feat(overlay): a flat INI front end, which verifies its own output

A convenience format for calendars that add a few local feasts and drop one
or two universal entries. Section names are slugs, a [overlay] section carries
the id, and status/subject/layer default so the common case -- an ordinary
local saint's feast -- says only what distinguishes it.

It is a FRONT DOOR, not a second data model. It parses to exactly the
Overlay.t the S-expression form parses to, and everything downstream is the
same code on the same values; a test asserts an INI overlay and its
hand-written sexp equivalent produce identical Overlay.t values. It is also
deliberately less expressive -- Add, Suppress and single-field Edit only --
and refuses Replace, multi-field edits and citation edits BY NAME rather than
dropping them silently. Anything it cannot say is a reason to write sexp.

Little of this is new machinery: tools/bootstrap_sanctoral.ml has parsed INI
and mapped it to celebrations since the sanctoral was bootstrapped from
lectio. The dates needed extending, since that mapping handled only MM-DD;
the flat forms are easter+N/easter-N and mon/day/nth, with nth negative to
count from the end.

`colitur convert` is a separate step rather than --overlay sniffing the
extension, so the author can read what their INI became. When a date form was
mistyped, "what did the engine actually get" is the question, and an invisible
transpile cannot answer it.

The conversion verifies its own output: the emitted text is parsed back with
the same function that loads an overlay and must equal what the INI denoted,
or nothing is written. That is the point of the module. A transpiler emitting
valid-but-wrong sexp is the failure a convenience format invites, and `colitur
check` could never catch it -- the output would parse cleanly and mean
something else.

That check was WRONG on the first attempt, in exactly the way it exists to
prevent. It re-serialised the parsed value instead of parsing the text being
returned, so it verified t -> sexp -> t, which is true by construction and
proves nothing. Found by mutation: corrupting the renderer to emit a different
overlay id sailed through and exited 0. It now parses the returned text, the
mutation is caught with exit 2, and two tests fail under it where none did
before.

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@@ -251,6 +251,98 @@ accordingly. A local feast that never appears in output has usually lost that
 contest rather than failed to load \(em
 .B colitur check
 will confirm it loaded.
+.SH THE FLAT INI FORM
+For a calendar that only adds a few local feasts, drops one or two universal
+entries, and recolours nothing complicated, there is a flatter form converted
+by
+.BR "colitur convert" .
+Section names are slugs; a
+.RB [ overlay ]
+section carries the id.
+.RS
+.nf
+
+[overlay]
+id = my\-parish
+
+[our\-patron]
+date    = 07\-11
+rank    = class\-3
+colour  = white
+name.en = St Example, Patron
+
+[our\-dedication]
+date    = oct/sun/1
+rank    = class\-1
+colour  = white
+name.en = Dedication of Our Church
+
+[stanislaus]
+edit   = yes
+colour = red
+
+[barbara]
+suppress = yes
+.fi
+.RE
+.PP
+.I status
+defaults to
+.BR feast ,
+.I subject
+to
+.BR saint ,
+and
+.I layer
+to the file's id, so the common case \(em an ordinary local saint's feast \(em
+says only what distinguishes it. Dates take the three forms
+.IR MM\-DD ,
+.IB easter + N
+or
+.IB easter - N
+, and
+.IB mon / day / nth
+such as
+.B oct/sun/1
+or
+.B oct/sun/\-1
+for the last.
+.PP
+.B This form is deliberately less expressive.
+It covers
+.BR Add ", " Suppress
+and single\-field
+.BR Edit .
+.B Replace
+, multi\-field edits, citation edits and
+.B Remove_name
+are not expressible, and the converter refuses them
+.I by name
+rather than dropping them silently. Anything it cannot say is a reason to
+write the S\-expression form, not a reason to grow this one.
+.PP
+.B The conversion verifies its own output.
+The generated text is parsed back with the same function that loads an
+overlay, and must equal what the INI denoted; nothing is written if it does
+not. This matters because a transpiler emitting
+.I valid but wrong
+S\-expressions is the failure a convenience format invites, and
+.B colitur check
+could never catch it \(em the output would parse cleanly and simply mean
+something else.
+.RS
+.nf
+
+.B colitur convert my\-parish.ini > my\-parish.sexp
+.B colitur check my\-parish.sexp
+.fi
+.RE
+.PP
+The conversion is a separate step rather than something
+.B \-\-overlay
+does invisibly, so you can read what your INI became. When a date form was
+mistyped, "what did the engine actually get" is the question, and an invisible
+transpile cannot answer it.
 .SH SEE ALSO
 .BR colitur (1)
 .SH LICENSE