epiphany/crates/epiphany-engrave/README.md

epiphany-engrave

Agent I's engraving constraint solver (spec Chapter 9): turns a ConstrainedLayoutIR into a ResolvedLayoutIR with real geometry. It is the production-side replacement for epiphany-layout-ir's interface-only StubSolver; the two live in separate crates so the spec's core/product boundary stays sharp.

Status: Minimal tier, with casting-off

• Engraver runs a deterministic horizontal spacing pass (the first axis of the two-pass spring layout): each spring slot is placed left-to-right by a collision-aware advance derived from real glyph bearings.
• A casting-off pass (Phase 3's layout track) then breaks the spaced line into systems at measure boundaries (greedy first-fit against a PageGeometry — default A4 portrait at an 8 mm staff), stacks systems vertically at the vertical-band model's inter-system gap, assigns pages by content height, and populates the real ResolvedPage/ResolvedSystem tree. Every position is baked into a single y-up world frame (pages stacked vertically), so the SVG renderer and hit-testing consume the flat glyph/stroke lists unchanged.
• The IR's declared constraints are evaluated — geometric families against the pre-casting spaced frame, break constraints against the final break structure (hard breaks are always honoured; a pathological soft break is skipped and recorded as an IrOverride decision). Chosen breaks are recorded as EngravingDecisions with SynthesisKind::EngravedBreak targets, attributed to the user override that requested them when one did.
• It reports SolverTier::Minimal: hard constraints (break family included) satisfied, no optimality claim — the quality-metric vector stays the honest all-worst placeholder until the Quality Metric Catalog lands.

Deferred: the vertical soft-spring solve, per-system justification/stretch, optimal break search, widow/orphan control, and casting-off caching. See DECISIONS.md.

use epiphany_engrave::Engraver;
use epiphany_layout_ir::{ConstraintSolver, SolverConfig};

let report = Engraver::default().solve(&constrained_ir, &SolverConfig::default());
assert!(report.satisfied_hard_constraints);
let resolved = report.layout; // real pages/systems; hand to epiphany-render-svg