diff --git a/drawfence_test.go b/drawfence_test.go
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+package fejkdata
+
+import (
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+// fenceCorpus layers over the shipped set what it lacks: draw groups, a repeat beside one, token
+// cells selecting a row, a table read whole and records reading a family.
+func fenceCorpus(t *testing.T) *Generator {
+	t.Helper()
+	dir := writeFiles(t, with(geo(), map[string]string{
+		"addr.json":  `{"format":"{a} {b} {c}","a":{"format":"{/locality.name}, {/municipality.name}"},"b":{"format":"{/region[12].name} {/place}","drawGroup":"g"},"c":{"format":"{/place.zip} ","repeat":2}}`,
+		"place.json": `{"format":"{zip} {name} {tag}","rows":"place.tsv","key":"name"}`,
+		"place.tsv":  "name\tzip\ttag\nStockholm\t1{digits(2)} {digits(2)}\t{/w}\nTranås\t573 {digits(2)}\t{/region[12].name}\n",
+		"rec.json":   `{"format":"","l":"{/locality.name}","m":"{/municipality.name}","t":"{/place[Stockholm].tag}"}`,
+		"w.json":     `["x","y"]`,
+	}))
+	f, err := New(WithDataPath(dir), WithSeed(1))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("New = %v", err)
+	}
+	return f
+}
+
+type fenceRoot struct {
+	label string
+	t     *template
+}
+
+func fenceRoots(t *testing.T, f *Generator) []fenceRoot {
+	t.Helper()
+	var roots []fenceRoot
+	_ = walkNodes(f.categories, func(path string, n node) error {
+		if tm, ok := n.(*template); ok {
+			roots = append(roots, fenceRoot{path, tm})
+		}
+		return nil
+	})
+	inline, err := f.NewTemplate(`{"format":"{x}|{y}","x":{"format":"{/locality.name}","drawGroup":"g"},"y":"{/region[01].name}"}`)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("NewTemplate = %v", err)
+	}
+	record, err := f.NewRecordTemplate(`{"format":"","a":"{/locality.name}","b":"{/municipality.name}"}`)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("NewRecordTemplate = %v", err)
+	}
+	_ = eachNode(inline.n, "inline", func(path string, n node) error {
+		if tm, ok := n.(*template); ok {
+			roots = append(roots, fenceRoot{path, tm})
+		}
+		return nil
+	})
+	return append(roots, fenceRoot{"inline record", record.template})
+}
+
+func TestEveryReadARenderMakesIsGathered(t *testing.T) {
+	f := fenceCorpus(t)
+	for _, root := range fenceRoots(t, f) {
+		wantGathered(t, f.rand, root.label, renderDraws(root.t).reads, func() { renderRoot(f.rand, root.t) })
+		if !root.t.isRecord {
+			continue
+		}
+		columns := sortedNames(root.t.fields)
+		wantGathered(t, f.rand, root.label+" as a record", columnDraws(root.t, columns).reads, func() { renderRecordRoot(f.rand, root.t) })
+	}
+}
+
+// wantGathered renders a root five times over the seeded stream and fails where a reference the
+// render read is not among gathered: same draw group and path, under rows that can render together.
+func wantGathered(t *testing.T, s *session, label string, gathered []pathRead, renderOnce func()) {
+	t.Helper()
+	var reads []pathRead
+	s.trace = &renderTrace{read: func(_ *template, group string, pins pinSet, a arm) {
+		if s.trace.depth == 0 && isRef(a.key) {
+			reads = append(reads, pathRead{at: drawAt{group: group, pins: pins}, a: a})
+		}
+	}}
+	defer func() { s.trace = nil }()
+	for i := 0; i < 5; i++ {
+		renderOnce()
+	}
+	for _, r := range reads {
+		if !gathers(gathered, r) {
+			t.Errorf("%s: the render read {%s} in draw group %q with %s pinned, and drawWalk gathered no such read", label, r.a.spelling, r.at.group, pinned(&r.at.pins))
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func gathers(gathered []pathRead, r pathRead) bool {
+	for _, g := range gathered {
+		if g.at.group == r.at.group && g.a.path == r.a.path && !g.at.pins.differs(&r.at.pins) {
+			return true
+		}
+	}
+	return false
+}
+
+func pinned(p *pinSet) string {
+	var rows []string
+	p.each(func(t *table, r int) { rows = append(rows, t.selectorSpelling(r)) })
+	if len(rows) == 0 {
+		return "no row"
+	}
+	return strings.Join(rows, ", ")
+}
+
+// renderRoot renders t the way the render reaches it: a table's format through its table, a cell in
+// its row, one iteration of a repeat in t's own draw group, and anything else as itself.
+func renderRoot(s *session, t *template) {
+	var set holdSet
+	sc := renderScope{set: &set}
+	switch {
+	case t.table != nil:
+		render(s, t.table, sc)
+	case t.cellOf != nil:
+		sc.t, sc.row = t.cellOf, t.cellRow
+		render(s, t, sc)
+	case t.repeat > 1:
+		expand(s, t, sc.in(t))
+	default:
+		render(s, t, sc)
+	}
+}
+
+func renderRecordRoot(s *session, t *template) {
+	set := eagerHoldSet()
+	sc := renderScope{set: &set}
+	if t.table != nil {
+		t.table.drawIn(s, &sc.in(t).hold().pins)
+	}
+	_, columns, err := recordOf(t)
+	if err != nil {
+		panic(err)
+	}
+	renderRecord(s, t, columns, sc)
+}