Spatial typography · Continuous 5-simplex manifold · Bidirectional execution

A notation for readings you can compare.

#>reading[compare]{shared}(shelf)<notation>
#>reading[compare]{parted}(shelf)<notation>

A mark says what a word is doing. A brace says which slot it fills. Change one slot and the reading updates. Explore lines as discrete monospace stamps here, or project their continuous topological forces on factshift.center.

Your walk, in Spw

This file writes itself as you open rooms here, in the marks this guide teaches. It stays in this browser; nothing is sent. With scripts off it shows where a walk begins.

#>walk
you@guide
~learn ~build ~forms

Still open: learn build forms

Read it line by line

#> names it, so it can be found again.
@ sets a perspective: the context before it, the subject after it. Here, you, at the guide.
~ keeps a path open without taking it: rooms not opened yet.

Open in Build Canvas

14 files, written in Spw: a bench, a study, a board, and a stage

Each works as it stands and is yours to change: edit it here, keep it as your note, or download it. On the stage, a pattern that performs sets this field's theme.

lab-notebook.spw

Canvas ↗

Chronological empirical log: dated entries categorized by epistemological kind, allowing automated synthesis of bench progression across cataloging, experimental trials, metric measurements, and landed invariants.

#>lab_notebook
#:log #!components #!themes

^"stream"{
 >>[2026-11-06 09:10] catalog — the chip, in three dialects on one screen: pill, ring, plain
 >>[2026-11-06 11:40] try — the matte theme on the chip: the ring holds its edge, the pill loses it
 >>[2026-11-06 14:05] measure — --shape-panel read 22 times in 11 files, with three fallbacks
 >>[2026-11-06 17:30] land — one inset for every panel on a phone
}

Try Add a line inside the braces: >>[2026-11-07 10:00] catalog — the card, in two dialects: lifted and flat

Marks and braces#

A mark says what a word is doing. The name is the workbench's name for that mark. The runtime line is what the reader does with it today. The numbers open the Learn panel that uses it.

potential ~

Preserve an exploratory trajectory without epistemic closure; suspend commitment to keep alternative hypotheses viable.

Runtime: Defers operand evaluation as a thunk, retaining the unreduced search space until demanded by an observer.

2 act 5 point
wonder ?

Frame an interrogative inquiry; open a metacognitive probe that tests invariant assumptions against empirical evidence.

Runtime: Dispatches a conditional predicate, evaluating the contingent branch once the interrogative precondition holds.

2 act 6 ask
action !

Commit an active intervention; apply performative force to transition system state and reveal observable consequences.

Runtime: Forces eager evaluation of its operand, committing the state transformation and returning the actualized value.

2 act 6 ask
value *

Anchor attentional focus; mark what carries durable communicative weight, canonical necessity, and epistemic salience.

Runtime: Evaluates the operand to canonical normal form, recording the stabilized invariant into an addressable register.
ground .

Anchor in shared common ground; resolve referents against local baseline schemas and presupposed contextual defaults.

Runtime: Traverses a qualified property path or dereferences the scoped baseline context from the active lexical environment.
ascension ^

Synthesize structural relations; lift disparate constituent parts into an inspectable higher-order conceptual gestalt.

Runtime: Encapsulates operands into an integrated compound record bounded by unified relational type constraints.
vibration #

Establish a rigid referential index; label structural patterns with persistent symbolic handles for retrieval and transfer.

Runtime: Reduces the structural payload into an addressable register entry registered within the global symbol table.

4 name
perspective @

Situate deictic vantage and epistemic stance; specify the observer coordinate and perceptual lens examining the field.

Runtime: Projects the operand through a situated observer lens, evaluating expressions relative to that vantage frame.

5 point
subject &

Center topical subjecthood; align disparate predicates around a shared thematic core to maintain discourse coherence.

Runtime: Performs associative unification across arguments, merging congruent predicates into the primary subject register.
configuration =

Fix parametric constraints; bind invariants and explicit configuration states to regulate system boundaries.

Runtime: Binds an identifier to an evaluated value within the active register bank, governing downstream parameterization.

4 name
measure %

Calibrate across scalar dimensions; quantify variance, error gradients, and metric thresholds to guide learning.

Runtime: Applies a metric evaluation function across focused registers, computing scalar distance, ratio, or cardinality.
substrate $

Audit the carrying substrate; account for the metabolic, temporal, and computational resources sustaining the system.

Runtime: Materializes underlying runtime metadata, exposing memory layout, latency bounds, and platform resource footprints.

<> concept Ontological boundary: encapsulates the semantic universe of discourse and categorical domain.
() scene Situational context: situates the spatiotemporal setting, environmental locus, and pragmatic frame.
[] mode Modal aspect: specifies the grammatical register, epistemic modality, and operational variant. 3 hold 6 ask
{} definition Constituent enclosure: encapsulates compositional definitions, internal clauses, and structural relations. 3 hold 6 ask

Forms, side by side: each brace, join and mark against its neighbors. Marks and braces compose: #[…] is a set, .{…} a property sheet.

Tools#

Forms, side by side

Compare lines that differ in one slot.

Take one line apart

Edit one slot. The reading updates.

!draft<chapter>(study)[second_pass]{voice, scene, turn}

Learn it a mark at a time

Seven panels. Each panel is one line.

Canvas on factshift.center

Continuous 5-simplex topological manifold: local body forces, gesture physics, and spatial wells.

Keep it on your phone

Install the guide. It opens in its own window.

Keep it in a repository

Parser, CLI, and editor tooling at .spw/_workbench.

Read it on your own page

Dated parser builds. Each build has an integrity hash.

What this is for#

This is for work that keeps a reading inspectable. A line stays a note a person can read, and a tool can still find it, check it, and follow its links. A mark says what a word is doing. A brace says which slot that word fills.

When two readings of one subject are in hand, name the slots they share and the slot where they part. Hold them on the shelf. Edit one slot in the editor. A question on a line carries the probe that would answer it.

Joins stay distinct, so a comparison can say which relation moved.

. A dot makes one name.
, A comma holds a company.
; A semicolon keeps an order.
~> A path.

The fuller statement is what Spw should let you say.

Release is published. This page keeps reader.min.js of 2026.10.13. Read the guide with the published release; that loads the release's full build and does not change what this page keeps.

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