An adversarial review confirmed the vertical-justification geometry is sound on
all axes (sign, no-overflow, no-collision, content_bottom, forced/overfull, bake
consistency, determinism, single-page invariance), and found one real gap: the
pass stretches inter-system gaps, which vertical_density_penalty measures — so
justified pages score higher on that axis, undocumented and untested.
This is the same metric-vs-justification tension as the horizontal casting_off
note: page_fill drops to ~0 (the win) while the deviation-from-preferred density
metric charges for the stretch. A sparse justified page (large per-gap stretch)
is charged more — a defensible signal, though the current linear penalty
over-charges a moderate uniform stretch. The catalog refinement (score only
excess stretch, or measure gap uniformity) is the deferred follow-up.
Documented in DECISIONS and pinned by a new test
(vertical_justification_trades_page_fill_for_inter_system_density: a multi-page
solve fills non-final pages, page_fill < 0.1, vertical_density > 0), so the
interaction is no longer silent. No code/geometry change. clippy 0, 53 engrave
tests.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Levi Neuwirth
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