fix(sync): apply typography in the sync path, typeset heading map with body

[mmcky]

Closes #97.

applyTypography() had exactly one production caller — init.ts:296 — so the action's sync path silently stripped the non-breaking spaces the seed inserted, falling back on the prompt instruction #79 was opened because the model ignores it. v0.16.0 shipped the transform with this scope limit noted in its changelog entry; this closes it.

What changed

Both sync entry points in file-processor.ts are now typeset, at the point where init does it — before anything derives from the text:

Entry point	Where the transform runs
processFull	on the raw model output, before the heading map is built from it (one line, mirrors init.ts)
processSectionBased	on the reconstructed document, before the map is injected

The part worth reviewing

The obvious implementation is wrong in a way that is worse than the bug, so it is worth being explicit about why the code looks like it does.

applyTypography skips frontmatter by design. Both processSectionBased and processFull return content with the heading map already injected into frontmatter. So wrapping the returned string — the natural reading of "call it in the sync path" — typesets body headings while leaving map values with the plain spacing the model emitted.

That matters because heading lookup is an exact === compare. The only normalisation is cleanHeading, which strips the # prefix, strips MyST roles, and trims — there is no interior-whitespace or U+00A0 handling anywhere in the matching path. The ID fallback compares an English id against a French one and fails; the positional fallback is skipped whenever the section count changed. What remains is that an unchanged section is silently dropped from the output, and a modified section is retranslated from English, discarding human edits.

So the body, the map, and the title are typeset together, which is what scripts/typography/apply.mjs already does. This relies on typeset(cleanHeading(h)) === cleanHeading(typeset(h)), which holds because the transform is whitespace-only and masks inline roles.

Only headings the model produces fresh can drift — modified sections reuse the existing target heading, so they cannot desync. That makes an added section the case that actually reproduces the trap, and it is what the tests use.

Verification

Rather than trust that the new tests pass, I ran them against both broken variants:

Variant	Result
unfixed main	5 of 9 fail
body-only typography (the trap)	3 of 9 fail, including the added-section case, which reports a skipped section — the data loss described above
this PR	9 of 9 pass

Full suite: 1090 passing, lint and format clean, dist-action/ rebuilt.

Decisions worth a second opinion

Document-scoped, not section-scoped. Typesetting the whole reconstructed document also repairs drift in sections the source PR did not touch, so drift self-corrects on each file's next sync. The cost is that sync PRs may carry whitespace-only changes on lines the source change did not touch. Section-scoped would keep diffs tracking the source exactly but leave every existing edition dependent on a manual backfill. Happy to switch if you would rather diffs stay minimal.

Not included, per the issue discussion: removing the now-redundant nbsp rule from additionalRules. That is a prompt-behaviour change and separable from this bug fix. Note the guillemets rule on the adjacent line should not get the same treatment — the transform is spacing-only and has no guillemets handling, so dropping that rule would lose the behaviour outright rather than make it deterministic.

Backfill still wanted. Editions carry drift from syncs merged before this lands. A one-off scripts/typography/apply.mjs --lang fr per edition resets the baseline; numba.md needs it regardless. Referenced sync PR for context: QuantEcon/lecture-python-programming.fr#6.

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Pull request overview

This PR fixes a long-standing gap where deterministic typography (applyTypography) was only applied during translate init, but not during the action’s sync path—causing French NBSP spacing to be stripped on subsequent syncs and potentially breaking exact heading-map matching.

Changes:

• Apply applyTypography() in FileProcessor.processFull() before deriving the heading map, so the map is built from the same typeset strings that land in the body.
• Apply typography in FileProcessor.processSectionBased() in a way that keeps body + heading-map values + translation title typeset together (avoiding the “body-only” trap).
• Add targeted unit tests that reproduce the destructive mismatch scenario (especially added-section cases) and pin the invariant.

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 4 out of 5 changed files in this pull request and generated 2 comments.

File	Description
src/file-processor.ts	Applies deterministic typography in both sync entry points while keeping heading-map/title consistent with typeset body output.
src/tests/file-processor-typography.test.ts	Adds regression tests covering missing typography, body-only typography trap, added-section matching, drift repair, and title typesetting.
dist-action/index.js	Rebuilt bundle reflecting the new typography application in the sync path.
CHANGELOG.md	Documents the fix and the rationale (including the “body-only” mismatch failure mode).

[mmcky]

Post-merge correction, from an independent fact-check of this PR's claims against the code.

The verification table above is wrong in one cell: "unfixed main | 5 of 9 fail" should read 7 of 9. Re-running the merged test suite against the pre-merge file-processor.ts fails 7 of 9 — as this PR's own reply comment in the NBSP review thread correctly states. The 5-of-9 figure came from an earlier revision of the tests, before two guard tests were rebuilt around an added-section fixture, and the table was not updated to match. The stronger number favours the suite, but the two public statements contradicted each other and the table is the one that was wrong.

Also worth qualifying: the "3 of 9 fail against the body-only variant" row is not reproducible as stated, because the exact variant tested was never recorded. The variant behind that number wrapped only processSectionBased's return in applyTypography; a reconstruction that wraps both entry points fails 4 of 9. The substantive claim — that the added-section test catches the body-only trap by reporting a dropped section — holds for both variants.

One further correction, to the analysis comment on #97 that preceded this PR: it said heading matching's "only normalisation is cleanHeading, which strips the # prefix, strips MyST roles, and trims". That overstates the body side of the compare, which stripped only the # prefix and never stripped MyST roles — meaning role-wrapped body headings could never match by heading map at all and survived on the positional fallback alone. That stricter-than-stated compare is a pre-existing hole, and it — plus a real map/body divergence found in the fr corpus (python_oop.md's title carries an NBSP its role-masked body heading structurally cannot) — is addressed in #100.