The Recursive SpiralRFPA/AVPT & the Odisena Infinity Engine

Appendix G

Appendix G — The Publishing Manifest

The regenerable-pipeline record for this book (Chapter 25). Exact hashes, counts, and build notes are recorded in the machine-readable release manifest that accompanies the publication package; this appendix summarizes the pipeline.

Canonical source. A set of structured Markdown manuscript files under version control is the single source of truth. All other artifacts are derived and regenerable.

Derived artifacts (all regenerated from the source):

  • Canonical manuscript (Markdown) — the source itself, preserved.
  • Electronic edition (reflowable EPUB 3) — semantic headings, linked table of contents, internal links, accessible equation text and figure descriptions, no print-only folios.
  • Electronic edition (DOCX) — for platforms accepting a Word manuscript for reflowable conversion.
  • Print interior (DOCX and PDF) — 6 × 9 inches, black ink, white paper, embedded fonts, no interior bleed, mirrored margins, gutter sized to the final page count, front matter without Arabic body folios, body matter folioed, chapters starting recto.
  • Covers — a high-resolution front cover for the electronic edition, and full-wrap print covers whose spine width is computed from the final interior page count using the platform's white-paper formula (page count × 0.002252 inch), with 0.125-inch bleed on all sides and a blank barcode area.

Platform constraints encoded as pipeline inputs (all FACT, cited):

  • Interior margins by page count (gutter): 24–150 pp → 0.375″; 151–300 pp → 0.5″; 301–500 pp → 0.625″; 501–700 pp → 0.75″; 701–828 pp → 0.875″. Outside margin (no bleed) ≥ 0.25″.[•]
  • Full-bleed rule (not used here; interior is no-bleed): extend art 0.125″ beyond top, bottom, outer edges.[•]
  • Interior file: embedded fonts, ≥ 300 DPI raster, single pages (not spreads), under 650 MB.[•]
  • Cover spine (white paper): page count × 0.002252″; cover bleed 0.125″ all sides; safe area ≥ 0.25″ from trim; barcode area left blank.[•]

Dependency order. Interior is regenerated first → final page count obtained → covers regenerated from that count. Covers cannot be finalized before the page count is known.

Regeneration discipline. No derived artifact is hand-edited; corrections go to the canonical source and every artifact is rebuilt; predecessor versions are preserved; each release is a new version with a recorded supersession note.

Identifiers. ISBN is assigned by the platform or supplied by the publisher; no placeholder ISBN is presented as assigned, and no ISBN or barcode is printed on the cover.