@polycode-projects/the-mechanical-code-talker 5.0.12 → 5.0.14

package/src/services/finish.mjs

@@ -226,6 +226,14 @@ function pluralityOf(seg) {
   return null;
 }
 
+// An article is NEVER directly followed by a bare copula/auxiliary — "a is",
+// "an are" isn't a shape English grammar produces. The one place this
+// combination shows up in tmct's own output is a stored fact whose SUBJECT
+// literally is the word "a" ("noted — remembered: a is a kind of animal"),
+// where the article-selection rewrite below would otherwise mistake that
+// content "a" for its own article and rewrite it to "an".
+const ARTICLE_NEVER_PRECEDES_RE = /^(?:is|are|was|were|am|be|been|being)$/i;
+
 // Rule 1 — article selection (a/an). Reads the following word: in-span when the
 // whole "a word" pair is inside one prose span; across the boundary when the
 // prose ends in "a"/"an" and the next span supplies the word (only fires when
@@ -240,6 +248,7 @@ function ruleArticle(segments, rule) {
     // hyphenated NAME ("peg-a", "option-a"), not an article — rewriting it
     // corrupts user-quoted data ("peg-a\nUtterance" read as "a Utterance").
     seg.text = seg.text.replace(/(^|[^\w-])(a|an)(\s+)([A-Za-z][\w-]*)/gi, (m, pre, art, sp, word) => {
+      if (ARTICLE_NEVER_PRECEDES_RE.test(word)) return m;
       const vowel = beginsWithVowelSound(word, rule);
       if (vowel === null) return m;
       return pre + matchCase(art, vowel ? "an" : "a") + sp + word;
@@ -250,7 +259,7 @@ function ruleArticle(segments, rule) {
     if (bm) {
       const next = out[i + 1];
       const word = next && typeof next.text === "string" ? leadingWord(next.text) : "";
-      const vowel = word ? beginsWithVowelSound(word, rule) : null;
+      const vowel = word && !ARTICLE_NEVER_PRECEDES_RE.test(word) ? beginsWithVowelSound(word, rule) : null;
       if (vowel !== null) {
         const fixed = matchCase(bm[2], vowel ? "an" : "a");
         seg.text = seg.text.slice(0, bm.index + bm[1].length) + fixed + bm[3];

package/src/services/mud-viz.mjs

@@ -638,7 +638,12 @@ const MUD_STYLE = `
     font-family: ${MONO_STACK}; font-size: .72rem; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: .08em;
     padding: .32rem .7rem; border: 1px solid var(--soil-mid); border-radius: 3px;
     background: rgba(255,255,255,.5); color: var(--mud-ink);
+    /* A select is as wide as its longest option, and a burrow's label can run
+       long enough on its own to force the whole page to scroll sideways on a
+       phone. */
+    min-width: 0; max-width: 100%;
   }
+  #scenarioSelect { flex: 1 1 9rem; }
   .deck-select:hover { border-color: var(--burrow-glow); }
   .deck-teach { display: flex; align-items: center; gap: .3rem; font-family: ${MONO_STACK}; font-size: .72rem; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: .05em; color: var(--soil-mid); cursor: pointer; }
   .deck-teach input[type="checkbox"] { accent-color: var(--burrow-glow); }