Answer prose round 2: the slot rule gives the decided reason, and the touched paragraphs rewrap

docs/decisions.md

@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@ sanitized and a mention keeps the test user's real account id.
 
 ## Markdown in is a canonical fixpoint
 
-2026-08-23, the maintainer; every parsed document converts back since 2026-10-04. Goals 1 and 4. Valid while
+2026-08-23, the maintainer; every parsed document has converted back since 2026-10-04. Goals 1 and
-markdown input may be written by hand.
+4. Valid while markdown input may be written by hand.
 
 The other direction is a canonical fixpoint, not byte-identity: human markdown normalizes, the way
 back yields the library's canonical spelling, and that spelling round-trips byte-identically.
@@ -494,9 +494,8 @@ exits 0 on.
 while `todo.md` items 59, 60, 61 and 62 are open.
 
 A four-seat comprehension panel scored the project under the floor of 7. Its scoring run of
-2026-10-04 is the baseline. Since 2026-10-04, a chunk whose panel scores any dimension
+2026-10-04 is the baseline. Since 2026-10-04, a chunk whose panel scores any dimension lower
-lower improves what the seats named and scores again, and after three such rounds asks the
+improves what the seats named and scores again, and after three such rounds asks the maintainer.
-maintainer.
 
 | Seat | Navigation | Locality | Shape | Self-sufficiency | Overall |
 |---|---|---|---|---|---|

spec/flavour.md

@@ -474,15 +474,15 @@ The rest take no content, `!adf:text` included; content on a node that takes non
 Shipped !adf:emoji[🎉]{shortName=":tada:"} on !adf:date{timestamp=1756080000000}.
 ```
 
-**Text CommonMark cannot hold plainly.** A carriage return in text is `
`, which CommonMark reads
+**Text CommonMark cannot hold plainly.** A carriage return in text is `
`, which CommonMark
-back as the character. Three things are spelled `!adf:text{text="…"}`: a newline inside a text
+reads back as the character. Three things are spelled `!adf:text{text="…"}`: a newline inside a text
 node; a null character, which CommonMark reads as U+FFFD; and a space or tab where CommonMark strips
 or refuses one — a block's inline content edges, either side of a line break, an em, strong or
 strike spelling's inner edges, a pipe cell's edges. The reserved key carries the node's text,
-escaped by the attribute grammar and never literal: pipe cells trim and pad. The emitter wraps the run alone and
+escaped by the attribute grammar and never literal: pipe cells trim and pad. The emitter wraps the
-leaves the rest plain text, which the spelled run joins on reading. Input reads that spelling
+run alone and leaves the rest plain text, which the spelled run joins on reading. Input reads that
-alone: the value is one run of spaces and tabs, one run of newlines, or one run of null characters,
+spelling alone: the value is one run of spaces and tabs, one run of newlines, or one run of null
-and anything else — a mixed run, or text CommonMark carries plainly — is a named error.
+characters, and anything else — a mixed run, or text CommonMark carries plainly — is a named error.
 
 ```
 !adf:text{text="  "}Two leading spaces held, and one text node split!adf:text{text="\n"}over two lines.
@@ -536,11 +536,12 @@ An inline node whose marks no nesting spells — a mark type not listed here, an
 spelling does not list, a value that is not the spelling's type, an attribute the spelling needs and
 the mark lacks, an empty `attrs` on a mark CommonMark spells, an order putting a code span outside
 another mark, `code` over anything but a text node holding text, or over text holding a line ending
-or a null character, or a spelling CommonMark's flanking rules cannot open or close where the run sits (`un**-real**istic`), or one
+or a null character, or a spelling CommonMark's flanking rules cannot open or close where the run
-CommonMark's matching pairs elsewhere — the intra-word `*` runs together with a neighbouring `**`,
+sits (`un**-real**istic`), or one CommonMark's matching pairs elsewhere — the intra-word `*` runs
-and the multiple-of-3 rule can leave the merged run's pairing to another delimiter — rides the
+together with a neighbouring `**`, and the multiple-of-3 rule can leave the merged run's pairing to
-inline carry whole. An opaque carry inside a mark spelling is a named error in input: the carry
+another delimiter — rides the inline carry whole. An opaque carry inside a mark spelling is a named
-restores its node exactly, marks included (`docs/decisions.md` §Unknown nodes ride the carry).
+error in input: the carry restores its node exactly, marks included (`docs/decisions.md` §Unknown
+nodes ride the carry).
 
 ```
 !adf:textColor[**Overdue**]{color="#ae2e24"}, H!adf:subsup[2]{type=sub}O, !adf:underline[signed].

src/markdown/directive-syntax.ts

@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ export function readSoleStringAttribute(span: DirectiveSpan, key: string): Read<
   return { value: spelled.decoded }
 }
 
-// No content slot holds a line ending or a null character, which only the text directive spells; the emitter carries such a node.
+// An inline directive never spans lines, and no content slot holds a null character; the emitter carries such a node.
 export function slotFault(type: string, text: string): ConvertFault | undefined {
   if (/[\n\r]/.test(text)) return { code: 'unspellable-whitespace', message: `the ${type} content slot holds a newline no inline directive spans` }
   return holdsNullCharacter(text) ? unsupportedNodeShape(`the ${type} content slot holds a null character: write the node as !adf:carry`) : undefined