diff --git a/format.go b/format.go
index 369917d..3a93418 100644
--- a/format.go
+++ b/format.go
@@ -434,6 +434,16 @@ func (c *formatOps) field(tok formatToken, refs map[string]refBinding) {
 	c.ops = append(c.ops, op{formatToken: tok, arms: arms})
 }
 
+// compileFormat compiles a format into ops, and applies the fences that need the
+// compiled reads.
+func compileFormat(toks []formatToken, refs map[string]refBinding) (formatOps, error) {
+	c := compileOps(toks, refs)
+	if err := checkNoOverlap(c); err != nil {
+		return c, err
+	}
+	return c, checkNoRepeatedRead(c)
+}
+
 // compileOps compiles a parsed format. Call checkTokens first: it is what proves
 // every token valid.
 func compileOps(toks []formatToken, refs map[string]refBinding) formatOps {
diff --git a/node.go b/node.go
index ccf9262..bf158b9 100644
--- a/node.go
+++ b/node.go
@@ -227,16 +227,6 @@ func (t *template) fixedText() (string, bool) {
 	return "", false
 }
 
-// compileFormat compiles a format into ops, and applies the fences that need the
-// compiled reads.
-func compileFormat(toks []formatToken, refs map[string]refBinding) (formatOps, error) {
-	c := compileOps(toks, refs)
-	if err := checkNoOverlap(c); err != nil {
-		return c, err
-	}
-	return c, checkNoRepeatedRead(c)
-}
-
 func compileChoice(items []any, pos position) (node, error) {
 	itemPos := inFormat
 	if pos == inColumn {
diff --git a/todo.md b/todo.md
index 29aff58..a02fb17 100644
--- a/todo.md
+++ b/todo.md
@@ -34,9 +34,6 @@ ranking `readSurvey.walk` and `edge` hardest and the unit they would least modif
 
 This round, in order:
 
-- Compile a format in `format.go`: `linkTemplate` calls `compileFormat` in `node.go`,
-  which calls `compileOps` and `holdfence.go`'s two checks, and both architects placed
-  the step wrong.
 - Delete the "so which … is reported does not vary" clause at its five sites past
   `checkNodeFences`, and `checkRecordDraws`' "A record-only template's format renders
   nothing", which runs over templates with a format too.