punctilio 4.3.1 → 5.0.1

package/src/symbols.ts

@@ -1,10 +1,8 @@
-import { cachedRegExp, DEFAULT_SEPARATOR, getEscapedSeparator, LATIN_LETTERS, SPACE_CHARS, UNICODE_SYMBOLS, wordBoundaryEnd } from "./constants.js"
+import { cachedRegExp, LATIN_LETTERS, SPACE_CHARS, UNICODE_SYMBOLS } from "./constants.js"
+import { boundaryCountAt, overInput, type ProseView, replaceAllInView } from "./prose-view.js"
 import { convertPrimeMarks } from "./quote-classifier.js"
-import { namedGroups } from "./utils.js"
 
 export interface SymbolOptions {
-  /** Boundary marker for HTML element boundaries. Default: "\uE000\uE001" */
-  separator?: string
   /** Include arrow transforms (-> → →). Default: true */
   includeArrows?: boolean
 }
@@ -36,134 +34,428 @@ const {
   EXCLAMATION_QUESTION,
 } = UNICODE_SYMBOLS
 
+// The boundary-tolerance positions throughout this module reproduce the
+// element-boundary semantics of the pre-v5 sentinel-marked pipeline; they are
+// pinned by the golden corpus and the migration's differential fuzz.
+
+const LATIN_LETTER_RE = new RegExp(`[${LATIN_LETTERS}]`)
+const WORD_RE = /\w/
+
 /** Convert "..." or ". . ." to "…". */
-export function ellipsis(text: string, options: SymbolOptions = {}): string {
-  const chr = getEscapedSeparator(options)
-
-  // Convert consecutive or spaced dots: ... or . . . → …
-  // Each gap allows EITHER a space (same-text-node spaced dots) OR a separator
-  // (cross-boundary contiguous dots), but never both — a space adjacent to a
-  // separator means the dots straddle a text-node boundary and shouldn't fold
-  // into one ellipsis.
-  const pattern = cachedRegExp(`\\.(?:[${SPACE_CHARS}]|(?<sep1>${chr}))?\\.(?:[${SPACE_CHARS}]?|(?<sep2>${chr})?)\\.`, "g")
-  text = text.replace(pattern, (...args) => {
-    const { sep1, sep2 } = namedGroups<{ sep1?: string; sep2?: string }>(args)
-    return ELLIPSIS + (sep1 ?? "") + (sep2 ?? "")
+export function ellipsis(input: string): string
+export function ellipsis(input: ProseView): void
+export function ellipsis(input: string | ProseView): string | void {
+  return overInput(input, ellipsisOverView)
+}
+
+const SPACE_CHAR_RE = new RegExp(`[${SPACE_CHARS}]`)
+
+function ellipsisOverView(view: ProseView): void {
+  ellipsisFoldDots(view)
+  view.commit()
+
+  // A space is inserted only when a letter or digit directly follows the
+  // ellipsis. A node boundary between the ellipsis and the letter is a non-letter
+  // for the `(?=[A-Za-z…\d])` lookahead, so it blocks the space; re-check the
+  // boundary at the lookahead position.
+  const trailing = cachedRegExp(`${ELLIPSIS}(?=[${LATIN_LETTERS}\\d])`, "gu")
+  replaceAllInView(view, trailing, (match, v) => {
+    if (v.hasBoundary(match.index + match[0].length)) return null
+    return `${ELLIPSIS} `
   })
+  view.commit()
+}
 
-  text = text.replace(cachedRegExp(`${ELLIPSIS}(?=[${LATIN_LETTERS}\\d])`, "gu"), `${ELLIPSIS} `)
+/**
+ * Offset of the dot following one inter-dot gap that begins at `afterDot`, or
+ * -1 when no dot is reachable. The gap is one of: nothing, one space character,
+ * or one node boundary — never two and never a space-plus-boundary mix. A dot
+ * is reachable only when no unconsumed boundary shadows it (the `\.` cannot
+ * cross a boundary).
+ */
+function ellipsisNextDot(view: ProseView, text: string, afterDot: number): number {
+  const boundariesHere = boundaryCountAt(view, afterDot)
+  if (text[afterDot] === ".") {
+    // Empty gap (no boundary) or a single-boundary gap consuming exactly one.
+    return boundariesHere <= 1 ? afterDot : -1
+  }
+  // Space gap: one space character with no boundary, then a non-shadowed dot.
+  if (boundariesHere === 0 && text[afterDot] !== undefined && SPACE_CHAR_RE.test(text[afterDot])) {
+    const dot = afterDot + 1
+    if (text[dot] === "." && boundaryCountAt(view, dot) === 0) return dot
+  }
+  return -1
+}
 
-  return text
+/**
+ * Fold `...`, `. . .`, and the cross-boundary variants into `…`, scanning
+ * left-to-right so a blocked leftmost triple still lets the next valid triple
+ * fold. Each fold replaces the whole `. gap . gap .` span with `…`; consumed
+ * interior boundaries collapse to just after the ellipsis.
+ */
+function ellipsisFoldDots(view: ProseView): void {
+  const text = view.text
+  let i = 0
+  while (i < text.length) {
+    if (text[i] !== ".") { i++; continue }
+    const secondDot = ellipsisNextDot(view, text, i + 1)
+    if (secondDot < 0) { i++; continue }
+    const thirdDot = ellipsisNextDot(view, text, secondDot + 1)
+    if (thirdDot < 0) { i++; continue }
+    view.replace(i, thirdDot + 1, ELLIPSIS)
+    i = thirdDot + 1
+  }
 }
 
+
 /** Convert "5x5" to "5×5". Skips hex (0x5F). */
-export function multiplication(text: string, options: SymbolOptions = {}): string {
-  const chr = getEscapedSeparator(options)
-
-  // After a digit run, either a prime mark (10′) or a length/size unit may
-  // attach before the multiplication operator. Allowing both lets dimensions
-  // like "5m × 5m", "210mm × 297mm", or "1920px × 1080px" convert, matching
-  // Chicago §9.17's preference for × in dimension notation.
-  //
-  // Only length/size units that plausibly appear in two-dimensional
-  // dimensions are listed — mass/time/electrical units (kg, min, V, …) don't
-  // participate in "N × N" constructions and excluding them avoids false
-  // matches on words ending in those letters.
-  const dimensionUnits = "rem|vh|vw|km|cm|mm|nm|pm|mi|ft|yd|in|px|pt|em|m"
-  // Word-boundary lookahead: the unit must be followed by whitespace, a
-  // separator marker, the multiplication operator, end-of-string, or
-  // sentence punctuation — never another letter (which would mean the
-  // "unit" is actually a word prefix like "mold").
-  const unitBoundary = `(?=\\s|${chr}|[xX*.,;!?)}]|$)`
-  const unitAlt = `(?:\\s|${chr})?(?:${dimensionUnits})${unitBoundary}`
-  const primeAlt = `${chr}?[${PRIME}${DOUBLE_PRIME}]`
-  const digitSuffix = `(?:${primeAlt}|${unitAlt})?`
-
-  // Match entire multiplication chains in one pass: "5 x 5 x 5" or "5x5x5"
-  // Pattern matches: digit(s), then one or more (operator, digit(s)) groups
-  // The (?<!\d[eE]) lookbehind prevents matching inside ambiguous unsigned
-  // scientific notation (1e5x3 — could also be a model SKU). Signed exponents
-  // (1e-5x3, 3.5E+10x2) are unambiguously scientific so the multiplication
-  // is converted. The Latin-letter lookbehind blocks model-name identifiers
-  // (Surface5x3, RTX3060x2).
-  const chainPattern = cachedRegExp(
-    `(?<!\\d[eE])(?<![${LATIN_LETTERS}\\d])(?<firstNum>\\d+${digitSuffix})(?<rest>(?:${chr}?\\s*[xX*]\\s*${chr}?\\d+${digitSuffix})+)`,
-    "g"
-  )
+export function multiplication(input: string): string
+export function multiplication(input: ProseView): void
+export function multiplication(input: string | ProseView): string | void {
+  return overInput(input, multiplicationOverView)
+}
 
-  text = text.replace(chainPattern, (...args) => {
-    const { firstNum, rest } = namedGroups<{ firstNum: string; rest: string }>(args)
-    // Skip hexadecimal: 0x... or 0X...
-    if (firstNum === "0" && /^x/i.test(rest)) return args[0] as string
-
-    // Replace each "operator + next digit group" segment in lockstep.
-    // Consuming the digit-suffix as part of each segment keeps the inner
-    // replace from misreading the `x` inside a trailing unit like `px` as
-    // another operator.
-    // Sticky flag (`y`) anchors each segment at the previous one's end.
-    // `rest` always starts with a chain segment from the outer match, so
-    // the engine never tries multiple start positions across whitespace.
-    const converted = rest.replace(
-      cachedRegExp(
-        `(?<pre>${chr}?)(?<spaceBefore>\\s*)[xX*](?<spaceAfter>\\s*)(?<post>${chr}?)(?<num>\\d+${digitSuffix})`,
-        "gy"
-      ),
-      (...innerArgs) => {
-        const groups = namedGroups<{
-          pre: string
-          spaceBefore: string
-          spaceAfter: string
-          post: string
-          num: string
-        }>(innerArgs)
-        const space = groups.spaceBefore || groups.spaceAfter ? " " : ""
-        return `${groups.pre}${space}${MULTIPLICATION}${space}${groups.post}${groups.num}`
-      }
-    )
-    return `${firstNum}${converted}`
-  })
+// After a digit run, either a prime mark (10′) or a length/size unit may
+// attach before the multiplication operator. Allowing both lets dimensions
+// like "5m × 5m", "210mm × 297mm", or "1920px × 1080px" convert, matching
+// Chicago §9.17's preference for × in dimension notation.
+//
+// Only length/size units that plausibly appear in two-dimensional dimensions
+// are listed — mass/time/electrical units (kg, min, V, …) don't participate in
+// "N × N" constructions and excluding them avoids false matches on words
+// ending in those letters.
+const DIMENSION_UNITS = "rem|vh|vw|km|cm|mm|nm|pm|mi|ft|yd|in|px|pt|em|m"
+// Word-boundary lookahead: the unit must be followed by whitespace, the
+// multiplication operator, end-of-string, or sentence punctuation — never
+// another letter (which would mean the "unit" is actually a word prefix like
+// "mold"). A node boundary directly after the unit also satisfies this position
+// and is permitted by allowBoundaries, so it is dropped from the literal
+// lookahead.
+const UNIT_BOUNDARY = `(?=\\s|[xX*.,;!?)}]|$)`
+const UNIT_ALT = `\\s?(?:${DIMENSION_UNITS})${UNIT_BOUNDARY}`
+const PRIME_ALT = `[${PRIME}${DOUBLE_PRIME}]`
+const DIGIT_SUFFIX = `(?:${PRIME_ALT}|${UNIT_ALT})?`
+
+// Match entire multiplication chains in one pass: "5 x 5 x 5" or "5x5x5".
+// Pattern matches: digit(s), then one or more (operator, digit(s)) groups.
+// The (?<!\d[eE]) lookbehind prevents matching inside ambiguous unsigned
+// scientific notation (1e5x3 — could also be a model SKU). Signed exponents
+// (1e-5x3, 3.5E+10x2) are unambiguously scientific so the multiplication is
+// converted. The Latin-letter lookbehind blocks model-name identifiers
+// (Surface5x3, RTX3060x2).
+const MULTIPLICATION_CHAIN = `(?<firstNum>\\d+${DIGIT_SUFFIX})(?<rest>(?:\\s*[xX*]\\s*\\d+${DIGIT_SUFFIX})+)`
+const MULTIPLICATION_SEGMENT = `(?<spaceBefore>\\s*)[xX*](?<spaceAfter>\\s*)(?<num>\\d+${DIGIT_SUFFIX})`
+
+/** A `\s*[xX*]\s*\d+suffix` segment located by absolute clean-text offsets. */
+interface ChainSegment {
+  /** Absolute offset of the operator character. */
+  operatorOffset: number
+  /** Absolute offset where the right operand's digits begin. */
+  operandStart: number
+  /** Absolute offset just past the right operand (including any suffix). */
+  operandEnd: number
+  spaceBefore: string
+  spaceAfter: string
+}
 
-  // Trailing multiplier: 5x (followed by word boundary - space, punctuation, etc.)
-  const wbe = wordBoundaryEnd(chr)
-  const trailingPattern = cachedRegExp(`(?<!\\d[eE])(?<![${LATIN_LETTERS}\\d])(?<num>\\d+${chr}?)[xX*]${wbe}`, "g")
-  text = text.replace(trailingPattern, (match, num: string) => {
-    // Skip if this looks like start of hexadecimal
-    if (num === "0") return match
-    return `${num}${MULTIPLICATION}`
-  })
+/** Locate each operator segment of `rest` (absolute offsets via `chainStart`). */
+function chainSegments(chainStart: number, firstNum: string, rest: string): ChainSegment[] {
+  const segments: ChainSegment[] = []
+  const segmentRe = cachedRegExp(MULTIPLICATION_SEGMENT, "gy")
+  segmentRe.lastIndex = 0
+  let m: RegExpExecArray | null
+  while ((m = segmentRe.exec(rest)) !== null) {
+    const groups = m.groups as { spaceBefore: string; spaceAfter: string; num: string }
+    const operatorAbs = chainStart + firstNum.length + m.index + groups.spaceBefore.length
+    segments.push({
+      operatorOffset: operatorAbs,
+      operandStart: operatorAbs + 1 + groups.spaceAfter.length,
+      operandEnd: chainStart + firstNum.length + m.index + m[0].length,
+      spaceBefore: groups.spaceBefore,
+      spaceAfter: groups.spaceAfter,
+    })
+  }
+  return segments
+}
 
-  return text
+/**
+ * Each operator's spacing slot (`\s*[xX*]\s*`) tolerates one node boundary at
+ * each outer edge and none inside the spacing; a second adjacent boundary at an
+ * edge breaks the segment. The operator's slot is the span [slotStart, slotEnd)
+ * covering its surrounding spaces and the operator itself.
+ */
+function operatorSlotClean(view: ProseView, slotStart: number, slotEnd: number): boolean {
+  // No boundary strictly inside the spacing-plus-operator slot.
+  for (const boundary of view.boundaries) {
+    if (boundary > slotStart && boundary < slotEnd) return false
+  }
+  // At most one boundary hugging each outer edge (duplicates at an offset come
+  // from empty nodes and each counts as one boundary).
+  return boundaryCountAt(view, slotStart) <= 1 && boundaryCountAt(view, slotEnd) <= 1
+}
+
+/**
+ * The chain's leading lookbehinds at `operandStart`
+ * (`(?<!\d[eE])(?<![A-Za-z…\d])`); the Latin-letter arm already rejects any
+ * operand preceded by `e`/`E`, so the scientific-notation arm adds nothing for
+ * the operand's immediate left character and is folded in here. A node boundary
+ * right before the operand shadows the clean character (a boundary is not a
+ * letter or digit), satisfying the lookbehind.
+ */
+function chainGuardOk(view: ProseView, operandStart: number): boolean {
+  if (view.hasBoundary(operandStart)) return true
+  const prior = view.text[operandStart - 1]
+  return prior === undefined || !(LATIN_LETTER_RE.test(prior) || /\d/.test(prior))
 }
 
-type MathLookaheadBuilder = (escapedSeparator: string) => string
+/**
+ * The hex skip `firstNum === "0" && /^x/i.test(rest)`: a `0` operand directly
+ * followed (no boundary) by `x`/`X` skips the whole matched chain without
+ * re-anchoring.
+ */
+function chainHexBlocked(view: ProseView, operandStart: number, operandText: string): boolean {
+  if (operandText !== "0") return false
+  const after = operandStart + operandText.length
+  // Hex requires `x`/`X` directly after the `0` (a unit between them is not hex).
+  // `after` always indexes the operator/unit reached by the match, so it is in
+  // bounds.
+  return !view.hasBoundary(after) && /x/i.test(view.text[after])
+}
 
-type MathSymbolRule = [string, string, MathLookaheadBuilder, string]
+/**
+ * Start offset of the maximal boundary-free digit run ending at `digitsEnd`
+ * (exclusive), not crossing below `lowerBound`. A node boundary inside a digit
+ * run truncates the operand an operator actually sees; that truncated run drives
+ * the hex and guard checks.
+ */
+function leftDigitRunStart(view: ProseView, text: string, digitsEnd: number, lowerBound: number): number {
+  let start = digitsEnd
+  // A boundary at `digitsEnd` sits between the last digit and the operator and
+  // does not split the run; only boundaries strictly inside the digits do.
+  while (start > lowerBound && /\d/.test(text[start - 1]) && (start === digitsEnd || !view.hasBoundary(start))) start--
+  return start
+}
+
+/**
+ * End offset of the digit run of the left operand whose operator spacing slot
+ * begins at `slotStart`: walk back over the operand's optional suffix (a prime,
+ * or a unit's letters, possibly with one space) to the last digit.
+ */
+function leftDigitsEnd(text: string, slotStart: number): number {
+  let i = slotStart
+  while (i > 0 && !/\d/.test(text[i - 1])) i--
+  return i
+}
+
+/**
+ * True iff the operand's unit suffix between `digitsEnd` and `slotStart` is not
+ * split by a node boundary. One boundary is tolerated before the unit, but the
+ * unit's letters must be contiguous, so a boundary between two unit letters
+ * detaches the operator from the operand.
+ */
+function leftSuffixUnsplit(view: ProseView, text: string, digitsEnd: number, slotStart: number): boolean {
+  // A prime or unit suffix begins after one optional space-or-boundary slot;
+  // a second boundary in that slot (before the suffix) leaves `\d+suffix`
+  // matching only the digits, detaching the operator.
+  if (slotStart > digitsEnd && boundaryCountAt(view, digitsEnd) > 1) return false
+  for (let i = digitsEnd + 1; i < slotStart; i++) {
+    if (LATIN_LETTER_RE.test(text[i - 1]) && LATIN_LETTER_RE.test(text[i]) && view.hasBoundary(i)) return false
+  }
+  return true
+}
+
+/**
+ * True iff a node boundary falls strictly inside the leading digit run of the
+ * operand starting at `operandStart` (`\d+` cannot cross a boundary, so such a
+ * boundary truncates the operand and ends the chain there).
+ */
+function runHasInteriorBoundary(view: ProseView, operandStart: number, operandEnd: number): boolean {
+  const text = view.text
+  let i = operandStart + 1
+  while (i < operandEnd && /\d/.test(text[i])) {
+    if (view.hasBoundary(i)) return true
+    i++
+  }
+  return false
+}
+
+function multiplicationOverView(view: ProseView): void {
+  // The chain is matched with a sticky regex driven by a manual left-to-right
+  // scan. Sticky anchoring keeps the nested `\d+(…\d+)+` quantifier ReDoS-safe
+  // without leading lookbehinds; dropping those lookbehinds lets a chain anchor
+  // on an operand whose preceding letter/digit is shadowed by a node boundary.
+  // Boundary-aware guard/hex/operand checks below make the per-operand
+  // decisions.
+  const chainPattern = cachedRegExp(MULTIPLICATION_CHAIN, "y")
+  const chainText = view.text
+  let scan = 0
+  while (scan < chainText.length) {
+    chainPattern.lastIndex = scan
+    const match = chainPattern.exec(chainText)
+    if (match === null) { scan++; continue }
+    const { firstNum, rest } = match.groups as { firstNum: string; rest: string }
+    const text = chainText
+    const chainStart = match.index
+    const segments = chainSegments(chainStart, firstNum, rest)
+
+    // Edit each operator's spacing slot in place, leaving the digit operands
+    // (and any node boundaries inside them) untouched so boundary positions are
+    // preserved.
+    //
+    // The chain matches contiguously, then the hex skip is applied. Two
+    // outcomes propagate differently:
+    //   - Leading-guard failure does not anchor here, so the match is re-tried
+    //     at the next operand: keep retrying each operator until one anchors.
+    //   - Hex skip and a successful anchor consume the matched chain, so no
+    //     operator inside it converts or re-anchors until a STRUCTURAL break (a
+    //     boundary inside an operator's spacing slot or splitting an operand's
+    //     digit run) lets the chain re-match at a later operand.
+    let chainActive = false
+    let anchored = false
+    segments.forEach((segment, index) => {
+      const slotStart = segment.operatorOffset - segment.spaceBefore.length
+      const slotEnd = segment.operatorOffset + 1 + segment.spaceAfter.length
+      const digitsEnd = leftDigitsEnd(text, slotStart)
+      // The left operand's unit suffix must be a contiguous match: a boundary
+      // splitting the unit's letters breaks `\d+suffix`, detaching the operator
+      // from any operand (its left side is no longer `\d+unit`).
+      const slotClean = operatorSlotClean(view, slotStart, slotEnd) && leftSuffixUnsplit(view, text, digitsEnd, slotStart)
+      if (!anchored) {
+        const lowerBound = index === 0 ? chainStart : segments[index - 1].operandStart
+        const runStart = leftDigitRunStart(view, text, digitsEnd, lowerBound)
+        const operand = text.slice(runStart, digitsEnd)
+        if (!chainGuardOk(view, runStart)) {
+          // Did not anchor here; re-try at the next operand.
+          chainActive = false
+        } else {
+          anchored = true
+          chainActive = !chainHexBlocked(view, runStart, operand)
+        }
+      }
+      if (!slotClean) {
+        // Structural break: the matched chain ends; the next operand re-anchors.
+        chainActive = false
+        anchored = false
+        return
+      }
+      if (chainActive) {
+        const space = segment.spaceBefore || segment.spaceAfter ? " " : ""
+        view.replace(slotStart, slotEnd, `${space}${MULTIPLICATION}${space}`)
+      }
+      // A boundary inside this operand's digit run truncates it (`\d+` stops
+      // there): a structural break, so the next operand re-anchors.
+      if (runHasInteriorBoundary(view, segment.operandStart, segment.operandEnd)) {
+        chainActive = false
+        anchored = false
+      }
+    })
+    scan = chainStart + match[0].length
+  }
+  view.commit()
+
+  // Trailing multiplier: 5x (followed by a word boundary). The rule is
+  // `(?<!\d[eE])(?<![A-Za-z…\d])\d+ [xX*] \b(?!\w)` with one tolerated boundary
+  // before the operator. The leading guard, the slot before the operator, the
+  // hex skip, and the trailing word boundary each consult boundaries at their
+  // position. `*` never trails because it is not a word character, so the
+  // closing `\b` cannot anchor on it.
+  const trailingPattern = cachedRegExp(`(?<num>\\d+)(?<op>[xX*])`, "y")
+  const trailingText = view.text
+  let trailingScan = 0
+  while (trailingScan < trailingText.length) {
+    trailingPattern.lastIndex = trailingScan
+    const match = trailingPattern.exec(trailingText)
+    if (match === null) { trailingScan++; continue }
+    const num = match.groups!.num
+    const op = match.groups!.op
+    const operatorOffset = match.index + num.length
+    trailingScan = match.index + match[0].length
+    // One optional boundary may sit between the digits and the operator.
+    if (boundaryCountAt(view, operatorOffset) > 1) continue
+    // Leading guard and hex skip, on the boundary-free digit run ending at the
+    // operator (a boundary inside the digits truncates the operand).
+    const runStart = leftDigitRunStart(view, trailingText, operatorOffset, 0)
+    const operand = trailingText.slice(runStart, operatorOffset)
+    if (!chainGuardOk(view, runStart) || chainHexBlocked(view, runStart, operand)) continue
+    // Trailing word boundary: `*` is not a word character so it never anchors a
+    // trailing `\b`; otherwise reject when a word character follows the operator
+    // through at most three boundaries.
+    if (op === "*") continue
+    const afterOp = operatorOffset + 1
+    const followChar = trailingText[afterOp]
+    if (boundaryCountAt(view, afterOp) <= 3 && followChar !== undefined && WORD_RE.test(followChar)) continue
+    view.replace(operatorOffset, afterOp, MULTIPLICATION)
+  }
+  view.commit()
+}
+
+/** `[left, right, forbiddenFollow, replacement]`; forbiddenFollow is "" when none. */
+type MathSymbolRule = [string, string, string, string]
 
 const MATH_SYMBOL_MAP: MathSymbolRule[] = [
-  ["!", "=", (chr) => `(?!${chr}?=)`, NOT_EQUAL],
-  ["\\+/", "-", () => "", PLUS_MINUS],
-  ["\\+", "-", () => "", PLUS_MINUS],
-  ["<", "=", (chr) => `(?!${chr}?=)`, LESS_EQUAL],
-  [">", "=", (chr) => `(?!${chr}?=)`, GREATER_EQUAL],
-  ["~", "=", () => "", APPROXIMATE],
-  ["=", "~", () => "", APPROXIMATE],
+  ["!", "=", "=", NOT_EQUAL],
+  ["\\+/", "-", "", PLUS_MINUS],
+  ["\\+", "-", "", PLUS_MINUS],
+  ["<", "=", "=", LESS_EQUAL],
+  [">", "=", "=", GREATER_EQUAL],
+  ["~", "=", "", APPROXIMATE],
+  ["=", "~", "", APPROXIMATE],
 ]
 
 /** Convert !=, <=, >=, +/-, ~= to Unicode equivalents. */
-export function mathSymbols(text: string, options: SymbolOptions = {}): string {
-  const chr = getEscapedSeparator(options)
-
-  for (const [left, right, lookahead, replacement] of MATH_SYMBOL_MAP) {
-    // Capture an optional separator between left and right so a cross-boundary
-    // match (e.g., `!<SEP>=`) re-emits the separator alongside the replacement
-    // and preserves the text-node-count invariant in transformTextNodes.
-    const pattern = cachedRegExp(`${left}(?<sep>${chr})?${right}${lookahead(chr)}`, "g")
-    text = text.replace(pattern, (...args) => {
-      const { sep } = namedGroups<{ sep?: string }>(args)
-      return `${replacement}${sep ?? ""}`
+export function mathSymbols(input: string): string
+export function mathSymbols(input: ProseView): void
+export function mathSymbols(input: string | ProseView): string | void {
+  return overInput(input, mathSymbolsOverView)
+}
+
+function mathSymbolsOverView(view: ProseView): void {
+  for (const [left, right, forbiddenFollow, replacement] of MATH_SYMBOL_MAP) {
+    // Re-read after each rule's commit: prior rules mutate the clean text.
+    const text = view.text
+    // One boundary is tolerated at the left/right junction (e.g. `!<boundary>=`).
+    // Position editing keeps the surrounding fragments (and so the boundary)
+    // intact; allowBoundaries permits that one boundary. The negative lookahead
+    // `(?!=)` is checked manually because it tolerates one boundary before the
+    // forbidden `=`: with two or more boundaries the `=` is out of reach, so the
+    // match is not blocked.
+    const pattern = cachedRegExp(`${left}${right}`, "g")
+    replaceAllInView(view, pattern, (match, v) => {
+      if (forbiddenFollow && mathLookaheadBlocks(text, v, match.index + match[0].length, forbiddenFollow)) {
+        return null
+      }
+      return replacement
+    }, {
+      allowBoundaries: (m, v) => mathOperatorAllowBoundary(m, v),
     })
+    view.commit()
   }
-  return text
+}
+
+/**
+ * The `(?!=)` guard: the match is blocked when the forbidden character follows
+ * through at most one boundary. Two or more boundaries put the character out of
+ * reach (one boundary tolerated), so the match proceeds. `≈` blocks where `=`
+ * does: a later rule in this same pass folds `=~` to `≈`, consuming the `=`
+ * this guard keys on (`!==~` must stay blocked once it reads `!=≈`).
+ */
+function mathLookaheadBlocks(text: string, view: ProseView, end: number, forbidden: string): boolean {
+  const next = text[end]
+  const matches = next === forbidden || (forbidden === "=" && next === APPROXIMATE)
+  return matches && boundaryCountAt(view, end) <= 1
+}
+
+/**
+ * Only the junction between the `left` operator string and the single-character
+ * `right` tolerates one interior boundary (the `right` char ends the match). A
+ * boundary inside a multi-character `left` like `+/` breaks the operator.
+ */
+function mathOperatorAllowBoundary(match: RegExpExecArray, view: ProseView): boolean {
+  const junction = match.index + match[0].length - 1
+  for (const boundary of view.boundaries) {
+    if (boundary > match.index && boundary < match.index + match[0].length && boundary !== junction) return false
+  }
+  return boundaryCountAt(view, junction) <= 1
 }
 
 type ContextPredicate = (before: string, after: string) => boolean
@@ -171,111 +463,289 @@ type ContextPredicate = (before: string, after: string) => boolean
 // 25 chars: fits "copyright " or a 4-digit year with padding, without making slicing expensive.
 const LEGAL_SYMBOL_CONTEXT_WINDOW = 25
 
+// Window cost charged per node boundary: an element edge stands in for two
+// characters of context, so boundary-dense markup exposes less of it.
+const BOUNDARY_CONTEXT_COST = 2
+
+// Vulgar fraction glyphs (½, ¾, …). A fraction folds from `n/m`, which the path
+// heuristic below reads as a path context — so the glyph must read the same way,
+// or `1/2(tm)` (blocked) would convert once fractions strips the slash to `½(tm)`.
+const FRACTION_GLYPH_RE = new RegExp(
+  `[${Object.entries(UNICODE_SYMBOLS)
+    .filter(([key]) => key.startsWith("FRACTION_"))
+    .map(([, glyph]) => glyph)
+    .join("")}]`,
+)
+
 const isPathContext = (before: string): boolean => {
   const parts = before.split(/\s+/)
   const trailing = parts[parts.length - 1]
+  if (FRACTION_GLYPH_RE.test(trailing)) return true
   const slashIdx = trailing.indexOf("/")
   return slashIdx >= 0 && slashIdx < trailing.length - 1
 }
 
 function contextAwareLegalReplace(
-  text: string,
+  view: ProseView,
   pattern: RegExp,
   replacement: string,
   shouldConvert: ContextPredicate,
-  separator: string,
-): string {
-  return text.replace(pattern, (match: string, offset: number, str: string) => {
-    const before = str
-      .slice(Math.max(0, offset - LEGAL_SYMBOL_CONTEXT_WINDOW), offset)
-      .replaceAll(separator, "")
-    const after = str
-      .slice(offset + match.length, offset + match.length + LEGAL_SYMBOL_CONTEXT_WINDOW)
-      .replaceAll(separator, "")
-    return shouldConvert(before, after) ? replacement : match
+): void {
+  const text = view.text
+  replaceAllInView(view, pattern, (match, v) => {
+    const offset = match.index
+    const before = legalContextBefore(text, v, offset)
+    const after = legalContextAfter(text, v, offset + match[0].length)
+    return shouldConvert(before, after) ? replacement : null
+  }, {
+    // The `(c)`/`(r)`/`(tm)` token itself never spans a boundary (no interior
+    // slot), so a match containing an interior boundary is skipped, exactly as
+    // the default behavior.
+    allowBoundaries: undefined,
   })
 }
 
-const LEGAL_COPYRIGHT_RE = /\(c\)/gi
-const LEGAL_REGISTERED_RE = /\(r\)/gi
-const LEGAL_TRADEMARK_RE = /\(tm\)/gi
+/**
+ * Context preceding `offset`, spanning the 25-character window. Each node
+ * boundary costs {@link BOUNDARY_CONTEXT_COST} characters of the window, so a
+ * region dense with boundaries exposes fewer characters of context.
+ */
+function legalContextBefore(text: string, view: ProseView, offset: number): string {
+  let cost = 0
+  let i = offset
+  while (i > 0) {
+    // Cost of stepping back over this clean char plus the boundaries hugging it.
+    cost += boundaryCountAt(view, i) * BOUNDARY_CONTEXT_COST + 1
+    if (cost > LEGAL_SYMBOL_CONTEXT_WINDOW) break
+    i--
+  }
+  return text.slice(i, offset)
+}
+
+/** Mirror of {@link legalContextBefore} for the text following `end`. */
+function legalContextAfter(text: string, view: ProseView, end: number): string {
+  let cost = 0
+  let i = end
+  while (i < text.length) {
+    cost += boundaryCountAt(view, i) * BOUNDARY_CONTEXT_COST + 1
+    if (cost > LEGAL_SYMBOL_CONTEXT_WINDOW) break
+    i++
+  }
+  return text.slice(end, i)
+}
+
+const LEGAL_COPYRIGHT_RE = "\\(c\\)"
+const LEGAL_REGISTERED_RE = "\\(r\\)"
+const LEGAL_TRADEMARK_RE = "\\(tm\\)"
 
 /** Convert (c), (r), (tm) to ©, ®, ™. */
-export function legalSymbols(text: string, options: SymbolOptions = {}): string {
-  const separator = options.separator ?? DEFAULT_SEPARATOR
-  // (c) → © only with positive copyright evidence (year or "copyright" keyword)
-  // and not in a path context (e.g., example.com/path(c))
-  text = contextAwareLegalReplace(text, LEGAL_COPYRIGHT_RE, COPYRIGHT, (before, after) =>
+export function legalSymbols(input: string): string
+export function legalSymbols(input: ProseView): void
+export function legalSymbols(input: string | ProseView): string | void {
+  return overInput(input, legalSymbolsOverView)
+}
+
+function legalSymbolsOverView(view: ProseView): void {
+  // (c) → © only with positive copyright evidence (year or "copyright"
+  // keyword) and not in a path context (e.g. example.com/path(c)).
+  contextAwareLegalReplace(view, cachedRegExp(LEGAL_COPYRIGHT_RE, "gi"), COPYRIGHT, (before, after) =>
     !isPathContext(before) && (/^\s*(?:19|20)\d{2}\b/.test(after) || /\bcopyright\s*$/i.test(before)),
-    separator
   )
+  view.commit()
 
-  // (r) → ® unless in enumeration "(q), (r)", legal citation "(r)(1)", or path context
-  text = contextAwareLegalReplace(text, LEGAL_REGISTERED_RE, REGISTERED, (before, after) =>
+  // (r) → ® unless in enumeration "(q), (r)", legal citation "(r)(1)", or path context.
+  contextAwareLegalReplace(view, cachedRegExp(LEGAL_REGISTERED_RE, "gi"), REGISTERED, (before, after) =>
     !/\([a-z]\)[,;]\s*$/i.test(before) && !/^\(\d/.test(after) && !isPathContext(before),
-    separator
   )
+  view.commit()
 
-  // (tm) → ™ unless in a path context
-  text = contextAwareLegalReplace(text, LEGAL_TRADEMARK_RE, TRADEMARK, (before) =>
+  // (tm) → ™ unless in a path context.
+  contextAwareLegalReplace(view, cachedRegExp(LEGAL_TRADEMARK_RE, "gi"), TRADEMARK, (before) =>
     !isPathContext(before),
-    separator
   )
+  view.commit()
+}
+
+/** Matches one arrow shape starting at `start`; returns its end offset or -1. */
+type ArrowMatcher = (view: ProseView, text: string, start: number) => number
+
+const SPACE_OR_TAB_RE = /\s/
+
+/**
+ * One boundary is tolerated after `<`, between dash runs, and before `>`, and a
+ * boundary cannot split a dash run (`-+`). Each helper walks the clean text and
+ * consults boundaries at exactly those positions, tolerating at most one
+ * boundary per slot.
+ */
+const ARROW_MATCHERS: readonly [ArrowMatcher, string][] = [
+  [matchLeftRightArrow, ARROW_LEFT_RIGHT],
+  [matchRightArrow, ARROW_RIGHT],
+  [matchLeftArrow, ARROW_LEFT],
+]
 
-  return text
+/** Length of a `-+` dash run at `pos` (no boundary may split it); 0 if none. */
+function dashRunLength(view: ProseView, text: string, pos: number): number {
+  let i = pos
+  while (text[i] === "-" && (i === pos || boundaryCountAt(view, i) === 0)) i++
+  return i - pos
 }
 
-type ArrowPatternBuilder = (escapedSeparator: string) => string
+/** Skip at most one boundary slot at `pos`; returns the offset after it. -1 on a double boundary. */
+function arrowSepSlot(view: ProseView, pos: number): number {
+  const count = boundaryCountAt(view, pos)
+  return count <= 1 ? pos : -1
+}
 
-// Leading `<` on bidi anchors the dash-run group for linear time.
-const ARROW_RULES: readonly [ArrowPatternBuilder, string][] = [
-  [(sep) => `<${sep}?-+(?:${sep}-+)*${sep}?>`, ARROW_LEFT_RIGHT],
-  [(sep) => `-+${sep}?>`, ARROW_RIGHT],
-  [(sep) => `<${sep}?-+`, ARROW_LEFT],
-]
+/** `-+${sep}?>`: a dash run, an optional boundary, then `>`. */
+function matchRightArrow(view: ProseView, text: string, start: number): number {
+  const run = dashRunLength(view, text, start)
+  if (run === 0) return -1
+  const beforeGt = start + run
+  if (arrowSepSlot(view, beforeGt) < 0) return -1
+  return text[beforeGt] === ">" ? beforeGt + 1 : -1
+}
+
+/** `<${sep}?-+`: `<`, an optional boundary, then a dash run. */
+function matchLeftArrow(view: ProseView, text: string, start: number): number {
+  if (text[start] !== "<") return -1
+  const afterLt = start + 1
+  if (arrowSepSlot(view, afterLt) < 0) return -1
+  const run = dashRunLength(view, text, afterLt)
+  return run === 0 ? -1 : afterLt + run
+}
+
+/** `<${sep}?-+(?:${sep}-+)*${sep}?>`: bidirectional arrow with dash runs. */
+function matchLeftRightArrow(view: ProseView, text: string, start: number): number {
+  if (text[start] !== "<") return -1
+  let i = start + 1
+  if (arrowSepSlot(view, i) < 0) return -1
+  let run = dashRunLength(view, text, i)
+  if (run === 0) return -1
+  i += run
+  // Additional `${sep}-+` runs: each separated by exactly one boundary.
+  while (boundaryCountAt(view, i) === 1) {
+    run = dashRunLength(view, text, i)
+    if (run === 0) break
+    i += run
+  }
+  if (arrowSepSlot(view, i) < 0) return -1
+  return text[i] === ">" ? i + 1 : -1
+}
+
+/** Left context `(^|\s|${chr})`: start of text, a space, or a node boundary. */
+function arrowLeftContextOk(view: ProseView, text: string, start: number): boolean {
+  if (start === 0 || view.hasBoundary(start)) return true
+  return SPACE_OR_TAB_RE.test(text[start - 1])
+}
+
+/** Right context `(?=\s|${chr}|$)`: end of text, a space, or a node boundary. */
+function arrowRightContextOk(view: ProseView, text: string, end: number): boolean {
+  if (end >= text.length || view.hasBoundary(end)) return true
+  return SPACE_OR_TAB_RE.test(text[end])
+}
 
 /** Convert -> and <-> to arrows. */
-export function arrows(text: string, options: SymbolOptions = {}): string {
-  const chr = getEscapedSeparator(options)
-  const sepPattern = cachedRegExp(chr, "g")
-  // Boundary on the left is a capturing group rather than a lookbehind so
-  // the alternation stays out of the assertion (recheck-safe); the captured
-  // boundary char is re-emitted before the replacement.
-  const startBoundary = `(^|\\s|${chr})`
-  const endBoundary = `(?=\\s|${chr}|$)`
-
-  for (const [buildArrow, replacement] of ARROW_RULES) {
-    const pattern = cachedRegExp(`${startBoundary}${buildArrow(chr)}${endBoundary}`, "g")
-    // Re-emit every separator the arrow body consumed; dropping any would
-    // break the text-node-count invariant in transformTextNodes.
-    text = text.replace(pattern, (match: string, boundary: string) => {
-      const arrowPart = match.slice(boundary.length)
-      const seps = arrowPart.match(sepPattern) ?? []
-      return `${boundary}${replacement}${seps.join("")}`
-    })
+export function arrows(input: string): string
+export function arrows(input: ProseView): void
+export function arrows(input: string | ProseView): string | void {
+  return overInput(input, arrowsOverView)
+}
+
+function arrowsOverView(view: ProseView): void {
+  // Each arrow shape is matched by a left-to-right scan so a boundary that
+  // splits a dash run still lets the valid suffix match. The whole shape span is
+  // replaced with the arrow; consumed boundaries collapse to just after it.
+  for (const [matcher, replacement] of ARROW_MATCHERS) {
+    const text = view.text
+    let i = 0
+    while (i < text.length) {
+      if (!arrowLeftContextOk(view, text, i)) { i++; continue }
+      const end = matcher(view, text, i)
+      if (end < 0 || !arrowRightContextOk(view, text, end)) { i++; continue }
+      view.replace(i, end, replacement)
+      i = end
+    }
+    view.commit()
   }
+}
+
+export function degrees(input: string): string
+export function degrees(input: ProseView): void
+export function degrees(input: string | ProseView): string | void {
+  return overInput(input, degreesOverView)
+}
 
-  return text
+function degreesOverView(view: ProseView): void {
+  // Temperature with optional space before C or F (uppercase only). One boundary
+  // is tolerated between the digit and the unit, and the unit is followed by
+  // `(?!-[A-Za-z…]|[+#])` (reject "C-compiler", "C++", "F#") plus a word
+  // boundary. Those trailing assertions are checked manually so a node boundary
+  // right after the unit shadows the compound character, and the word-boundary
+  // arm sees through up to three boundaries.
+  const pattern = cachedRegExp(`\\d ?(?<unit>[CF])`, "g")
+  const text = view.text
+  replaceAllInView(view, pattern, (match, v) => {
+    const unitEnd = match.index + match[0].length
+    if (!degreeUnitFollowOk(text, v, unitEnd)) return null
+    const { unit } = match.groups!
+    // Replace everything after the leading digit (the optional space and the
+    // unit) with ` °C`/` °F`, leaving the digit and any boundary right after it
+    // in place so the boundary keeps its position.
+    v.replace(match.index + 1, unitEnd, ` ${DEGREE}${unit}`)
+    return null
+  }, {
+    allowBoundaries: (match, v) => digitSuffixBoundaryOk(match, v),
+  })
+  view.commit()
 }
 
-export function degrees(text: string, options: SymbolOptions = {}): string {
-  const chr = getEscapedSeparator(options)
+/**
+ * The `(?!-[A-Za-z…]|[+#])` compound guard plus `\b(?!${chr}{0,3}\w)` word
+ * boundary that follow the unit. A node boundary directly after the unit
+ * shadows a `+`/`#`/`-`, satisfying the compound guard; the word boundary
+ * blocks only when a word character follows the unit through at most three
+ * boundaries.
+ */
+function degreeUnitFollowOk(text: string, view: ProseView, unitEnd: number): boolean {
+  const boundaryAfterUnit = view.hasBoundary(unitEnd)
+  // Compound guard: `+`/`#` directly after the unit (no boundary shadowing it),
+  // or `-` directly followed by a Latin letter (boundary-aware).
+  if (!boundaryAfterUnit) {
+    const next = text[unitEnd]
+    if (next === "+" || next === "#") return false
+    if (next === "-" && !view.hasBoundary(unitEnd + 1) && LATIN_LETTER_RE.test(text[unitEnd + 1] ?? "")) return false
+  }
+  // Word boundary: reject when a word character follows the unit across up to
+  // three boundaries; with no boundary a word character directly after the unit
+  // also removes the `\b`. Consecutive boundaries pile at the same clean offset,
+  // so count them there.
+  const followChar = text[unitEnd]
+  if (boundaryCountAt(view, unitEnd) <= 3 && followChar !== undefined && WORD_RE.test(followChar)) return false
+  return true
+}
 
-  // Temperature with optional space before C or F (uppercase only)
-  // Handles separator between digit and unit
-  // Uses marker-aware boundary to avoid false matches like "20C\uE000elsius"
-  const wbe = wordBoundaryEnd(chr)
-  // Reject C/F followed by hyphen+letter ("C-compiler"), +/# ("C++", "F#")
-  const notCompound = `(?!-[${LATIN_LETTERS}]|[+#])`
-  return text.replace(
-    cachedRegExp(`(?<num>\\d${chr}?) ?(?<unit>[CF])${notCompound}${wbe}`, "g"),
-    (_, num, unit) => `${num} ${DEGREE}${unit}`
-  )
+/**
+ * Tolerate at most one boundary directly after the leading digit (the single
+ * slot between `\d` and the rest); a second adjacent boundary breaks the slot.
+ * The digit is the first match character, so the only legal interior-boundary
+ * offset is match.index + 1.
+ */
+function digitSuffixBoundaryOk(match: RegExpExecArray, view: ProseView): boolean {
+  const digitEnd = match.index + 1
+  const matchEnd = match.index + match[0].length
+  for (const boundary of view.boundaries) {
+    // Reject any interior boundary that is not the single tolerated slot after
+    // the leading digit.
+    if (boundary > match.index && boundary < matchEnd && boundary !== digitEnd) return false
+  }
+  return boundaryCountAt(view, digitEnd) <= 1
 }
 
 /** Convert 5'10" to 5′10″ (prime marks). Call before smart quotes. */
-export function primeMarks(text: string, options: SymbolOptions = {}): string {
-  return convertPrimeMarks(text, options.separator ?? DEFAULT_SEPARATOR)
+export function primeMarks(input: string): string
+export function primeMarks(input: ProseView): void
+export function primeMarks(input: string | ProseView): string | void {
+  return overInput(input, convertPrimeMarks)
 }
 
 type FractionRule = [string, string, string]
@@ -301,33 +771,77 @@ const FRACTION_TUPLES: FractionRule[] = [
 const FRACTION_MAP = Object.fromEntries(FRACTION_TUPLES.map(([n, d, u]) => [`${n}/${d}`, u]))
 
 /** Convert 1/2, 1/4, etc. to ½, ¼, etc. Single-pass using alternation. */
-export function fractions(text: string, options: SymbolOptions = {}): string {
-  const chr = getEscapedSeparator(options)
-
-  // Build alternation of exact valid pairs: `1${sep}?/${sep}?4|1${sep}?/${sep}?2|...`
-  // Only exact pairs from FRACTION_TUPLES match — no cross-product.
-  const pairAlternation = FRACTION_TUPLES.map(([n, d]) =>
-    `${n}${chr}?/${chr}?${d}`
-  ).join("|")
-
-  // - (?<![/.\d]) prevents matching after slashes, dots, or digits
-  // - (?![/\d]|\.\d) prevents matching before slashes, digits, or decimal points
-  const pattern = cachedRegExp(
-    `(?<![/\\.\\d])(?:${pairAlternation})(?![/\\d]|\\.\\d)`,
-    "g"
-  )
-
-  const sepPattern = cachedRegExp(chr, "g")
+export function fractions(input: string): string
+export function fractions(input: ProseView): void
+export function fractions(input: string | ProseView): string | void {
+  return overInput(input, fractionsOverView)
+}
 
-  return text.replace(pattern, (match) => {
-    // Split on separator to isolate the raw fraction and preserve markers.
-    // e.g. "1\uE000/\uE0002" → parts ["1", "/", "2"], separators ["\uE000", "\uE000"]
-    const parts = match.split(sepPattern)
-    const raw = parts.join("")
-    const separators = match.match(sepPattern) ?? []
-    // Distribute separators: first goes before the unicode char, second after
-    return `${separators[0] ?? ""}${FRACTION_MAP[raw]}${separators[1] ?? ""}`
+function fractionsOverView(view: ProseView): void {
+  // Build alternation of exact valid pairs: `1/4|1/2|...`. Only exact pairs
+  // from FRACTION_TUPLES match — no cross-product. One boundary is tolerated on
+  // each side of the slash, and the pair is surrounded by the lookarounds
+  // `(?<![/.\d])` and `(?![/\d]|\.\d)`. The lookarounds are checked manually so
+  // a node boundary at the numerator's left edge or the denominator's right edge
+  // satisfies them (a boundary is none of those characters).
+  const pairAlternation = FRACTION_TUPLES.map(([n, d]) => `${n}/${d}`).join("|")
+  const pattern = cachedRegExp(`(?:${pairAlternation})`, "g")
+  const text = view.text
+  replaceAllInView(view, pattern, (match, v) => {
+    const start = match.index
+    const end = start + match[0].length
+    if (!fractionLookbehindOk(text, v, start)) return null
+    if (!fractionLookaheadOk(text, v, end)) return null
+    // Distribute interior boundaries: the first lands before the unicode char,
+    // any remaining after it.
+    let firstBoundary = end
+    for (const boundary of v.boundaries) {
+      if (boundary > start && boundary < end) { firstBoundary = boundary; break }
+    }
+    if (firstBoundary > start) v.replace(start, firstBoundary, "")
+    v.replace(firstBoundary, end, FRACTION_MAP[match[0]])
+    return null
+  }, {
+    allowBoundaries: (match, v) => fractionSlotBoundaryOk(match, v),
   })
+  view.commit()
+}
+
+/**
+ * `(?<![/.\d])` at the numerator's left edge. A node boundary immediately
+ * before the numerator shadows the clean character (a boundary is not `/`, `.`,
+ * or a digit), so the lookbehind passes.
+ */
+function fractionLookbehindOk(text: string, view: ProseView, start: number): boolean {
+  if (start === 0 || view.hasBoundary(start)) return true
+  return !/[/.\d]/.test(text[start - 1])
+}
+
+/**
+ * `(?![/\d]|\.\d)` at the denominator's right edge. A node boundary immediately
+ * after the denominator shadows the clean characters, satisfying the lookahead.
+ */
+function fractionLookaheadOk(text: string, view: ProseView, end: number): boolean {
+  if (view.hasBoundary(end)) return true
+  const next = text[end]
+  if (next === undefined) return true
+  if (/[/\d]/.test(next)) return false
+  // `\.\d`: a dot directly followed by a digit (a node boundary between them
+  // breaks the pair, so re-test for the boundary).
+  if (next === "." && !view.hasBoundary(end + 1) && /\d/.test(text[end + 1] ?? "")) return false
+  return true
+}
+
+/**
+ * A fraction tolerates one boundary on each side of the slash (two slots). The
+ * numerator and denominator are single digits, so the match spans exactly
+ * `digit/digit` and the only interior-boundary offsets are right before the
+ * slash (match.index + 1) and right after it (match.index + 2); each accepts at
+ * most one boundary.
+ */
+function fractionSlotBoundaryOk(match: RegExpExecArray, view: ProseView): boolean {
+  const slashOffset = match.index + 1
+  return boundaryCountAt(view, slashOffset) <= 1 && boundaryCountAt(view, slashOffset + 1) <= 1
 }
 
 const ORDINAL_MAP: Record<string, string> = {
@@ -338,70 +852,119 @@ const ORDINAL_MAP: Record<string, string> = {
 }
 
 /** Convert 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th to superscript ordinals. */
-export function superscriptOrdinal(text: string, options: SymbolOptions = {}): string {
-  const chr = getEscapedSeparator(options)
-
-  // Match number + optional separator + ordinal suffix at word boundary
-  // Use case-insensitive matching for the suffix
-  // Uses marker-aware boundary to avoid false matches like "1st\uE000ly"
-  const wbe = wordBoundaryEnd(chr)
-  const pattern = cachedRegExp(
-    `(?<num>\\d${chr}?)(?<suffix>st|nd|rd|th)${wbe}`,
-    "gi"
-  )
+export function superscriptOrdinal(input: string): string
+export function superscriptOrdinal(input: ProseView): void
+export function superscriptOrdinal(input: string | ProseView): string | void {
+  return overInput(input, superscriptOrdinalOverView)
+}
 
-  return text.replace(pattern, (_match, num, suffix) => {
-    const superscriptSuffix = ORDINAL_MAP[suffix.toLowerCase()]
-    return num + superscriptSuffix
+function superscriptOrdinalOverView(view: ProseView): void {
+  // Match number + ordinal suffix at word boundary, case-insensitively. One
+  // boundary is tolerated between the digit and the suffix, with a word boundary
+  // after the suffix. Only the suffix is replaced, leaving the digit and any
+  // boundary between them untouched so the boundary keeps its position.
+  const pattern = cachedRegExp(`(?<num>\\d)(?<suffix>st|nd|rd|th)\\b(?![${LATIN_LETTERS}\\d])`, "gi")
+  replaceAllInView(view, pattern, (match, v) => {
+    const { num, suffix } = match.groups!
+    const suffixStart = match.index + num.length
+    v.replace(suffixStart, match.index + match[0].length, ORDINAL_MAP[suffix.toLowerCase()])
+    return null
+  }, {
+    allowBoundaries: (match, v) => digitSuffixBoundaryOk(match, v),
   })
+  view.commit()
 }
 
 // Preserves highest-priority space type (NBSP > NNBSP > regular) and leading indentation.
-export function collapseSpaces(text: string): string {
-  return text.replace(cachedRegExp(`(?<=[^\\n${SPACE_CHARS}])[${SPACE_CHARS}]{2,}`, "g"), (match) => {
-    if (match.includes(NBSP)) return NBSP
-    if (match.includes(UNICODE_SYMBOLS.NNBSP)) return UNICODE_SYMBOLS.NNBSP
-    return " "
-  })
+export function collapseSpaces(input: string): string
+export function collapseSpaces(input: ProseView): void
+export function collapseSpaces(input: string | ProseView): string | void {
+  return overInput(input, collapseSpacesOverView)
+}
+
+/**
+ * Collapses each run of two or more space characters to its highest-priority
+ * space. A run never crosses a node boundary, and the anchor requiring a
+ * non-newline, non-space character before the run is satisfied by a boundary
+ * (so a run opening a node still collapses); runs at line or text start are
+ * preserved so indented blocks survive.
+ */
+function collapseSpacesOverView(view: ProseView): void {
+  const text = view.text
+  let i = 0
+  while (i < text.length) {
+    if (!SPACE_CHAR_RE.test(text[i])) {
+      i++
+      continue
+    }
+    let end = i + 1
+    while (end < text.length && SPACE_CHAR_RE.test(text[end]) && !view.hasBoundary(end)) end++
+    const anchored = view.hasBoundary(i) || (i > 0 && text[i - 1] !== "\n" && !SPACE_CHAR_RE.test(text[i - 1]))
+    if (anchored && end - i >= 2) {
+      const run = text.slice(i, end)
+      const kept = run.includes(NBSP) ? NBSP : run.includes(UNICODE_SYMBOLS.NNBSP) ? UNICODE_SYMBOLS.NNBSP : " "
+      view.replace(i, end, kept)
+    }
+    i = end
+  }
+  view.commit()
 }
 
+/** `[first, repeated, replacement]` with literal punctuation characters. */
 type LigatureRule = [string, string, string]
 
 // Order matters: mixed punctuation first, then repeated.
 const PUNCTUATION_LIGATURE_MAP: LigatureRule[] = [
-  ["\\?", "!", QUESTION_EXCLAMATION],  // ?!+ → ⁈
-  ["!", "\\?", EXCLAMATION_QUESTION],  // !?+ → ⁉
-  ["\\?", "\\?", DOUBLE_QUESTION],     // ??+ → ⁇
-  ["!", "!", "!"],                      // !!+ → ! (normalize)
+  ["?", "!", QUESTION_EXCLAMATION],  // ?!+ → ⁈
+  ["!", "?", EXCLAMATION_QUESTION],  // !?+ → ⁉
+  ["?", "?", DOUBLE_QUESTION],       // ??+ → ⁇
+  ["!", "!", "!"],                   // !!+ → ! (normalize)
 ]
 
 /** Convert ?? to ⁇, ?! to ⁈, !? to ⁉. Disabled by default (poor font support). */
-export function punctuationLigatures(text: string, options: SymbolOptions = {}): string {
-  const chr = getEscapedSeparator(options)
-  const sepPattern = cachedRegExp(chr, "g")
+export function punctuationLigatures(input: string): string
+export function punctuationLigatures(input: ProseView): void
+export function punctuationLigatures(input: string | ProseView): string | void {
+  return overInput(input, punctuationLigaturesOverView)
+}
 
+function punctuationLigaturesOverView(view: ProseView): void {
   for (const [first, repeated, replacement] of PUNCTUATION_LIGATURE_MAP) {
-    const pattern = cachedRegExp(`${first}(?:${chr}?${repeated})+`, "g")
-    // Re-emit every separator that fell inside the match. The repeat group
-    // can swallow more than one (e.g. across 3+ split text nodes), and
-    // dropping any of them breaks transformTextNodes's text-node-count
-    // invariant.
-    text = text.replace(pattern, (match) => {
-      const seps = match.match(sepPattern) ?? []
-      return replacement + seps.join("")
-    })
+    // The rule is `first (repeated)+`: the leading char, then one or more
+    // repeated chars each preceded by at most one boundary (a second adjacent
+    // boundary breaks the run). A left-to-right scan replaces the whole run with
+    // the ligature; consumed boundaries collapse to just after it, and a broken
+    // run re-anchors at the next leading char.
+    const text = view.text
+    let i = 0
+    while (i < text.length) {
+      if (text[i] !== first) { i++; continue }
+      let end = i + 1
+      let consumed = 0
+      for (;;) {
+        const afterSep = arrowSepSlot(view, end)
+        if (afterSep < 0 || text[afterSep] !== repeated) break
+        end = afterSep + 1
+        consumed++
+      }
+      if (consumed === 0) { i++; continue }
+      view.replace(i, end, replacement)
+      i = end
+    }
+    view.commit()
   }
-
-  return text
 }
 
-export function symbolTransform(text: string, options: SymbolOptions = {}): string {
-  text = ellipsis(text, options)
-  text = multiplication(text, options)
-  text = mathSymbols(text, options)
-  text = legalSymbols(text, options)
-  if (options.includeArrows !== false) {
-    text = arrows(text, options)
-  }
-  return text
+export function symbolTransform(input: string, options?: SymbolOptions): string
+export function symbolTransform(input: ProseView, options?: SymbolOptions): void
+export function symbolTransform(input: string | ProseView, options: SymbolOptions = {}): string | void {
+  return overInput(input, (view) => {
+    ellipsisOverView(view)
+    multiplicationOverView(view)
+    mathSymbolsOverView(view)
+    legalSymbolsOverView(view)
+    if (options.includeArrows !== false) {
+      arrowsOverView(view)
+    }
+  })
 }