NSTD.Preface:3 - Shared distinctions and conditions

A narrative account is content expressed in a form a reader can encounter. The source-to-narrative construction describes how it uses selected source content. This DPF uses A.6.3.NAR for that construction. Its ordinary entry is source selection, ordering and comparison. When citation, dispute or another receiving use depends on claim identity, NAR supplies the fuller construction between source and receiving epistemes. Public distribution alone does not require it.

Past events, live observations, proposed events and fiction have different truth conditions. Mark the difference where it changes understanding. A live inference may need later correction; a future scenario states assumptions; a fictional continuation can introduce events that satisfy its chosen premises and continuity constraints.

Sometimes the source is an architecture description or view. Preserve the decision, trade-off and actual-structure returns that matter to the narrative’s use. C.33 concerns architecture-description adequacy, C.34 a claimed structural correspondence, and C.35 a generated or discovered result intended to inform architecturing. Ordinary narrative generation does not select all three.

A displayed sequence may be one slice of a branching or constraint-governed structure. Where alternatives, loops, exits or stops change the reader’s action, preserve them or provide a usable return through A.22.CGUS, E.18.3 or the defining source. Showing one route does not settle which other routes remain possible.

Voice and focalization describe how an account presents its subject. A real writer, listener or organizational participant has a different relation to the work. Use the precise system-role, assignment, agency or Work conditions only for the corresponding claim. Ordinary contribution language and clear metonymy can remain ordinary.