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Hamburg harbour research example

Style & Tense Analysis

Lixity 0.7.0 · read-only research example · Current main (unreleased)

Start with Dossiers: Warehouse 4 case notes links to an authored claim and one saved manuscript quote. Claims exposes the retained supporting passage; Review shows the exact saved quote and its claim-version pin. Decisions records the author's fictional choices. These links are explicit associations, not automatic fact checks.

Zotero normally owns bibliography, reading and source notes. Lixity retains selected evidence and authored records for manuscript work. This offline example has no live Zotero connection: its customs-log capture contains explicitly synthetic Zotero identity metadata, and source-return actions are disabled. The retained passage, authored claim and manuscript quote are separate records.

The customs log, weather notes, manuscript, people, Warehouse 4 incident and journeys are fictional demonstration records. The dated public-domain visuals provide setting references and do not verify events or conditions in 1923. Select a dossier image to enlarge it. Coordinates are approximate author-entered examples; the sketch has no background tiles and does not calculate routes.

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    Your first manuscript review

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    Choose a manuscript

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    Confirm the language

    Choose and confirm the manuscript language in the preview before analysis.

    3
    Read a passage behind a signal

    Start with a passage, compare chapters and inspect sentence rhythm. Decide what fits the scene and voice.

    Research and further analysis
    FDR multiple testingStatistical shortlist for closer reading (nominal signals)
    3D style spaceChapter similarities from measured word and sentence patterns
    Local researchFull-text search, dossiers and evidence comparison

    Research & Dossiers

    Dossiers, claims and manuscript evidence. Manage sources, reading and notes in Zotero.

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    Set up OCR and Zotero

    Check local prerequisites. No sources or library records are imported by this check.

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    Zotero

    Open Zotero Desktop. In Settings → Advanced, allow other applications on this computer to use its local API, then check again.

    Zotero

    OCR

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    Tesseract · Poppler

    German + English example only: choose the languages actually needed for your scans; these values are not inferred from the manuscript.

    LIXITY_OCR_BACKEND=tesseract
LIXITY_OCR_LANGUAGES=deu+eng

    Set the chosen OCR environment values when starting Lixity, then restart the server manually and check again. Test only a permitted scan and review its text.

    The browser's JSON request budget is 5 MiB; CLI PDF input allows 50 MiB. Use CLI or a server-local file for long scans rather than increasing the browser budget.

    Advanced diagnostics
    Research archive not initialized
    This project has no local research archive (research/) yet.
    Saved sources
    Retained copies for evidence and passage selection. Reading and notes stay in Zotero; captures update only on request.
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    Capture from Zotero
    Manage sources and media in Zotero. Capture selected text, PDF or PNG/JPEG sources here. Images remain visual references without OCR.
    Alternative: import a local source
    Optional details
    Records where the source came from; no download or verification.
    Search Lixity records
    Search retained passages and current dossiers, claims and decisions. Use Zotero to search your source library.
    Create dossier
    Optional details
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    The same entries in two views: the list shows evidence links, the timeline sorts by recorded period.
      
        Add historical claim    
        
        
        
    Optional details
        
    Placed formats: 1923 · 1923-03 · 1923-03-15 · 1923–1924 or 1923-1924. Free text stays unplaced.
        
        
                    
      
      
        Link passage evidence to claim    
                          
        
                    
      
      
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    Cause and effect claims
    Your interpretation links two reviewed claim versions. It does not verify causality.
    Saving a cause/effect link upgrades this archive to format 6 and requires Lixity 3.0 or newer readers. Back up first.
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    Deliberate creative or historical choices with rationale; they are not historical claims.
      
        Record creative decision or historical deviation    
        
        
        
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    Keep decisions and dossiers in step
    These candidates follow recorded links, revision pins and dates. They do not establish a contradiction or prove that a dossier needs rewriting. Historical pins may be intentional.
    Saved manuscript associations
    Checks saved quotes against the current manuscript and claim versions. Moved, changed or ambiguous anchors stay unresolved; adjusted paragraphs with an unchanged quote can be accepted directly; flags name review needs, not semantic contradictions.
    Compare source with loaded manuscript
    

    

    

    

    Project & Settings
    

    Settings
    Use Apply to update the analysis and reports with your changes.
    Project details
    Project name shown in the header and used as the title in reports and PDFs.
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    Analysis
    English is the default. Choose auto explicitly to estimate the language from function words; check the result for short or mixed-language text.
    Adjust highlights (advanced, optional)
    Keep the defaults to start. These thresholds control which differences are highlighted. Lower deviation thresholds highlight more differences; the results are signals for review, not writing grades.
    Threshold for notable deviations |z*| – lower = more sensitive, higher = only strong outliers reported. Default: 2.5
    Threshold for strong deviations |z*| – from here a cell counts as a strong outlier. Default: 3.5
    Smaller q makes the nominal FDR shortlist stricter. It is not the chance that a chapter is wrong; error rates for these chapter comparisons are not calibrated. Default: 0.05
    When many chapter features are compared, a nominal multiple-testing rule marks a shortlist for review. Read these signals with their size and prose context; chapter error rates are not calibrated. Default: Benjamini–Hochberg
    Dimension-score threshold |score| – from here a chapter is marked on that style axis. Default: 2.5
    Severity floor for the flags panel – 1 = watch everything, 2 = default, 3 = only strong friction.
    Language and thresholds apply only to this server session. Open a local project to save them for future sessions.
    A5 book PDF details (optional)
    Open an explicit project to save publication details. No names or addresses are inferred.
    Publication workflow and limits
    Chapter registers (optional)
    Use a register for chapters with a deliberately different voice, such as letters or another narrator. Apply saves the assignments and any custom feature ranges for this project. Assigned chapters are excluded from FDR flags; z values still compare them with the whole book. Ranges describe features, not quality.
    Open an explicit local project to save registers.
    Chapter registers (optional)
    Chapter assignments
    Numbers select exactly one chapter. Titles may be partial. Leave one range bound empty for an open range. Changes are saved with Apply.
    Changes take effect only after Apply; the analysis is rebuilt.The strong-deviation threshold must be at least the noticeable-deviation threshold.
    

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    Create project
              
        
                    
        
    Create a local project from a manuscript or a new draft. Lixity writes only into the project folder; nothing is uploaded.
        
          
                            
              
                Manuscript recognized            manuscript.md          
              
                
    Scope: 
                
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              Lixity saves the manuscript (manuscript.md) and project settings (lixity.toml) in a local folder.        
            
                                
            
              
                                        Used for sentences, tense and readability. You can change it later.          
              
                                        Used for PDF credits, the title page and the NDA. You can change it later in Project → Settings.          
            
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              Creates manuscript.md with the chosen chapter structure, lixity.toml and optionally research/.        
            
                                
            
              
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                                  Used for PDF credits, the title page and the NDA. You can change it later in Project → Settings.        
            
              Choose narrative structure          
                                                  
            
            
              
    Included in the research template.
            
            
            
                                
          
        
      
      
        
          
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        Review concurrent changes
                
        Nothing has been saved. Changes to different fields can be combined. Choose a value for each conflict, apply the preview, then save explicitly.
                
                      
              
              
        Links keep the saved version you chose. Leave a version blank to keep an existing link; a newly chosen entry uses its latest saved version.
              
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Present
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Mixed
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noticeable / strong friction

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            Densities count word-pattern matches per 1,000 words, not percentages. In very short paragraphs, a few matches produce high values. These patterns are not a full grammatical analysis.
            

            

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            License terms
            Open source under AGPL-3.0-or-later: writing and selling your manuscript, including self-publishing, needs no extra permission. A separate written commercial license is available only for closed-source integrations.
            License termsCommercial license
            

            

            Image source credits
            Hamburg free-port area, circa 1900
            circa 1900. Richard Krause; Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Hamburg; excerpt via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain; Wikimedia Commons marks PD-old-100 and PD-US-expired.
            Unmodified published excerpt from Richard Krause's harbour plan, held by Hamburg State and University Library. The source catalogue identifies a circa-1900 map with later planned harbour alterations on the parent sheet. This raster excerpt is not georeferenced in Lixity and does not establish a fictional journey or conditions in 1923.
            Source catalogue · Wikimedia Commons record · Public-domain rights statement
            Ships in the Harbor, Hamburg, Germany
            1890-1900. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Photochrom Print Collection, ppmsca.00419; via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain; Wikimedia Commons marks PD-old-70-expired.
            Unmodified historical photochrom print dated 1890-1900 in the Library of Congress catalogue, print 1862, digital identifier ppmsca.00419. The colour process is part of the historical print. This visual reference does not document the invented Warehouse 4 incident or its weather and is not a 1923 photograph.
            Source catalogue · Wikimedia Commons record · Public-domain rights statement
            Reviewed image provenance manifest
            Lixity · Style & Tense Analysis · Hamburg harbour research example