Generated lyric effects can overlay each syllable with animated single letters
rendered through \fn in a symbol font, where ordinary letters draw as sparkles.
Reading them as text corrupted reconstructed lines ("sotto mimi ni ateru to a z
x") and leaked junk cues ("hlk"). A font a style group uses only for scattered
animated single glyphs now marks those events as decoration: they stay out of
fragment reconstruction and are suppressed alongside the line they overlay.
Per-glyph word gaps measured across a wide glyph ("waves|within" over s/w)
normalize to nearly a common advance, so the ratio test missed them. A word
space adds a roughly constant extra distance regardless of neighbor widths, so
glyph runs with enough gap samples also split when the advance exceeds the
width-predicted advance by a material fraction of the line's common unit.
Capital-to-lowercase pairs and short sample counts are excluded; both guards
are pinned by corpus-derived regression tests.
Across the 145-file library corpus this removes every scattered-letter
malformation and recovers 30+ missing word spaces with no other output change.
- Recover Latin/romaji word spaces encoded only by positioned `\pos`/`\move` fragment gaps in ASS karaoke
- Drop malformed ASS rotation-reset spacer lines and skip zero-duration metadata events
- Dedupe duplicate lines across multiline primary/secondary cues, including full-width variants
- Treat dense fragment-grid sign layouts as visual typesetting, not publishable text, during primary subtitle resolution
- Only trim indentation before slicing ASS event fields so a trailing authored space at a fragment's end is kept, preventing words from being joined together when fragmented karaoke lines are reconstructed
- Add regression test covering event-boundary word spacing
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