diff --git a/crates/epiphany-engrave/DECISIONS.md b/crates/epiphany-engrave/DECISIONS.md
index 2da8cb0..98fde57 100644
--- a/crates/epiphany-engrave/DECISIONS.md
+++ b/crates/epiphany-engrave/DECISIONS.md
@@ -493,9 +493,17 @@ slur `Curve` with chord `c > 0` (the segment between its endpoints) and apex
 height `h` (max perpendicular distance from the curve to that chord, sampled at
 `SLUR_APEX_SAMPLES = 32` points), the arc ratio `ρ = h/c` is penalized by its
 distance outside the shallow-arc band `[0.08, 0.25]`
-(`max(0, 0.08 − ρ, ρ − 0.25)`), meaned over curves and normalized by
-`R_worst = 0.25`. The measurement is translation-invariant (chord and apex
-shift together under casting), so measuring the post-cast curves is correct.
+(`max(0, 0.08 − ρ, ρ − 0.25)`), meaned over units and normalized by
+`R_worst = 0.25`.
+
+**The unit is the WHOLE slur, measured on the constrained `input.curves` (one
+per drawn slur), not the cast output's per-system fragments** (review fix). A
+break-spanning slur casts into per-system sub-cubics whose *diagonal* chords
+each read flatter than the whole arc, so measuring fragments would spuriously
+penalize (and double-count) a slur that is ideally shaped as a whole —
+violating the catalog's "a tier that draws the ideal shallow arc measures 0"
+property. The whole arc is the shape-decision unit; casting's horizontal
+re-spacing is a spacing concern (`spacing_distortion`), not a shape one.
 
 Honest outcome: the Minimal tier's mid-span slurs sit at `ρ = height/span =
 0.16` (the `SLUR_HEIGHT_FACTOR`; in band → 0), but the fixed
diff --git a/crates/epiphany-engrave/src/quality.rs b/crates/epiphany-engrave/src/quality.rs
index b528a84..85f34a4 100644
--- a/crates/epiphany-engrave/src/quality.rs
+++ b/crates/epiphany-engrave/src/quality.rs
@@ -106,8 +106,18 @@ const SLUR_APEX_SAMPLES: usize = 32;
 /// is the arithmetic mean over units. A curve-free layout has no units, so the
 /// mean is `0` (the vacuous-geometry rule) — not by construction but by
 /// measurement.
-fn slur_shape_raw(cast: &CastLayout) -> f64 {
-    let per_curve: Vec<f64> = cast
+///
+/// Measured over the **whole** slur curves of the constrained input (one unit
+/// per drawn slur — the engraver's arc-proportion decision), *not* the cast
+/// output's per-system fragments: casting splits a break-spanning slur into
+/// sub-cubics whose diagonal chords each read flatter than the whole arc, which
+/// would spuriously penalize (and double-count) a slur that is ideally shaped
+/// as a whole. The catalog's property "a tier that draws the ideal shallow arc
+/// for every slur measures 0" holds only when the whole arc is the unit. The
+/// horizontal re-spacing that casting applies is a spacing concern
+/// (`spacing_distortion`), not a shape one.
+fn slur_shape_raw(input: &ConstrainedLayoutIR) -> f64 {
+    let per_curve: Vec<f64> = input
         .curves
         .iter()
         .filter_map(|curve| {
@@ -537,7 +547,7 @@ pub(crate) fn measure(
         // (too bulgy) and very long ones below it (too flat) — a real, honest
         // non-zero measurement. A curve-free layout measures 0 by the
         // vacuous-geometry rule.
-        slur_shape_penalty: normalize(slur_shape_raw(cast), anchors::SLUR_SHAPE_R_WORST),
+        slur_shape_penalty: normalize(slur_shape_raw(input), anchors::SLUR_SHAPE_R_WORST),
         // Same vacuous rule: no drawn beam segments exist in this pipeline.
         beam_slope_penalty: normalize(0.0, anchors::BEAM_SLOPE_R_WORST),
         vertical_density_penalty: normalize(
@@ -727,6 +737,50 @@ mod tests {
         );
     }
 
+    #[test]
+    fn a_break_spanning_in_band_slur_measures_zero_despite_splitting() {
+        // A well-shaped (ρ ≈ 0.16, in-band) slur whose span crosses a system
+        // break splits into per-system sub-curves. The shape axis measures the
+        // WHOLE slur (the constrained curve), not the fragments — whose diagonal
+        // chords would each read too flat — so the well-shaped slur still scores
+        // 0, as the catalog's "ideal arc ⇒ 0" property requires.
+        use epiphany_core::{Slur, SlurId, SlurKind, SpanStyle, TypedObjectId};
+        use epiphany_layout_ir::to_constrained;
+
+        let mut score = epiphany_testkit::fixtures::ten_measure_single_staff(0x000A_11CE);
+        let ev: Vec<_> = score.canvas.regions[0].staff_instances()[0].voices[0]
+            .events
+            .clone();
+        let id: SlurId = score.identity.mint();
+        // Events 22→26 straddle the fixture's two-system break (a ~one-measure
+        // span, wide enough that the height clamp does not bind → ρ ≈ 0.16).
+        score.cross_cutting.slurs.push(Slur {
+            id,
+            start_event: ev[22],
+            end_event: ev[26],
+            kind: SlurKind::Legato,
+            curvature_override: None,
+            style: SpanStyle::default(),
+        });
+        let report = Engraver::default().solve(
+            &to_constrained(&to_logical(&score)),
+            &SolverConfig::default(),
+        );
+        // The slur really did split (the fragment path would have fired)…
+        let segments = report
+            .layout
+            .curves
+            .iter()
+            .filter(|c| c.provenance.source == TypedObjectId::Slur(id))
+            .count();
+        assert!(segments >= 2, "the slur splits, got {segments} segment(s)");
+        // …yet the shape axis is 0: the whole arc is in-band.
+        assert_eq!(
+            report.metric_vector.slur_shape_penalty.0, 0.0,
+            "a split but well-shaped slur is not spuriously penalized"
+        );
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn floor_warnings_reference_the_profiles_threshold_column() {
         // The ten-measure fixture's casting-off distortion (~0.45: the
diff --git a/spec/quality_metric_catalog.pdf b/spec/quality_metric_catalog.pdf
index 65cbb7c..f771f93 100644
Binary files a/spec/quality_metric_catalog.pdf and b/spec/quality_metric_catalog.pdf differ
diff --git a/spec/quality_metric_catalog.tex b/spec/quality_metric_catalog.tex
index 9c13324..8c96f1a 100644
--- a/spec/quality_metric_catalog.tex
+++ b/spec/quality_metric_catalog.tex
@@ -790,10 +790,14 @@ practice.
 
 \begin{requirement}
 \label{req:qmc:slur}
-\textbf{Contributing units:} drawn slur curves in $L$ with chord length
-$c > 0$, where the \emph{chord} is the segment between the curve's
-endpoints and the \emph{apex height} $h \ge 0$ is the maximum
-perpendicular distance from the curve to its chord.
+\textbf{Contributing units:} drawn slurs in $L$ with chord length
+$c > 0$, where the \emph{chord} is the segment between the \emph{whole}
+slur's endpoints and the \emph{apex height} $h \ge 0$ is the maximum
+perpendicular distance from the curve to its chord. The unit is the whole
+slur, not a per-system fragment: a slur that a casting-off pass splits
+across a system break is measured once, as the arc it was shaped to be, so
+a well-shaped slur that happens to break is not spuriously penalized (its
+fragments' diagonal chords each read flatter than the whole).
 
 \textbf{Raw measurement:} per unit, with arc ratio $\rho = h / c$,
 \[