typography

/typography

Standalone skill. Takes a completed section (or the full site/index.html) and enforces print typography rules on all English text. Callable anytime — before /audit, after copy edits, whenever the source text changed.

Also the single source of truth for the short-word list that /build (pre-save pass) and /audit (post-build check) both reference.

Language scope: English only. Do not run on any other language.

When to use

• After /build writes a new section — /build calls this automatically as its pass 4b.
• After any copy edit in inbox/texts/ that triggered a rebuild of a section.
• Standalone: user says "fix the typography on the hero" or "re-run typography on the whole site".
• Before /audit as a safety pass.

Requirements

• site/index.html exists (or a specific section HTML file was provided).
• Content is English. If the copy is in another language, refuse and report which language was detected.

The rules

Rule 1 — Hanging short words at line end

A rendered line MUST NOT end on any of these words. Tie the word to the following word using   so they wrap together.

Canonical short-word list (English):

# Articles
a, an, the

# Coordinating conjunctions
and, or, but, nor, for, so, yet

# Subordinating conjunctions & connectors
if, as, at, by, in, on, of, to, up, via, with, into, onto, from, than, then, when, where, while, before, after

# Auxiliary and short verbs
is, am, are, was, were, be, do, does, did, has, have, had, can, will, would, could, should

# Pronouns (short)
I, we, he, she, it, you, they, my, our, his, her, its, your, their, this, that

# Negations & quantifiers (short)
no, not, all, any

Case-insensitive matching, but preserve the original case when rewriting.

Rule 2 — Dashes never end a line

-, –, — must attach to the following word: text — word (nbsp before the dash, regular space after). This is opposite direction from Rule 1 — dash pulls the next word up.