How a line missing from a card becomes a recorded reading
Where a line appears on some plan cards and not on others, the absence is recorded as a reading with its method attached. It is never written up as a prohibition, because nothing on a blank card forbids anything. As of 2026-09-22.
| What the page looks like | How the reading is recorded |
|---|---|
| One aligned table, the line on several cards | Recorded, with the method noted as an absence |
| Separate blocks of prose per plan | Recorded with lower confidence, and the layout noted |
| The line appears once, elsewhere on the site | Not recorded as a reading about other plans |
| No comparable line anywhere | Recorded as no statement published |
Inclusion rule. Rules this register applies to every row. A rule is written down here when following it changes what a cell says, or when breaking it would make the grid look more complete than it is. Order. Reading order: the ordinary case first, then the awkward ones.
1Layout is the evidence, and it varies
In an aligned comparison every feature becomes one horizontal line, and a line that stops before a column stops inside the same design that put the feature there. In a page of separate blocks the same gap means much less.
Repetition strengthens it further. A sentence printed on four cards and missing from a fifth is a pattern rather than an oversight, and the register notes that it is a pattern rather than pretending it is a sentence.
2Why the cell keeps the method
Two readers need different things. Somebody deciding what to do this afternoon can act on a convincing absence; somebody writing a procurement note needs wording, and a pattern in a comparison table cannot be quoted.
Printing the method costs a column and prevents a category of error. Without it, a reading from silence and a reading from a sentence look identical in a scan, and they support different decisions.
3What the register will not do with an absence
Convert it into not permitted. That would be the register writing a rule the vendor declined to write, and a reader quoting the cell would be quoting us rather than the supplier.
It also would not survive the vendor adding a sentence that says something different. Recording the absence and the date leaves room for the page to change without the record becoming a false claim.
4The rest of the method
A rule about recording, not a statement about any vendor: nothing on this page is attributed and nothing on it is legal advice. The rules are collected on the reading page, the quoted clauses are on commercial use, and the cells this rule produced are on the recorded cells. Nearby rules: Blank cells, Dates.
5What the output is for
Alongside the terms behind “Reading an absence”, SceneMixer's guides describe the work itself this way:
The spoken lines and the end card follow your interface language across fifteen dialogue languages, with the cast and setting adapted to that market. The end card falls back to a language it can typeset when a script needs shaping or right-to-left layout.
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The script is written from the photos and the one-line description. In step-by-step mode you can rewrite it before anything is shot.
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