{
  "code": "S98",
  "name": "Title between picture strips",
  "shape": "picture-cover",
  "family": "Openers and endings",
  "fits": "A gallery opener or section cover: a strip of four pictures along the top, four along the bottom, and the headline with one line centred between them.",
  "use_when": "When a picture-led section needs a cover. For a picture set without a held headline, use S48 Picture bento; for labelled pictures in a row, S16 Card row.",
  "slots": [
    {
      "name": "headline",
      "holds": "the section title, centred between the strips",
      "budget": "under 8 words"
    },
    {
      "name": "subtitle",
      "holds": "one centred line under the headline",
      "budget": "under 12 words"
    },
    {
      "name": "illustration",
      "holds": "8 equal landscape scenes, four in the top strip and four in the bottom strip",
      "budget": "4:3, 1 scene each"
    }
  ],
  "columns": 4,
  "density": "airy",
  "surface": "paper",
  "works_on": [
    "deck",
    "page"
  ],
  "library": "Minimal Light",
  "dir": "S98-picture-strips",
  "semantic": {
    "audience_question": "Which visual collection or subject is this section introducing?",
    "intent": "Orient through eight related images and one central title.",
    "reasoning_relation": "visual collection cover",
    "message_pattern": "[Subject or section], illustrated by [relevant collection].",
    "required_content": [
      "The section’s governing theme or promise.",
      "Explains what holds the eight views together.",
      "Eight cleared images or labelled illustrations; four above and four below, all relevant to the same theme."
    ],
    "narrative_positions": [
      "context",
      "explanation",
      "evidence: choose only when the page supports the surrounding argument"
    ],
    "requires_before": [
      "Give the audience a reason to enter this section."
    ],
    "enables_after": [
      "Explain the selected facets and their relationship in detail."
    ],
    "slot_roles": {
      "headline": "The section’s governing theme or promise.",
      "subtitle": "Explains what holds the eight views together.",
      "illustration": "Eight cleared images or labelled illustrations; four above and four below, all relevant to the same theme."
    },
    "avoid_when": [
      "A detailed case-results page.",
      "An arbitrary stock-image collage."
    ],
    "layout_specific_contract": "A gallery opener or section cover: a strip of four pictures along the top, four along the bottom, and the headline with one line centred between them.",
    "provenance": {
      "basis": "interpretation of the existing layout and slot contracts",
      "review": "Tessel model-authored guidance; implementation approved by Nic, 2026-10-10",
      "corpus_evidence_status": "not yet established",
      "guide": "../SEMANTICS.md"
    },
    "reader_outcome": "Orient through eight related images and one central title.",
    "matching": {
      "audience_question": "Which visual collection or subject is this section introducing?",
      "reader_outcome": "Orient through eight related images and one central title.",
      "reasoning_relation": "visual collection cover",
      "content_shape": {
        "composition": "A gallery opener or section cover: a strip of four pictures along the top, four along the bottom, and the headline with one line centred between them.",
        "selected_state": "A gallery opener or section cover: a strip of four pictures along the top, four along the bottom, and the headline with one line centred between them.",
        "density": "airy",
        "columns": 4,
        "column_note": "Base metadata only; selected option can replace the base geometry."
      },
      "required_slots": [
        {
          "name": "headline",
          "reader_question": "Which visual collection or subject is this section introducing?",
          "semantic_role": "The section’s governing theme or promise.",
          "content_unit_count": {
            "min": 1,
            "max": 1,
            "basis": "authored composition members where a repeated group is specified; otherwise one named slot; not a required amount of evidence"
          },
          "placeholder": "[REAL CONTENT · headline · the section title, centred between the strips]",
          "layout_budget": {
            "authored": "under 8 words",
            "policy": "Working composition guidance: preserve scope and qualification; change layout rather than truncate the argument."
          },
          "markup": {
            "slot": "headline",
            "occurrences": 1,
            "annotation_status": "present",
            "visibility_status": "not asserted from static parsing",
            "sample_word_counts": [
              6
            ]
          }
        },
        {
          "name": "subtitle",
          "reader_question": "What does the subtitle contribute to this page’s reader outcome?",
          "semantic_role": "Explains what holds the eight views together.",
          "content_unit_count": {
            "min": 1,
            "max": 1,
            "basis": "authored composition members where a repeated group is specified; otherwise one named slot; not a required amount of evidence"
          },
          "placeholder": "[REAL CONTENT · subtitle · one centred line under the headline]",
          "layout_budget": {
            "authored": "under 12 words",
            "policy": "Working composition guidance: preserve scope and qualification; change layout rather than truncate the argument."
          },
          "markup": {
            "slot": "subtitle",
            "occurrences": 1,
            "annotation_status": "present",
            "visibility_status": "not asserted from static parsing",
            "sample_word_counts": [
              9
            ]
          }
        },
        {
          "name": "illustration",
          "reader_question": "What subject, example or view must I inspect, and is it evidence or illustration?",
          "semantic_role": "Eight cleared images or labelled illustrations; four above and four below, all relevant to the same theme.",
          "content_unit_count": {
            "min": 8,
            "max": 8,
            "basis": "authored composition members where a repeated group is specified; otherwise one named slot; not a required amount of evidence"
          },
          "placeholder": "[CLEARED IMAGE OR LABELLED ILLUSTRATION · illustration · 8 equal landscape scenes, four in the top strip and four in the bottom strip]",
          "layout_budget": {
            "authored": "4:3, 1 scene each",
            "policy": "Working composition guidance: preserve scope and qualification; change layout rather than truncate the argument."
          },
          "markup": {
            "slot": "illustration",
            "occurrences": 8,
            "annotation_status": "present",
            "visibility_status": "not asserted from static parsing",
            "sample_word_counts": [
              0,
              0,
              0,
              0,
              0,
              0,
              0,
              0
            ]
          },
          "integrity": "Clear rights and provenance, retain meaningful alt text; generated scenes illustrate and cannot prove a historical event."
        }
      ],
      "rejection_constraints": [
        "Eight unrelated pictures or a cover used as an evidence comparison without captions.",
        "An attractive image strip that implies an unverified portfolio or relationship."
      ],
      "option_guidance": {
        "option": "default",
        "composition_delta": "A gallery opener or section cover: a strip of four pictures along the top, four along the bottom, and the headline with one line centred between them.",
        "semantic_change": "retains base content relationship; changes presentation or disclosure",
        "matching_instruction": "Select S98 default when the supplied material answers “Which visual collection or subject is this section introducing?” through visual collection cover. Respect this state: A gallery opener or section cover: a strip of four pictures along the top, four along the bottom, and the headline with one line centred between them."
      },
      "provenance": {
        "status": "inferred composition evidence",
        "author_intent": "not independently confirmed",
        "basis": [
          "retained source composition where available",
          "authored layout and slot contracts",
          "static implementation inspection"
        ],
        "source_visual_count": 1,
        "source_visual_sha256": [
          "1a664e43451519fee2531e4b650d14cfd5894e1bcf5678ee27611c2dd04adc7c"
        ],
        "source_export": "private source images remain outside this draft site",
        "markup_sha256": "037f5e578229fd1c22b94877afce24a70639a8cb87ab27ed560d4506753a10fb",
        "limits": [
          "Static parsing inventories authored nodes; it does not certify rendered visibility, responsive fit or interactive state.",
          "Budgets are authored layout guidance, not a content-writing limit or proof of fit.",
          "Matching guidance is a draft inference; it does not establish facts, endorsement, causation or source author intent."
        ]
      },
      "adaptation_rules": [
        "Choose by audience question, reasoning relation and required content before aesthetic preference.",
        "Supply every required semantic role; retain visible unknowns as labelled real-content placeholders.",
        "A number needs source, scope and units; a quotation needs faithful wording and attribution.",
        "Do not infer importance from area, colour, depth or movement unless the content explicitly defines that encoding.",
        "Keep colour token roles, structural objects, licences and source records; changing content does not authorize changing them."
      ]
    },
    "rejection_constraints": [
      "Eight unrelated pictures or a cover used as an evidence comparison without captions.",
      "An attractive image strip that implies an unverified portfolio or relationship."
    ],
    "markup_inventory": {
      "file": "spread.html",
      "sha256": "037f5e578229fd1c22b94877afce24a70639a8cb87ab27ed560d4506753a10fb",
      "method": "static lxml markup plus authored option description; no rendered-visibility claim",
      "all_markup_slot_counts": {
        "top-strip": 1,
        "illustration": 8,
        "headline": 1,
        "subtitle": 1,
        "bottom-strip": 1
      },
      "slot_evidence": {
        "top-strip": [
          {
            "tag": "div",
            "classes": "row",
            "sample_word_count": 0,
            "repeated_children": 4
          }
        ],
        "illustration": [
          {
            "tag": "figure",
            "classes": "ph r-4x3",
            "sample_word_count": 0,
            "repeated_children": 1
          },
          {
            "tag": "figure",
            "classes": "ph r-4x3",
            "sample_word_count": 0,
            "repeated_children": 1
          },
          {
            "tag": "figure",
            "classes": "ph r-4x3",
            "sample_word_count": 0,
            "repeated_children": 1
          },
          {
            "tag": "figure",
            "classes": "ph r-4x3",
            "sample_word_count": 0,
            "repeated_children": 1
          },
          {
            "tag": "figure",
            "classes": "ph r-4x3",
            "sample_word_count": 0,
            "repeated_children": 1
          },
          {
            "tag": "figure",
            "classes": "ph r-4x3",
            "sample_word_count": 0,
            "repeated_children": 1
          },
          {
            "tag": "figure",
            "classes": "ph r-4x3",
            "sample_word_count": 0,
            "repeated_children": 1
          },
          {
            "tag": "figure",
            "classes": "ph r-4x3",
            "sample_word_count": 0,
            "repeated_children": 1
          }
        ],
        "headline": [
          {
            "tag": "h2",
            "classes": "head",
            "sample_word_count": 6,
            "repeated_children": 0
          }
        ],
        "subtitle": [
          {
            "tag": "p",
            "classes": "sub",
            "sample_word_count": 9,
            "repeated_children": 0
          }
        ],
        "bottom-strip": [
          {
            "tag": "div",
            "classes": "row",
            "sample_word_count": 0,
            "repeated_children": 4
          }
        ]
      },
      "option_selectors": [],
      "linked_implementation": [
        {
          "file": "../spreads.css",
          "sha256": "32da94472b0c9131e4d5dae7d5bf0498b09202a9e66294b4e4f23e6ddfbf37ba"
        },
        {
          "file": "../spread.js",
          "sha256": "3d99948b83f750bd4ae95dac08e3e50a395de7c149c90a6f1a1c0ea36a2634a4"
        }
      ]
    },
    "variations": {},
    "narrative_profile": {
      "central_point": "A visual collection frames a single theme that introduces the section to follow.",
      "communication_job": "Open a gallery or chapter by showing the breadth of one coherent subject.",
      "audience_value": "Offers orientation and anticipation. It answers “What world or collection are we entering?” without making eight images into eight proof points.",
      "reading_path": [
        "Scan the top strip for the subject’s range.",
        "Read the central headline and line as the unifying theme.",
        "Scan the bottom strip as further facets of that same theme."
      ],
      "adaptation": {
        "required_inputs": [
          "The section’s governing theme or promise.",
          "Explains what holds the eight views together.",
          "Eight cleared images or labelled illustrations; four above and four below, all relevant to the same theme."
        ],
        "slot_guidance": {
          "headline": "The section’s governing theme or promise.",
          "subtitle": "Explains what holds the eight views together.",
          "illustration": "Eight cleared images or labelled illustrations; four above and four below, all relevant to the same theme."
        },
        "can_change": [
          "Replace the fictional subject and its supported content while retaining the roles and relationship described here."
        ],
        "must_survive": [
          "Maintain a single theme across all eight images.",
          "Distinguish images of real work from illustrative scenes.",
          "Do not assign sequence or weighting unless explicitly stated."
        ]
      },
      "worked_example": {
        "fictional": true,
        "scenario": "Fictional Cedar introduces a chapter about the conditions that make repair workshops repeatable.",
        "slot_fills": {
          "headline": "Repair starts long before the first screwdriver",
          "subtitle": "The people, preparation and spaces behind Cedar’s fictional workshop.",
          "illustration": [
            "Fictional illustration: venue access inspection.",
            "Fictional illustration: tools checked before opening.",
            "Fictional illustration: volunteers rehearsing intake.",
            "Fictional illustration: participants reading the safety guide.",
            "Fictional illustration: labelled parts drawers.",
            "Fictional illustration: experienced repairer advising a volunteer.",
            "Fictional illustration: issue notes reviewed after the session.",
            "Fictional illustration: room reset for the next workshop."
          ]
        },
        "reasoning": "Each image is a different facet of preparation and learning. The headline gives the collection its argument; the montage does not prove outcomes.",
        "qualification": "Fictional teaching example. Replace invented details with authorised content and keep any source, scope, status or uncertainty that affects interpretation."
      },
      "narrative_fit": {
        "before": "Give the audience a reason to enter this section.",
        "after": "Explain the selected facets and their relationship in detail.",
        "good_uses": [
          "A gallery cover or chapter opener."
        ],
        "poor_fits": [
          "A detailed case-results page.",
          "An arbitrary stock-image collage."
        ]
      },
      "evidence": {
        "observations": [
          "Viewed source: four picture placeholders above and four below a central headline/subtitle.",
          "Current HTML retains eight image slots in two strips."
        ],
        "interpretations": [
          "A visual collection frames a single theme that introduces the section to follow. This is an interpretation of the inspected composition, not a verified claim of author intent."
        ],
        "not_verified": [
          "Original author intent, historical claims, persuasion and archive-wide frequency have not been independently verified."
        ],
        "references": [
          "02_product/spreads/S98-picture-strips/source.webp",
          "02_product/spreads-semantics-2026-10-13/dist/S98-picture-strips/spread.html",
          "02_product/spreads-semantics-2026-10-13/dist/S98-picture-strips/spread.json"
        ]
      },
      "review": {
        "status": "reviewed",
        "basis": "Viewed the retained base source capture and inspected current HTML and matching slots; reviewed the fictional adaptation at layout-contract level."
      },
      "variation_relationship": "base"
    }
  },
  "options": [],
  "also_seen_in": [],
  "source": {
    "ref": "Private deck reference; original evidence retained in the private Spreads library."
  }
}