# Republish AP16 — The Break — Electroweak — the decorative glyph removed

The locked body is untouched. One character was removed from the published PDF: a
decorative U+2728 standing alone on page 5, on the line above the colophon.

**D75 forbids a decorative glyph anywhere in the work.** This one was also broken on
the page: no embedded font in the paper carries U+2728, so it did not render as a
glyph at all — every reader saw an empty box. The forty-seven papers that never
carried it print that block as `the420code.org` over `Copyleft 2026. Don’t be a cunt.
Be kind.`, with nothing above it, and that is now what this paper prints. The removal
is the replacement: the house form is what stands there.

AP16 has no source of record, so the PDF could not be re-exported from a document —
that would have published a different paper. The glyph was removed from the published
PDF itself, and the change was proved three ways before the file was written:

* the page count is unchanged at 38;
* the extracted text of every page is unchanged except page 5, where the only edit is
  the deletion of the glyph and its newline — a pure deletion, asserted as such, not a
  rewrite of any surrounding text;
* the rendered pixels of every page are unchanged except page 5.

No text of the paper moved. Nothing was repositioned, reflowed or re-typeset.

## The published files, all kept

*Beside, never replaced* applies to the rendered PDF as well as the text.

| | file | sha256 | pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| **published to 13 Sep 2026 (with the glyph)** | `proofs/instruments/AP16/AP16_The_Break_Electroweak_published_to_2026-09-13.pdf` | `d361386650e20b8ce988f2b201d8cffc3b9b13e7e2d0d41a4b09706ee5d44cda` | 38 |
| **published from 14 Sep 2026** | `/AP16_The_Break_Electroweak.pdf` | `d1f39bd31c28f237ab3982ec4af9b981cfaea695110354421937d2354d11ff10` | 38 |

**The outgoing digest is cited by:** `proofs/instruments/AP16/SOURCE_OF_RECORD.md` — frozen files where they are frozen,
not edited. The digest resolves to the preserved file above, kept at a stable path for
that reason.

Listing line: **AP16 · The Break — Electroweak · the decorative glyph removed, 14 September 2026**

Ruled at the author’s word, 14 September 2026: the decorative glyph is forbidden
everywhere; remove it, replace it, note it, and keep the retired version.

*A locked body is never edited, replaced or removed — corrections go beside it by dated note.*