The Tabernacle · the switches

Those four are the only part of this site this project wrote. So they are the part worth arguing about.

The law over all of them: none of them writes on the Hebrew. The text is a floor, not a surface. Every switch here acts inside the card or in the space around the line, and the letters do not move when you press one.

Previews, by address.

Besides the switches, a few ways of drawing the page are behind an address flag while the owner checks them: ?mode=en opens the English reader (the last reader chosen on a device is remembered); ?chain=ltr lays a maqaf chain's Hebrew words left to right in the English reader, each under its English, instead of as written; ?blobs=runs draws the blobs on runs alone, as before 10 October; ?rail=all draws every switch below.

Waiting here, as placeholders.

Things the owner has ruled on in principle and not yet checked, kept off the book page until then (16 October 2026):

• The commentary. Each verse's bar with its works list, the word-anchored marks and the book's open-all switch. Drawn only under ?commentary=on; the door's own way in, ?c=open, still opens it. The owner: "id even potentially move the targum jonathan off for now".
• Two-word underlines. One cell, one card and one blob over two or more spaced words, only where one dictionary record defines the span as one thing. None is drawn: the record that named the spans was wrong ("the data is wrong lets leave it out for now"), and the shelf answers two spans in all. Comes back span by span when the run store lands.
• The reading order. The "reads first" switch: the source at this place, or the oldest witness for the form, or another order of the records. The page reads the source at this place; the other orders wait here (16 October: "oldest first toggle can go to toggle page as a placeholder").
• The order legend. A small legend, in a layman's words, that says the Hebrew sets which card is first and shows the English reader's order as a row of numbers; with gold arrows on the line for the reading direction. The card's own number and arrow are the first piece of it.

Named by the owner, not built (2026-10-23).

Each one is a switch the owner has named; none is asked for yet, and nothing is built until it is. The record is data/toggles-named-v1.json.

• makes sense. a piece whose source gives only a sign, or nothing, reads the other per-place source's word at that place, credited to it; where neither reads it, the sign prints as the source printed it. Needs: the corpus lane's blank pieces ledger (here, candidate only).
• randomizer. a random admitted reading leads at each word, the same on one device each visit. Needs: nothing.
• newest first. the newest dictionary's reading leads. Needs: nothing: the card's order already knows each reading's year.
• source. one dictionary leads wherever it has a reading. Needs: nothing: the rail's source switches already turn a source on or off.
• Christian preferred. the readings of the Christian lexica lead. Needs: a tradition named on each source, by the owner's ruling.
• modern Judaism preferred. the readings of the Jewish lexica lead. Needs: the same ruling.
• Masoretic preferred. the reading that agrees with the Masoretic vowels leads. Needs: nothing: the vowels switch already has "only" and "letters".
• most commonly selected. the reading readers press most leads. Needs: a count of presses; the site keeps nothing of a reader today, so this is a ruling first.
• david theme. a name read by its relation to David where the sources give one: a son of Zeruiah reads as the son of David's sister, and so for every name a genealogy ties to him; saying the son of the sister of David says, in the same breath, not the son of David. Needs: a genealogy ledger from the corpus lane (names, relations, the verses that witness each), candidate only (the owner, 2026-10-30, at the first of the kings' 1:7: three names that can also be read David-related).

• The rebuild tool. One command that recreates the whole site from the ledgers, offered at the end ("is there a way at the end of it all to offer a compressed tool that can recreate all of it").