Verse Hard-Break Consistency Pass

Maintenance ID: 0.1.00056.verse-hard-break-consistency Date: 2026-10-08 Scope: content/ — 123 records with verse stanzas missing two-space hard breaks

What changed

• Added two trailing spaces (CommonMark hard breaks) to 1,584 non-final verse lines across 123 records where the stanza previously carried no break, so each affected stanza compiles as separate verse lines instead of one run-on paragraph. Whitespace-only; every changed line is rstrip + " ", verified programmatically.
• Affected collections: limericks/ (52 records), lorelog/ residue regions (27), haikus/ (22), posts/ residue regions (8), reference/ residue regions (15).
• Added scripts/fix_verse_hard_breaks.py, the scoped checker/fixer used for the pass. --check lists violations without writing and exits nonzero, so it doubles as a drift guardrail for future authored verse.
• Recounted content/changelog/ source records (78 before this docket, plus this docket) and set the trunk's Count: to 79.
• content/reference/directives/tri-directive-doctrine.md deliberately excluded: its twelve missing breaks are covered by open PR #821 (0.1.00055.presentation-qa-reference-772-tri-hard-breaks), and editing it here would collide with that in-flight change.

What was deliberately left alone

• All words, line order, stanza structure, headings, {#...} anchors, frontmatter, IDs, tags, relations, and every line that already carried a hard break (two or more trailing spaces or a backslash break).
• Final lines of stanzas: a hard break is only meaningful before a following line, so none was added where none is needed.
• ## Related Aphorisms regions and content/aphorisms/ bodies — prose, not verse.
• The ~30 residue verses authored as - item + indented continuations (lorelog/haikus): they keep the list-item style and only gained the missing breaks inside each item. Whether to normalize that style to bare stanzas is a maintainer convention decision, not a whitespace fix.
• Trunk and README count drift beyond the changelog recount is left with #611.

Verification performed

• python3 scripts/fix_verse_hard_breaks.py content --check before the pass: 1,584 violations across 123 files; after --apply: 0 violations (tri-directive excluded in both runs).
• git diff programmatic check: 1,584 paired −/+ lines, all b == a.rstrip(" \\t") + " " — zero non-whitespace diffs.
• BORIS_BIN=/Users/tbuddy/dev/filed.fyi/bin/boris ./scripts/filed-build.sh: "Filed build passed: dist/cantilever"; compiled output spot-checked — previously run-on stanzas (e.g. limericks/LIM-0158, lim-peppy-clerk.md) now render <br /> per line in the verse-residue panel, identical to already-correct records.
• BORIS_BIN=/Users/tbuddy/dev/filed.fyi/bin/boris ./bin/validate_graph.sh: passed — Boris graph diagnostics, verse residue check, HTML ID audit (0 duplicates), filed certification.

Unresolved follow-up

• Issue #822 was root-caused during this pass: Oliver honors two-space hard breaks inside the verse-residue panel (proven by haikus and by this PR's limerick output); the reported failure was missing trailing spaces in source on main, not a parser defect. PR #821 plus this pass remove the underlying cause.
• Protected-region note: this pass intentionally edits verse regions under the maintainer's direction, following the #646 / hai-039 / #821 waiver precedent for hard-break restoration. check_presentation_qa.py is expected to report protected-region findings on these lines pending maintainer waiver acknowledgement.
• scripts/fix_verse_hard_breaks.py --check is not yet wired into bin/validate_graph.sh or CI; wiring it in would make the restored convention self-enforcing.