diff --git a/docs/HANDOFF.md b/docs/HANDOFF.md
index 27ab7a0..b40f613 100644
--- a/docs/HANDOFF.md
+++ b/docs/HANDOFF.md
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ found is in `docs/LAYOUT_LOG.md`.
 
 ## The Iris layout repair is submitted
 
-**Iris PR #19** (`layout/one-ask`) replaces closed #18. The tip is `7e2b4cd`,
+**Iris PR #19** (`layout/one-ask`) replaces closed #18. The tip is `1ebd4d3`,
 and past the reviewed `cadfba0` it is five rounds, each described in
 `docs/LAYOUT_LOG.md`:
 
@@ -16,9 +16,9 @@ and past the reviewed `cadfba0` it is five rounds, each described in
 - **The vocabulary and the container API**, `5642f20` through `58ce74d`.
 - **Naming**, `55df32a` through `40b89c1`.
 - **A sweep over the logic those names exposed**, `8d2b7a5` and `6c84b6f`.
-- **A clarity sweep**, `3da1c71` and `7e2b4cd` -- naming the pairs layout
-  returns, `Span::slot`, and a diagnostic that printed the rel base while
-  calling it the box.
+- **A clarity sweep**, `3da1c71` through `1ebd4d3` -- naming the pairs layout
+  returns, `Span::slot`, a diagnostic that printed the rel base while calling
+  it the box, and `in_parent` matching a place's own cases.
 
 The settled design of the last three is in `docs/LAYOUT.md` under "Three
 names, and the one argument that says them". Bryan settled the API over
diff --git a/docs/LAYOUT_LOG.md b/docs/LAYOUT_LOG.md
index 5221090..0b24b01 100644
--- a/docs/LAYOUT_LOG.md
+++ b/docs/LAYOUT_LOG.md
@@ -213,19 +213,24 @@ moved a box, and all three seed scans passed on `7e2b4cd` (400 at depth 5 in
   `move_idx != parent_move`; `Axis::BOTH` replaces `AXES` in three modules;
   `Len::rel_min`, `rel_max` and the unused `select_len` are gone.
 
+`1ebd4d3` then closed the `PlaceSpan` item. `PlaceSpan` and `RelBase` are
+`pub` and `ui/mod.rs` re-exports `place` by name rather than by glob, the way
+it already did for `painter`, so the six `pub(crate)` accessors
+(`stated_rel_base`, `narrows_rel_base`, `within_span`, `is_sized`,
+`does_fill`, `with_rel_base`) are gone and `in_parent` matches
+`(at.span, declared)`. `!at.is_sized()` was dead: `PlaceSpan::Sized` is built
+only by `Len::as_desc`, which sets `RelBase::Len(self)` in the same literal,
+and deleting `with_rel_base` removes the only writer that could have
+separated them. Visibility here is plain `pub` plus a named re-export
+wherever the path can be hidden (Bryan, 2026-09-19); `pub(super)` is for
+inherent methods on types the crate exports, where it cannot.
+
 What is left, none of it urgent:
 
 - `widget_at` does three linear scans per child (`children.contains`,
   `under.iter_mut().find`, `depend_on`), so a span of *n* children is
   O(n^2) per draw. Not a problem at today's sizes; it is worth knowing
   before a long transcript list lands on it.
-- `PlaceSpan` is private to `place.rs`, so `Painter::in_parent` asks five
-  yes/no questions (`stated_rel_base`, `is_sized`, `within_span`,
-  `narrows_rel_base`, `does_fill`) about a three-case enum instead of
-  matching it. Two of those questions are redundant with one another --
-  `Sized` always states a rel base -- but only because nothing constructs
-  a `Sized` without one, which nothing states. `pub(crate)` on the enum
-  would let `in_parent` read as its three cases.
 - `DrawInfo` and `ActiveData` both carry `placed` and `asked`, two
   `PlaceDesc` fields distinguished only by position in every literal.
   They are genuinely different and documented, but the names are past