@heroiclands/package-build 23.1.1 → 23.2.0

package/docs/configuration.md

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ will find the row that produced it.
 ### Two ways to write it
 
 Every configuration ends at the same `defineConfig`, but reaches it by one of
-two routes, and three keys behave differently depending on which:
+two routes, and four keys behave differently depending on which:
 
 |                  | `package-build.config.yaml` (data)                                                                   | `package-build.config.mjs` (code)                                                                                               |
 | ---------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@ two routes, and three keys behave differently depending on which:
 | `rootDir`        | Forbidden — always the directory the file sits in                                                    | Authored, typically `import.meta.dirname`                                                                                       |
 | `foundryPackage` | Forbidden — always the adjacent `package.json` `name`                                                | Authored                                                                                                                        |
 | `homepage`       | Forbidden — always the adjacent `package.json` `homepage`                                            | Authored                                                                                                                        |
-| `author`         | Forbidden — always the adjacent `package.json` `author`                                              | Authored                                                                                                                        |
 | `itemBuilders`   | A **name** (`sohl`, `hm3`) or list of names, resolved against the registries this package ships      | The registry object itself — real builder functions, which only code can carry                                                  |
 
 A file is chosen by its extension: `package-build.config.yaml`, then
@@ -66,7 +65,7 @@ authoring.
 | [`contentPackage`](#contentpackage)         | string                                                                     | yes                                                                                                | —                         |
 | [`foundryPackage`](#foundrypackage)         | string                                                                     | yes (`.mjs` only — derived in YAML); refused in a `documentation` package                          | —                         |
 | [`homepage`](#homepage)                     | string                                                                     | no (`.mjs` only — derived in YAML)                                                                 | `null`                    |
-| [`author`](#author)                         | string, or `{name, email?, url?}`                                          | no (`.mjs` only — derived in YAML)                                                                 | `null`                    |
+| [`authors`](#authors)                       | list of `{name, email?, url?, discord?, role?}`                            | no                                                                                                 | `[]`                      |
 | [`packageKind`](#packagekind)               | `"systems"` \| `"modules"` \| `"documentation"`                            | yes                                                                                                | —                         |
 | [`stats`](#stats)                           | object                                                                     | yes; refused in a `documentation` package                                                          | —                         |
 | [`itemBuilders`](#itembuilders)             | object, or list of `{system, builders}` (or a name/list of names, in YAML) | no; refused in a `documentation` package                                                           | `{}`                      |
@@ -88,7 +87,7 @@ authoring.
 
 Any key outside this list is refused:
 
-> `` `<key>` is not a recognized option (expected one of: rootDir, contentPackage, foundryPackage, homepage, author, packageKind, stats, itemBuilders, paths, skipDirectories, forbidGeneratedArt, icons, packs, docs, site, pdf, compatibility, relationships, systems, requiresSystem, packageBuild, publish, changelog). ``
+> `` `<key>` is not a recognized option (expected one of: rootDir, contentPackage, foundryPackage, homepage, authors, packageKind, stats, itemBuilders, paths, skipDirectories, forbidGeneratedArt, icons, packs, docs, site, pdf, compatibility, relationships, systems, requiresSystem, packageBuild, publish, changelog). ``
 
 (`rootDir` appears in that list because it is a key `defineConfig` itself
 accepts — an `.mjs` configuration authors it directly. A YAML configuration
@@ -100,12 +99,11 @@ refuses an authored `rootDir` earlier, with its own message — see
 
 Seven values in the resolved configuration are never transcribed by an author
 — they are computed from where the file sits, from the adjacent
-`package.json`, from the package kind, or from a name naming a table this
-package already ships. Authoring `rootDir`, `foundryPackage`, `homepage`,
-`author` or `stats.systemVersion` yourself is an **error**, not an override: a
-transcribed copy is free to drift from what it copied, which is exactly how
-`stats.systemVersion` once sat at a stale version for four releases while
-nothing said so. `assetRoot` has no author-facing spelling to refuse in the
+`package.json`, from the package kind, from `authors`, or from a name naming a
+table this package already ships. Authoring `rootDir`, `foundryPackage`,
+`homepage`, `author` or `stats.systemVersion` yourself is an **error**, not an
+override: a transcribed copy is free to drift from what it copied, with
+nothing to say so. `assetRoot` has no author-facing spelling to refuse in the
 first place — it is never a key at all, only ever a computed value.
 
 #### `rootDir`
@@ -144,7 +142,7 @@ which applies before either loader form gets a chance to derive anything.
 
   If the adjacent `package.json` cannot be read, or declares no `name`:
 
-  > `package-build: <package.json path> could not be read, and the configuration derives its Foundry package id, system version, homepage and author from it.`
+  > `package-build: <package.json path> could not be read, and the configuration derives its Foundry package id, system version and homepage from it.`
 
   > ``package-build: <package.json path> declares no `name`, which is what the Foundry package id is derived from.``
 
@@ -188,22 +186,17 @@ before the generated `baseURL` is written, so a missing or mismatched
 
 #### `author`
 
-The package's byline, normalised from either of npm's `author` forms — a
-string (`"Name <email> (url)"`, with the email and the URL both optional) or
-an object (`{name, email?, url?}`) — to the object form. `null` when the
-package declares none.
+The package's byline: the first entry of [`authors`](#authors), in npm's
+`author` shape — `{name, email?, url?}`, without `discord` or `role`. The site
+build writes its `name` as `params.author`. `null` when `authors` is empty.
 
-- In a **YAML** configuration, writing `author:` is refused; the loader reads
-  it from the adjacent `package.json` `author` instead:
+`author` is never written, in either configuration form. Writing it is refused
+as an unknown key, at the key's own line, because `authors` is the one list a
+package names its people in:
 
-  > ``package-build: <config file> declares `author`, which a data configuration may not: it is `package.json`'s own `author`. Remove the key.``
+> ``package-build config: `author` is not a recognized option (expected one of: rootDir, contentPackage, foundryPackage, homepage, authors, packageKind, stats, itemBuilders, paths, skipDirectories, forbidGeneratedArt, icons, packs, docs, site, pdf, compatibility, relationships, systems, requiresSystem, packageBuild, publish, changelog).``
 
-- In an **`.mjs`** configuration, `author` is an ordinary optional key, in
-  either form:
-
-  > ``package-build config: `author` must be `"Name"`, `"Name <email>"`, `"Name (url)"` or `"Name <email> (url)"` — npm's own `author` forms.``
-
-  > ``package-build config: `author` must be a string or an object with `name`, `email` and `url`.``
+`package.json`'s own `author` is npm's and is not read.
 
 #### `assetRoot`
 
@@ -349,10 +342,58 @@ package id:
 See [Derived values](#derived-values) — forbidden in a YAML configuration,
 optional (a non-empty string) in an `.mjs` one.
 
-### `author`
+### `authors`
 
-See [Derived values](#derived-values) — forbidden in a YAML configuration,
-optional (either of npm's forms) in an `.mjs` one.
+**Type:** list of mappings · **Optional** · default `[]`.
+
+The people who made the package, in the order they are credited. It is the one
+place a package names them:
+
+- the generated Foundry manifest's `authors` is this list with each entry's
+  `role` dropped, because Foundry's author schema has no role — so
+  `packageBuild.manifest.authors` is refused (see
+  [`packageBuild.manifest`](#packagebuildmanifest));
+- the site's byline, `params.author`, is the first entry's `name` (see the
+  derived [`author`](#author));
+- a book's title page lists every entry, one per line, as `Name` or
+  `Name, Role`.
+
+```yaml
+authors:
+  - name: Tom Rodriguez
+    email: toasty@heroiclands.org
+    url: https://www.heroiclands.org/
+    role: author
+  - name: A. Painter
+    discord: apainter
+    role: artist
+  - name: A. Painter
+    role: cartographer
+```
+
+| Key                 | Type   | Required | Meaning                                                     |
+| ------------------- | ------ | -------- | ----------------------------------------------------------- |
+| `authors[].name`    | string | yes      | As printed and as the manifest carries it.                  |
+| `authors[].email`   | string | no       | Carried to the manifest; the first entry's is the byline's. |
+| `authors[].url`     | string | no       | Carried to the manifest; the first entry's is the byline's. |
+| `authors[].discord` | string | no       | A Discord handle, carried to the manifest.                  |
+| `authors[].role`    | string | no       | One role from the closed list below.                        |
+
+`role` is one of `author`, `designer`, `developer`, `editor`, `proofreader`,
+`artist`, `cartographer`, `layout`, `playtester` and `translator`, printed in
+title case after the name. An entry carries one role; a person with two is
+listed twice, as above. Any other value is refused at its key:
+
+> ``package-build config: `authors[0].role` must be one of: author, designer, developer, editor, proofreader, artist, cartographer, layout, playtester, translator.``
+
+An entry with no `name`, a key outside the table, or a list that is not a list
+is refused at its key:
+
+> ``package-build config: `authors[0].name` must be a non-empty string.``
+
+> ``package-build config: `authors[0].handle` is not a recognized option (expected one of: name, email, url, discord, role).``
+
+> ``package-build config: `authors` must be a list of people, each a mapping with at least a `name`.``
 
 ### `packageKind`
 
@@ -508,17 +549,17 @@ name form resolves before reaching here.
 **Type:** object · **Optional** · every key defaults to the conventional
 HeroicLands layout, resolved against `rootDir`:
 
-| Key                     | Default                  | What it is                                                                                      |
-| ----------------------- | ------------------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
-| `paths.content`         | `assets/content`         | The content tree root.                                                                          |
-| `paths.assets`          | `assets`                 | The asset roots' parent, holding `icons/`, `images/` and `audio/`.                              |
-| `paths.contentIndex`    | `build/content-index`    | Where `content-index` writes this package's note index. Derived and disposable.                 |
-| `paths.packJson`        | `build/packs-json`       | Build-only per-entry JSON intermediate.                                                         |
-| `paths.stage`           | `build/stage/packs`      | Compiled LevelDB packs.                                                                         |
-| `paths.unpack`          | `build/tmp/packs`        | Where `unpack` extracts JSON back to.                                                           |
-| `paths.foreignCache`    | `build/cache/foreign`    | Where a dependency declaring `itemCatalog: true` or `assetArchive: true` is unpacked.           |
-| `paths.metadataCache`   | `build/cache/metadata`   | Where a dependency's published content index is fetched to, for every declared dependency.      |
-| `paths.navigationCache` | `build/cache/navigation` | Where the site navigation heroiclands.org publishes is fetched to, for the generated Hugo menu. |
+| Key                     | Default                  | What it is                                                                                                                         |
+| ----------------------- | ------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| `paths.content`         | `assets/content`         | The content tree root.                                                                                                             |
+| `paths.assets`          | `assets`                 | The asset roots' parent, holding `icons/`, `images/` and `audio/`.                                                                 |
+| `paths.contentIndex`    | `build/content-index`    | Where `content-index` writes this package's note index. Derived and disposable.                                                    |
+| `paths.packJson`        | `build/packs-json`       | Build-only per-entry JSON intermediate.                                                                                            |
+| `paths.stage`           | `build/stage/packs`      | Compiled LevelDB packs.                                                                                                            |
+| `paths.unpack`          | `build/tmp/packs`        | Where `unpack` extracts JSON back to.                                                                                              |
+| `paths.foreignCache`    | `build/cache/foreign`    | Where a dependency declaring `itemCatalog: true` or `assetArchive: true` is unpacked.                                              |
+| `paths.metadataCache`   | `build/cache/metadata`   | Where a published content index is fetched to, for every declared dependency and every relationship declaring `itemCatalog: true`. |
+| `paths.navigationCache` | `build/cache/navigation` | Where the site navigation heroiclands.org publishes is fetched to, for the generated Hugo menu.                                    |
 
 Every configured path must be **relative** — an absolute one would escape
 the repository the config anchors:
@@ -711,11 +752,6 @@ toolchain compiles:
 
 > ``package-build config: `packs[<index>].type` must be one of: Actor, Adventure, Item, JournalEntry, Macro, Scene.``
 
-`folders` is retired — a folder is a note (`type: folder`) now, materialised
-by the pack whose documents reference it through `packFolder`:
-
-> ``package-build config: `packs[<index>].folders` is retired — delete it. A folder is a note (`type: folder`) now, and a pack materialises the folders its documents reference through `packFolder`, so there is no per-pack hierarchy file to name.``
-
 A **companion** — a pack written by its parent pack's own compile pass — may
 not declare `default` (no note is ever routed into one), and may not nest
 further companions of its own:
@@ -836,39 +872,17 @@ over the content index, and linked from the homepage like any other page.
 
 So a page of documentation is a note — `type: doc`, addressed by its
 shortcode, and `pack: none` where it compiles into no Foundry document — and
-there is no second mechanism for mounting a directory of markdown. A
-configuration that names one is refused with a message saying where the page
-goes instead:
-
-> ``package-build config: `site.trees` is retired — a page is a note in the content tree. Give each page `type: doc`, a `shortcode` and `pack: none`, file it under `assets/content/`, and link it from the homepage or from a `doc` note that indexes it.``
-
-> ``package-build config: `site.readmeSections` is retired — a page is a note in the content tree. Give each page `type: doc`, a `shortcode` and `pack: none`, file it under `assets/content/`, and link it from the homepage or from a `doc` note that indexes it.``
-
-A configuration that asks the build to generate an index between the
-homepage and the pages is refused the same way, by name and with one message
-— `site.sections` (and the `listType` / `listSubType` an entry carried),
-`site.landing`, `site.backfillSections` and `site.list` alike, since how a
-listing renders is a content table's to say:
-
-> ``package-build config: `site.sections` is retired — a site is its homepage and its pages, and any index between them is a `doc` note: write one with `type: doc`, a `shortcode` and `pack: none`, carrying a content table over the notes it lists, and link it from the homepage. Nothing is generated between the homepage and the pages, so delete the key.``
-
-> ``package-build config: `site.landing` is retired — a site is its homepage and its pages, and any index between them is a `doc` note: write one with `type: doc`, a `shortcode` and `pack: none`, carrying a content table over the notes it lists, and link it from the homepage. Nothing is generated between the homepage and the pages, so delete the key.``
-
-> ``package-build config: `site.backfillSections` is retired — a site is its homepage and its pages, and any index between them is a `doc` note: write one with `type: doc`, a `shortcode` and `pack: none`, carrying a content table over the notes it lists, and link it from the homepage. Nothing is generated between the homepage and the pages, so delete the key.``
-
-> ``package-build config: `site.list` is retired — a site is its homepage and its pages, and any index between them is a `doc` note: write one with `type: doc`, a `shortcode` and `pack: none`, carrying a content table over the notes it lists, and link it from the homepage. Nothing is generated between the homepage and the pages, so delete the key.``
+there is no second mechanism for mounting a directory of markdown.
 
 Where the Hugo tree is written is not a choice. `package-build site` writes
 the whole Hugo source tree under `build/hugo/` — the generated `hugo.toml`,
 the content mount at `build/hugo/content/`, Hugo's own cache — as a sibling
 of the deployment root `build/site/`, so nothing Hugo reads lands in what is
-published. A `site.out` is refused by name:
-
-> ``package-build config: `site.out` is retired — the site build writes its content mount at `build/hugo/content`, beside the generated `hugo.toml`, and the location is not configurable. Remove the key.``
+published.
 
 > ``package-build config: `site` must be a mapping.``
 
-> ``package-build config: `site.<key>` is not a recognized option (expected one of: base, assets, description, packages, pass, passOptions, notfound, hugo, search, maps).``
+> ``package-build config: `site.<key>` is not a recognized option (expected one of: base, title, assets, description, packages, pass, passOptions, notfound, hugo, search, maps).``
 
 `site.assets` is the host every package's imagery is served from, and it is
 the one address in this file that is not this repository's own. A note names
@@ -1038,7 +1052,7 @@ in it has one source, and that source is where it is edited:
 | `taxonomies`                      | the toolchain — never written, because `taxonomy` and `term` are disabled kinds                                                                         |
 | `outputs`                         | the toolchain — never written, because every listing kind is disabled                                                                                   |
 | `params.description`              | `site.description`, which is required                                                                                                                   |
-| `params.author`                   | `package.json` `author`, its `name`; absent when the package declares none                                                                              |
+| `params.author`                   | the first entry of `authors`, its `name`; absent when `authors` is empty                                                                                |
 | `params.cdnBaseURL`               | `site.assets`, which is required                                                                                                                        |
 | `params.brand`                    | the organisation's brand links — `logo`, `licenseURL`, `discordURL` — in `engine/site-config.mjs`                                                       |
 | `params.notfound`                 | `site.notfound`; absent when undeclared                                                                                                                 |
@@ -1077,50 +1091,191 @@ Every other key is `site.hugo`'s to add.
 
 **Type:** object · **Optional** · default `null` (no book is built).
 
-The content tree published as a book — a **selection**, not a rendering of
-everything: `pdf.document` names the tree that says which notes the volume
-carries and in what order, parsed by `engine/pdf-toc.mjs`'s
-`parseDocumentTree` and not validated here. Whether a book is built at all
-determined by the authored content tree: a tree containing only a homepage has
-no content pages for a book.
+The content tree published as books — each a **selection**, not a rendering of
+everything. `pdf.books` lists the books, one entry per PDF; each book's tree
+says which notes that volume carries and in what order, and is parsed by
+`engine/pdf-toc.mjs`'s `parseDocumentTree` when the book is built. Whether any
+book is built at all is determined by the authored content tree: a tree
+containing only a homepage has no content pages for a book.
 
 Each selected place with a border or route receives a dedicated full-page
 vector itinerary after its entry. A selected map note prints each of its
 exported Scene's level backgrounds on its own page. The npm-installed Graphviz
 runtime draws itineraries.
 
+A package with one book declares a list of one:
+
 ```yaml
 pdf:
-  title: The Hârn Ensemble
-  document: book.yaml
-  fonts:
-    serif: Libertinus Serif
-    mono: DejaVu Sans Mono
+  out: build/pdf
+  books:
+    - id: core
+      title: The Hârn Ensemble
+      document: book.yaml
+      out: harnensemble
 ```
 
-| Key             | Type                        | Required | Default                |
-| --------------- | --------------------------- | -------- | ---------------------- |
-| `pdf.title`     | string                      | yes      | —                      |
-| `pdf.document`  | string (path)               | yes      | —                      |
-| `pdf.subtitle`  | string                      | no       | `""`                   |
-| `pdf.out`       | string                      | no       | `""`                   |
-| `pdf.front`     | string[] (markdown files)   | no       | `[]`                   |
-| `pdf.fonts`     | object                      | no       | all empty              |
-| `pdf.iconFonts` | object (family → font file) | no       | `{}`                   |
-| `pdf.binary`    | string                      | no       | `""` — found on `PATH` |
-
-`pdf.title` and `pdf.document` are required **together** — a document with
-no title produces a file whose name and cover say nothing about what a
-reader downloaded, and a title with no document has nothing to print:
+Two books, one tree kept in a file and one written inline, sharing their faces
+and the copyright and licence statements:
 
-> ``package-build config: `pdf.title` must be a non-empty string.``
+```yaml
+pdf:
+  out: build/pdf
+  fonts:
+    serif: Libertinus Serif
+  copyright: © 2026 Tom Rodriguez
+  license: |
+    Text is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
+    Code is licensed under GPL-3.0-or-later.
+  books:
+    - id: core
+      title: The World of Thalorna
+      subtitle: A Song of Heroic Lands Sourcebook
+      coverImage: assets/images/covers/core.webp
+      document: book.yaml
+      out: thalorna
+    - id: vedyara
+      title: Vedyara
+      subtitle: A Gazetteer of Thalorna
+      front:
+        - assets/book/vedyara-preface.md
+      contents:
+        - sectionName: Vedyara
+          contents:
+            - filter: "type = 'place' AND data.culture = 'thalorna-note-lore-vedyariclt'"
+```
 
-> ``package-build config: `pdf.document` must be a non-empty string.``
+`package-build pdf` builds both: `build/pdf/thalorna-<version>.pdf` and
+`build/pdf/thalorna-vedyara-<version>.pdf`. `--book vedyara` builds the second
+alone.
+
+The keys of `pdf` itself are shared by every book:
+
+| Key                | Type                          | Required | Default                |
+| ------------------ | ----------------------------- | -------- | ---------------------- |
+| `pdf.books`        | list of books                 | yes      | —                      |
+| `pdf.out`          | string (directory)            | no       | `""` — `build/dist`    |
+| `pdf.fonts`        | object                        | no       | all empty              |
+| `pdf.iconFonts`    | object (family → font file)   | no       | `{}`                   |
+| `pdf.binary`       | string                        | no       | `""` — found on `PATH` |
+| `pdf.unprinted`    | string (`WHERE` clause)       | no       | `""`                   |
+| `pdf.coverage`     | `warning` \| `error` \| `off` | no       | `warning`              |
+| `pdf.indexSeeAlso` | boolean                       | no       | `false`                |
+| `pdf.copyright`    | string (one line)             | no       | `""`                   |
+| `pdf.license`      | string (one or more lines)    | no       | `""`                   |
+
+- `pdf.out` is the **directory** every book is written into; `package-build pdf
+--out` overrides it.
+- `pdf.unprinted` is a `WHERE` clause over `notes` naming the notes that belong
+  in no book, such as `"type IN ('folder', 'homepage')"`. Coverage skips them.
+  A clause that does not run is an error at `pdf.unprinted`, and coverage is
+  not reported for that run.
+- `pdf.coverage` says how a printable note that no book selects is reported:
+  `warning` (the default), `error`, or `off` to say nothing. A printable note
+  is a note that is neither a stub nor tagged `gm`, and that `pdf.unprinted`
+  does not name. Each finding sits at the note's `type:` line:
+
+  > ``assets/content/Guides/Fieldcraft.md:2:1: warning: no book selects this note; add it to a book's query or to `pdf.unprinted```
+
+  Coverage is computed over every book in `pdf.books`, including when
+  `package-build pdf --book` builds only one.
+
+- `pdf.indexSeeAlso` adds a line to a book's index for each note that another
+  book prints and this book mentions in authored prose, written
+  `Name: _Book title_, p. N` with the page the note's entry starts on in its
+  home book. It is `false` by default, and the index then lists only the notes
+  the book is home to. See [The index](guides/book.md#the-index).
+- A note several books select prints in each of them. Its **home book** is the
+  first book in `pdf.books` that selects it; a note a book selects twice is
+  still one book's, and prints at each position. After the books are built the
+  command prints, per book, its entries, its distinct notes and how many of
+  those carry no `data.culture`, then the totals, then one line per note
+  several books select, naming its home.
+- `pdf.copyright` is the copyright statement, one line, such as
+  `© 2026 Tom Rodriguez`. `pdf.license` is the licence statement and may run to
+  several lines, such as a Creative Commons notice or a trademark notice the
+  material's terms require. Every book carries the same two; neither has a
+  per-book form, and neither do the [`authors`](#authors), which every book
+  lists.
+
+Each entry of `pdf.books` is one PDF:
+
+| Key                      | Type                      | Required       | Default                 |
+| ------------------------ | ------------------------- | -------------- | ----------------------- |
+| `pdf.books[].id`         | string                    | yes            | —                       |
+| `pdf.books[].title`      | string                    | yes            | —                       |
+| `pdf.books[].subtitle`   | string                    | no             | `""`                    |
+| `pdf.books[].coverImage` | string (path)             | no             | `""` — no cover         |
+| `pdf.books[].front`      | string[] (markdown files) | no             | `[]`                    |
+| `pdf.books[].out`        | string (file stem)        | no             | `<contentPackage>-<id>` |
+| `pdf.books[].contents`   | list (the tree, inline)   | one of the two | —                       |
+| `pdf.books[].document`   | string (path to the tree) | one of the two | —                       |
+
+- `id` is lowercase letters, digits and hyphens, starting with a letter or
+  digit. It is what `--book <id>` names and the tail of the default file stem.
+  Each `id` is used once.
+- `contents` is the tree written inline — the same `sectionName` /
+  `contents` / `filter` / `file` shape a tree file holds under its own
+  `contents:` key — and `document` names the file holding it. A book declares
+  exactly one of the two. A finding about an inline tree names
+  `package-build.config.yaml` at the line of the offending key.
+- `out` is the book's **file stem**: the PDF is `<out>-<version>.pdf` (or
+  `<out>.pdf` with no version) inside `pdf.out`. It is one path segment —
+  letters, digits, `.`, `_` and `-`. Two books resolving to one stem, whether
+  declared or defaulted, are refused, since the second would overwrite the
+  first. A package with one book keeps the file name `<package>-<version>.pdf`
+  by declaring `out: <package>`.
+- `coverImage` names the picture that opens the book as page 1: it fills the
+  page, cropped to fit, with the title and subtitle centred in white over a
+  translucent dark band across the upper third. The cover carries no footer or
+  page number. A book without `coverImage` opens on its title page, which
+  lists the title, subtitle and version, then the [`authors`](#authors) one
+  per line as `Name` or `Name, Role`, and sets `pdf.copyright` and
+  `pdf.license` at its foot.
+- A section whose queries select no note is left out of the book without a
+  finding. A book whose queries select no note at all is an error at its `id`
+  and is not built:
+
+  > ``package-build.config.yaml:9:15: error: book `sinale` selects no note``
+
+- `coverImage`, `document` and each `front` file resolve against the directory
+  the configuration sits in. Whether each exists is checked when the book is
+  built — by `package-build pdf`, by a release, and by `package-build init
+--check` — and never when the configuration loads, so `lint`, `site` and
+  every other command run without a cover held outside the tree. A missing
+  file is an error at its key, and that book is not built:
+
+  > ``package-build.config.yaml:14:11: error: book `core`: the cover image `assets/images/covers/core.webp` does not exist, so the book is not built``
+
+Every refusal names its key, and a YAML configuration's refusal starts with the
+file, line and column the key is written at:
+
+> ``package-build config: `pdf.books` is required — list the books this package publishes, one entry each.``
+
+> ``package-build config: `pdf.books` must be a non-empty list of books.``
+
+> ``package-build config: `pdf.books[1].id` is `core`, which names a book more than once.``
+
+> ``package-build config: `pdf.books[0].id` is `Core Book`, which is not lowercase letters, digits and hyphens starting with a letter or digit (^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]*$) — it is written as `--book <id>` and ends the book's default file name.``
+
+> ``package-build config: `pdf.books[0].title` must be a non-empty string.``
+
+> ``package-build config: `pdf.books[0]` must declare exactly one of `contents` and `document` — the tree written inline, or the file holding it.``
+
+> ``package-build config: `pdf.books[0].out` is `dist/core`, which is not a file stem — letters, digits, `.`, `_` and `-`, with no directory; the directory is `pdf.out`.``
+
+> ``package-build config: `pdf.books[1].out` gives the file stem `same`, which `pdf.books[0]` already uses — the second book would overwrite the first.``
+
+> ``package-build config: `pdf.books[0].front` must be a list of markdown files.``
+
+> ``package-build config: `pdf.books[0].<key>` is not a recognized option (expected one of: id, title, subtitle, coverImage, front, out, contents, document).``
+
+> ``package-build config: `pdf.coverage` must be one of: warning, error, off.``
+
+> ``package-build config: `pdf.copyright` must be one line — the licence statement is the one that runs on.``
 
 > ``package-build config: `pdf` must be a mapping.``
 
-> ``package-build config: `pdf.front` must be a list of markdown files.``
-
 `pdf.fonts` names font **families**, not files — the renderer asks the font
 stack for a family by name:
 
@@ -1156,7 +1311,10 @@ books.
 
 Any other key on `pdf` is refused:
 
-> ``package-build config: `pdf.<key>` is not a recognized option (expected one of: title, subtitle, document, out, front, fonts, iconFonts, binary).``
+> ``package-build config: `pdf.<key>` is not a recognized option (expected one of: books, out, fonts, iconFonts, binary, unprinted, coverage, copyright, license).``
+
+A book's own keys — `title`, `subtitle`, `document` and `front` — are refused
+on `pdf` itself by this message, at the key's own line.
 
 ### `compatibility`
 
@@ -1256,7 +1414,9 @@ Omit it where the two are the same word, which they are for every system:
 `itemCatalog` opts into extracting the named package's Item packs so the
 actors pass can resolve embedded items this repository does not hold — off
 by default, since depending on a package is not the same as needing its
-item catalogue at build time. It requires a `manifest`:
+item catalogue at build time. A relationship of any kind that declares it
+also has its content index fetched and read, so the lint resolves the same
+embedded-item addresses the compile does. It requires a `manifest`:
 
 > ``package-build config: `relationships.<kind>[<index>].itemCatalog` must be true or false.``
 
@@ -1459,12 +1619,6 @@ manifest's package homepage also stays at that root. A page staged under
 
 > ``package-build config: `publish.address.prefix` must not begin with a slash.``
 
-`publish.address.landing` is **retired** — it named which note addressed a
-whole section rather than a page within one, and there are no sections to
-address:
-
-> ``package-build config: `publish.address.landing` is a retired option — delete it. It named which note addressed a whole section rather than a page within one, and there are no sections to address: a section is a Hugo content directory the note format does not carry, so no note lands one and every page is addressed `<type>-<shortcode>`. Nothing replaces it.``
-
 Any other key under `publish.address` is refused:
 
 > ``package-build config: `publish.address.<key>` is not a recognized option (expected one of: prefix).``
@@ -1689,18 +1843,19 @@ survives into the manifest under its own name. `package.json.description` is
 npm package metadata. It does not supply the Foundry description or the site
 description (see [`site.description`](#site)); each surface has its own copy.
 
-| Forbidden key                         | Derived from                                                     |
-| ------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
-| `packageBuild.manifest.id`            | `foundryPackage`, itself derived from `package.json` `name`      |
-| `packageBuild.manifest.version`       | `package.json` `version`                                         |
-| `packageBuild.manifest.description`   | `packageBuild.manifest.descriptionHtml`                          |
-| `packageBuild.manifest.url`           | `package.json` `repository`                                      |
-| `packageBuild.manifest.bugs`          | `package.json` `repository`                                      |
-| `packageBuild.manifest.manifest`      | `package.json` `repository` and the release tag                  |
-| `packageBuild.manifest.download`      | `package.json` `repository` and the release tag                  |
-| `packageBuild.manifest.compatibility` | the top level of `package-build.config.yaml`                     |
-| `packageBuild.manifest.relationships` | the top level of `package-build.config.yaml`                     |
-| `packageBuild.manifest.packs`         | the `packs` list at the top level of `package-build.config.yaml` |
+| Forbidden key                         | Derived from                                                                                  |
+| ------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| `packageBuild.manifest.id`            | `foundryPackage`, itself derived from `package.json` `name`                                   |
+| `packageBuild.manifest.version`       | `package.json` `version`                                                                      |
+| `packageBuild.manifest.authors`       | the `authors` list at the top level of package-build.config.yaml, without each entry's `role` |
+| `packageBuild.manifest.description`   | `packageBuild.manifest.descriptionHtml`                                                       |
+| `packageBuild.manifest.url`           | `package.json` `repository`                                                                   |
+| `packageBuild.manifest.bugs`          | `package.json` `repository`                                                                   |
+| `packageBuild.manifest.manifest`      | `package.json` `repository` and the release tag                                               |
+| `packageBuild.manifest.download`      | `package.json` `repository` and the release tag                                               |
+| `packageBuild.manifest.compatibility` | the top level of `package-build.config.yaml`                                                  |
+| `packageBuild.manifest.relationships` | the top level of `package-build.config.yaml`                                                  |
+| `packageBuild.manifest.packs`         | the `packs` list at the top level of `package-build.config.yaml`                              |
 
 > ``package-build config: `packageBuild.manifest.version` is derived from package.json `version` and must not be declared — it would be overwritten, and the two would disagree with nothing to say so.``
 
@@ -1919,21 +2074,18 @@ the source directory:
 
 ---
 
-## Every retired or forbidden key, in one place
+## Every forbidden key, in one place
 
 | Key                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         | Why                                                                                                                                                    |
 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
-| `publish.address.landing`                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   | Retired — named a whole-section landing, and there are no sections to address.                                                                         |
-| `packs[].folders`                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           | Retired — a folder is a note (`type: folder`), materialised by the pack whose documents reference it.                                                  |
 | `rootDir`                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   | Forbidden in a YAML configuration — always the file's own directory.                                                                                   |
 | `foundryPackage`                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            | Forbidden in a YAML configuration — always the adjacent `package.json` `name`.                                                                         |
-| `homepage`, `author`                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        | Forbidden in a YAML configuration — always the adjacent `package.json`'s own `homepage` and `author`.                                                  |
+| `homepage`                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  | Forbidden in a YAML configuration — always the adjacent `package.json`'s own `homepage`.                                                               |
+| `author`                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    | Refused as an unknown key — the byline is the first entry of [`authors`](#authors).                                                                    |
+| `packageBuild.manifest.authors`                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             | Forbidden — derived from [`authors`](#authors), without each entry's `role`.                                                                           |
 | `stats.systemId`                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            | Forbidden in every configuration — derived from `packageKind`, `requiresSystem` or a lone declared system.                                             |
 | `stats.systemVersion`                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       | Forbidden in every configuration — derived from `package.json` (a system) or `systems:` / `relationships.systems` (a module).                          |
 | `packageBuild.manifest.id`, `.version`, `.description`, `.url`, `.bugs`, `.manifest`, `.download`, `.compatibility`, `.relationships`, `.packs`                                                                                                                                             | Forbidden — each is derived from `package.json` or the top level of `package-build.config.yaml`; see [`packageBuild.manifest`](#packagebuildmanifest). |
-| `site.out`                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  | Retired — the site build writes its content mount at `build/hugo/content`, beside the generated `hugo.toml`.                                           |
-| `site.trees`, `site.readmeSections`                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         | Retired — a page is a note in the content tree.                                                                                                        |
-| `site.sections`, `site.landing`, `site.backfillSections`, `site.list`                                                                                                                                                                                                                       | Retired — a site is its homepage and its pages, and any index between them is a `doc` note.                                                            |
 | `site.hugo.baseURL`, `.title`, `.locale`, `.publishDir`, `.contentDir`, `.themesDir`, `.theme`, `.disableKinds`, `.taxonomies`, `.outputs`, `.params.description`, `.params.author`, `.params.cdnBaseURL`, `.params.brand`, `.params.notfound`, `.markup.goldmark.renderer.unsafe`, `.menu` | Forbidden — each is written by the site build from a source it names; see [the generated Hugo configuration](#the-generated-hugo-configuration).       |
 | `publish.site` (any value)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  | Refused — publication follows the authored content tree.                                                                                               |
 | `packs`, `itemBuilders`, `docs`, `compatibility`, `relationships`, `systems`, `requiresSystem`, `stats`, `foundryPackage`                                                                                                                                                                   | Forbidden in a `documentation` package — each describes a Foundry package this kind is not; see the key's own section for its located refusal message. |

package/docs/content-format.md

@@ -90,4 +90,6 @@ The [first-note guide](authoring/first-note.md) shows the build commands and how
 
 Place notes may declare a governing affiliation with `data.government`, or explicit `null` for complete anarchy. Positive population with an omitted government produces an advisory. See [place governments](authoring/frontmatter.md#place-governments).
 
+Places, affiliations, lore and beings may name their culture in `data.culture`, and a `doc` of `subType: settingguide` must. A place or affiliation that names none inherits the culture of its parents. See [culture in the index](reference/format-details.md#culture-in-the-index).
+
 Blockquote alerts use `[!NOTE]`, `[!TIP]`, `[!IMPORTANT]`, `[!WARNING]`, or `[!]`, with optional attributes after the marker. They replace the former info and warn div fences; secret blocks remain supported. See [alerts](authoring/links-and-markup.md#alerts).