dcellison · dcellison · Aug 6, 2026 · Aug 6, 2026
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 | [Development log](development_log.md) | Lightweight record of proposed, accepted, superseded, and rejected decisions. |
 | [Status roadmap](roadmap.md) | Current workstreams, dependencies, evidence gates, and solo work packages. |
 | [Near-term development plan](near_term_development_plan.md) | Current sequence for schema closure, translation certification, Morris continuity, and original Phi work. |
+| [News from Nowhere continuity](news_from_nowhere_continuity.md) | Source-to-Phi names, places, recurring concepts, narrative conventions, and open continuity questions for the novel. |
 | [Content vocabulary coverage](content_vocabulary_coverage.md) | Status-tracked semantic coverage audits and the review gate for content vocabulary batches. |
 | [Content vocabulary decisions](content_vocabulary_decisions.md) | Generated, readable view of every candidate carried forward from the content-vocabulary audit and its present decision state. |
 | [Translation certification register](translation_process_status.json) | Machine-readable status and checksum evidence for every translation document under the isolated process. |

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 | D114 | Accepted | Give certified translations a public mark and explanation generated from the process register. | The website links every certified translation page to a public account of the two isolated directions, shows compact marks in the short-work and collection catalogues, and lists the current certified works from `project/translation_process_status.json`. The explanation states prominently that certified texts can still contain errors. The build validates the register before rendering and stops when a translation page, catalogue, or public list disagrees with it. Pending translations receive no mark. |
 | D115 | Accepted | Close the completed lexicon prose migration at the schema boundary. | Every lexicon entry must carry `description`, `articulatory_notes`, and structured `examples`. The schema rejects the retired `concept` and `grammatical_notes` properties instead of accepting them as fallbacks. Regression tests prove both requirements and both rejections, while the completed migration ledger remains available as evidence. No vocabulary entry or generated lexicon reference changes. |
 | D116 | Accepted | Verify ordered source reconstruction against an independently stored witness. | A manifest selects each of the six current *News from Nowhere* chapters from the complete Morris source, names the `morris` citation stream, and applies a stated Project Gutenberg line-wrap normalization. The checker proves that 1,054 ordered citations reconstruct 75,243 normalized characters exactly and reports missing, duplicated, reordered, or altered spans directly. A required chapter pattern stops later chapters from bypassing the check, and synthetic regression tests exercise every failure class in CI. No translation layer changes. |
+| D117 | Accepted | Preserve *News from Nowhere* source-to-Phi continuity in one maintained record. | The record fixes seven onym forms for six named people, the source-bound treatment of recurring places, durable social and material renderings, narrator and evidential practice, one-frame continuing speech, and the chapters 1-6 checkpoint. It records rejected renderings and leaves later names, place onyms, and demonstrated lexical pressure open without reserving answers. The file is available during source-to-Phi work and cross-chapter review but is forbidden to fresh Phi-to-English contexts. No translation layer, vocabulary entry, registered compound, or grammar changes. |
 
 ## Completed discretionary lexical migrations
 

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 | NTP-01 | **DONE** | Close the migrated vocabulary schema | Current entries pass a schema that requires the target prose fields and no longer accepts the retired fields. |
 | NTP-02 | **DONE** | Add independent source-reconstruction checking | At least the locally stored Morris source can be compared mechanically with each chapter's ordered citation stream. |
-| NTP-03 | **NEXT** | Establish the *News from Nowhere* continuity record | Recurring source-to-Phi choices have one maintained home that is excluded from Phi-to-English derivation. |
-| NTP-04 | **READY** | Reconcile stale project records | The roadmap, development protocol, and deferred records describe the actual completed corpus and closed grammar boundary. |
+| NTP-03 | **DONE** | Establish the *News from Nowhere* continuity record | Recurring source-to-Phi choices have one maintained home that is excluded from Phi-to-English derivation. |
+| NTP-04 | **NEXT** | Reconcile stale project records | The roadmap, development protocol, and deferred records describe the actual completed corpus and closed grammar boundary. |
 | NTP-05 | **READY** | Finish the short-work certification queue | The present Gibran, Taoist, and Buddhist short works have completed the isolated process and the generated register passes. |
 | NTP-06 | **PENDING** | Certify *News from Nowhere* chapter 1 as a pilot | The chapter has a current certification record and its findings have been classified as local or series-wide. |
 | NTP-07 | **PENDING** | Choose the Morris backlog route from pilot evidence | The decision and its evidence are recorded before either blocking chapter 7 or interleaving old and new chapters. |
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 Start with Markdown. A machine-readable schema would add maintenance without demonstrated benefit; introduce one only if actual drift shows that prose cannot carry the record reliably.
 
+Completed under D117. The continuity record now holds the settled person onyms, recurring place treatment, durable social and material renderings, narrator and evidence practice, one-frame continuing speech, rejected choices, open questions, and the chapters 1-6 checkpoint. Its isolation rule explicitly excludes the entire record from fresh Phi-to-English work.
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 ## NTP-04: Reconcile project records
 
 The broad roadmap and protocol should be corrected rather than replaced with another general roadmap. The existing original corpus now includes a sustained dialogue and three reviewed philosophical essays, so the corresponding corpus milestone and snapshot need reassessment. Obsolete exact vocabulary counts should be removed from prose where arithmetic is not the subject. The development protocol's instructions for adding particles and constructions should become an amendment boundary: Phi's grammar and particles are closed unless a demonstrated defect and explicit maintainer decision reopen canon.