wordcraft/ROADMAP.md

WordCraft roadmap

Stage: alpha · next: beta, ~15 points (60% → 75% ready for real work) and ~150–230 h away

Last reviewed: 2026-10-10 · Last updated: 2026-10-14 · Change: trivial (progress log: All Caps text in PDFs, #1473; previously trivial: progress log: --help for the app and every CLI subcommand, #968; previously trivial: progress log: privacy options on save, #1062; previously trivial: progress log: equation pictures in theme colours on Windows, #1002; previously trivial: symbol fonts, #776; previously trivial: the save prompt answers from the keyboard, #861; previously trivial: table column and row markers on the rulers, #700; previously trivial: table borders and the resize handle drag on the page, #217; previously trivial: formatting revisions landed, #41; previously trivial: Draw tab ink, #307, and Draw Table and Eraser, #303, landed: catalog 402/434; previously minor: readiness table with hours per audience; full number back to the additive weighted sum, 60%; mainstream and essentials numbers added; alpha gate checked; previously major: full re-measure against Word for Mac 16.113.4; restructured to the craftrules progress-docs standard) · Target: Microsoft Word (Microsoft 365) for Mac 16.113.4

Printing update: 2026-10-12 · direct desktop printing through craft-print; details below.

WordCraft aims for complete parity with Microsoft Word, then goes further on speed, openness and agent control. This page is the summary; the assessment is docs/target-app-parity.md, the work list is docs/gaps.md, and milestones and the current focus are in docs/roadmap.md.

Headline numbers (2026-10-10)

Number	Value	Kind
Ribbon/menu catalog coverage	487 / 502 (97.0%)	measured (cargo xtask parity → docs/parity-checklist.md)
Feature breadth (weighted, incl. dialog options, styles, languages beyond the ribbon)	~80%	estimated
Ready for real work (full target)	~60% (55–63%)	estimated, additive weighted sum over the dimensions
Mainstream practitioner	~55%	estimated: weekly-work depth × discounts for interaction (×0.93), stability (×0.90), file exchange (×0.90)
Essentials user	~63%	estimated: core-feature depth × discounts for launch (×0.90), discoverability (×0.95), opening received files (×0.92)
Remaining to beta	~150–230 h of Opus 5.5 agent wall-clock (gaps #1–#7)	estimated
Remaining to full parity with Word desktop	~750–1,250 h (70–80% parallelizable)	estimated
Commands / tests / code	433 commands · 855 tests + 10 property blocks · ~88,700 lines of Rust	measured (source)
Releases	v0.4.0 (2026-10-10): signed macOS universal DMG, Windows MSI x64/x86/arm64, Linux AppImage/deb/rpm/Flatpak x86_64 + aarch64, FreeBSD, web	measured

Hours are calibrated from this repo's PRs (equations #191: ~9.7k lines in ~5 h; .doc reader #145: ~4.5k lines in ~10 h; layout fidelity PRs run 5–10× slower per line). The earlier "≈120–150 h to 100%" (2026-10-06) left out localization, multilingual proofing, ecosystem, hardware, PDF Reflow and .doc writing, and priced the DOCX corpus at 10 h; see methodology. The three readiness numbers, their weights, discounts and the user evidence (120 issues from outside users, 4 praise, 0 "switched from Word", ~21 open core-path bugs) are in readiness numbers.

Audience	Ready	Opus 5.5 agent wall-clock hours to ~95%	Work that dominates
Full target (ready for real work)	~60%	~650–1,100 h (70–80% parallelizes)	Breadth: charts/SmartArt/Draw, localization and proofing languages, East Asian and RTL typography, .doc writing, PDF Reflow, ecosystem; plus everything below
Mainstream practitioner	~55%	~300–500 h (~65% parallelizes)	DOCX real-world fidelity and preserving charts/SmartArt, pagination fidelity, formatting revisions, dialog depth, objects, stability
Essentials user	~63%	~90–140 h (~50% parallelizes)	Install/launch stability, opening files people send (corpus subset, chart fallbacks), native printing, picture handling, English spelling depth

Why alpha: the core workflows (write, format, styles, lists, tables, references, review, mail merge, open and save .docx) work end to end and ship as signed builds on every desktop platform and the web. Why not beta: DOCX has never been tested on real-world files; charts, SmartArt and OLE objects are dropped silently; pagination differs from Word (no Aptos-metric font, no column balancing or footnote continuation); content controls are lost; there is open field evidence of a startup crash and several hangs; no native printing. Gaps #1–#7 in docs/gaps.md are the beta list. All six core workflows pass the alpha gate end to end on macOS, with save and reopen; the two partial ones (real-world .docx, printing) complete, roughly.

By dimension

Dimension	Parity	Hours to full	Doc
Features (depth)	68%	210–335	target-app-parity.md
UI/UX fidelity	65%	65–100	ui-parity.md · typing-parity.md
File formats	60%	185–300	file-format-parity.md
Layout and pagination fidelity	55%	90–145	layout-parity.md
Hardware	40%	20–40	hardware-parity.md
Localization	27%	75–120 + native review	localization-parity.md
Performance	75%	10–20	layout-parity.md
Stability	50%	25–45	gaps.md (#3)
Platforms	95% (beyond Word on Linux, BSD, web)	5–10	this page
Ecosystem and plugins	15%	40–80 + owner decisions	gaps.md (#22)
AI features	40% (beyond Word for external agents; no in-app assistant)	15–30	gaps.md (#25)

Features

Area	Parity	Hours
Typing, selection, clipboard, undo, find/replace	85%	8–12
Character and paragraph formatting	82%	8–12
Lists	78%	5–8
Equations	75%	4–8
Tables	76%	10–16
Styles and themes	74%	8–12
Review (comments, track changes, compare, protect)	72%	15–25
View	72%	6–10
Page layout and sections	70%	12–20
Mailings	70%	6–10
Headers, footers, page numbers, fields	70%	8–12
References (TOC, citations, bibliography, captions, index)	65%	12–20
Footnotes and endnotes	60%	5–8
Pictures, shapes, text boxes, WordArt	60%	20–30
Backstage, printing, options	58%	12–20
Right-to-left and complex scripts	50%	15–25
Proofing (spelling, grammar, thesaurus, languages)	40%	20–40
Accessibility	35%	15–25
East Asian typography	25%	15–25
Charts, SmartArt, Draw/ink, 3D models, icons	3%	70–110
Agent control (CLI, MCP, control channel, macros)	beyond Word	—

Weights and evidence per area: docs/target-app-parity.md.

Languages

Language	Code	Status	UI strings
English	en	full	100%
Simplified Chinese	zh-hans	partial	~95%
Spanish	es	partial	~95%
Hindi	hi	none	0%
Arabic	ar	none (document shaping and bidi work; no mirrored UI)	0%
French	fr	partial (interface)	~95%
Portuguese	pt-br (pt-PT none)	partial	~95%
Indonesian	id	none	0%
Japanese	ja	partial	~95%
German	de	partial (#574)	~95%
Korean	ko	none	0%
Vietnamese	vi	partial (#1434)	~95%

Also shipped: Traditional Chinese (zh-hant), Ukrainian (uk), Serbian (sr, sr-latn, #250), Russian (ru) and Polish (pl), all partial (~95%). Bulgarian (bg) covers everything the interface audit finds (2,419 entries). Estonian (et), Italian (it, #594) and Czech (cs) now have complete interface catalogs, and Turkish (tr) a complete 2,325-entry one (every key of the Russian catalog), all with system-locale selection and a saved language choice (Italian also has 51 strings none of the others had yet); Estonian, Turkish, Italian and Czech proofing are not included. Hungarian (hu) has a complete 2,419-entry catalog, also without proofing. Vietnamese (vi, #1434) has a complete 2,448-entry catalog, also without proofing. Proofing: English, Polish and Portuguese (spelling, grammar, hyphenation), chosen per run from its language. Word ships 30 interface languages and proofing for ~50. Detail: docs/localization-parity.md.

Upcoming

Ranked, to beta (detail and remaining milestones in docs/roadmap.md):

1. Review and merge the ~45 open PRs that already close gaps (owner).
2. DOCX real-world corpus: open, render, round-trip, compare with Word (30–50 h).
3. Preserve charts, SmartArt, OLE and ink through a round trip with fallback pictures (10–15 h).
4. Stability sweep of the open crash, hang and write-failure issues; autosave soak test (20–30 h).
5. Pagination fidelity: column balancing, footnote continuation, compat options, comparison harness; an Aptos-metric font decision (30–50 h + owner).
6. Formatting revisions and content controls (12–18 h); native printing (6–10 h); dialog depth (20–30 h).

Progress log

Date	What landed
2026-10-13	Rounded rectangles (#1476): a roundRect keeps the corner radius its file gives it (adj), on screen, in PDF and when saved; all were drawn with a 16% corner
2026-10-13	PAGEREF in headers and footers (#1477): "Page X of Y" with Y a page reference to a bookmark at each letter's end shows each letter's own total instead of the result stored in the file
2026-10-13	Replace All respects locked content controls with Track Changes on or off; it refuses the entire batch before editing when any match would change locked content or remove a control locked against deletion
2026-10-12	Text boxes from older Word files (VML) keep their internal margins, Resize shape to fit text and vertical alignment, so letterhead address blocks and form headers sit where Word puts them instead of 7 pt in and 4 pt down. Hidden drawings stay hidden (they were drawn as empty boxes) and are kept on save
2026-10-13	Word's privacy options are kept and honoured when saving .docx (#1062): with Remove personal information, comments and tracked changes are saved by "Author" and the file has no creator or last-modified-by; with Remove date and time, they are saved without dates. The open document keeps the real names and dates; file.privacyOptions sets both
2026-10-13	A selected comment balloon's Delete, Reply and Resolve buttons work again (#1085): pressing them no longer counts as a click on the page that closes the balloon first, so a new empty comment, or any other, can be deleted from its balloon
2026-10-12	Sample-text formulas on Enter (#1067): =rand() and =lorem(), optional paragraph/sentence counts, 5/3 defaults, original English and one-step undo
2026-10-12	File › Export › Word 2003 XML Document (#1081): documents save as WordprocessingML 2003 (format: "wordml2003" on the save commands, wordcraft-cli convert --format wordml2003); shapes, text boxes, charts and SmartArt don't survive, and it hasn't been opened in Word yet
2026-10-12	Direct run-level native InkML (w:contentPart) now survives DOCX edits and repeated saves with its relationship, content type and bytes intact. Native InkML rendering/editing and ink nested in groups or canvases remain missing
2026-10-13	The caret is black or white, whichever shows against what lies under it — the paper, a page colour, a dark page, shading or a highlight — whatever the UI theme, as Word's inverted caret does; before, it stayed black on dark page colours and highlights and could vanish (#299)
2026-10-13	Clicking the ribbon's tab names, empty space, gallery tiles or View check boxes, or the status bar's view buttons and language menu, no longer makes the caret vanish: typing goes on in the document as in Word, without another click on the page (#1093)
2026-10-13	Dragging a Square-wrapped shape or picture on a multi-column page wraps the text of the column it lands in around it, and its old place closes up (#884)
2026-10-13	Pagination with footnotes follows Word (#1116): a paragraph ending on a page with footnotes keeps its space after above the separator, otherwise its last lines move to the next page with the note; pages without notes are unchanged
2026-10-13	Interface size means what it says (#822): a chosen size is absolute, as in PhotoCraft and PdfCraft, so "100%" is one screen pixel per point even where the system reports 200 % (a bare window manager on X11, where winit guesses the scale from the monitor's DPI). The new default, Auto, keeps the system's display scale and its menu entry shows the size it draws at; sizes run 75–300 %. A saved size from before stays the same if it was the default (now Auto) and becomes absolute otherwise
2026-10-13	Copying an equation also puts MathML in HTML on the clipboard beside the linear text like y=2x_s (#816; Word/LibreOffice paste not yet verified; OMML is #1297). HTML export writes equations as MathML too, and opening or pasting HTML with MathML gives equations back
2026-10-13	The Equation tab's galleries, structure buttons and symbols keep the theme's colours on Windows: their pictures share a few textures written in place (no wipe of pictures already on screen, room for the built-ins at high display scales), instead of hundreds of small textures freed in bulk, which on DirectX 12 showed inverted, red or teal tiles (#1002)
2026-10-14	Text copied out of an exported PDF reads as shown (#1473): All Caps and Small Caps text comes out in capitals, as from Word's PDFs, and plain text after it keeps its own case (before, a capital first drawn for a lowercase letter made later capitals extract lowercase)
2026-10-14	Web: Save in the "save changes?" prompt before New or Open now waits for the browser's save picker: the new or opened document replaces yours only once the file is written and closed. Cancelling the picker, or a write that fails, keeps your document open with its edits and undo, still unsaved, and the prompt comes back with the reason; a save that ends after another document has replaced it no longer runs the New/Open on that one or marks it unsaved, and New/Open while a picker save is still in flight ask first (#1315)
2026-10-13	Closing with unsaved changes → Save that can't write the file (no permission, locked by another app, folder gone) now says so plainly instead of looking like Cancel: the prompt comes back with the reason in it ("Couldn't save … so it is still open and nothing was lost") for Save again, Don't Save or Cancel, the status bar says it too, and ui.saveChanges returns that error; the same for a Save As from the prompt; the document stays open with its edits (#1445)
2026-10-14	File › Info › Inspect Document finds hidden text the way Word does (#1344): hidden by direct formatting, a character style or a paragraph style, in the body, headers, footers, footnotes and endnotes, comments and text boxes, and Remove All deletes all of it (and nothing visible) in one undo step, whole hidden paragraphs and the notes of hidden references included. The result lists anything it couldn't reach (residual), so a sanitised file is never reported clean by mistake
2026-10-14	ODT files keep their tracked changes (gap 19): insertions and deletions made in LibreOffice open as revisions with their author and date, deleted paragraph breaks and text inserted then deleted included, so Accept All and Reject All give the right text; saving to ODT writes them back, and the Track Changes setting goes both ways
2026-10-14	RTF keeps tracked changes (gap 19): insertions and deletions open as tracked changes with their authors and dates (\revtbl, \revised, \deleted, \revdttm) instead of plain text, so deleted text no longer reappears as normal text; saving to RTF writes them back, and Accept All / Reject All work after reopening
2026-10-14	Alignment guides: moving a picture, shape or text box snaps its edges or centre to the page's edges and centre, the margins and the other floating objects on the page, with a thin line across the page for each guide while dragging; Alt moves freely; File › Options › Advanced › Editing turns them off (ui.alignmentGuides). Our own design: Word for Mac shows no guides
2026-10-14	ODT files open with their sections (#1379): a paragraph that switches to another page style starts a new section on a new page, with that page's size, orientation, margins and columns and, when the file asks, page numbering restarting; a two-column text:section becomes a continuous two-column section. Before, the whole document was one portrait section, so landscape pages, columns and restarts were lost on open and on save to DOCX
2026-10-14	Hebrew and Arabic in exported PDFs copy and search as whole words (#1383): right-to-left glyphs are written left to right as they appear, the order Chrome and Edge (PDFium) and poppler read text back from (checked by hand), instead of in reading order, which they reversed (שלום came back as םולש, Arabic in pieces). Lam-alef stays whole and vowel marks follow their letters, though Chrome and poppler can still break a fully vowelled word with spaces. The page looks the same. Readers that take glyphs strictly in file order get only plain Hebrew runs right, through /ReversedChars; screen readers are unverified
2026-10-14	HTML import (#1381): header cells (<th>) are bold unless their own CSS says otherwise, and text-align on a cell, its row, row group or table aligns the cell's paragraphs (a paragraph's own alignment wins), so wordcraft-cli convert page.html out.docx writes the bold header and w:jc right-aligned cells. HTML, Markdown and plain text, which give no page size, open on the region's paper (A4 in Italy, Letter in the US) like a new blank document, in the app and in wordcraft-cli; documents with their own page size keep it
2026-10-14	Custom page sizes (#1433): Layout › Size ends with More Paper Sizes…, which opens Page Setup's new Paper group — a Paper size list (the named sizes, or Custom size) and Width and Height in the measurement unit; OK sets the size only when it changed, and a wider-than-tall size comes out landscape. layout.size now clamps each side to Word's 0.1"–22" and refuses a page the margins don't fit (the margins rule: 36 pt of text room), and Page Setup checks the size and margins together before applying either
2026-10-13	Highlighted text reads on a dark page (View › Switch Modes, #1252): highlights and character shading are dimmed, keeping their hue (yellow turns a dim olive, as in Word), and the text on them is drawn light (coloured text below 4.5:1 is drawn white, and underlines and strikethroughs follow the same rule), instead of white text on bright yellow; light page, print and exports unchanged
2026-10-13	Full screen (#980): F11, or View › Window › Full Screen, fills the screen with the window (⌃⌘F on macOS); F11 again or Escape gives back the window as it was. Next Field, which Word puts on F11, keeps Word's Alt+F1 and Alt+Shift+F1 (and Shift+F11). The web app leaves full screen to the browser's own F11
2026-10-13	Double-clicking the top or bottom margin of a page creates its header or footer when it has none and puts the caret in it, as in Word (#960): the one that page shows (different first page, odd and even pages), only in Print Layout; one left empty is taken away again when you leave it, so nothing empty is saved. insert.editHeader/insert.editFooter take {"page"} for agents
2026-10-13	Alt+numpad character codes, as in Word on Windows (#961): hold Alt, type a decimal code, release Alt — 0233 → é (Windows-1252), 233 → Θ (OEM code page 437; 850 in Western European locales and English outside the US), codes above 255 are Unicode (8364 → €). Not on macOS; text.typeCode for agents
2026-10-13	Review › Language and the status bar's language menu offer Set Proofing Language… again (#860): the Language dialog marks text as French, German or any of 29 languages and Set As Default makes it the document's language; Language Preferences… opens Options › Language. Text in a language outside the short list shows by name in the status bar and checked in the menu. Spelling and grammar remain English, Polish and Portuguese; text in other languages gets no marks
2026-10-12	A list label moves with its text when the paragraph is centred or aligned to the end (it stayed at the margin), in left-to-right and right-to-left paragraphs (#1159)
2026-10-13	A paragraph that ends with a page break keeps its space after on the page before, as in Word: the next page no longer starts up to a line too low, and a page break before right after it no longer leaves a blank page
2026-10-13	Tables break across pages like Word's: a cell without its own margins lines up with its neighbours, exact row heights include the bottom margin, and a row whose margin doesn't fit at a page bottom is split with widow control instead of moving to the next page whole
2026-10-13	Equation parsers are hardened (#1456): deeply chained input (x^1^1…, a/a/…, \sum\sum…) no longer builds a tree thousands of levels deep that overflows small stacks, \text{…} is escaped in LaTeX output so it reads back unchanged, and runs merge inside every structure.
2026-10-13	A WMF with a million object records opens in milliseconds instead of a second, and a large polygon or a small crop of a large bitmap no longer builds a second full-size copy while it is read (#1463)
2026-10-13	PDF export (#1474): a horizontal or vertical line inside a group (a divider in a grouped box) is drawn, as on screen; it was left out because it has no height
2026-10-14	A paragraph that runs on into the next column or onto the next page wraps around the shapes there (#1374): its continued lines are broken again for that column's wrap areas instead of running through a shape there (or around one left on the page before); the lines before, and the paragraph's own floating objects, stay where they were. Paragraphs with nothing new to wrap around are not laid out again
2026-10-13	A PAGE field in the body shows the number of the page it is actually on (#1352): after a page break inside its paragraph, or when the paragraph runs over onto the next page, it no longer repeats the first page's number; the rest of the paragraph is broken again for the wider number (page 9 to 10). Only paragraphs with PAGE fields are laid out again
2026-10-14	RTF import keeps sections (#1378): a file with portrait and landscape parts, a two-column stretch or a page-numbering restart opens with one section each, as in Word, instead of one landscape section for the whole document. Each keeps its page size and orientation, margins, header/footer distance, columns, break type (continuous, next page, odd/even, column), page-number restart, start and format, title page and its own headers and footers; a section without its own links to the previous one's
2026-10-14	The system Save As dialog's file-type list names every format (Word Document, PDF, OpenDocument Text, Rich Text Format…) instead of one "Documents" entry, with the document's own format first (#1399)
2026-10-14	Colour emoji show on the page (#1269): 🧠, ✅ and other emoji were blank on screen and in render_page (only PDF export had them). Glyphs from colour fonts are now drawn in the font's own colours: bitmap emoji (Apple Color Emoji, Noto Color Emoji) and COLR fonts (Segoe UI Emoji, newer Noto builds, with gradients). A dark page doesn't invert them, the same as pictures
2026-10-14	.doc tables keep their cell shading (#1380), from Word 97 through Word 365, so a dark header row with white text is readable again, and lose the extra empty column at the right of every row; a table no longer takes the previous table's columns, borders or alignment. Rows merged across the table (a legend) come with #1123
2026-10-12	On the web, pasting a picture while a comment, the Find box, a dialog field or the Backstage has the keyboard no longer inserts it into the document; it inserts once only when the page is the edit target (#1349)
2026-10-14	Table deletes, Change Case and Unlink Fields respect Track Changes and locked content controls (#1329): with tracking on, Delete Table, Rows, Columns and Cells mark the cells' text deleted and keep the table (like Word), and Change Case is a tracked deletion and insertion, so Reject All restores the original; all of them refuse to delete a control locked against deletion or change content locked against editing
2026-10-14	Draw: Ink to Shape recognises arrows. A line and a V-shaped head drawn in one stroke (shaft first or head first, any direction) becomes a straight arrow connector with the head at the tip, in the stroke's colour and width; a lone V, a line with one barb and scribbles stay as they are. Our own recogniser: Word for Mac has no Ink to Shape to compare. Two-stroke arrows and arrows with a closed triangle head not yet.
2026-10-12	RTF import now uses the RTF spec's defaults where a file names none (#902): no space before or after paragraphs, single line spacing, and the \deff default font, instead of WordCraft's Normal style; RTF files that relied on the old defaults open tighter, like in Word
2026-10-12	--help and -h print the usage and exit (#968): wordcraft --help lists the app's options without opening a window (it used to try to open a file named --help), and wordcraft-cli <command> --help works for every command instead of failing with unknown option --help
2026-10-11	Right-clicking a table cell offers the table's commands, and as in Word they follow the selection: with the caret in a cell Insert, Delete Cells, Split Cells, Text Direction and Table Properties…; with several cells Merge Cells instead of Split; with whole columns or rows Delete Columns or Rows, Merge Cells and Distribute Rows and Columns; with the whole table Delete Table, Distribute, AutoFit and Insert Caption…. A right-click beside selected cells moves the caret there instead of keeping them
2026-10-11	Drags, Shift+arrows and Shift+click over table cells select whole cells, as in Word: from one cell into another the rectangle between them (bold, alignment and Delete leave the other cells alone), into or out of a table whole rows; extending again goes on from where the selection started
2026-10-11	More of the table mouse: arrows above a column, left of a row and along a cell's left edge select it (a drag selects more; a selected column is edited cell by cell, numbering it makes one list), "+" buttons beside the borders insert a row or column, the move handle past the top-left corner selects the table or drags it to float where it's dropped, and a double-click on a column border fits the column; Select Column in the ribbon; table.selectAt, table.insertAt, table.moveDrag, table.fitColumn and table.selectColumn for agents
2026-10-12	AutoCorrect keys its built-in English replacement list by language (#835): Polish, Croatian, Bosnian and Serbian i ("and") is no longer turned into I; English and untagged text unchanged
2026-10-12	Ribbon groups fit above their labels: View › Show splits its four check boxes into two columns (Hide White Space, #645, had pushed the fourth onto the "Show" label), Developer › Controls loses the gaps that ran into its label, and Layout › Paragraph (#654) no longer trips a debug assertion and sits 2.5 pt higher; a test draws every tab in every language and fails on any group taller than the ribbon
2026-10-12	Window caption: a non-Latin file name is drawn with a document fallback face (or the CJK UI font), instead of ?
2026-10-13	Word 365 cover pages (#743): shapes placed relative to the page's height now sit where Word puts them (they were at the top of the column), and a freeform drawn back to its start without being closed is filled, so the cover's coloured panel and its white title show
2026-10-12	32-bit Windows starts on OpenGL. DirectX 12 graphics pipeline creation returns "The parameter is incorrect" and the app exited before the window appeared
2026-10-12	New documents follow the system region (#838): A4 and centimetres outside the US (Letter in the CLDR Letter territories, inches in the US), lengths written with the region's decimal separator (2,54 cm) and typed with either; an explicit Measurement units choice wins; file.options {"region"} for agents
2026-10-12	Paste from other programs keeps their formatting (#687): Ctrl+V and Home › Paste read the system clipboard's HTML (and RTF on Windows and Wayland); Merge Formatting takes the destination's font and paragraph and keeps bold, italic, underline and strikethrough; Paste Special lists what the system clipboard holds (HTML, RTF, picture, text). Linux: pictures copied in a browser or Spectacle paste on KDE and other Wayland desktops (data-control clipboard), and a paste that finds nothing usable names what the clipboard holds instead of "empty" (#833)
2026-10-12	Undo history list (#701): a ▾ beside the Quick Access Toolbar's Undo lists recent steps newest first; hovering highlights what a click undoes ("Undo 3 Actions"), and a click undoes them in one go. edit.undoTo {count} and edit.undoHistory (newest first, up to 100) for CLI and MCP
2026-10-12	Start screen (#766): launched with nothing to open, WordCraft starts on File › Home (Blank document, templates, Recent) like Word, desktop and web; Esc leaves a blank document; File › Options › General › Start-up turns it off
2026-10-13	No document behind the Start screen (#1129): Esc or Back from it shows an empty window (no page, ribbon greyed out but for Help) until Blank document, a template or a file is opened, as in Word; closing it asks nothing
2026-10-12	Word 365 cover pages (#743): a freeform inside a group keeps its shape (it was drawn as a rectangle); text boxes keep their own internal margins and Resize shape to fit text, so a tight title box no longer loses its second line; both survive saving. The missing fills in the report were theme-coloured shapes, fixed by #611
2026-10-12	Alt+Q moves to "Tell me" command search, as in Word for Windows (#819); not on macOS, where Option+Q types a character
2026-10-12	PDF export of long documents with many internal links (a linked table of contents) is linear: NIH's 67-page protocol template 10.6 s → 0.9 s
2026-10-12	Keytips: Word for Windows' tab letters (File F, Design G, References S, Review R, View W, Help Y)
2026-10-12	Table-of-contents links look like Word's: plain text, not blue and underlined (Word ignores the Hyperlink style on TOC entry links; measured in 9 cases)
2026-10-12	Line heights like Word's: spaces and tabs never make a line taller (13 cases measured in Word for Windows); tables of contents with big tab runs were a third taller
2026-10-12	.doc import: tab stops (centred titles, right-aligned dates, leaders) and sections ending at their section marks (continuous breaks, footers); EPA .doc templates now paginate like Word
2026-10-12	DOCX headings numbered like Word when a heading style gives only a list level (6.4.5, not 6.15)
2026-10-12	A list label makes its line taller above the baseline only, as in Word (6 cases measured in Word for Windows): Symbol bullets no longer add their deeper descent, so bulleted lists keep Word's height and page breaks
2026-10-12	Hidden end-of-cell marks (w:hideMark) read, written and laid out like Word (9 cases measured in Word for Windows): a cell's empty last paragraph takes no room, so rows of such empty cells shrink to their borders
2026-10-12	Text frames (w:framePr) in headers, footers, cells and text boxes: placed apart with text wrapping around them, and kept on save (a framed footer page number took a line of its own and was lost on save)
2026-10-12	List indents like Word's when a numbered style has indents of its own: the style giving the list (and styles based on it) beat the level's indents, and a paragraph with its list switched off drops the styles' indents (27 cases measured in Word for Windows); NIH's Heading 3s now sit at their 0.9"
2026-10-12	Keep with next like Word (20 cases measured in Word for Windows): a kept paragraph moves to the next page only when it would fit on this one by itself, otherwise it breaks as usual; chains of kept paragraphs move together
2026-10-12	An empty paragraph that only carries a continuous section break takes no room, as in Word (10 cases measured in Word for Windows): text after it follows right on and balanced columns don't count it
2026-10-12	Floating objects positioned relative to their paragraph start above its space before, as in Word (10 cases measured in Word for Windows)
2026-10-12	Unequal columns: text after a column break is broken for the column it lands in (NIH's SARP form had a paragraph a word or two wide)
2026-10-12	Space before at the top of a page like Word after page breaks (32 cases measured): a paragraph ending with a page break keeps its mark with it, the next paragraph gets no space before; page break before drops it in Word 2013 mode
2026-10-12	Automatic paragraph spacing drops between list items, as in Word (16 cases measured in Word for Windows): bulleted items that ask for automatic space before and after now touch, as in NIH's monitoring plan
2026-10-12	Rendering like Word for Windows, found by comparing real .gov documents page by page: text is kerned only where Kerning for fonts asks for it (line breaks now match Word's), and automatic paragraph spacing (w:beforeAutospacing/w:afterAutospacing, common in pasted web text) is 14 pt, dropped at the document's and cells' edges
2026-10-12	Keyboard context menu (#821): Shift+F10 opens the page's right-click menu below the caret; ui.contextMenu
2026-10-12	The Font list no longer keeps every family it previews in memory (#848): the Font box drew each family's name in its own face by loading the whole family for good, so every trip through the list kept tens of megabytes (1.47 GB after 40 changes on macOS); entries are now drawn from a face read for the preview alone and freed (120 families previewed: +17 MB RSS instead of +411 MB); only fonts actually used load
2026-10-12	Scrolling a document with one very large table stays smooth (#811): pages are fingerprinted for the texture cache once per layout and only when shown (not every page every frame), the markup-area check is cached per revision, and textures far from the view are dropped. The issue's 1,096-page table: ~600 ms → ~2.4 ms idle frames, ~590 ms → ~4.5 ms scroll frames
2026-10-12	Search (#819): Alt+Q, or Alt then Q, opens the Search box from anywhere with nothing typed into it; queries match every word; tools.search for agents
2026-10-12	Section breaks (#852): Layout › Breaks with text selected puts the break before the selection and keeps the text, as Word does; it used to delete it, leaving the first section empty
2026-10-12	Find, Replace and Go To like Word (#712): Ctrl+F types into the Navigation pane's search, one tabbed Find and Replace dialog, Go To by page (absolute or relative) and bookmark; edit.findReplace, edit.goto pageBy
2026-10-12	Symbol fonts (#776): text in Wingdings, Wingdings 2, Wingdings 3, Webdings and Symbol (proprietary, never bundled) shows its intended symbols — full code tables from Unicode's published correspondence, both storage forms (w:sym private-use codes and plain codes); PDF text, copy and TXT export use the Unicode characters; the saved text is unchanged
2026-10-11	Hide White Space (#645): view.hideWhiteSpace (View › Show checkbox, or double-click the gap between pages) collapses margins, headers and footers between pages to a thin line in Print Layout; screen only, page count unchanged
2026-10-11	Fonts: Palatino Linotype and Book Antiqua fall back to Palatino (macOS) or TeX Gyre Pagella / P052 / URW Palladio (Linux) before generic serif (#670)
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2026-10-12	Track Changes: Accept All after a tracked deletion from the end of one paragraph into a later one no longer joins the paragraph that follows the range, and Reject All after typing into an empty paragraph keeps that paragraph (#864)
2026-10-11	Table border drags like Word's (#711): Ctrl shares a column border's change among the columns right of it (the table keeps its width), the table's left edge moves a left-aligned table's indent (a centred or right-aligned table keeps its alignment, as in Word), a border of cells selected across moves only in their rows, and Alt shows the column widths on the ruler
2026-10-11	Tables on the rulers (#700): with the caret in a table the horizontal ruler marks its row's column borders and the vertical ruler its rows' bottoms; dragging a marker resizes the column (the columns right of it move along; with Shift the neighbour makes up the difference) or the row, one undo step, Escape cancels; in a cell the indents and tabs are measured from the cell
2026-10-12	Save Changes prompt answers from the keyboard: Save has focus when it opens; arrow keys and Tab move between Save, Don't Save and Cancel; Enter answers (#861)
2026-10-12	Builds with craft-fonts draw simplified-Chinese characters in documents from the bundled Noto Sans CJK SC (it was only used by the interface), so a CJK run gets one face covering it; fixes the FreeBSD job's east_asian_run_uses_one_face_covering_the_whole_run failure after #567
2026-10-12	Insert › Picture, drag-and-drop and paste take Windows Metafiles (.wmf) and Enhanced Metafiles (.emf) at their own frame size (#802)
2026-10-12	AutoCorrect capitals (#544): Correct TWo INitial CApitals (with exceptions), accidental cAPS LOCK, first letter of table cells; each undoable and switchable
2026-10-11	Turkish (tr) interface completed (#774): 2,325 entries, every key of the Russian catalog (equation gallery, built-in style names, watermarks, paper sizes, preview tiles); the interface audit checks Turkish too
2026-10-12	Navigation headings truncate within the resizable pane, with an ellipsis for long titles and full text on hover (#759)
2026-10-11	Reading Mode: existing View ribbon button now opens a read-only, viewport-column layout with animated horizontal paging, transient display controls, heading navigation (Navigation pane) and resize anchoring; document layout and export unchanged
2026-10-11	DOCX open/save keeps inherited complex-script size, bold and italic independent of Latin formatting; explicit values are retained, and font commands still format both scripts. Covered by synthetic round trips and a local GUI save/reopen check.
2026-10-11	Czech (cs) interface catalog: 2,021 entries (the full zh-hans key set), Czech locale detection and persisted language choice
2026-10-12	Portuguese proofing: pt-BR spelling against the installed Hunspell pt_BR dictionary (VERO; read at runtime, not bundled) — the affix engine grew FLAG UTF-8, 128 flag bits, continuation classes and FORBIDDENWORD to read it — suggestions tuned for Portuguese (missing accents first), conservative grammar rules with Portuguese messages, TeX Portuguese hyphenation patterns (BSD 3-clause, attributed); Review › Language offers Português (Brasil); a pt-br interface writes new documents in pt-BR
2026-10-11	Polish: interface (pl, the thirteenth language, every catalog key) and proofing — spelling against the installed Hunspell pl_PL dictionary (read at runtime, not bundled) through a new Hunspell-style affix engine, suggestions tuned for Polish, Polish grammar rules with Polish messages, TeX Polish hyphenation patterns (MIT option); proofing language per run (w:lang) for squiggles, F7, suggestions and hyphenation, languages without tools left unmarked; Review › Language menu and the status bar's language; a Polish interface writes new documents in Polish
2026-10-11	German (de) interface (#574): 2,021 translated entries covering the full zh-hans key set, locale and saved-preference tests, bundled-font checks; no German proofing resources
2026-10-12	Sorting and table numbers follow the text's language (#836, #837): Table › Sort, Home › Sort, the index (with its letter headings), the bibliography and the Table of Authorities use the language's alphabet (Polish Łódź between Kraków and Zakopane, Swedish å ä ö after z, German ä with a); table sort and formulas read 1,5 and 1 250,00 as Polish decimals and =SUM writes 5,75
2026-10-11	.doc import keeps pictures and drawings (#551): inline and floating pictures (PNG, JPEG, DIB, EMF, WMF), shapes, lines, groups and text boxes with position and wrap, from [MS-ODRAW]
2026-10-14	ODT and .doc pictures stay within their byte budget (#1334): an ODT picture entry is inflated once however many frames point at it, and only when the size it declares fits in what is left (one inflating past that uses the budget up); a .doc inline picture that can't be read or doesn't fit is no longer decoded and copied again for every anchor on it, and is decoded only within what is left
2026-10-11	Tables resize with the mouse (#217): drag a column border (the neighbour makes up the difference; Shift moves one column), a row's bottom border, or the handle past the bottom-right corner to scale the table; a dashed guide while dragging, one undo step per drag; table.resizeDrag for agents
2026-10-11	Animation effects setting: File › Options › Accessibility › Animation effects (Use system setting, On, Off). With the system's animations off (Windows' Animation effects, macOS' Reduce motion, the Linux/BSD desktop's setting, a browser's reduced motion) the page no longer smooth-scrolls: wheel notches and Ctrl+wheel zoom land at once, in the document and in every list and pane, and menus and buttons don't fade; ui.animations for agents
2026-10-11	Linux/BSD: Open, Save As, Export and Insert Picture work without a file chooser portal or zenity (labwc, sway…): WordCraft shows its own file browser and says how to get the system dialog; File › Open › Browse in WordCraft… is always there (#576)
2026-10-11	Every measurement follows File › Options › Advanced › Measurement units (#755): the Line Numbers "From text" distance and the Hyphenation zone, still fixed in inches after #485, now convert like every other dialog
2026-10-11	Review › Track Changes Options › Show revisions in balloons: tracked deletions in the body leave the text for "Deleted: …" balloons in the margin, joined to where they were (the option was saved but drew nothing new before)
2026-10-11	Security review fixes: ui.render/ui.screenshot without a path (and the MCP bridge's render_page/screenshot) return the PNG in the reply instead of writing a fixed name into the shared temporary folder; exported HTML/Markdown write href only for web, mail, bookmark and relative links, never javascript: and other schemes (one allow-list in wordcraft_doc::link)
2026-10-11	Design tab: the style set gallery gets a box and gaps of its own, so it no longer runs into Colors and Fonts (#638)
2026-10-11	File › Print: page preview, page range (all, current, selected, custom 1-3,5), odd/even, copies and collate go into the printed PDF (file.printPdf, ui.print params); printer, duplex and pages per sheet are still the system dialog's (#641, stage 1)
2026-10-11	A vertically merged table cell (eraser on a horizontal border) lays out, shows and clicks as one cell spanning its rows (#640)
2026-10-11	Word XML files (#548): Word XML Document (Flat OPC .xml) opens and saves through the DOCX reader and writer; Word 2003 XML opens (styles, lists, tables, sections, notes, comments, pictures, hyperlinks)
2026-10-12	File › Print selects a system printer, copies, duplex and grayscale, submits PDF jobs through craft-print on a worker and shows spooler errors; browser printing and PDF export remain available
2026-10-11	Font fallback indexes which characters each installed font maps, reading each font file once (#605): text in a script no installed font covers no longer re-reads every system font per distinct character (200 such characters: 13 s → 0.2 s)
2026-10-11	Find and Replace special characters (^p, ^t, ^#, ^& …) and Use wildcards (ranges, counts, word anchors, groups with \1 in Replace); ^p finds and splits paragraphs; Special ▾ menu and search options in the dialog (#543)
2026-10-11	Typing parity (#546): +---+ Enter makes a table, > -> => arrow bullets, smileys inside words (ok:)), Undo right after a border line brings the characters back
2026-10-11	Windows: DirectX 12 shaders compile with FXC, built into Windows, so the app no longer quits at launch with "Parent device is lost" when no matching dxcompiler.dll + dxil.dll pair is around (#603)
2026-10-11	Insert › SmartArt (#497): list, process, cycle, hierarchy, pyramid, radial, matrix and Venn graphics laid out by our own code, Text Pane, SmartArt Design tab (Add Shape, Promote, Demote, layouts, colours, Reset); saved as DOCX diagram parts with the drawing. Catalog 410/441 (93.0%)
2026-10-11	Outline view (#493): Outlining tab, outline symbols and indents, collapse/expand, Show Level, first line only, plain text; catalog 428/450 → 441/463 (95.2%)
2026-10-11	Vertical sections (#491): Layout › Text Direction turns the section (or the cell or text box the caret is in); lines run top to bottom, right to left, ideographs upright; w:textDirection in w:sectPr read and written
2026-10-11	File › Options in Word's panes (#485): General, Display, Proofing, Save, Language, Accessibility, Advanced, Agents; initials, individual formatting marks, spelling ignore options, custom dictionary, overtype, typing replaces selection, measurement units, recent-documents count, print options; file.options reads and sets them headlessly
2026-10-11	Right-click Wrap Text submenu on pictures, shapes and text boxes: wrapping styles, Move with Text / Fix Position on Page (#513)
2026-10-11	Caret animation: keys and typing glide the caret to its new place in 100 ms along the curve measured from Word for Windows, and the blink fades; clicks and scripted moves don't glide. File › Options › Advanced › Animation turns it off, kept between runs; ui.caretAnimation for agents
2026-10-11	Paragraph dialog options (#512): mirror indents (w:mirrorIndents, laid out on even pages), same-style spacing, suppress line numbers, don't hyphenate
2026-10-11	Screen readers can read the document canvas (#488): paragraphs, headings, lists, tables, links, pictures and the caret exposed through AccessKit
2026-10-11	Add fonts without rebuilding (#582): Home › Font › Add Font… (end of the font list), dropping a TTF/OTF/TTC/WOFF/WOFF2 file, or font.add/font.list/font.remove for agents. Files are checked (50 MB cap, every face must parse and map characters), never replace a bundled or loaded face, and are kept between runs (desktop: fonts in the settings folder; web: IndexedDB). Linking a font by URL is still to come
2026-10-11	Print Markup (#589): File › Print/Export checkbox, file.printMarkup, markup on save/export commands and wordcraft-cli convert --markup print comments (with replies) in balloons beside each page, scaled to the paper like Word's "Document showing markup"; HTML, Markdown and text copies end with the comments
2026-10-11	Custom colours (#606): every colour drop-down gains Recent Colors and More Colors…, which opens a Colors dialog with a Standard honeycomb and a Custom hue/saturation field, lightness slider, RGB/HSL numbers and a hex box
2026-10-11	Complex scripts (#604): Myanmar, Khmer and Indic text shaped one script at a time in OpenType fallback fonts (regular weight, not AAT-only fonts), the caret and line breaks never split a syllable, Myanmar wraps between syllables, Backspace removes one sign at a time
2026-10-11	Any text file opens (#569): .m3u/.m3u8 playlists and other unknown extensions open as plain text with encoding detection (UTF-8, BOMs, UTF-16, Windows-1252), misnamed Word/RTF files by their signature; binary files give a clear error
2026-10-11	Select by dragging whole units (#549): after a double-click the drag grows by words, after a triple-click by paragraphs, after Ctrl/⌘+click by sentences, as in Word
2026-10-12	Selection bar (#856): in the left margin beside body text a click selects the line, a double-click the paragraph, a triple-click or Ctrl/⌘+click the document; dragging there selects whole lines and Shift+click extends by lines; the pointer turns to an arrow. Right margin for right-to-left paragraphs not yet
2026-10-11	Compare / Combine dialog with comparison settings, Restrict Editing pane (exceptions, SHA-512 password, locked styles; DOCX round trip), AutoCorrect Options dialog saved per user (#412)
2026-10-11	DOCX diagrams (#611): lines, connectors and boxes styled by the theme now show (they were invisible); callouts and flowchart boxes drawn as the nearest shape; VML lines, rectangles and ovals
2026-10-11	WordArt (#416): text fill/outline/shadow/glow/reflection, Transform warps, our own styles; straight/elbow/curved connectors glued to shapes that re-route; DOCX round trip
2026-10-11	Content controls (w:sdt) kept, shown and edited; Developer tab, Design Mode, Properties dialog (#381)
2026-10-11	Insert › Chart (#409): column, bar, line, area, pie, doughnut and scatter charts with Chart Design (type, Edit Data, title, legend, data labels), saved as real chart parts; catalog 408/439 (92.9%)
2026-10-11	Line Numbers, Hyphenation (zone, CAPS, consecutive limit, Manual), Language, Envelopes and Labels dialogs (#407); hyphenation options kept in DOCX; 30 modal dialogs
2026-10-11	Accessibility (#386): Alt Text pane for every object and table, Mark as decorative, alt text round-trips in DOCX, deeper checker with fix actions
2026-10-11	References dialogs (#402): Caption (labels, chapter numbering), Index and Mark Entry, Custom Table of Contents, Source Manager and Create/Edit Source, with TOC/INDEX/XE/SEQ switches honoured on update
2026-10-11	Font dialog: separate Asian text font and Latin text font (#505); format.font {"eastAsia"}; East Asian fonts found by the font scan (OS/2 code pages)
2026-10-11	Document grid (#391): Page Setup › Document Grid sets lines per page and characters per line (w:docGrid round trip); lines snap to the line pitch, East Asian characters to the character pitch; View › Gridlines shows it
2026-10-11	Move tracking (#400): w:moveFrom/w:moveTo and their named ranges kept in DOCX, a tracked cut and paste of a paragraph or sentence records a move, accept/reject at either end resolves both, green double strikethrough/underline and "Moved from/to" balloons
2026-10-11	Footnote and Endnote dialog from the References › Footnotes launcher: options per section or document (below text, end of section, number format, start at, restart each section or page), custom marks, convert footnotes ↔ endnotes; kept in DOCX (#385)
2026-10-11	Shape Format › Text: text direction, Align Text and linked text boxes (Create Link / Break Link), read and written in DOCX (#369)
2026-10-11	Quick Access Toolbar KeyTips in the customized button order (Alt/F10 then a number), disabled-command checks and a saved File › Options switch (ui.keytips), #620
2026-10-11	Mail-merge recipients from Excel (.xlsx/.xlsm) and OpenDocument (.ods) spreadsheets, with Select Table to pick the sheet (#334)
2026-10-11	Insert › Icons (#309): a library of 61 original icons drawn in code, a searchable picker and Icon Color
2026-10-11	Home › Font › Enclose Characters (#297): circle, square, triangle or diamond around a character, saved as Word's EQ \o\ac field
2026-10-11	Phonetic Guide (#288): ruby text over base text, w:ruby round trip
2026-10-12	Custom XML backing stores preserved as opaque data and related properties through edited DOCX saves; content-control markup is handled by the existing reader/writer and #532 bibliography I/O remains separate; binding evaluation and readiness unchanged
2026-10-12	Imported TOCs keep actual result boundaries, nested page fields, formatting and locks through DOCX saves without relying on TOC styles; existing engine-managed styled TOCs remain refreshable
2026-10-11	Customize Ribbon and the Quick Access Toolbar: custom tabs and groups, hide and reorder tabs, add or remove toolbar commands (right-click any button, or the toolbar's … menu); kept between runs (#379, #376)
2026-10-11	Customize Keyboard: assign, remove and reset keyboard shortcuts; custom keys override built-ins and are kept between runs (#368)
2026-10-12	Native saves use exclusively created sibling temporary files, synchronize before replacement and clean up on failure; existing temporary-name files/links and original files on failed saves are protected. Synthetic CLI and focused tests on macOS; no new Word parity or readiness claim.
2026-10-11	Field codes like Word's field keys (#339): show codes (Alt+F9, Shift+F9), edit, unlink, lock and step through fields
2026-10-11	Word's common keyboard shortcuts (#330): 101 → 125 of ~250
2026-10-12	Bulgarian (bg) interface: 2,419 catalog entries (every key of the reference catalog, the equation gallery and everything the interface audit finds), bg-BG system locales and a saved language choice; locale, catalog and bundled-font tests; no Bulgarian proofing resources
2026-10-11	Hungarian (hu) interface: all 2,419 catalog entries, built-in style names translated, hu-HU system locales and a saved language choice; locale, catalog and bundled-font tests; no Hungarian proofing resources
2026-10-11	Turkish (tr) interface: all 1,307 catalog entries, tr-TR/tr-CY system locales and a saved language choice; command search keeps Turkish dotted and dotless I apart (italik finds İtalik); locale, catalog, search and bundled-font tests; no Turkish proofing resources
2026-10-11	Italian (it) interface (#594): 2,399 entries, feature names as Italian Word users know them, locale and saved-preference tests, bundled-font checks; no Italian proofing resources
2026-10-12	Native drawing-level Word ink preserved through DOCX edits and repeated saves, including its InkML part and optional VML picture fallback; native ink rendering and editing remain missing
2026-10-11	Citations and bibliography in all 12 of Word's styles: Harvard, ISO 690 (author-date and numerical), Turabian, GB/T 7714, GOST (name and title sort) and SIST02 join APA, MLA, Chicago and IEEE; numbered styles count in order of first citation (#383)
2026-10-11	Interface size setting (#475): File › Options › General scales the interface 80–200 % on top of the system display scale, kept between runs; ui.interfaceSize for agents
2026-10-11	DOCX paragraph defaults: preserve omission separately from explicit empty defaults, with repeated-save and default-edit regressions
2026-10-11	Formatting revisions (#41): w:rPrChange/w:pPrChange, table/row/cell, section and numbering changes kept in DOCX; formatting recorded as revisions while tracking; accept/reject, Reviewing Pane descriptions, "Formatted: …" balloons and change bars
2026-10-11	Draw: Lasso Select (move, recolour, delete the strokes inside a loop), Add Pen gallery kept between runs, Ink to Shape (own recogniser: line, rectangle/square, ellipse/circle, triangle, polygon), Ink Replay in drawing order with play/pause/rewind/forward; drawing order kept in DOCX (#395); catalog 406/434 (93.5%)
2026-10-10	Estonian (et) interface (#294): 1,161 translated entries, locale and saved-preference tests, bundled-font checks; no Estonian proofing resources
2026-10-10	Draw tab: pen, pencil and highlighter ink, stroke eraser, Select, Review › Hide Ink; ink saved to DOCX as DrawingML freeforms (#307); catalog 399/431 (92.6%)
2026-10-10	Draw Table and Eraser (#303): a pen draws one-cell tables and splits cells along drawn lines; the eraser merges the cells beside a border. Catalog 393/431 (91.2%)
2026-10-10	DOCX charts, SmartArt and OLE objects survive open and save with their parts (#319)
2026-10-10	Full re-measure against Word for Mac 16.113.4 and progress docs to the craftrules standard (this page, docs/target-app-parity.md, gaps.md, roadmap.md, architecture.md, format/layout/UI/hardware/localization parity; docs/parity.md → docs/parity-checklist.md). Landed the same day (~80 PRs): equations with OMML and an Equation tab (#191); Word 97-2003 .doc import (#145); right-to-left and Persian text (#207); Zotero integration (#189); Read Aloud player (#190); text boxes and floating objects editable (#46) and placed like Word (#136); floating tables (#137); track-changes fixes (#125, #244); typing parity with Word (#204); hidden text (#173); save prompts and AutoSave rules (#151); LaTeX import/export (#11); keytips and mini-toolbar (#43); Spanish, Ukrainian and Brazilian Portuguese interfaces; system theme (#249); Linux file dialogs no longer freeze (#246); Chinese UI font on Windows (#248); every installed font weight (#239); cell text direction (#245); Paste Special (#235), Advanced Find (#234), Column Selection (#237), Style Inspector (#236), custom table styles (#256), View gridlines (#243), zoom buttons (#232), inertial touchpad scrolling (#252), File Info fields kept (#268), ¶ in mixed-direction paragraphs (#278), Serbian interface (#250), table Height/Width boxes, AutoFit Contents and Table Properties (#44), AutoSave switch greyed out with the reason where it can't save (.md/.txt/.html, unsaved, browser) (#196, #176), OpenGL fallback on Windows PCs without a DirectX 12 driver (#316), Columns, Symbol and Field dialogs (#321), Tabs and Borders and Shading dialogs (#320); free rotation and flips for pictures, shapes and text boxes with a rotation handle (#332); v0.4.0 released; file associations on Windows and Linux with a Make-default button in Options (#295)
2026-10-09	Interface languages follow the system or Options (#12; zh-hans, zh-hant, ja); TOC page numbers as an updatable field (#52); rotating log file (#17); window geometry remembered (#38)
2026-10-08	v0.2.0 and v0.3.0 released; Flatpak and AppImage auto-update (#22)
2026-10-07	v0.1.0 released; contributor credits in About (#6)
2026-10-06	Layout arc: wrap around floats, text boxes, page borders, line numbers, row splitting, drop caps, hyphenation, comment balloons; release pipeline for every platform; first estimate (~62% real feature parity, 120–150 h to 100%)
2026-10-05	M0–M12 first versions: model, layout, render, engine with 200+ commands, Word-style UI, DOCX I/O, PDF and other formats, references, review, mailings, CLI, MCP, web
2026-10-13	The interface-translation audit runs in CI again (#1128): the size labels of Envelopes, Labels and Layout › Size are translated (4,13 × 9,5 дюйма) and use the region's decimal separator, and status-bar messages (table split and merge, ink replay, citations, SmartArt, Researcher, Design defaults), the Reading Mode toolbar, Go To and Search's Suggested heading are translated in every interface language, and the Read Aloud player no longer shows a speech error a frame before the status bar does, the race behind the audit's rare failure under load

Revision history

Date	Change	Summary
2026-10-13	trivial	Progress log: rounded rectangle corners (#1476)
2026-10-13	trivial	Progress log: PAGEREF in headers and footers (#1477)
2026-10-13	trivial	Replace All checks content-control locks before editing; a refused batch leaves the document and undo history unchanged; existing deletion-lock rules reused, with tracked/untracked regression coverage
2026-10-12	trivial	Progress log: VML text box margins, fit and alignment; hidden drawings
2026-10-13	trivial	Progress log: comment balloon buttons work, empty comments can be deleted (#1085)
2026-10-12	trivial	Progress log: sample-text formulas on Enter (#1067)
2026-10-12	trivial	Progress log: direct run-level native InkML content parts survive DOCX edits and repeated saves
2026-10-13	trivial	Progress log: the caret contrasts with its background (#299)
2026-10-13	trivial	Progress log: clicks on ribbon chrome keep typing in the document (#1093)
2026-10-13	trivial	Progress log: dragged shapes wrap in their new column (#884)
2026-10-14	trivial	Progress log: All Caps and Small Caps text extracts from PDFs as shown (#1473)
2026-10-14	trivial	Progress log: the web's Save before New/Open waits for the save picker (#1315)
2026-10-13	trivial	Progress log: a failed save from the close prompt says so (#1445)
2026-10-14	trivial	Progress log: Inspect Document removes hidden text in every story (#1344)
2026-10-14	trivial	Progress log: ODT tracked changes (gap 19)
2026-10-14	trivial	Progress log: RTF tracked insertions and deletions (gap 19)
2026-10-14	trivial	Progress log: alignment guides while dragging pictures and shapes
2026-10-14	trivial	Progress log: ODT sections on import (#1379)
2026-10-14	trivial	Progress log: right-to-left text in exported PDFs extracts as whole words (#1383)
2026-10-14	trivial	Progress log: HTML header cells, cell alignment and region paper for opened HTML/Markdown/text (#1381)
2026-10-14	trivial	Progress log: custom page size from More Paper Sizes… and Page Setup (#1433)
2026-10-13	trivial	Progress log: highlighted text on a dark page (#1252)
2026-10-13	trivial	Progress log: full screen on F11 (#980)
2026-10-13	trivial	Progress log: interface audit back in CI (#1128)
2026-10-13	trivial	Progress log: double-click the margin to create and edit a header or footer (#960)
2026-10-13	trivial	Progress log: Set Proofing Language… in the Language menu (#860)
2026-10-12	trivial	Progress log: list label follows paragraph alignment (#1159)
2026-10-13	trivial	Progress log: space after a page break
2026-10-13	trivial	Progress log: table row margins and splitting
2026-10-13	trivial	Progress log: lines inside groups in PDF export (#1474)
2026-10-14	trivial	Progress log: continued paragraphs wrap around the next column's shapes (#1374)
2026-10-13	trivial	Progress log: PAGE fields on the pages a paragraph runs onto (#1352)
2026-10-14	trivial	Progress log: RTF import keeps sections (#1378)
2026-10-14	trivial	Progress log: colour emoji drawn on screen and in page renders (#1269)
2026-10-14	trivial	Progress log: .doc table shading and the extra column (#1380)
2026-10-12	trivial	Progress log: web picture paste respects the edit target (#1349)
2026-10-14	trivial	Progress log: table deletes, Change Case and Unlink Fields respect Track Changes and locked content controls (#1329)
2026-10-14	trivial	Progress log: Ink to Shape recognises single-stroke arrows
2026-10-12	trivial	Progress log: Accept All and Reject All keep the right paragraph marks (#864)
2026-10-12	trivial	Progress log: --help for the app and every CLI subcommand (#968)
2026-10-13	trivial	Progress log: equation pictures keep the theme colours on Windows (#1002)
2026-10-11	trivial	Progress log: Ctrl, Alt, left-edge and selected-cells table border drags (#711)
2026-10-11	trivial	Progress log: table markers on the rulers (#700)
2026-10-11	trivial	Progress log: the table context menu
2026-10-11	trivial	Progress log: drags and Shift+arrows over table cells select whole cells
2026-10-11	trivial	Progress log: table selection areas, insert buttons, move handle and double-click AutoFit; catalog 484/499
2026-10-12	trivial	Progress log: Undo history list (#701)
2026-10-14	trivial	Progress log: Save As type list (#1399)
2026-10-12	trivial	Progress log: Start screen at launch (#766)
2026-10-13	trivial	Progress log: no document behind the Start screen (#1129)
2026-10-12	trivial	Progress log: Alt+Q command search (#819); log table header fixed
2026-10-12	trivial	Progress log: ribbon groups fit above their labels
2026-10-12	trivial	Font list previews no longer grow memory (#848)
2026-10-12	trivial	Progress log: section break keeps the selected text (#852)
2026-10-12	trivial	Progress log: save prompt from the keyboard (#861)
2026-10-12	trivial	Progress log: craft-fonts Simplified Chinese in documents
2026-10-12	trivial	Progress log: symbol-font text drawn as Unicode symbols (#776)
2026-10-12	trivial	Progress log: WMF and EMF pictures can be inserted (#802)
2026-10-11	trivial	Progress log and shipped languages: Turkish interface completed, 2,325 entries (#774)
2026-10-12	trivial	Progress log: Navigation heading truncation (#759)
2026-10-11	trivial	Progress log: Reading Mode implementation
2026-10-12	trivial	Progress log: new documents follow the system region (#838)
2026-10-11	trivial	DOCX complex-script formatting inheritance fix and round-trip coverage
2026-10-11	minor	Czech (cs) interface catalog added
2026-10-12	trivial	Progress log: AutoCorrect replacement list follows the text's language (#835)
2026-10-11	trivial	Progress log: German interface (#574)
2026-10-12	trivial	Progress log: language-aware sorting and table numbers (#836, #837)
2026-10-13	trivial	Progress log: Word 365 cover pages, positions and closed freeforms (#743)
2026-10-12	trivial	Progress log: Word 365 cover pages (#743)
2026-10-11	trivial	Progress log: tables resize with the mouse (#217)
2026-10-11	trivial	Progress log: Animation effects setting
2026-10-11	trivial	Progress log: built-in file browser when the system file dialog is unavailable (#576)
2026-10-12	trivial	Progress log: large-table scrolling (#811)
2026-10-11	trivial	Progress log: security review fixes (temp files, exported link schemes)
2026-10-11	trivial	Progress log: Find and Replace special characters and wildcards (#543)
2026-10-12	minor	Desktop File > Print now discovers printers and submits PDF jobs through pinned craft-print with printer choice, copies, collation, duplex and grayscale; the upstream preview, ranges, parity and Print Markup remain available, along with browser printing and PDF export. Remaining print parity includes driver-specific tray/options and pages-per-sheet UI; physical printer fidelity needs hardware validation.
2026-10-11	trivial	Progress log: Windows DX12 shaders compiled with FXC (#603)
2026-10-11	trivial	Progress log: Insert › SmartArt (#497); catalog 429/451 → 437/458 (95.4%)
2026-10-11	trivial	Progress log: Outline view (#493)
2026-10-11	trivial	Progress log: vertical sections (#491)
2026-10-11	trivial	Progress log: Paragraph dialog options, mirror indents (#512)
2026-10-11	trivial	Progress log: Print Markup (#589)
2026-10-11	trivial	Progress log: custom colours via More Colors… (#606)
2026-10-11	trivial	Progress log: complex-script shaping (#604)
2026-10-11	trivial	Progress log: unknown text extensions open as text (#569)
2026-10-11	trivial	Progress log: drag-select by words/paragraphs/sentences (#549)
2026-10-12	trivial	Progress log: selection bar in the left margin (#856)
2026-10-11	trivial	Progress log: content controls (#381)
2026-10-11	trivial	Progress log: Insert › Chart (#409); catalog 408/439 (92.9%)
2026-10-11	trivial	Progress log: Line Numbers, Hyphenation, Language, Envelopes and Labels dialogs (#407)
2026-10-11	trivial	Progress log: Alt Text pane, decorative objects, deeper accessibility checker (#386)
2026-10-11	trivial	Progress log: Draw lasso, Add Pen, Ink to Shape, Ink Replay (#395); catalog 406/434
2026-10-11	trivial	Progress log: document grid (#391)
2026-10-11	trivial	Progress log: text direction, Align Text and linked text boxes (#369)
2026-10-10	trivial	Progress: Drawing Canvas (#344): insert, shapes/pictures/text boxes inside, Fit/Expand/Scale, DOCX wpc:wpc, turns and flips as a whole; catalog 404/434
2026-10-11	trivial	Quick Access Toolbar KeyTips and persisted enable/disable setting (#620)
2026-10-11	trivial	Progress log: mail-merge recipients from .xlsx/.xlsm/.ods (#334)
2026-10-11	trivial	Insert › Icons landed (#309): catalog 402/434 → 403/434 (92.9%)
2026-10-11	trivial	Enclose Characters (#297): catalog 403/434 (92.9%)
2026-10-12	minor	Progress log: opaque custom XML store preservation, with synthetic package regressions and explicit limits
2026-10-12	minor	Preserve imported TOC ranges and retain #538 refresh/undo/save coverage on current main; readiness unchanged
2026-10-11	trivial	Progress log: Customize Ribbon and the Quick Access Toolbar (#379)
2026-10-11	trivial	Omitted w:pPrDefault stays omitted across saves; explicit empty/default properties and later spacing edits remain writable. Synthetic preservation checks only; readiness estimates unchanged
2026-10-11	trivial	Progress log: Customize Keyboard (#368)
2026-10-12	trivial	Native saves protect existing temporary-name entries and originals on pre-replacement failure; synthetic macOS evidence, explicit durability/platform limits; readiness unchanged
2026-10-11	trivial	Word's common keyboard shortcuts (#330): 125 of ~250
2026-10-11	trivial	Collapsed duplicate rows left by parallel merges
2026-10-12	trivial	Bulgarian interface (bg): progress log and shipped languages
2026-10-11	trivial	Hungarian interface (hu): progress log and shipped languages
2026-10-11	trivial	Turkish interface (tr): progress log and shipped languages
2026-10-12	minor	Native drawing-level ink and its picture fallback survive DOCX edits and repeated saves; adapted to the current graphic writer; rendering and editing InkML remain missing
2026-10-11	trivial	Progress log: eight more bibliography styles (#383)
2026-10-14	trivial	Progress log: ODT and .doc pictures read once, within their byte budget (#1334)
2026-10-10	trivial	Progress log: Draw tab ink (#307)
2026-10-10	trivial	Draw Table and Eraser (#303): catalog 393/431 (91.2%)
2026-10-10	trivial	Progress log: charts, SmartArt and OLE objects kept on DOCX save (#319)
2026-10-10	trivial	Progress log: contour wrap (#354)
2026-10-10	trivial	Progress log: free rotation and flips (#332)
2026-10-10	trivial	Progress log: Windows OpenGL fallback without a DirectX 12 driver (#316)
2026-10-10	minor	Password-protected .docx (#281): files encrypted with a password (agile encryption) open and save; File › Info › Encrypt with Password
2026-10-10	minor	Relanded clipboard pane, table styles editor, Manage Styles, Asian typography (kinsoku), Group/Ungroup and Shape Effects (#264 #263 #270 #271 #267 #280): catalog 390/431 (90.5%)
2026-10-10	minor	Polish interface and proofing landed: Localization 25% → 27%, Proofing 35% → 40%
2026-10-10	minor	Merged main: catalog 384/430 (89.3%), 431 commands; Paste Special, Advanced Find, Column Selection, Style Inspector, custom table styles, gridlines, zoom buttons, touchpad scrolling, File Info, Serbian landed; mainstream 54→55%
2026-10-10	minor	Readiness table with hours per audience; full number restored to the additive weighted sum (~47% → ~60%): method aligned with the standard, no new evidence; beta distance back to ~15 points and ~150–230 h
2026-10-10	minor	Mainstream practitioner (~54%) and essentials user (~63%) numbers added; full number recomputed 60% → ~47% with the standard's discounts; beta distance now ~28 points and ~450–700 h; stage stays alpha
2026-10-10	minor	Alpha gate checked (six core workflows pass); stage stays alpha
2026-10-10	major	Full re-measure; restructured to the progress-docs standard (stage banner, two numbers, dimensions, languages, upcoming, progress log); parity tables moved to docs/target-app-parity.md, milestones to docs/roadmap.md
2026-10-09	minor	Recently landed: RTL, Ukrainian and Brazilian Portuguese
2026-10-06	major	First honest estimate: 88% catalog, ~62% real parity, alpha ~85% of the way