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8a2a8bb60d Insert > Icons: an original icon library, a searchable picker and Icon Color (#309) (#318)
Adds wordcraft_render::icon_lib, 61 monochrome icons in ten categories
(Arrows, Communication, Office, People, Nature, Weather, Shapes, Symbols,
Technology, Transport). They are original WordCraft artwork: simple
geometric line drawings designed on a 24x24 grid as path data in code, with
no icon files and nothing copied from another icon set.

insert.icon {"id", "color"?, "size"?} renders the chosen icon with vello_cpu
to a transparent PNG at about 300 ppi and inserts it at the caret through the
ordinary picture path, so it saves to .docx and every other format. Without
an id it lists the library (narrowed by query and category) and asks the
front end for the picker. picture.iconColor repaints a one-colour picture
in a new colour and keeps its transparency.

Insert > Illustrations > Icons opens a dialog with a search box, category
chips and a grid of icons drawn live by the egui painter from the same path
data; Insert or a double click places the selection. Picture Format > Adjust
gains an Icon Color menu. New strings are translated in every catalog.

Catalog parity 393/434 -> 394/434 (90.8%).

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Brandon Thomas <echelon@gmail.com>
2026-10-11 13:27:42 -04:00

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WordCraft roadmap: milestones and what's next

Last reviewed: 2026-10-10 · Last updated: 2026-10-11 · Change: trivial (M7: formatting revisions landed, #41; previously trivial: M5: Draw Table and Eraser landed, #303; previously minor: beta distance restated: ~15 points, ~150–230 h; previously: alpha gate checked: six core workflows pass; previously major: milestones moved here from ROADMAP.md; Current focus set from the re-measured gaps) · Target: Microsoft Word (Microsoft 365) for Mac 16.113.4

Forward-looking plan. The summary is ROADMAP.md; the ranked work list is gaps.md; the numbers are in target-app-parity.md. Hours are Opus 5.5 agent wall-clock.

Current focus (toward beta, ~150–230 h)

  1. Merge or close the ~45 open PRs before starting overlapping work: many close catalog gaps (Clipboard pane #264, Manage Styles #270, Group #267), fix field bugs (Hebrew RTL #20, IME fixes #155–#164) or add languages (de, nb, nn, he). Owner review needed.
  2. DOCX real-world corpus (gap #1, 30–50 h): collect openly licensed real-world .docx files, open/render/round-trip them, compare with Word locally, fix what breaks.
  3. Preserve what we can't render (gap #2, 10–15 h): charts, SmartArt, OLE, ink, group shapes survive a round trip and show their fallback pictures.
  4. Stability sweep (gap #3, 20–30 h): the open crash, hang and write-failure issues, plus an autosave/recovery soak test.
  5. Pagination fidelity (gap #4, 30–50 h): column balancing, footnote continuation, compat options, a local page-by-page comparison harness; an owner decision on an Aptos-metric font.
  6. Formatting revisions and content controls (gap #5, 12–18 h), native printing (gap #6, 6–10 h), dialog depth (gap #7, 20–30 h).

Alpha gate (core workflows)

The core-workflow gate from the craftrules progress-docs standard: what a typical Word user does every day, checked end to end on the main platform (macOS desktop), including save and reopen. "Partial" here means rough but not blocking: the workflow completes.

Core workflow Works end to end? Evidence Hours to pass
Write and format a document: type, fonts, paragraph formatting, styles, lists, undo, find/replace; save as .docx and reopen yes 422 commands, typing parity pinned by tests_typing.rs, DOCX round-trip tests (crates/docx/tests/roundtrip.rs) 0
Open a .docx someone sent, edit it, send back a .docx Word opens partial (not blocking) Word opens our files; typical text/table/picture documents work; never tested on a real-world corpus; charts, SmartArt and OLE dropped silently, move tracking lost (gaps #1, #2, #5) 0 (beta work: 50–80)
Build a structured document: tables, pictures, headers/footers, page numbers, sections, columns yes Tables with row splitting and floating tables (#137), floating pictures (#136), first/odd/even headers; columns don't balance (gap #4) 0
Review with others: comments, track changes, accept/reject, compare yes Margin balloons, tracked insert/delete incl. paragraph marks (#125, #244), formatting revisions (#41), compare 0
References for reports and papers: TOC, footnotes, citations and bibliography, captions yes Updatable TOC field (#52), notes, APA/MLA/Chicago/IEEE, Zotero (#189); long footnotes don't continue (gap #4) 0
Share or print: export PDF, print partial (not blocking) PDF export solid (krilla); desktop printing goes through a PDF, no native print dialog (gap #6) 0 (beta work: 6–10)

Result: passes. Every core workflow completes on macOS and the work saves and reopens; the partial rows are fidelity gaps (beta work), not broken workflows. WordCraft stays alpha.

Milestones

# Milestone State Remaining
M0 Skeleton and vertical slice (model, layout, render, engine, Word-style UI, CLI, MCP, web) done —
M1 DOCX I/O done (first version); real-world corpus not started; charts/SmartArt/OLE dropped 45–75 h
M2 Home tab done except Paste Special, Clipboard pane, Style Inspector, Manage Styles, Asian typography (PRs open for four) 5–10 h
M3 Insert tab mostly done; equations done (#191), icons done (#309); charts, SmartArt, 3D, screenshot, online media missing 50–80 h
M4 Layout and Design tabs done except column balancing, group 6–10 h
M5 Tables done (row splitting, floating tables, style formatting); custom table styles (#256); Draw Table and Eraser (#303) 6–10 h
M6 References first version done (TOC fields, cross-references, Zotero); footnote continuation missing; all 12 bibliography styles (#383) 15–25 h
M7 Review done (balloons, paragraph-mark revisions, formatting revisions #41); move tracking, multilingual proofing missing 35–60 h
M8 View mostly done; window commands missing 3–5 h
M9 Mailings done (first version); Excel/Outlook data sources and email merge missing 6–10 h
M10 File/Backstage mostly done; native printing, Options depth missing 12–20 h
M11 Draw and objects text wrap, text boxes, canvas handles, rotation (#332), ink pens and eraser (#307), contour wrap (#354) done; lasso and ink conversion, grouping missing 35–55 h
M12 Formats breadth (PDF, ODT, RTF, HTML, MD, TXT, LaTeX, .doc import) done (first versions); .doc write, encryption, minor formats missing 60–100 h
M13 Performance budgets on track (1.4 ms relayout); large real-world documents unmeasured 10–20 h
M14 1.0 polish, packaging, signing releases v0.1.0–v0.4.0 published (signed macOS, Windows MSI x64/x86/arm64, Linux, FreeBSD, web) —
M15 Localization (12 key languages, RTL interface, proofing languages) 9 UI languages, English proofing 80–130 h
M16 Right-to-left and East Asian typography RTL paragraphs done (#207) 30–45 h

Next after beta

Charts and SmartArt editing, the Draw tab, .doc writing, PDF Reflow, the remaining interface languages, screen-reader access, ecosystem decisions (VBA, add-ins, cloud), an in-app assistant.

Revision history

Date Change Summary
2026-10-11 trivial M3: icons landed (#309)
2026-10-11 trivial M11: contour (Tight/Through) wrap done (#354)
2026-10-11 trivial M6: the eight missing bibliography styles landed (#383)
2026-10-11 trivial M7: formatting revisions landed (#41)
2026-10-10 trivial M5: Draw Table and Eraser landed (#303)
2026-10-10 trivial Merged main: PRs that landed removed from the Current focus list
2026-10-10 minor Current focus heading back to ~150–230 h to beta: full number restored to the additive weighted sum (~60%), method aligned with the standard, no new evidence
2026-10-10 minor Alpha gate table added (core-workflow gate from the progress-docs standard): all six workflows pass, stage stays alpha
2026-10-10 major Created: milestones moved from ROADMAP.md with remaining hours; Current focus from gaps.md; M15–M16 added
2026-10-10 trivial M11: ink pens and eraser landed (#307)