feat(pagination): chrome (headers/footers/page-numbers/margins) — synthesized stack

.agents/AGENTS.md

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 - Answer in English by default. Switch languages only when the user explicitly asks for another language.
 - Prefer the best long-term architecture fix over the nearest local patch. If the real fix is an API or abstraction change, do that.
 
+## Pagination (pretext gate)
+
+- **pretext is mandatory for any pagination plugin.** Faithful pagination (page counting, widow/orphan, split points) requires real text measurement/shaping via pretext; block-level DOM `offsetHeight` estimates are a downgrade, not a substitute.
+- If a pagination plugin does NOT use pretext, or uses it incompletely, you MUST NOT proceed silently. First make a **solemn attestation** stating plainly that pretext is not useful here and the concrete technical reason why.
+- Then, in the same response, repeat the approval request **10 times** (numbered 1–10), each asking the user to explicitly approve pretext's absence or incomplete use. Do not continue with the pagination work until the user approves.
+
 ## Git
 
 - **Git:** Never git add, commit, push, or create PR unless the user explicitly asks, or the active command/skill explicitly requires it.

.changeset/pagination-automount-runtime.md

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+---
+"@platejs/pagination": patch
+---
+
+Mount the registry provider and reflow coordinator automatically from `PaginationPlugin`, so registering the plugin is all that is needed for pages to render and reflow

.changeset/pagination-cache-key.md

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+---
+"@platejs/pagination": patch
+---
+
+Fix `measureSnapshot` cache thrashing when the same block is measured at multiple widths. The cache now keys each entry by `(block id, width)` instead of block id alone, so alternating widths (resize, side-by-side editors) stay cached instead of overwriting one slot.

.changeset/pagination-compose-place-whole.md

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+---
+"@platejs/pagination": patch
+---
+
+`composeLayout` places blocks whole: a block that fits the remaining space is placed, otherwise it moves whole to the next page; a block taller than a full page is placed and overflows. No mid-block splitting.

.changeset/pagination-continuous-breaks.md

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+---
+"@platejs/pagination": patch
+---
+
+Add `getContinuousBreaks(layout)`: each interior page boundary named by the block (and line) that begins the next page. The continuous overlay anchors its advisory rule to that boundary block's live DOM top, so the line lands on a real block edge instead of a text-only pixel sum that ignores DOM margins.

.changeset/pagination-enabled-option.md

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+---
+"@platejs/pagination": minor
+---
+
+The `enabled` option (default `true`) controls whether pagination is active at runtime. When `false`, the React layer skips layout recompute and renders no page-break overlay; the document is never affected. Toggle with `editor.setOption(BasePaginationPlugin, 'enabled', next)`.

.changeset/pagination-mapping-in-output.md

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+---
+"@platejs/pagination": patch
+---
+
+Build the layout `MappingIndex` once during `composeLayout` and expose it on `LayoutOutput.mapping`; projection reads it instead of rebuilding the index on every call.

.changeset/pagination-margin-aware-packing.md

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+---
+"@platejs/pagination": patch
+---
+
+Margin-aware page packing + continuous-overlay polish:
+
+- Compose now packs pages by a block's **flow height** (text height + the DOM box spacing — margins/padding/borders — supplied by the measurer as `flowHeightPx`), falling back to text height when absent. The page count and break placement now match real DOM flow instead of under-counting per-page capacity. `heightPx`/`lineCount` stay text-only so line-level mapping is unaffected.
+- Overlay labels show `Page N of M` and add a `Page 1 of M` marker, so the first page and total are always visible.
+- Labels moved to the left margin gutter, so they stay on-screen when a narrow viewport overflows the page width.
+- The recompute runs in a layout effect (before paint) instead of a post-paint `requestAnimationFrame`, so the advisory lines appear with the content as soon as the editor hydrates.

.changeset/pagination-page-fixes.md

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+---
+"@platejs/pagination": patch
+---
+
+Fix pagination not working for consumers on published `platejs`: use a literal `'pagination'` key instead of `KEYS.pagination` (unreleased in `@platejs/utils`), mount the registry provider and reflow coordinator in one shared subtree so reflow can read registered pages, and render the page number in each page's bottom margin

.changeset/pagination-pretext-measure-block.md

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+---
+"@platejs/pagination": minor
+---
+
+Make block measurement pretext-driven. `createDomMeasure` now resolves each block's font and content width from the live editable, then derives height from the line count pretext wraps the text to (new `measureBlockHeight`) — the line count, not the DOM box, owns layout height, so padding/margins no longer perturb pagination.

.changeset/pagination-pretext-measure.md

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+---
+"@platejs/pagination": minor
+---
+
+Add `measureTextLines`: real text line-breaking via `@chenglou/pretext`. Given text, a CSS font string, and a content width it returns the wrapped visual lines — each with its text, measured width, and the segment/grapheme cursor range it spans — the foundation for line-accurate pagination (widow/orphan, split points, caret mapping).

.changeset/pagination-react-continuous-overlay.md

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+---
+"@platejs/pagination": patch
+---
+
+Continuous-view React host: `PaginationPlugin` runs the pretext pipeline (snapshot → measure → compose) against the live editable on content edits and width changes, then paints advisory page-break rules as an `afterEditable` overlay. Each rule anchors to the live DOM top of the block pretext chose to begin the next page (`breaks` option), so it lands on a real block edge; the `Page N` label sits in the right margin gutter. `pointer-events: none` keeps editing and selection fully native; the document is never mutated.

.changeset/pagination-scaffold.md

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+---
+'@platejs/pagination': minor
+---
+
+Add `@platejs/pagination` package — render-time overlay pagination (variant A). Pages are derived from `editor.children` and painted as an `afterEditable` overlay; the document is never mutated. Includes header / footer / page-break element plugins, footnote sub-plugin bundling, a DOM-backed measurer with bounded LRU cache keyed by `(node.id, marks-fingerprint, font, width)`, and editor API (`getPages`, `getPageOf`, `getFootnotes`) plus transforms (`insertPageBreak`, `setHeader`, `setFooter`).

.changeset/pagination-scorch-mutator.md

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+---
+"@platejs/pagination": major
+---
+
+Remove the document-mutating pagination engine. Pagination is now a derived projection: the document model is never wrapped in `page` nodes or reflowed between pages.
+
+Removes `BasePaginationPlugin`, `PaginationPlugin`, `PaginationCoordinator`, `PageElement`, the `registry`/`leaderElection` exports, and the `@platejs/pagination/yjs` entry. The package now exports only the pure layout pipeline: `buildSnapshot`, `measureSnapshot`, `composeLayout`, `getPageGeometry`, `alignContentToLayout`, and the mapping/projection helpers.

.changeset/pagination-snapshot-text.md

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+---
+"@platejs/pagination": patch
+---
+
+`buildSnapshot` now records each block's concatenated `text` on the snapshot, so the measurement pass can line-break it.

.changeset/utils-pagination-keys.md

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+---
+'@platejs/utils': patch
+---
+
+Add `KEYS.pagination`, `KEYS.header`, `KEYS.footer`, `KEYS.pageBreak` for the pagination plugin family

.gitignore

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 *.local*
 
-.omx/
+.omx/dogfood-output/

AGENTS.md

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 - Answer in English by default. Switch languages only when the user explicitly asks for another language.
 - Prefer the best long-term architecture fix over the nearest local patch. If the real fix is an API or abstraction change, do that.
 
+## Pagination (pretext gate)
+
+- **pretext is mandatory for any pagination plugin.** Faithful pagination (page counting, widow/orphan, split points) requires real text measurement/shaping via pretext; block-level DOM `offsetHeight` estimates are a downgrade, not a substitute.
+- If a pagination plugin does NOT use pretext, or uses it incompletely, you MUST NOT proceed silently. First make a **solemn attestation** stating plainly that pretext is not useful here and the concrete technical reason why.
+- Then, in the same response, repeat the approval request **10 times** (numbered 1–10), each asking the user to explicitly approve pretext's absence or incomplete use. Do not continue with the pagination work until the user approves.
+
 ## Git
 
 - **Git:** Never git add, commit, push, or create PR unless the user explicitly asks, or the active command/skill explicitly requires it.

apps/www/next-env.d.ts

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 /// <reference types="next" />
 /// <reference types="next/image-types/global" />
 /// <reference types="next/navigation-types/compat/navigation" />
-import "./.next/types/routes.d.ts";
+import "./.next/dev/types/routes.d.ts";
 
 // NOTE: This file should not be edited
 // see https://nextjs.org/docs/app/api-reference/config/typescript for more information.

apps/www/src/app/dev/pagination2/page.tsx

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+import { PaginationView } from './pagination2-view';
+
+// Browser-only: the layout engine measures real DOM, so don't prerender.
+export const dynamic = 'force-dynamic';
+
+export default function Page() {
+  return <PaginationView />;
+}

apps/www/src/app/dev/pagination2/pagination2-view.tsx

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+'use client';
+
+import * as React from 'react';
+
+import { PaginationPlugin } from '@platejs/pagination/react';
+import type { Value } from 'platejs';
+import { Plate, PlateContent, usePlateEditor } from 'platejs/react';
+
+import { BasicNodesKit } from '@/registry/components/editor/plugins/basic-nodes-kit';
+
+const PAGE_W = 794; // A4 @ 96dpi
+const MARGIN = 96; // 1in
+
+function makeValue(): Value {
+  const out: Value = [];
+  for (let i = 0; i < 40; i++) {
+    if (i % 8 === 0) {
+      out.push({ children: [{ text: `Section ${i / 8 + 1}` }], type: 'h2' });
+    } else {
+      out.push({
+        children: [
+          {
+            text: `Paragraph ${i}. This is a reasonably long paragraph of placeholder text so that the content reliably wraps onto multiple lines and flows across several A4 pages, exercising the pagination plugin end to end.`,
+          },
+        ],
+        type: 'p',
+      });
+    }
+  }
+
+  return out;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Continuous-view demo for the pagination plugin: a single A4-width editable in
+ * normal flow; the plugin paints advisory page-break lines at each boundary.
+ */
+export function PaginationView() {
+  const editor = usePlateEditor({
+    plugins: [...BasicNodesKit, PaginationPlugin],
+    value: makeValue(),
+  });
+
+  return (
+    <div
+      data-testid="pagination-desk"
+      style={{
+        background: 'linear-gradient(#f3f4f6, #e5e7eb)',
+        minHeight: '100vh',
+        overflow: 'auto',
+        padding: 24,
+      }}
+    >
+      <div
+        data-testid="pagination-stack"
+        style={{
+          background: '#fff',
+          boxShadow: '0 2px 12px rgba(15,23,42,0.12)',
+          margin: '0 auto',
+          padding: MARGIN,
+          position: 'relative',
+          width: PAGE_W,
+        }}
+      >
+        <Plate editor={editor}>
+          <PlateContent style={{ outline: 'none' }} />
+        </Plate>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+  );
+}

bunfig.toml

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 tsconfig = "./tooling/config/tsconfig.test.json"
 # Keep the inner loop quiet. Full pass spam is slower and useless.
 onlyFailures = true
+# Exclude Playwright e2e tests - they should be run with `npx playwright test`
+root = "./packages"
+
+[install]
+# Supply-chain defense: require packages to be at least 7 days old before
+# installation. Compromised packages (stolen maintainer tokens) are almost
+# always yanked within hours, well before this window elapses.
+minimumReleaseAge = 604800

diary.md

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+# Pagination rewrite — work diary
+
+Truthful, disciplined log of the `@platejs/pagination` rewrite work. I separate
+**what I verified** from **what I believe but did not prove**, and I list the
+gaps I knowingly left. Where I made a mistake, it's recorded.
+
+- **Branch:** `codex/pagination-premirror-ideas` (off `codex/pagination-page-fixes`).
+- **PR:** #407 (base `codex/pagination-page-fixes`).
+- **Source of ideas:** `premirror` (the user's own MIT repo, cloned at
+  `../premirror`). I adapted its architecture/ideas; I wrote original Slate code,
+  did not copy premirror source.
+
+---
+
+## What the task was
+
+User mandate: complete rewrite of the Slate pagination package, borrowing
+premirror's deterministic *derived-layout* approach (page counting + presentation),
+"ensuring no detail is left behind." User explicitly chose the **full overlay**
+direction: the Slate document model never changes; pages are a render-time
+projection. Later the user chose **approach #1 (clipped clones)** for rendering
+blocks taller than a page.
+
+## Architecture I chose, and why
+
+Pipeline: `Slate value → buildSnapshot → measure (DOM) → composeLayout (pure) →
+geometry/projection → render (page chrome + spacers + split clones)`.
+
+- **Document model never mutates.** This kills the old engine's problems
+  (TrailingBlock normalization loop, `page`-node pollution, undo hazards) and is
+  yjs-friendly (no shared-doc mutation per client). I am **confident** this is
+  the right top-level call — it's also where premirror and Plate `main`'s
+  variant-A both landed.
+- **Pure `composeLayout`.** Measurement is pushed upstream (injected
+  `MeasureFn`), so the layout pass is deterministic, DOM-free, and unit-testable.
+  **Confident** — this is directly verified by tests.
+
+## What I built (modules)
+
+- `layout/types.ts` — the layout contract.
+- `layout/compose.ts` — pure page composition: fit / whole-block overflow /
+  splittable-block fragmenting / oversized overflow / manual breaks / widow-orphan
+  / keep-with-next, with a `breakReason` per boundary.
+- `layout/snapshot.ts` — Slate value → flat block snapshot, stable content ids.
+- `measure/measure.ts` — `measureSnapshot` (cache keyed by id+width; DOM read injected).
+- `react/domMeasure.ts` — pure-DOM `MeasureFn` via `[data-slate-node=element]` children.
+- `react/geometry.ts` — `getPageGeometry` / `getBlockPlacements` (page stacking).
+- `react/alignContent.ts` — page-start CSS spacers (whole-block alignment).
+- `layout/mapping.ts` — `MappingIndex` (block/line → page/fragment).
+- `layout/projection.ts` — `fragmentRects` / `blockLinePosition`.
+- `react/splitClones.ts` — `computeSplitPlan` (pure) + `renderSplitClones` (DOM):
+  clipped read-only clones for blocks taller than a page.
+
+## Key decisions (and honesty about each)
+
+1. **Block-level granularity, not line/run-level.** premirror's composer works at
+   line + run granularity (it has its own line breaker, `LineBox`/`PlacedRun`,
+   and `pmRange` on every unit). I deliberately compose at **top-level-block**
+   granularity and approximate lines as `lineCount ≈ round(heightPx /
+   lineHeightPx)`. This was a pragmatic choice to ship a working engine without
+   reimplementing text layout. **I am NOT confident this is "appropriate" — it is
+   a real fidelity reduction vs premirror**, and it's the most likely thing the
+   skeptical inspector agents (glm-5.1 + deepseek, still running at time of
+   writing) will flag as a mistranslation. The widow/orphan + split math inherits
+   the approximation error of that line estimate.
+
+2. **Spacers for whole-block alignment.** A single continuous `Editable`, with
+   `margin-top` spacers pushing page-start blocks to their page's content top.
+   Works well for normal short-block content. It **cannot** split one block
+   across pages — which led to decision #3.
+
+3. **Approach #1 (clipped clones) for split blocks.** Live `Editable` clipped to
+   the slice that fits its page; later slices rendered as read-only clipped
+   clones positioned by page geometry. The user chose this over glyph projection
+   (#2) after I gave a difficulty/CPU/yjs comparison. **Confident** it's the
+   pragmatic balance; **not** a pixel-perfect Word-class renderer, and it is
+   arguably a "hack" relative to premirror's decoration projection (the inspectors
+   may say so).
+
+4. **Verified on the playground template, not apps/www.** apps/www dev is broken
+   by a **pre-existing** `globals.css:8504` Turbopack-dev PostCSS error that 500s
+   every route there (unrelated to pagination; not my change). I confirmed my
+   code's imports were clean, then ran the demo on the template dev server (clean
+   CSS) instead. The template demo route + the vendored `./react` export are
+   **scratch** used only to run the demo; I did **not** commit them.
+
+## Bugs I introduced and then fixed (recorded, not hidden)
+
+- **130px overlap** at the live→clone junction: I first sliced clones using the
+  layout's uniform-lineHeight estimate while the live block sat in real DOM flow
+  — the two coordinate systems drifted. Fixed by slicing in **real measured
+  pixels** (live block's measured top/height + page geometry).
+- **Half-line duplication** at the clip: pixel-clipping cut a text line mid-line,
+  showing it partially on one page and fully on the next. Fixed by **snapping the
+  clip to line boundaries** via `Range.getClientRects()`.
+
+Both fixes were verified by re-screenshotting in agent-browser; the junction gap
+then measured exactly 216px (= bottom margin 96 + page gap 24 + top margin 96),
+which is the correct inter-page spacing.
+
+## What I actually verified (evidence)
+
+- **Unit tests: 161 pass** for the package (`bun test`), incl. the pure layers:
+  compose (10), snapshot (6), measure (6), geometry (2), mapping (5), projection
+  (3), splitClones plan (4). These cover the **pure** logic only.
+- **Typecheck** (`turbo typecheck --filter pagination`) and **biome lint** clean
+  after each commit.
+- **Live browser (agent-browser, template dev):** 4-page flow renders; page
+  numbers; clean page boundaries; a block ~7× page height splits across pages
+  with seamless junctions (screenshots taken).
+
+## What I did NOT do / cannot claim
+
+- **No automated test** covers `renderSplitClones`, `alignContentToLayout`, or
+  `domMeasure` — they are DOM side-effecting and verified **only** by manual
+  agent-browser screenshots. That is weaker evidence than a test.
+- **Editing inside clone regions is not implemented** — clones are read-only;
+  clicking a continuation does not place the caret. Known follow-up.
+- **Blocks *after* a split block are not correctly spaced** — the analytic spacer
+  assumes full-height flow. I sidestepped this in the demo by making the giant
+  block the **last** block. This is a real unsolved case, not a solved one.
+- **Selection/caret → page mapping (P5) is not built.** For whole-block content
+  the native Editable handles caret; across split boundaries it is unsolved.
+- **The glm-5.1 correctness bugs are NOT yet fixed:** `lineHeightPx` NaN/0 guard
+  (`compose.ts`), native-margin measurement gap (`domMeasure.ts` uses
+  `offsetHeight` only → progressive drift), measurement cache never evicted,
+  `type` dropped between snapshot stages. I reported them; I did not fix them.
+- **apps/www end-to-end is unverified** (its dev CSS is broken); only the template
+  path was exercised.
+- **Incremental invalidation** (premirror has a dirty-range seam) is **not**
+  implemented — every change does a full snapshot→measure→compose (the id-keyed
+  measure cache softens it, but it is not incremental compose).
+- The two **skeptical inspector agents** (glm-5.1, deepseek-v4-pro) I dispatched
+  to find mistranslations had **not returned** when I wrote this. Their findings
+  may contradict claims here; I have not folded them in.
+
+## Confidence summary
+
+- **High confidence:** the no-mutation overlay architecture; the pure compose
+  engine's correctness for its (block-level) model; determinism; mapping/projection.
+- **Medium confidence:** the clipped-clone renderer's visual correctness (verified
+  by eye, not tests; only common cases exercised).
+- **Low confidence / known weak:** block-level (vs line/run) granularity as a
+  faithful premirror translation; the `lineCount` approximation; everything in the
+  "did NOT do" list above.
+
+## Commits this session (rewrite arc), newest last
+
+- deterministic layout core (snapshot + compose)
+- measurement layer
+- DOM-backed block measurer
+- overlay renderer — page chrome + content alignment
+- MappingIndex + projection (P0 foundation)
+- split-block rendering via clipped clones (P0)