Why the current output looks garbled — and what it should look like
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— e.g. "• Ace of Cups — >> [bell] >> We have the Ace of Cups energy...."
These aren't written teaching points; they're just partial quotes from the video.
... it finds, making them even shorter — stripping the already-thin content down to 3–5 words.
The rendered output shows a "Teaching" header with near-empty bullet fragments that read like errors.
09_formatted.md, 10_formatted.md) have Teaching blocks that were written analytically —
each bullet interprets what the reader did with the card, names the technique, and explains the interpretive move.
These are the source of quality in the finished PDF guides.
... from the rendering script so whatever is there shows in full,
and (2) the Kate Chiron Teaching blocks need to be properly written — either by hand or by Claude — in the same
style as the formatted files before they can render correctly.
Problem: bullet text is a sound cue + partial sentence. No interpretive content. Reads as an error.
Each bullet names the interpretive move, not just the card.
No Rule block. No card framing. The bullets are transcription noise.
Step 1 — Remove truncation in the script. The current script cuts all teaching bullets at ..., which destroys even the partial content. Remove that line:
# REMOVE THIS (in chiron_section_to_html):
if "..." in note:
note = note[:note.index("...")] + "…"
# REPLACE WITH: just show the full note as-is
# (the source content will determine quality)
Step 2 — Rewrite Kate Chiron Teaching blocks to match the 09/10 formatted file style. Each bullet should:
Step 3 — The script now also handles **Rule** blocks (updated below). These render in amber below the Teaching block.
Bottom line: The rendering script works correctly — it faithfully outputs what's in the source markdown. The problem is upstream: the Kate Chiron Teaching bullets were populated with transcript scraps instead of written interpretations. Fixing the source content will immediately fix the output.