What must an agent record about a design system's grid so it can be rebuilt in Figma or InDesign, and which of those items do the two tools' official pages cover?
Comparing the two pages read: Figma's guides are screen-frame based (count, type, width or margin/gutter, offset) and carry no breakpoint or baseline concept; InDesign's baseline grid is a typographic line grid (start, relative-to, increment, threshold) at document or frame level, and its column/gutter settings were on pages not read. A reproduction record therefore needs two layers: horizontal structure (columns, margin, gutter, fixed vs fluid, breakpoints) and vertical structure (base unit or leading, start, reference edge). Design-system sources (G57) use 'baseline' for a base unit, so the record must say which meaning. This is a synthesis; no tool was run.
Comparing the two pages read: Figma's guides are screen-frame based (count, type, width or margin/gutter, offset) and carry no breakpoint or baseline concept; InDesign's baseline grid is a typographic line grid (start, relative-to, increment, threshold) at document or frame level, and its column/gutter settings were on pages not read. A reproduction record therefore needs two layers: horizontal structure (columns, margin, gutter, fixed vs fluid, breakpoints) and vertical structure (base unit or leading, start, reference edge). Design-system sources (G57) use 'baseline' for a base unit, so the record must say which meaning. This is a synthesis; no tool was run.
Curator qualifications: Record-list comparison is a synthesis; the InDesign columns/gutter gap is acknowledged by the producer. Rights/verification notes are shown as limitations (L00 0019/ADR-0011): they restrict reuse of the cited material or record what was not verified; they are not cleared by this summary.
Limitations: [verification_limitation] Curator readback of Figma help page byte-identical to pin 6878785b; Adobe InDesign baseline-grid page returned HTTP 403 to curator (readback 9b1777f2453d5795, 482 bytes) - item-level hold, producer excerpts located automatically.
Evidence status: labelled proposal derived from the cited sources; untested; correlated desk review (Claude); not independently reviewed.
Structured fields
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- [proposal] Comparing the two pages read: Figma's guides are screen-frame based (count, type, width or margin/gutter, offset) and carry no breakpoint or baseline concept; InDesign's baseline grid is a typographic line grid (start, relative-to, increment, threshold) at document or frame level, and its column/gutter settings were on pages not read. A reproduction record therefore needs two layers: horizontal structure (columns, margin, gutter, fixed vs fluid, breakpoints) and vertical structure (base unit or leading, start, reference edge). Design-system sources (G57) use 'baseline' for a base unit, so the record must say which meaning. This is a synthesis; no tool was run. · locator: candidate evidence excerpts source
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| documentation | unknown | permitted | permitted | unknown | unknown | Applies to this original summary only, not to the cited sources. |