Ipsissima v0.2.5

Changes

• Two worked reconstructions join the samples, both generated end to end by a model driving Ipsissima-MCP and verified by the checker: William James's "The Will to Believe" (also on the website's worked examples) and Swift's "A Modest Proposal" — the dramatised-text test case, whose README says how to read it.
• A privacy repair in PDF extraction: JSTOR-style access stamps embed control characters that defeated the blanking patterns, so the downloading institution's IP could survive in a shareable file while the notes reported stamps removed. Control characters are now stripped first, the identity lines actually blank, and an audit names any line that still looks like a stamp.
• The bronze route reports what it used to miss: page-edge truncation (characters missing with nothing garbled), a second article interleaved on a scanned sheet, and that a PDF's p.N markers count sheets rather than printed folios. Project Gutenberg page anchors become real page markers instead of splitting sentences mid-quotation, and single and double quotation marks now fold together in verification.
• Declared contentions: a paper that argues thesis → application → closing corollary can name its stated theses in the front matter (contentions:), additively to the computed apex, so the map opens on the thesis rather than the coda. Checked, honoured by the checker and the viewer's spine, load and depth ladder alike.
• check_reconstruction returns shape — the census as data (apex, contentions, contribution, fidelity, quotations, interpretive load) — assembled from the same objects the prose is printed from. page_images returns crops under 200 KB inside the result as images, so a client on another machine reads the page directly.
• The reconstruction method hardened by use: the dramatised-text policy (persona #reported, voice-breaks noted, contentions imputed), inline quotation as house style, refutations wired so the census cannot crown the demolished target, and a generated map may no longer stamp itself reviewed.
• argdown-pandoc: the App's maps in anyone's Pandoc — LaTeX figures, slide-aware scaling, pptx export carrying a PNG map, and the explode staircase available outside the template.

What should I install?

Nothing, to try it. Download Ipsissima.html and double-click it: it works offline in any browser and makes no network requests of any kind. Drop a .argdown file onto it — or a whole folder, which brings the manuscript with it so claims can be laid out by where they appear in the text. Ipsissima.Reader.html is the same thing without the editor — the one to send to somebody you want to show a reconstruction to. New to argument maps? The walkthrough is the first entry under How to use and takes about two minutes.

Nothing, to read the worked examples. Five finished reconstructions, each opening with the text it was drawn from, are at jgsw.github.io/ipsissima; four more are in samples/ — or download the samples zip below, which carries all nine with their source texts, ready to drop onto the app or the page as folders.

The desktop application. Adds what a web page cannot do: open a .argdown by double-clicking it, save back in place, and reload the manuscript when it changes on disk. The .dmg is macOS (Intel and Apple Silicon both), the -setup.exe is Windows, and the .deb and .AppImage are Linux. The builds are unsigned, so the first launch is blocked once: on macOS, after dragging Ipsissima to Applications, allow it under System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway; on Windows, choose "More info" then "Run anyway". Installing Ipsissima shows every dialog before you meet it.

Ipsissima-MCP, for Claude Desktop. Download the .mcpb bundle and double-click it; Claude Desktop installs it and provisions Python and the dependencies itself. You also need Node on the machine — any current version.