vehicles 0.9.0 → 0.9.2

data/data/plates/hr.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/hr.yml — Croatia (PRD-PLATES gate L1, wave 2).
+# plates/hr.yml — Croatia (the plates spec gate L1, wave 2).
 #
 # EVERY format, colour and class claim in this file is read from Narodne novine
 # — the Croatian official gazette — in the instruments' own published text, on
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@
 #    ČK, KŽ, PŽ, ŠI, VŽ and ŽU carry a caron; the serial alphabet in
 #    plates/_meta/separators.yml is A-Z 0-9. Every `[A-Z]{2}` prefix below is
 #    therefore NARROWER than the issuing grammar for those six areas — still
-#    `matching: strict` per PRD-PLATES §2.7 (narrower is strict), but a
+#    `matching: strict` per the plates spec §2.7 (narrower is strict), but a
 #    consumer matching a photographed plate must ASCII-fold first. The
 #    regulation knows the problem: čl. 22 st. 7 refuses a by-choice mark that
 #    could "doći do dupliranja prilikom transliteracije registarskih brojeva".
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@
 # 22/93, 19/96, 149/02), which NN 12/1993 čl. 34 expressly kept alive for a
 # transitional period and which was not fetched.
 # The registration-area position prints six codes with a caron (ČK KŽ PŽ ŠI
-# VŽ ŽU). Declared here in exact codepoints per PRD-PLATES §2.6 so the regexes
+# VŽ ŽU). Declared here in exact codepoints per the plates spec §2.6 so the regexes
 # below can express the plate's REAL alphabet instead of an ASCII shadow of it.
 # The SERIAL-suffix position does NOT carry diacritics — see regex_strict, which
 # enumerates the Croatian alphabet without them — so only the AREA position is
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ common:
       For the ORDINARY mark, čl. 18 prescribes no separator glyph at all — the
       hyphen is visible only in Obrazac 3, a drawing. Every ordinary regex here
       therefore spells that position as the separator-only class `[- ]`
-      (PRD-PLATES §2.8, the es-consular precedent): the printed hyphen is
+      (the plates spec §2.8, the es-consular precedent): the printed hyphen is
       certain from the drawing, its statutory basis is not, and `pattern` shows
       the canonical printed form.
     arms_position: >-
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ common:
     font: >-
       NO TYPEFACE IS NAMED. As in the UK, Germany, Spain and Austria, the legal
       object is a DRAWING — Obrazac 15 — and the render layer must derive glyphs
-      from it rather than from any third-party TTF (PRD-PLATES §6). Unlike the
+      from it rather than from any third-party TTF (the plates spec §6). Unlike the
       Austrian KDV, Obrazac 15 publishes no per-glyph millimetres in a form this
       pass could read (see structural fact 6). Recorded gap.
     source: "https://narodne-novine.nn.hr/clanci/sluzbeni/2017_12_130_2993.html  # čl. 19. Accessed 2026-08-02"
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ common:
     artwork_note: >-
       The Croatian coat of arms is a state symbol whose use is regulated
       independently of copyright, and no assessment was made in this pass.
-      PRD-PLATES §3 applies unchanged: `rendered: placeholder` on every series.
+      The plates spec §3 applies unchanged: `rendered: placeholder` on every series.
   dimensions:
     obrazac_3: { note: "single-line plate for motor vehicles, trailers, tractors and machines — čl. 18 st. 5. Dimensions NOT legible in the published raster; see structural fact 6" }
     obrazac_4: { w: 280, h: 200, unit: mm, basis: read-from-drawing, note: "two-line plate for vehicles whose construction cannot take Obrazac 3 — čl. 18 st. 6. 280 and 200 are the two figures legible in the published drawing" }
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ common:
       system in 1991, so authoring it in each national file would duplicate a
       single historical layer in two places, give it two ids, and invite the two
       copies to drift. It belongs in ONE historical jurisdiction file at gate L4
-      (PRD-PLATES §7), not twice at L1. What IS recorded here is the hinge, from
+      (the plates spec §7), not twice at L1. What IS recorded here is the hinge, from
       the Croatian primary itself.
     hinge: >-
       NN 12/1993 čl. 34, verbatim: "Danom stupanja na snagu ovoga Pravilnika
@@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ series:
         code holds the ŠAHOVNICA and is written as an optional emitted space.
         The gap between digits and letters is a printed hyphen, certain from
         Obrazac 3 but not spelled in čl. 18, so it is written as the
-        separator-only class `[- ]` per PRD-PLATES §2.8.
+        separator-only class `[- ]` per the plates spec §2.8.
     design:
       plate: { w: 520, h: 110, unit: mm, basis: secondary-wikipedia, basis_note: "the pravilnik delegates dimensions to Obrazac 3, whose figures are illegible in the published 229x70 raster — see the file header, structural fact 6" }
       plate_variants:
@@ -358,7 +358,7 @@ series:
           plates carrying "unaprijed zadanim registarskim brojem vozila iz
           članka 18. stavka 2. ovoga Pravilnika ako je zatraženi registarski
           broj slobodan" — a CHOSEN serial inside the ordinary grammar, so a
-          sub-entry rather than a series (PRD-PLATES §2.3). Format and design
+          sub-entry rather than a series (the plates spec §2.3). Format and design
           are identical to the standard series. It is new in NN 130/2017: no
           equivalent appears in NN 151/2008. Čl. 21 st. 2 supplies the file's
           only direct statement about the ordinary alphabet.
@@ -373,7 +373,7 @@ series:
           kojima je odobren privremeni ili stalni boravak i za privremeno
           registrirana vozila, otisnute brojke i slova zelene su boje." A
           COLOUR-ONLY variant of the same format and period, therefore a
-          sub-entry and not a series (PRD-PLATES §2.3). Note that the 2008 text
+          sub-entry and not a series (the plates spec §2.3). Note that the 2008 text
           of the same rule also covered foreign trade, transport and cultural
           representations and foreign correspondents; NN 130/2017 dropped that
           clause.
@@ -494,7 +494,7 @@ series:
       - "https://narodne-novine.nn.hr/files/_web/sluzbeni-dio/2017/130000/images/9521.jpg  # Obrazac 5, the dimensioned drawing: 180 x 180 mm, three-line layout"
       - "https://narodne-novine.nn.hr/clanci/sluzbeni/2016_05_45_1165.html  # čl. 9 replaces Obrasci 5-12 and čl. 10 dates the change to 2016-07-04"
     notes: >-
-      A SEPARATE SERIES ON DESIGN, NOT ON FORMAT (PRD-PLATES §2.3): the mark is
+      A SEPARATE SERIES ON DESIGN, NOT ON FORMAT (the plates spec §2.3): the mark is
       the čl. 18 st. 2 mark, but the plate is a 180 mm square whose layout puts
       the digits and letters on separate lines, which a renderer must model and
       a one-line pattern cannot express. NN 130/2017 čl. 59 defers the motorcycle
@@ -556,7 +556,7 @@ series:
         Obrazac 8, or on the 7+8 combination, are three to SIX characters.
       why_recall_only: >-
         The regex above is deliberately wider than the issuing grammar and a
-        match is a shape hit only (PRD-PLATES §2.7). It does not enforce the
+        match is a shape hit only (the plates spec §2.7). It does not enforce the
         "at least one letter if digits are chosen" rule, does not count the
         hyphen against the seven-character budget, does not enforce the
         three-character floor, and cannot express čl. 22 st. 7 at all — that
@@ -620,7 +620,7 @@ series:
     notes: >-
       PV IS A LITERAL, NOT A LETTER GROUP: the two characters are fixed, so this
       series' regex is genuinely strict without a strict twin — the sourced
-      grammar IS the pattern (the PRD-PLATES §2.7 case where 29 of 31 L0 series
+      grammar IS the pattern (the plates spec §2.7 case where 29 of 31 L0 series
       needed no twin). The oldtimer mark is protected from collision in two
       directions: čl. 22 st. 7 refuses a by-choice mark that would coincide with
       it, and čl. 22 st. 9 forbids choosing a mark for an oldtimer at all.
@@ -753,7 +753,7 @@ series:
       mission, not a geographic area code — hr-cities.yml must not be consulted
       for it. The country-code table itself is NOT published in the pravilnik
       and was not obtained from any primary in this pass: it is a RECORDED GAP,
-      and PRD-PLATES puts diplomatic decode tables at gate L4 in any case.
+      and the plates spec puts diplomatic decode tables at gate L4 in any case.
     sources:
       - "https://narodne-novine.nn.hr/clanci/sluzbeni/1993_02_12_185.html  # NN 12/1993 čl. 19 — the blue/yellow plate with country number, activity letter and vehicle number, from the founding instrument"
       - "https://narodne-novine.nn.hr/clanci/sluzbeni/2008_12_151_4118.html  # NN 151/2008 čl. 16 — the A/C/M letter set stated in the modern wording, plus the CMD/CD/CC ellipse"
@@ -790,7 +790,7 @@ series:
         Because there is nothing to be strict about. The regex is an admitted
         catch-all: a match says only "this string has a shape a Croatian test
         plate could have" and is emphatically not a validity claim
-        (PRD-PLATES §2.7). Shipping a confident pattern here would be inventing
+        (the plates spec §2.7). Shipping a confident pattern here would be inventing
         one; the gap is recorded instead.
     design:
       background: { color: "#FFFFFF", finish: retroreflective, hex_basis: observed, spec_note: "'bijele su boje' plus 'retro-reflektivnog bijelog laminata' (čl. 34 st. 3) — laminate, not the metal-and-foil construction of čl. 18" }

data/data/plates/hu.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/hu.yml — Hungary (PRD-PLATES gate L1, wave 2).
+# plates/hu.yml — Hungary (the plates spec gate L1, wave 2).
 #
 # WHAT IS PRIMARY HERE AND WHAT IS NOT — read this before trusting any line.
 #
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 #    instrument's date is 2021 and the SERIES date is 2022-07-01, thirteen
 #    months later. This file records 2022, not 2021 — which is exactly the trap
 #    plates/es.yml fell into once (a 1999-2000 decree window shipped as the
-#    period for a format that ran three decades) and the reason PRD-PLATES §5.3
+#    period for a format that ran three decades) and the reason the plates spec §5.3
 #    puts era boundaries at the top of the audit. The thirteen-month gap is not
 #    incidental: it is the lead time the plate manufacturer and the county
 #    government offices were given.
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@
 #    decide which Latin letters count as vowels for the purpose (is Y a vowel
 #    here? is I issued at all, given that I, O and Q are avoided elsewhere in
 #    the system?), and the source states the rule without stating the letter
-#    sets. Inventing them would be precisely the confident guess PRD-PLATES
+#    sets. Inventing them would be precisely the confident guess the plates spec
 #    forbids, so the rule is recorded verbatim in `format.charset` and NO
 #    `regex_strict` is shipped for the standard series. The gap is named in
 #    `verifier_targets`.
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ common:
       it in the gap between the two letter pairs. If that placement is right,
       Hungary joins Italy (the marchio ufficiale) and Austria (the Landeswappen)
       in the class of jurisdictions whose printed "separator" is in fact an
-      EMBLEM occupying the gap — see PRD-PLATES §2.6 and the never_separator
+      EMBLEM occupying the gap — see the plates spec §2.6 and the never_separator
       note in _meta/separators.yml. The dataset accordingly writes that gap as
       the emitted SPACE and carries the emblem in `design.emblem`; no glyph is
       ever inside a Hungarian serial. THE PLACEMENT ITSELF IS SECONDARY and is a
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ common:
       pattern is unaffected but `design.emblem.position` is wrong.
     licensing: >-
       The coat of arms of Hungary is a state symbol whose use is regulated
-      independently of copyright. PRD-PLATES §3 placeholder rule applies:
+      independently of copyright. The plates spec §3 placeholder rule applies:
       renders carry `emblem: {present: true, rendered: placeholder}`.
     source: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magyarorsz%C3%A1gi_forgalmi_rendsz%C3%A1mok  # the coat of arms was added with the 2022 format. Accessed 2026-08-02"
   personalisation:
@@ -219,14 +219,14 @@ common:
       egyénileg kiválasztott és az egyedileg előállított rendszámtábla" — the
       individually CHOSEN plate (a serial picked out of the ordinary grammar)
       and the individually PRODUCED plate (a serial made to order). Two distinct
-      products, both inside the official frame, hence PRD-PLATES §2.3 sub-entry
+      products, both inside the official frame, hence the plates spec §2.3 sub-entry
       treatment rather than a series of their own. The fee, the eligibility and
       the grammar each product must obey are in the mellékletek and were not
       retrieved.
     source: "https://njt.jog.gov.hu/jogszabaly/2011-326-20-22  # §§ 58-59 headings and scope, Nemzeti Jogszabálytár, accessed 2026-08-02"
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# Dead ends — recorded so the next pass does not repeat them (PRD-PLATES §5.3).
+# Dead ends — recorded so the next pass does not repeat them (the plates spec §5.3).
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 dead_ends:
   - what: "The mellékletek (annexes) of 326/2011 — the plate-type table, colours, dimensions and the serial grammar."
@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ series:
       separator_note: >-
         The gap between the two letter pairs is reported to be occupied by the
         Hungarian coat of arms, not by a separator glyph; the hyphen before the
-        digits is printed. Both are written per PRD-PLATES §2.6: the emblem gap
+        digits is printed. Both are written per the plates spec §2.6: the emblem gap
         as an optional emitted SPACE, the printed hyphen as an optional emitted
         HYPHEN-MINUS. `pattern` shows the canonical printed form.
       progression: >-
@@ -309,7 +309,7 @@ series:
           of 326/2011 create two distinct personalisation products: a plate whose
           serial the applicant CHOOSES out of the ordinary grammar, and a plate
           individually PRODUCED to order. A sub-entry rather than a series
-          (PRD-PLATES §2.3) because neither is reported to change the format or
+          (the plates spec §2.3) because neither is reported to change the format or
           the design. Which of the two may depart from the ordinary grammar, and
           how far, is in the mellékletek and is a recorded gap.
         sources:
@@ -432,7 +432,7 @@ series:
       ABC-123, and the change dropped the commercial/private colour inversion
       that had been the visual signature of the previous system. This entry
       exists as its own series rather than as a design note on hu-standard-2004
-      because the EU band is a design difference of exactly the kind PRD-PLATES
+      because the EU band is a design difference of exactly the kind the plates spec
       §2.3 makes a series boundary — the same cut plates/it.yml makes at 1999.
 
   # =========================================================================
@@ -483,7 +483,7 @@ series:
           WHITE CHARACTERS ON BLACK. Same format, opposite colours, and the
           inversion disappeared with the 1990 reform. Modelled here as a
           documented colour inversion on one series rather than as two series,
-          because format and period are identical (PRD-PLATES §2.3).
+          because format and period are identical (the plates spec §2.3).
         inverse_background: "#000000"
         inverse_foreground: "#FFFFFF"
       evidence_tier: secondary-wikipedia
@@ -575,7 +575,7 @@ series:
       carried an ordinary six-character serial drawn from a reserved range, on a
       yellow ground — so the FORMAT is the standard one and only the block and
       the colour distinguish it. It is a series rather than a sub-entry because
-      the design differs (PRD-PLATES §2.3). Its dates are the system's, not its
+      the design differs (the plates spec §2.3). Its dates are the system's, not its
       own; see period_note.
 
   # =========================================================================
@@ -642,7 +642,7 @@ series:
       THE GREEN PLATE AFTER THE FORMAT CHANGE — the same environmental class on
       the seven-character grammar. Modelled as its own series rather than as a
       period extension because the FORMAT differs from hu-electric-2015, which is
-      the PRD-PLATES §2.3 boundary; the two are otherwise the same programme and
+      the plates spec §2.3 boundary; the two are otherwise the same programme and
       that continuity is the reason both carry the same class.
 
   # =========================================================================
@@ -672,7 +672,7 @@ series:
           rather than a geographic one, so it does not disturb this file's
           no-decode-table finding. Two reported points: 001 is the Holy See and
           020 the United States. The full mission-to-code mapping was NOT sourced
-          and is NOT authored here; PRD-PLATES puts diplomatic decode tables at
+          and is NOT authored here; the plates spec puts diplomatic decode tables at
           gate L4, and plates/fi.yml made the same call for the Finnish table.
     design:
       plate: { w: 520, h: 110, unit: mm }
@@ -941,7 +941,7 @@ unmodelled_series:
   source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Hungary  # every row below. Accessed 2026-08-02"
   reason_not_modelled: >-
     Each lacks at least one of: a start date this file could defend, a format
-    whose grouping is known, or a colour. PRD-PLATES §5.3 prefers the recorded
+    whose grouping is known, or a colour. The plates spec §5.3 prefers the recorded
     gap to the averaged guess, and a well-evidenced gap is a deliverable.
   rows:
     - { token: "H + letter + 4 digits", use: military, note: "the letter is reported to denote vehicle kind (A cars, B buses, N motorcycles, T trucks); a tricolour design is reported. Reported to have become HA under the 2022 system. No date at either end." }
@@ -956,4 +956,4 @@ unmodelled_series:
     - { token: "M + 6 digits", use: agricultural, note: "green on white, three-year validity; replaced by the general I plate in July 2022. No start date sourced." }
     - { token: "Y + 3 letters + 3 digits", use: "slow vehicles", note: "red on white; moved onto the normal series in July 2022. No start date sourced." }
     - { token: "OT + 4 digits", use: "old-timer, pre-2022 form", note: "the predecessor of hu-historic-2022; no start date sourced, which is why only the post-2022 form is authored." }
-    - { token: "grey repeater plate", use: "bicycle-rack repeater", note: "reported from April 2017. A REPEATER plate has no class in _meta/classes.yml; adding one is a vocabulary PR (PRD-PLATES §2.3), not a data-file decision." }
+    - { token: "grey repeater plate", use: "bicycle-rack repeater", note: "reported from April 2017. A REPEATER plate has no class in _meta/classes.yml; adding one is a vocabulary PR (the plates spec §2.3), not a data-file decision." }

data/data/plates/ie.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/ie.yml — Ireland (PRD-PLATES gate L1, wave 2).
+# plates/ie.yml — Ireland (the plates spec gate L1, wave 2).
 #
 # EVERY format, colour, dimension and period claim in this file is read off an
 # instrument on irishstatutebook.ie, fetched 2026-08-02. Wikipedia was used as a
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ common:
     millimetres which shall extend horizontally for a distance of not less than
     13 millimetres and not more than 22 millimetres." So `ie-standard-1987`
     spells a space and `ie-standard-1991`/`ie-standard-2013` spell a hyphen, and
-    both are the printed form the instrument itself prescribes (PRD-PLATES §2.6
+    both are the printed form the instrument itself prescribes (the plates spec §2.6
     rule 2).
   no_nought_rule: >-
     First Schedule para. 3(b), verbatim: "The identification mark shall not
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ common:
     the Irish no-leading-zero rule: the sequence number is printed as assigned,
     never padded, so "121-D-7" is a whole registration and "121-D-0007" is not
     one. It is carried in `regex_strict`, never in `regex`, because the
-    round-trip (PRD-PLATES §2.7) forbids `regex` from carrying charset rules.
+    round-trip (the plates spec §2.7) forbids `regex` from carrying charset rules.
     NOTE THE PERIOD: this paragraph is in Third Schedule Part III (1991) and the
     First Schedule (1992 onward). Part II (1987-1990) has no equivalent, so
     ie-standard-1987 makes no leading-zero claim.
@@ -318,7 +318,7 @@ series:
           stripe: { side: right, color: "#009639", hex_basis: observed, color_spec: "Pantone 7481 C", w: 30, unit: mm, finish: retroreflective }
         note: >-
           THE GREEN FLASH, from 1 July 2025 (S.I. 268/2025 art. 2). A sub-entry
-          and not a series, on the PRD-PLATES §2.3 test: same format, same
+          and not a series, on the plates spec §2.3 test: same format, same
           period, same mark — only the design differs, and only optionally. New
           Reg. 9(10): "an eligible vehicle MAY display a plate which contains a
           stripe which is green in colour", where "eligible vehicle" is defined
@@ -478,7 +478,7 @@ series:
       characters at least 81 mm tall, groups separated by a wide SPACE, and no
       EU band, no black border and no Irish county name anywhere on it. It ran
       for exactly four years. Cutting it as its own series rather than as the
-      early stretch of ie-standard-1991 is the PRD-PLATES §2.3 test applied
+      early stretch of ie-standard-1991 is the plates spec §2.3 test applied
       literally: the design differs (no band, no placename, no border), the
       printed format differs (space versus hyphen) and the period is closed by
       an instrument — three of three. START DATE PRECISION: both halves of the
@@ -531,7 +531,7 @@ series:
         only "that the index mark appears as a separate unit from the
         registration number", and para. 8 sets the minimum gap at 38 mm on
         one-line layouts. The regex spells the position as the separator-only
-        class `[- ]` (PRD-PLATES §2.8) because the instrument prescribes a
+        class `[- ]` (the plates spec §2.8) because the instrument prescribes a
         separation and no character to make it with.
     design:
       background: { color: "#000000", finish: painted, hex_basis: observed }
@@ -618,7 +618,7 @@ series:
         digits in the pattern follow that example and the regex allows one to
         six, claiming nothing.
       separator_note: >-
-        Spelled as the separator-only class `[- ]` (PRD-PLATES §2.8) because the
+        Spelled as the separator-only class `[- ]` (the plates spec §2.8) because the
         instrument leaves the position genuinely open: First Schedule para. 16(d)
         would prescribe a hyphen, but para. 23 expressly lets a ZV mark comply
         instead with the OLD 1982 Part I spec, which prescribes a gap and no

data/data/plates/in.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/in.yml — India (PRD-PLATES gate L3). DRAFT for human verification.
+# plates/in.yml — India (the plates spec gate L3). DRAFT for human verification.
 #
 # EVERY format, colour, dimension and class claim in this file comes from one
 # of five primaries, all fetched and quoted verbatim in the dossier:
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@
 # instrument imposes NO digit count and our regex invents a practical bound
 # (the diplomatic series).
 #
-# SEPARATOR NOTE (PRD-PLATES § 2.6): an Indian plate prints NO separator
+# SEPARATOR NOTE (the plates spec § 2.6): an Indian plate prints NO separator
 # glyph. Rule 50(3) prescribes a two-LINE layout (state+district code above,
 # the rest below) and rule 51 prescribes inter-character spacing in
 # millimetres; the space in every `pattern` here is the conventional textual
@@ -388,7 +388,7 @@ series:
       calls it "registering authority code" and rule 35(3) calls it "RTO Code".
       Each State creates, merges and renumbers its own offices, and there are
       well over a thousand of them, so this dimension is OPEN and is deliberately
-      NOT tabled here (PRD-PLATES § 2.4 mechanism-note rule). A decode may
+      NOT tabled here (the plates spec § 2.4 mechanism-note rule). A decode may
       return the State with confidence and the district only against a
       State-published list of that State's own offices, dated. THIRD ELEMENT,
       FLAGGED AS UNSOURCED: several States are widely reported to spend the
@@ -541,7 +541,7 @@ series:
           photograph of an Indian truck-trailer combination will see the same
           mark twice and a second, different mark once; it must not treat the
           repetition as two vehicles. Colour-only variant of this series, hence
-          a sub-entry (PRD-PLATES § 2.3). Rule 50(6) exempts agricultural
+          a sub-entry (the plates spec § 2.3). Rule 50(6) exempts agricultural
           tractors: "The registration mark of the drawing agricultural tractor
           may not be exhibited on the agricultural trailer or trailers", and
           rule 50(7) does the same for a modular hydraulic trailer behind a
@@ -587,7 +587,7 @@ series:
           colour on Green background" (rule 50(2A)) — the same green plate with
           yellow characters instead of white. Colour-only variant of the same
           format and period, hence a sub-entry rather than a series
-          (PRD-PLATES § 2.3). This is the one place in Indian plate law where
+          (the plates spec § 2.3). This is the one place in Indian plate law where
           the transport/non-transport split changes the FOREGROUND rather than
           the background.
         sources:
@@ -800,7 +800,7 @@ series:
           Rule 35(3) says the letter "Represents serial number of class of
           vehicle as prescribed in Rule 34(2) i.e. from A to J"; rule 34(2)
           lists those classes as clauses (a) to (j), which is the closed
-          primary list inlined above (PRD-PLATES § 2.4 small-inline-table
+          primary list inlined above (the plates spec § 2.4 small-inline-table
           rule). NOTE THE TRAP: this is the one Indian series in which the
           letter I IS issued — it is E-cart — while BH and temporary marks
           expressly exclude I. A parse API must not apply a blanket I/O
@@ -961,7 +961,7 @@ series:
       not a place decode — and the MEA list was NOT reached in this pass, so
       this dataset cannot turn "13 CD 1" into a country. That table is the
       single most requested Indian plate decode after the state codes and is a
-      recorded gap for gate L4 (PRD-PLATES § 7 lists diplomatic decode tables
+      recorded gap for gate L4 (the plates spec § 7 lists diplomatic decode tables
       there).
     sources:
       - "https://web.archive.org/web/20211130113450id_/https://morth.nic.in/sites/default/files/CMVR-chapter3.pdf  # rule 76(1)-(6) with footnote 96 dating the substitution of sub-rule (6) to G.S.R. 221(E) 28-3-2001; rule 77(1)(i) 'with deep blue background, the registration mark and the number being in white'; rule 77(1) plate size '41 centimetres by 14 centimetres'; rule 77(2)-(3); accessed 2026-08-02"

data/data/plates/is.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/is.yml — Iceland (PRD-PLATES gate L1, wave 2).
+# plates/is.yml — Iceland (the plates spec gate L1, wave 2).
 #
 # THE 1989 CUTOVER IS THE WHOLE STORY, AND IT IS DATED — just not by the
 # instrument that made it. Read this before trusting any period below.
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ common:
       "rönd á brúnum, stafir og bandstrik" together in every colour rule, and
       the two-row rule of 669/2008 places the bandstrik on the letter row. It is
       therefore written as the emitted HYPHEN in every `pattern` below, per
-      PRD-PLATES §2.6, and the regexes accept a hyphen or a space at that
+      the plates spec §2.6, and the regexes accept a hyphen or a space at that
       position under the §2.8 separator-only class rule.
     source: "https://www.reglugerd.is/reglugerdir/allar/nr/751-2003  # 18.-19. gr. Accessed 2026-08-02"
 
@@ -457,7 +457,7 @@ series:
           ORANGE, for létt bifhjól í flokki I (the slowest class, up to 25 km/h),
           added by reglugerð 1515/2020 of 14 December 2020 together with plate
           type E. A colour-only variant of the same format and period, hence a
-          sub-entry per PRD-PLATES §2.3.
+          sub-entry per the plates spec §2.3.
         sources:
           - "https://www.reglugerd.is/reglugerdir/allar/nr/1515-2020  # adds gerð E (168 x 133 mm) and the orange plate for létt bifhjól í flokki I. Accessed 2026-08-02"
     sources:

data/data/plates/it.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/it.yml — Italy (PRD-PLATES gate L1).
+# plates/it.yml — Italy (the plates spec gate L1).
 #
 # EVERY format, colour, dimension and period claim in this file comes from the
 # consolidated text of the REGOLAMENTO DI ESECUZIONE E DI ATTUAZIONE DEL NUOVO
@@ -12,10 +12,10 @@
 #
 # The L0 EU research dossier recorded Italy as its worst gap — "**No primary
 # source secured.** Everything below is from Wikipedia and must be confirmed
-# against the Codice della Strada and DPR 495/1992" (plates-research-eu-intl.md
+# against the Codice della Strada and DPR 495/1992" (the EU research dossier
 # §2.5 and DEAD-ENDS §8). This file closes that gap: every claim below is
 # instrument-dated, and where the primaries and the enthusiast web disagree the
-# disagreement is RECORDED rather than averaged (PRD-PLATES §5.3).
+# disagreement is RECORDED rather than averaged (the plates spec §5.3).
 #
 # THE SIX STRUCTURAL FACTS THAT SHAPE THIS FILE
 #
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
 #    always names it BETWEEN two character groups, so the printed gaps on an
 #    Italian plate are occupied by an emblem, exactly as the German gap is
 #    occupied by the Plaketten (see plates/de.yml). The dataset writes those gaps
-#    as the emitted SPACE separator (PRD-PLATES §2.6) and carries the emblem in
+#    as the emitted SPACE separator (the plates spec §2.6) and carries the emblem in
 #    `design.emblem`; no glyph is ever inside an Italian serial.
 #
 # 3. 1993, NOT 1994 — AND THE PRIMARY SAYS SO TWICE. Art. 260 comma 5 as
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ common:
     licensing: >-
       The emblem is the Stella d'Italia between olive and oak — an element of the
       emblem of the Italian Republic, whose use is regulated independently of
-      copyright. PRD-PLATES §3 placeholder rule applies: renders carry
+      copyright. The plates spec §3 placeholder rule applies: renders carry
       `emblem: {present: true, rendered: placeholder}` until a per-emblem
       clearance exists.
     source: "https://www.normattiva.it/uri-res/N2Ls?urn:nir:stato:decreto.del.presidente.della.repubblica:1992-12-16;495~art262  # art. 262 Marchio ufficiale, verbatim"
@@ -234,7 +234,7 @@ common:
     licence: >-
       Italy is the fourth surveyed country to prescribe the glyphs by STATUTORY
       DRAWING rather than by named licensable font (after DE, ES and UK — EU
-      dossier §6). PRD-PLATES §6 therefore applies unchanged: the render layer
+      dossier §6). The plates spec §6 therefore applies unchanged: the render layer
       derives glyphs from the statutory figures, never from a third-party
       "Italian plate font" TTF whose own licence is unstated. The figures
       themselves were not text-extractable from Normattiva's export and are a
@@ -355,13 +355,13 @@ series:
         The two printed gaps are occupied by the marchio ufficiale (Appendice XII
         lett. a) names it between the first letter pair and the digits), not by a
         separator glyph. Both regexes accept the gap as an optional emitted SPACE
-        per PRD-PLATES §2.6.
+        per the plates spec §2.6.
       reserved_combinations: >-
         Art. 100 comma 8 of the codice lets the holder request "una specifica
         combinazione alfanumerica" at cost, "ferma restando la sequenza
         alfanumerica fissata dal regolamento" — a personalised SERIAL inside the
         standard grammar, hence the `personalized` variant below rather than a
-        series of its own (PRD-PLATES §2.3).
+        series of its own (the plates spec §2.3).
     design:
       plate: { w: 520, h: 110, unit: mm, note: "targa posteriore, formato A" }
       plate_variants:
@@ -403,7 +403,7 @@ series:
           the office checks the combination is unused, registers the vehicle, and
           the Istituto Poligrafico delivers the plates within thirty days. Format
           and design are identical to the standard series — a sub-entry, not a
-          series, per PRD-PLATES §2.3. Italy has no vanity ALPHABET: the requested
+          series, per the plates spec §2.3. Italy has no vanity ALPHABET: the requested
           combination must still obey Appendice XII.
         sources:
           - "https://www.normattiva.it/uri-res/N2Ls?urn:nir:stato:decreto.legislativo:1992-04-30;285!vig=~art100  # art. 100 c. 8, verbatim"
@@ -442,7 +442,7 @@ series:
         l'esaurimento delle targhe di vecchio tipo ancora in giacenza presso gli
         uffici provinciali della Direzione generale della M.C.T.C. e comunque non
         oltre il 31 dicembre 1996". Legal commencement and full coverage are three
-        years apart and the regulation says so — the PRD-PLATES §2.2
+        years apart and the regulation says so — the plates spec §2.2
         `period.rollout` case, arriving in Italy.
     matching: strict
     format:
@@ -487,7 +487,7 @@ series:
     categories: [car, van, truck, bus]
     period: { start: 1959, end: 1996 }
     period_evidence: instrument-in-force
-    # RECALL-ONLY (PRD-PLATES §2.7): the 1959 regolamento fixes the province
+    # RECALL-ONLY (the plates spec §2.7): the 1959 regolamento fixes the province
     # sigla and nothing else — the rest of the mark is "un numero o una
     # combinazione di lettere e cifre", with no length, no alphabet and no
     # arrangement. Any regex covering it is necessarily wider than what was
@@ -524,7 +524,7 @@ series:
         white retroreflective. No instrument changing the colour was located in
         this pass, so the black-on-white variant is a RECORDED GAP and is not
         asserted; the sourced colours are recorded here and the discrepancy is
-        flagged rather than averaged (PRD-PLATES §5.3).
+        flagged rather than averaged (the plates spec §5.3).
     region_encoding: "plates/_decode/it-provinces.yml"
     region_encoding_mechanism: >-
       THE PROVINCE IS IN THE MARK ITSELF — this is the only Italian series where a
@@ -578,7 +578,7 @@ series:
       fact in Italian plate law: while cars carried white on black, motorcycles
       carried BLUE on white under the same 1959 regolamento. Its own series rather
       than a variant of it-provincial-1959 because both design and dimensions
-      differ (PRD-PLATES §2.3). The 165 x 165 mm square survived the 1993 reform
+      differ (the plates spec §2.3). The 165 x 165 mm square survived the 1993 reform
       unchanged and did not grow until 1999.
 
   # =========================================================================
@@ -589,7 +589,7 @@ series:
     categories: [motorcycle]
     period: { start: 1999 }
     period_evidence: instrument-in-force
-    # RECALL-ONLY (PRD-PLATES §2.7), and the reason is a documented conflict
+    # RECALL-ONLY (the plates spec §2.7), and the reason is a documented conflict
     # rather than a union of issued shapes — see notes. A match is a shape hit.
     matching: recall-only
     format:
@@ -603,7 +603,7 @@ series:
         discarded — see notes.
       charset:
         letters_excluded: [I, O, Q, U]
-        notes: "Appendice XII comma 2's 22-letter alphabet governs whichever shape is in fact issued; it is not written into `regex` because a recall-only series may carry no regex_strict (PRD-PLATES §2.7)."
+        notes: "Appendice XII comma 2's 22-letter alphabet governs whichever shape is in fact issued; it is not written into `regex` because a recall-only series may carry no regex_strict (the plates spec §2.7)."
     design:
       plate: { w: 177, h: 177, unit: mm, note: "art. 258 c. 1 lett. e-bis), inserted by D.P.R. 355/1998 — the motorcycle plate GREW from 165x165 to 177x177 when the EU band arrived" }
       background: { color: "#FFFFFF", finish: retroreflective, hex_basis: spec }
@@ -629,7 +629,7 @@ series:
           sostituisce." A self-built yellow panel repeating the vehicle's own
           registration, legal only on race days and race routes, and only for FMI
           licence holders. Colour-and-substrate variant of the same serial, hence a
-          sub-entry (PRD-PLATES §2.3).
+          sub-entry (the plates spec §2.3).
         sources:
           - "https://www.normattiva.it/uri-res/N2Ls?urn:nir:stato:decreto.legislativo:1992-04-30;285!vig=~art100  # art. 100 c. 10, second sentence"
     sources:
@@ -648,7 +648,7 @@ series:
       Art. 257 c. 2 supplies a lawful mechanism by which both could be true — the
       Minister may set a different character succession by decree without amending
       the appendix — and no such decree was located. Averaging the two would be
-      exactly the failure PRD-PLATES §5.3 forbids, so the series is `recall-only`
+      exactly the failure the plates spec §5.3 forbids, so the series is `recall-only`
       with a union regex, the appendix text is quoted in the sources, and this is
       the FIRST item on the verifier's list (see dossier-it.md §Verification).
       period.start 1999 is the design date (D.P.R. 355/1998 + art. 260 c. 5's
@@ -805,7 +805,7 @@ series:
         scritta 'Rimorchio', due caratteri alfabetici, il marchio ufficiale della
         Repubblica italiana e cinque caratteri numerici". It is carried in
         `design.legend` because it contains a full stop and a space and could never
-        be spelled inside a serial under PRD-PLATES §2.6.
+        be spelled inside a serial under the plates spec §2.6.
     design:
       plate: { w: 340, h: 109, unit: mm, note: "art. 258 c. 1 lett. d) as enacted" }
       background: { color: "#FFFFFF", finish: retroreflective, hex_basis: spec }
@@ -830,7 +830,7 @@ series:
     categories: [trailer]
     period: { start: 1993 }
     period_evidence: instrument-in-force
-    # RECALL-ONLY (PRD-PLATES §2.7): a repeater plate carries the TOWING vehicle's
+    # RECALL-ONLY (the plates spec §2.7): a repeater plate carries the TOWING vehicle's
     # registration, transcribed by the owner into empty boxes. Its regex is a
     # container, not a grammar; a match says only that the string could sit in
     # those boxes. Same situation as nl-export.
@@ -929,7 +929,7 @@ series:
       regex: '\A[A-Z]{2} ?\d{3} ?[A-Z]\z'
       regex_strict: '\A[ABCDEFGHJKLMNPRSTVWXYZ]{2} ?\d{3} ?[ABCDEFGHJKLMNPRSTVWXYZ]\z'
       charset: { letters_excluded: [I, O, Q, U] }
-      legend_note: "the 'Rim. Agr.' legend contains a full stop and a space and is therefore a design element, never part of the serial (PRD-PLATES §2.6)"
+      legend_note: "the 'Rim. Agr.' legend contains a full stop and a space and is therefore a design element, never part of the serial (the plates spec §2.6)"
     design:
       plate: { w: 340, h: 109, unit: mm, note: "art. 258 c. 1 lett. d)" }
       background: { color: "#FFCC00", finish: retroreflective, hex_basis: observed }
@@ -1096,7 +1096,7 @@ series:
       square. Note the order differs from the car EE plate as well: here "EE" comes
       FIRST and the marchio and the national sign follow, where lett. p) opens with
       the marchio. Two entries rather than one because both format and dimensions
-      differ (PRD-PLATES §2.3).
+      differ (the plates spec §2.3).
 
   # =========================================================================
   # TEMPORARY — targa provvisoria, the only Italian plate with a region prefix