [→ §N *Title*]. 11 figure environments → 11 figure blocks (10 images described, 1 text-only reproduced). 5 tables → 5 Markdown tables. 143 distinct citation keys → 143 entries in references.md.
  2. Sentence-level presence. Every sentence of ≥8 words in the de-TeXed source was checked for presence in the edition by 5-word-window coverage (1,673 sentences). All sentences ≥50% covered; the five lowest-coverage cases were inspected and are link-dense sentences that are fully present.
  3. Macro residue. No unresolved LaTeX commands remain except \frac inside one intentionally retained math expression (§40).
  4. Cross-reference resolution. All \SecRef/\hyperref targets resolve to PDF section numbers, except the source's own dangling reference to a nonexistent section tacitly-biological (§7; noted in README).
  5. Model fidelity review (Sonnet), three sections compared paragraph-by-paragraph against the LaTeX: §II (list-heavy overview) — one formatting defect found and fixed (nested emphasis in a cited title); §20 (footnotes, labeled lists) — one content loss found and fixed (pandoc had dropped the A1)–C5) list labels that the prose refers back to); §40 (math, numbers, tables, URLs) — clean. Both defects were systemic classes, fixed in the converter, and all sections regenerated.
  6. Figure descriptions are single-pass model output from the image plus section context; they have not yet been cross-checked against each other or the text (not done).

Not done: independent per-section fidelity review of all 46 files; multi-sample figure descriptions; typo audit against the source (source typos such as "perform perform", "could could", "the ability run" are preserved verbatim here, as they are in the PDF).