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padding: 4px 2px; border-bottom: 2px solid transparent;
}
.bk__nav a:hover { color: var(--color-text); }
.bk__nav a[aria-current="true"] {
color: var(--color-text); border-bottom-color: var(--color-accent);
}
/* Every element the nav above can land on. The value has to clear both bars
in .bk__topbar at once, since they stack as one sticky unit.
Measured, not estimated: rendered at 1600px wide the two bars come to 116px
together, and the screen type scale further down is what put them there (it
raises the nav from 11px to 13px and the buttons with it). 132px leaves 16px
of clearance under the second bar. Anyone changing those sizes should
re-measure rather than assume this number still fits. */
.bk__navtarget { scroll-margin-top: 132px; }
/* Every top-level block of the book is a page. Print gives each one a fresh
sheet; on screen they are just sections with a rule between them. Keeping the
rule on the class rather than on named sections is what lets a later section
(the field research appendix) be appended without touching any of this. */
.bk__page { border-top: var(--rule); padding-top: var(--space-8); margin-top: var(--space-8); }
.bk__page:first-child { border-top: 0; padding-top: 0; margin-top: var(--space-6); }
.bk__eyebrow {
font-family: var(--font-mono); font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 0.12em;
color: var(--color-accent-2); margin: 0 0 var(--space-3);
}
.bk__h2 { font-size: clamp(24px, 3.4vw, 34px); margin-bottom: var(--space-3); }
.bk__h3 { margin: var(--space-6) 0 var(--space-2); }
.bk__lede { font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6; max-width: 62ch; color: var(--color-muted); }
.bk__note { font-size: 14px; color: var(--color-muted); max-width: 62ch; margin: 0 0 var(--space-4); }
.bk__fine { font-size: 13px; color: var(--color-dim); max-width: 62ch; }
.bk__mono {
font-family: var(--font-mono); font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 0.06em;
color: var(--color-dim); font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums;
}
/* ─── cover ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── */
.bk__cover-title { font-size: clamp(34px, 7vw, 64px); }
.bk__cover-sub {
font-family: var(--font-mono); font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.08em;
color: var(--color-accent); margin: var(--space-4) 0 var(--space-6);
font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums;
}
.bk__cover-rule { border: 0; border-top: 1px solid var(--color-line-strong); margin: var(--space-8) 0; }
/* ─── at a glance ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────── */
.bk__glance {
display: grid; grid-template-columns: repeat(auto-fit, minmax(110px, 1fr));
border: var(--rule); border-radius: var(--radius); margin: var(--space-6) 0;
}
.bk__glance > div { padding: var(--space-4); }
.bk__glance > div + div { border-left: var(--rule); }
.bk__glance-n {
font-family: var(--font-heading); font-weight: var(--fw-bold); font-size: 24px;
font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums;
}
.bk__glance-l { font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 0.08em; color: var(--color-dim); margin-top: 2px; }
/* ─── tables ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── */
.bk__table { width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px; }
.bk__table caption {
text-align: left; font-size: 13px; color: var(--color-dim);
padding-bottom: var(--space-3); max-width: 62ch;
}
.bk__table th {
text-align: left; font-family: var(--font-mono); font-weight: 500;
font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 0.08em; text-transform: uppercase;
color: var(--color-dim); padding: 0 var(--space-3) 4px 0;
border-bottom: 1px solid var(--color-line-strong);
}
.bk__table td {
padding: 4px var(--space-3) 4px 0; border-bottom: 1px solid var(--color-line);
vertical-align: top;
}
.bk__table td:last-child, .bk__table th:last-child { padding-right: 0; }
.bk__num, th.bk__num {
text-align: right; font-family: var(--font-mono); font-size: 12px;
color: var(--color-dim); font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums; white-space: nowrap;
}
.bk__strong td { font-weight: var(--fw-bold); color: var(--color-text); }
.bk__poi { color: var(--color-accent); }
/* A gap the author has not filled in. Never fill one of these with a guess: a
reader plans dates and permits off this page. */
.bk__todo {
font-family: var(--font-mono); font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 0.06em;
color: var(--color-faint); border: 1px dashed var(--color-line-strong);
border-radius: var(--radius); padding: 6px 10px; margin-top: var(--space-3);
display: block;
}
td .bk__todo { margin-top: 0; }
/* ─── maps ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── */
.atlas { display: block; width: 100%; height: auto; }
.atlas .neighbour { fill: none; stroke: rgba(236,229,218,0.20); stroke-width: 1; }
.atlas .india { fill: #2b251d; stroke: rgba(245,239,230,0.92); stroke-width: 1.4; }
.atlas .route { fill: none; stroke: var(--color-accent-2); stroke-width: 2; stroke-linejoin: round; stroke-linecap: round; }
/* The whole loop, under the sector being shown: dimmed and dashed, so the sector
reads as the subject and the rest as context. */
.atlas .route--planned {
fill: none; stroke: var(--color-dim); stroke-width: 1.4;
stroke-dasharray: 5 4; opacity: 0.75;
stroke-linejoin: round; stroke-linecap: round;
}
.atlas .stop { fill: #14100a; stroke: rgba(236,229,218,0.75); stroke-width: 1.1; }
.atlas .hit { fill: transparent; }
/* The two K2K lines. One hue, because they are one route; two dash patterns,
because they are its two directions and on paper dash is all a reader gets. */
.atlas .route--k2k { fill: none; stroke: var(--color-accent); stroke-width: 2; }
.atlas .route--k2k-n { stroke-linejoin: round; stroke-linecap: round; }
.atlas .route--k2k-s { stroke-dasharray: 9 4 1.5 4; stroke-linejoin: round; stroke-linecap: round; }
.bk__legend i.k2k { color: var(--color-accent); }
.bk__map { max-width: 340px; margin: var(--space-4) 0; }
.bk__map--master { max-width: 460px; }
.bk__map--cover { max-width: 300px; }
.bk__legend {
display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; gap: var(--space-4);
font-family: var(--font-mono); font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 0.06em;
color: var(--color-dim); margin-top: var(--space-2);
}
.bk__legend i { font-style: normal; color: var(--color-accent-2); }
.bk__legend i.dim { color: var(--color-dim); }
/* ─── sector spread ────────────────────────────────────────────────────── */
.bk__sector-id {
font-family: var(--font-mono); font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 0.12em;
color: var(--color-accent-2); margin: 0 0 var(--space-2);
}
.bk__sector-meta {
font-family: var(--font-mono); font-size: 12px; color: var(--color-dim);
font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums; margin-top: var(--space-2);
}
.bk__join {
display: inline-block; font-family: var(--font-mono); font-size: 11px;
letter-spacing: 0.08em; color: var(--color-accent-2);
border: 1px solid var(--color-accent-2); border-radius: var(--radius);
padding: 2px 8px; margin-top: var(--space-3);
}
.bk__stage { margin-top: var(--space-6); }
/* Under the map key, not hard against it. */
.bk__season { margin-top: var(--space-6); }
.bk__stage-h {
font-family: var(--font-mono); font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 0.06em;
color: var(--color-muted); margin-bottom: var(--space-2);
}
/* Map beside the tables while there is room for it; stacked below that, and
stacked again in print, where a tall table next to a short map would leave
half a sheet empty. */
.bk__spread { display: block; }
@media (min-width: 780px) {
.bk__spread { display: grid; grid-template-columns: 320px minmax(0, 1fr); gap: var(--space-8); align-items: start; }
.bk__spread .bk__map { margin-top: 0; }
}
/* The sentence that stops a reader concluding the longer loop is cheaper. It sits
against the table it explains, at body weight, not as a footnote under it. */
.bk__caveat {
font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.55; color: var(--color-text); max-width: 66ch;
border-left: 3px solid var(--color-accent);
padding: var(--space-2) 0 var(--space-2) var(--space-4);
margin-top: var(--space-4);
}
.bk__caveat strong { font-weight: var(--fw-bold); }
/* ─── blank planning pages ─────────────────────────────────────────────── */
.bk__blank td { height: 26px; }
.bk__rule-lines { margin-top: var(--space-4); }
.bk__rule-lines div { border-bottom: 1px solid var(--color-line); height: 26px; }
.bk__check {
display: grid; grid-template-columns: repeat(auto-fit, minmax(210px, 1fr));
gap: var(--space-6); margin-top: var(--space-4);
}
.bk__check h4 {
font-family: var(--font-mono); font-weight: 500; font-size: 11px;
letter-spacing: 0.08em; text-transform: uppercase; color: var(--color-dim);
border-bottom: 1px solid var(--color-line-strong); padding-bottom: 4px;
}
.bk__check-lines div { border-bottom: 1px solid var(--color-line); height: 26px; }
/* ─── field research ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────
* The xBhp archive material. Two shapes: short bordered asides that sit inline
* with the sector or the cost table they bear on, and the appendix proper,
* which is ordinary book pages built out of the same tokens as everything else.
* Nothing here introduces a colour, a font or a radius the book did not already
* have, and the print block below flips it all with the rest.
*/
.bk__archive {
border: var(--rule); border-radius: var(--radius);
padding: var(--space-4); margin-top: var(--space-6);
}
.bk__archive-h {
font-family: var(--font-mono); font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 0.10em;
text-transform: uppercase; color: var(--color-accent-2); margin-bottom: var(--space-2);
}
.bk__archive-src {
font-family: var(--font-mono); font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 0.06em;
color: var(--color-faint); margin-top: var(--space-3);
}
.bk__archive .bk__table { margin-top: var(--space-4); }
/* Photographs. Every one of these is somebody else's work, reproduced with the
watermark intact, so the credit is part of the figure and not a caption
flourish: it is emitted with the image, always, in both media. */
.bk__fig { margin: var(--space-6) 0; }
/* Capped on height as well as width, and never stretched past its own pixels:
the two portrait plates are 665×1100 and 733×1100, and at width:100% in this
column they would be upscaled to roughly 1,390px tall: a soft image and a
figure taller than the screen. Print caps the same way, in millimetres. */
.bk__fig img {
display: block; width: auto; max-width: 100%; height: auto; max-height: 620px;
border-radius: var(--radius-sm); border: var(--rule);
}
.bk__fig figcaption {
font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5; color: var(--color-muted);
max-width: 62ch; margin-top: var(--space-3);
}
.bk__credit {
font-family: var(--font-mono); font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 0.06em;
color: var(--color-dim); margin-top: var(--space-2);
}
.bk__quote {
border-left: 3px solid var(--color-line-strong);
padding-left: var(--space-4); margin: var(--space-6) 0;
font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.55; color: var(--color-muted); max-width: 62ch;
}
.bk__quote-cite {
display: block; font-family: var(--font-mono); font-size: 11px;
letter-spacing: 0.06em; font-style: normal; color: var(--color-dim);
margin-top: var(--space-3);
}
.bk__log {
border: var(--rule); border-radius: var(--radius);
padding: var(--space-4); margin: var(--space-6) 0;
}
.bk__log-h {
font-family: var(--font-mono); font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 0.08em;
text-transform: uppercase; color: var(--color-dim); margin-bottom: var(--space-3);
}
.bk__log-row { display: flex; gap: var(--space-4); padding: 3px 0; }
.bk__log-row + .bk__log-row { border-top: var(--rule); }
.bk__log-k {
flex: 0 0 96px; font-family: var(--font-mono); font-size: 11px;
letter-spacing: 0.06em; color: var(--color-dim);
}
.bk__log-v { flex: 1; font-size: 13px; min-width: 0; }
.bk__meta {
font-family: var(--font-mono); font-size: 12px; color: var(--color-dim);
font-variant-numeric: tabular-nums; margin-bottom: var(--space-2);
}
.bk__body { font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; color: var(--color-muted); max-width: 66ch; margin-top: var(--space-4); }
.bk__refs { margin-top: var(--space-6); }
.bk__refs h3 {
font-family: var(--font-mono); font-weight: 500; font-size: 11px;
letter-spacing: 0.08em; text-transform: uppercase; color: var(--color-dim);
border-bottom: 1px solid var(--color-line-strong); padding-bottom: 4px;
margin: var(--space-6) 0 var(--space-3);
}
.bk__refs ol { margin: 0; padding-left: 20px; }
.bk__refs li { font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5; color: var(--color-muted); margin-bottom: var(--space-2); max-width: 72ch; }
/* display:flex would otherwise beat the UA's [hidden] rule and show the toggle
before there is an appendix for it to hide. */
.bk__skip {
font-family: var(--font-mono); font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 0.06em;
color: var(--color-muted); display: flex; align-items: center; gap: var(--space-2);
}
.bk__skip[hidden] { display: none; }
.state-msg { font-size: 13px; color: var(--color-dim); }
.state-msg[hidden] { display: none; }
.bk__foot {
margin-top: var(--space-8); padding-top: var(--space-4); border-top: var(--rule);
font-family: var(--font-mono); font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 0.06em; color: var(--color-dim);
}
/* ─── on a screen ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
* Everything above this line is sized for A4, where the constraint is fitting a
* sector spread on one sheet and 9.6pt is a normal reading size held at arm's
* length. A screen is neither: it is a metre away, it is three times as wide as
* the text column that was fitted to paper, and at those sizes the book read as
* a narrow strip of small grey type down the middle of a dark field.
*
* So this block, and only this block, is the screen. @media screen never matches
* the printer, so nothing here can move a millimetre of the printed book: the
* page furniture below (A4, the palette flip, the break rules, every pt size)
* is untouched by all of it.
*
* Three things happen here. Type goes up by roughly a sixth across the board.
* The shell widens. And the width that buys is spent deliberately: on a running
* head in the left margin, on maps beside the tables they belong to, and on
* pairs of short tables side by side, rather than on making the lines longer.
* Prose stays capped in ch, because a 1,200px line is not more readable than a
* 700px one, it is less.
*/
@media screen {
body { font-size: 16.5px; line-height: 1.6; }
.bk { max-width: 1240px; }
.bk__back, .bk__print { font-size: 13px; }
.bk__nav a { font-size: 13px; padding: 5px 2px; }
.bk__skip { font-size: 12.5px; }
.bk__eyebrow { font-size: 13px; }
.bk__h2 { font-size: clamp(28px, 3.2vw, 40px); }
.bk__h3 { font-size: 21px; }
.bk__lede { font-size: 19px; max-width: 68ch; }
.bk__note { font-size: 16.5px; max-width: 70ch; }
.bk__fine { font-size: 15px; max-width: 70ch; }
.bk__mono { font-size: 13.5px; }
.bk__body { font-size: 16.5px; max-width: 70ch; }
.bk__caveat { font-size: 17px; max-width: 70ch; }
.bk__quote { font-size: 19px; max-width: 66ch; }
.bk__quote-cite, .bk__credit, .bk__archive-h, .bk__archive-src,
.bk__log-h, .bk__check h4, .bk__refs h3, .bk__foot, .bk__glance-l,
.bk__join { font-size: 12.5px; }
.bk__meta, .bk__sector-meta, .bk__stage-h { font-size: 14px; }
.bk__sector-id { font-size: 13px; }
.bk__legend { font-size: 13px; }
.bk__cover-sub { font-size: 16px; }
.bk__cover-title { font-size: clamp(38px, 7vw, 72px); }
/* Big enough to read across the band, small enough that the crawl date, which
is the one cell holding words rather than a number, stays on one line. */
.bk__glance-n { font-size: 30px; }
/* p carries no margin in this book, which was invisible while every run of
type sat in its own block. Side by side in a column they need telling apart. */
.bk__body + .bk__mono, .bk__mono + .bk__fine,
.bk__note + .bk__fine, .bk__lede + .bk__fine { margin-top: var(--space-3); }
.bk__fig figcaption, .bk__refs li, .bk__log-v, .state-msg { font-size: 15px; }
.bk__log-k { font-size: 13px; flex-basis: 124px; }
.bk__todo { font-size: 13px; padding: 8px 12px; }
.bk__table { font-size: 15px; }
.bk__table caption { font-size: 15px; max-width: 70ch; }
.bk__table th { font-size: 12.5px; padding-bottom: 6px; }
.bk__table td { padding: 7px var(--space-4) 7px 0; }
.bk__num, th.bk__num { font-size: 14px; }
/* Lines to write on, at a size somebody can write on. */
.bk__blank td, .bk__rule-lines div, .bk__check-lines div { height: 34px; }
}
/* On a phone the toolbar's three controls do not fit on one line, and the one
that fell off the end was the print button, which is the only thing on it a
reader came for. It wraps instead, the spacer becoming the line break.
The wide tables (the seven-column daily log, the five-column planner) are a
separate question and are deliberately NOT touched here. The obvious fix,
display: block with overflow-x on the table, was tried and reverted: it gives
the table its own scroll box at the cost of shrink-to-fitting every other
table on the page, so the cost table stopped filling its column at tablet
width. Doing it properly needs a wrapper element around each table, and
nothing measured so far says the page overflows: at the narrowest viewport
this was checked at, scrollWidth equals the viewport. */
@media screen and (max-width: 760px) {
.bk__actions { flex-wrap: wrap; }
.bk__spacer { flex-basis: 100%; height: 0; }
}
/* The running head moves into the left margin, which is where the width goes.
Auto-placement puts every other child of the page in column two, so the
eyebrow and the h2 it introduces come out on the same line, and the content
column narrows to something a table fills rather than rattles around in. */
@media screen and (min-width: 1080px) {
.bk__page {
display: grid; grid-template-columns: 168px minmax(0, 1fr); gap: 0 var(--space-8);
}
.bk__page > * { grid-column: 2; min-width: 0; }
.bk__page > .bk__eyebrow, .bk__page > .bk__sector-id {
grid-column: 1; grid-row: 1; margin: 6px 0 0; align-self: start;
}
/* Two things that size themselves to their own text. A grid item stretches to
its column by default, which would blow the join badge out to a 900px pill
and the dashed gap to a 900px box. */
.bk__page > .bk__join, .bk__page > .bk__todo { justify-self: start; }
/* The cover keeps the rail, so its title starts on the same vertical as every
heading under it, and takes a third column for the map: it is the one page
with a picture big enough to sit beside its own title. */
.bk__cover { grid-template-columns: 168px minmax(0, 1fr) 300px; }
.bk__cover > .bk__map--cover {
grid-column: 3; grid-row: 1 / span 6; align-self: start;
max-width: 300px; margin: 0;
}
.bk__spread { grid-template-columns: minmax(300px, 380px) minmax(0, 1fr); gap: var(--space-8); }
.bk__map { max-width: 380px; }
.bk__map--master { max-width: 560px; }
.bk__check { grid-template-columns: repeat(auto-fit, minmax(220px, 1fr)); }
/* Two short tables that were stacked with a screen and a half of ruled paper
between them. Plain block elements in source order, so on A4 and on a phone
they stay stacked, one under the other, exactly as before. */
.bk__two {
display: grid; grid-template-columns: minmax(0, 1.5fr) minmax(0, 1fr);
gap: var(--space-8); align-items: start; margin-top: var(--space-6);
}
.bk__two > * > .bk__h3:first-child { margin-top: 0; }
}
/* ─── print ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── */
@page { size: A4; margin: 16mm 14mm; }
@media print {
/* The site is dark. Paper is not. Flip the tokens rather than restyling every
rule. Everything downstream reads from these. */
:root {
--color-bg: #ffffff;
--color-surface: #ffffff;
--color-raise: #f4f4f4;
--color-text: #111111;
--color-muted: #333333;
--color-dim: #555555;
--color-faint: #777777;
--color-line: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.16);
--color-line-strong: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.34);
/* Vermilion survives a mono printer as a mid grey; the violet does not. */
--color-accent: #b3300f;
--color-accent-2: #b3300f;
--color-accent-soft: transparent;
/* The document declares itself dark; on paper it is not. Without this some
browsers keep the dark scheme's default canvas and form colours. */
color-scheme: light;
}
/* overflow-x: clip on the root is fine on screen and has a long history of
truncating multi-page output at the printer. Let it overflow onto sheet two. */
html, body { background: #fff; color: #111; overflow: visible; }
body { font-size: 9.6pt; line-height: 1.4; }
.noprint, .bk__actions { display: none !important; }
.bk { max-width: none; margin: 0; padding: 0; }
/* Nothing here is painted with a background: with "background graphics" off
(the default in some browsers) backgrounds simply are not printed, and a
layout that needed one would come out as text on nothing. Rules, borders,
strokes and ink are what carry this document. */
.bk__page {
break-before: page; border-top: 0; padding-top: 0; margin-top: 0;
}
.bk__page:first-child { break-before: auto; }
.bk__sector { break-before: page; }
.bk__h2 { font-size: 17pt; }
.bk__h3 { font-size: 11.5pt; margin: 14pt 0 4pt; }
.bk__cover-title { font-size: 30pt; }
.bk__lede { font-size: 10.5pt; }
.bk__note { font-size: 9.4pt; }
.bk__fine, .bk__mono { font-size: 8.4pt; }
.bk__glance { border-radius: 0; }
.bk__glance-n { font-size: 15pt; }
.bk__table { font-size: 8.6pt; }
.bk__table caption { font-size: 8.6pt; }
.bk__table th { font-size: 7pt; }
.bk__num, .bk__table td.bk__num { font-size: 8pt; }
/* The gaps are the most consequential content in the book. They are where a
rider has to go and do their own homework. They must read as deliberate
absences, not as fine print, so they print darker and larger than the
surrounding table rather than fainter. */
.bk__todo { font-size: 8.5pt; color: #444; border-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.45); border-radius: 0; }
.bk__blank td, .bk__rule-lines div, .bk__check-lines div { height: 8mm; }
.bk__caveat {
font-size: 9.6pt; color: #111;
border-left: 2.5pt solid #b3300f; padding: 0 0 0 4mm;
break-before: avoid; /* stays with the table it explains */
}
.bk__check { gap: 6mm; }
/* Landmass fill is 40% of an A4 page in toner. Outline only. */
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<p class="bk__eyebrow">ROUTE BOOK</p>
<h1 class="bk__cover-title">The pan-India loop</h1>
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<div class="bk__map bk__map--cover"><svg class="atlas" id="bk-map-cover" role="img" aria-label="The loop, drawn across India, Nepal and Bhutan"></svg></div>
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A loop from Trivandrum down to Kanyakumari, up the west coast into Kutch, over
the Himalaya to Ladakh, east across the Gangetic plain into Nepal, Bhutan and
the Northeast, and home down the east coast. It returns to Bengaluru and Delhi