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+__pycache__/
+*.py[cod]
+.venv/
+
+# Scores and their working state — copyright, and multi-MB
+*.pdf
+*.zip
+*.slicer.json
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+3.13
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+# noteman-slicer — Context
+
+A local, single-user tool that turns a score PDF into the ordered slice images
+noteman consumes, plus the navigation markers that sit on them. It automates the
+mechanical part of noteman's ingestion boundary; it does not replace GIMP for
+erasing previous-owner annotations.
+
+## Language
+
+**Score source**:
+The original PDF as distributed to the choir. Either **vector** (engraved by a
+notation program) or **raster** (a flatbed scan of a printed page).
+_Avoid_: original, input file
+
+**Source type**:
+Whether a score source is vector or raster. Determined once per PDF, not per
+page; the slicer detects it and asks the user to confirm before routing.
+_Avoid_: mode, format
+
+**Slice**:
+The atomic visual unit of a song — one *system*, one full line of music across
+all voices, typically 4–12 bars with lyrics intact. Same definition as noteman's.
+Structurally, a horizontal region of a page: a page begins as a single slice and
+each cut splits one slice into two, so slices always tile the page with no gaps
+and no overlap.
+_Avoid_: segment, strip, row, band
+
+**Discard**:
+A flag on a slice meaning it produces no output. How headers, footers and blank
+regions leave the song — they are slices that are simply not exported. Detection
+pre-sets it on a page's top and bottom slice when they contain no system.
+_Avoid_: delete, skip, exclude
+
+**Slice image**:
+The rendered artifact of a slice. From a raster source: lossless WebP, RGB pure
+black, `alpha = 255 − luminance`, width capped at 1920px — paper is transparency,
+ink is alpha. From a vector source: SVG with text converted to paths. Both are
+display-ready as produced; nothing downstream reprocesses them.
+_Avoid_: PNG, page image, tile
+
+**Marker**:
+A semantic tag placed on a slice for navigation. Vocabulary is noteman's enum
+verbatim (`rehearsal_letter`, `section_label`, `segno`, `coda`, `fine`,
+`repeat_start`, `repeat_end`, `volta`, `to_coda`, `ds_al_coda`, `ds_al_fine`,
+`dc_al_coda`, `dc_al_fine`, `generic_jump`) and is shared coupling between the
+two repos.
+
+**Project**:
+The persistent state of slicing one song: the source PDF it points at, its cuts,
+discards, content rectangle, levels, staff-height overrides, markers and
+metadata. Autosaved beside the PDF; the bundle is generated from it, so any
+export can be regenerated without repeating human work. One PDF, one song, one
+project, one bundle — never a many-to-one in any direction.
+_Avoid_: session, document, edit list
+
+**Bundle**:
+The single compressed file that is the *only* channel between the slicer and
+noteman. There is no API call, no direct upload. Carries the slice images in
+order, their markers, the original PDF and the song-level text metadata.
+Rehearsal MIDI and MP3s are deliberately out of the first bundle and stay
+noteman's upload chore until a later phase.
+_Avoid_: export, package, upload
+
+**Marker label**:
+The free text some markers carry — `rehearsal_letter` ("C"), `section_label`
+("CHORUS"), `volta` ("1."). All other types are bare tags.
+
+**Jump source**:
+A marker that sends the reader elsewhere — `to_coda`, `ds_al_coda`,
+`ds_al_fine`, `dc_al_coda`, `dc_al_fine`, `generic_jump`. Every jump source
+stores its **target slice explicitly**; none is resolved by type at read time.
+Authoring the target costs one click on a slice already on screen, and in
+exchange the bundle is self-describing — no "exactly one Coda per song" rule
+living unenforced in two repos, and a score with two codas simply works.
+_Avoid_: link, reference, pointer
+
+**Cut**:
+A horizontal line placed on a page that splits one slice into two. Straight at
+first; a later polyline form handles pages where systems slant or interleave.
+Placement is forgiving — anywhere inside the whitespace gap yields the same
+output, because trim crops to ink afterwards.
+_Avoid_: split, divider, break
+
+**Content rectangle**:
+The region of a page that holds music. Set per PDF, adjustable per page, applied
+before cutting. Everything outside it — scan-edge bands, spine shadows, margin
+page numbers — is dropped. Handles margin junk structurally rather than
+case-by-case, because margin junk is by definition outside the music.
+_Avoid_: crop box, mask, margin
+
+**Detection**:
+Any automatic proposal the slicer makes — skew angle, cut positions, source
+type, ink bounds. Detection is always a *suggestion*: the human confirms or
+modifies every result before it is committed. Source quality varies too widely
+for unattended processing to be trustworthy.
+_Avoid_: auto-slicing, automatic mode
+
+**Trim**:
+Cropping a slice tight to its ink on all four sides, per slice. Normalises away
+the left-margin drift between scanned pages, and flattens the engraved indent of
+the first system — correct here, since the printed header it made room for is
+stripped anyway. The viewer supplies margins with CSS padding.
+
+**Staff height**:
+The distance between a system's top and bottom staff line. The invariant a
+reader perceives as "the notes are the same size", and therefore what slices are
+normalised against — not their width. Falls out of the same row-darkness profile
+used for cut detection. Manually overridable, since it is detected on the same
+speckled scans where detection already struggles.
+
+**Song scale**:
+Two steps, both per song, never per slice. First every slice is normalised to a
+common staff height, so a rescanned page or a re-engraved slice sits at the same
+note size as its neighbours. Then the whole song is scaled uniformly so its
+widest slice lands at 1920px — a ceiling, never a target: a song that comes out
+narrower stays narrower, because upscaling a scan past its real resolution buys
+softness and bytes and no detail.
+
+**Right pad**:
+The transparent space added to the right of every slice narrower than the widest,
+bringing all slices in a song to the same width. Keeps the music the same size
+and flush left; a short system simply ends earlier.
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+# The slicer owns all image processing; the bundle is the only channel to noteman
+
+The slicer was originally scoped to share the work with noteman: it would cut the
+pages, upload them to `POST /api/admin/songs/:id/slices`, and noteman's sharp
+pipeline would trim, downscale and convert ink to alpha on arrival. We decided
+instead that the slicer produces finished, display-ready artifacts and hands them
+over as a single zip; noteman does no image manipulation beyond what plain HTML
+and CSS do at runtime, and there is no API between the two tools.
+
+## Considered options
+
+**Split the work (rejected).** Slicer cuts, noteman normalises. This was the
+existing shape and needed no changes on either side. It failed on inspection:
+noteman's `normalizeSlice` calls sharp's `removeAlpha()` before its luminance
+pass, and `removeAlpha()` discards the alpha channel rather than compositing it
+over white — so any transparency the slicer produced would flatten to black ink.
+A polygon-masked slice would have arrived as a solid black rectangle. More
+fundamentally, the split put trim, downscale and encoding rules in two repos and
+two languages, where they must agree exactly and nothing checks that they do.
+
+**Slicer produces final pixels, noteman stores them (chosen).**
+
+**Direct POST with a bypass flag (rejected).** Keeps the API but adds a
+content-sniff or flag to skip normalisation. Preserves the two-language
+duplication it was meant to remove, and needs an admin token in a local script.
+
+## Consequences
+
+Several rules that read as arbitrary in the slicer's code are only explicable
+from here:
+
+- The slicer owns **trim, staff-height normalisation, the 1920px ceiling, right
+  padding, levels and the ink→alpha conversion.** Nothing downstream can rescue
+  a faint scan or rehabilitate a bad crop, so the slicer's output is final.
+- **Scale is normalised on staff height, not width**, and derived once per song.
+  A per-slice factor would change note size line to line down a continuous
+  scroll; a width-based factor breaks the moment a slice comes from a different
+  source (a rescanned page, or a re-engraved replacement system).
+- **noteman must delete its sharp pipeline** and accept a bundle instead. Until
+  that lands, the slicer produces artifacts nothing consumes.
+- **The bundle is a versioned contract**, not an internal format. Two separately
+  maintained repos now agree on: the marker enum, slice ordering, and the shape
+  of `song.json`. That coupling is deliberately kept as small as possible —
+  which is why every jump source stores its target slice explicitly rather than
+  relying on an unwritten "exactly one Coda per song" resolution rule.
+- **The split is reversible only in one direction.** Re-adding server-side
+  processing means re-deriving all of the above; going further the other way
+  (more processing in the slicer) is free.
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+def main():
+    print("Hello from slicer!")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()
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+[project]
+name = "noteman-slicer"
+version = "0.1.0"
+description = "Cuts score PDFs into noteman's slice images and markers"
+readme = "README.md"
+requires-python = ">=3.13"
+dependencies = []