M4: a paragraph's base direction can be forced: Text ▸ Text direction (#1830)

Direction came from the letters only; Add right-to-left text says controls override it per paragraph (Text > Text direction, Left to right or Right to left). `TextDirection` on `ParaList`, `Bidi::of` with a base level per paragraph, `text.direction` and the three menu commands (the edited paragraphs while editing), `node.set textDirection`, the Type settings control once a right-to-left script is in the text, inspect `textDirection` / `lineDirections`, the CSS `direction`, and the `.fig` lines' `sourceDirectionality` in and out.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

docs/localization-parity.md

@@ -57,7 +57,8 @@ supported by both apps (CJK, Arabic and Devanagari shaping, IME); Figma has no v
   Portuguese take the singular for 0 as well; Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Vietnamese have one form;
   CLDR's "many" for millions in French, Spanish and Portuguese reads as the plural).
 - **Script support in documents:** Unicode bidi with Arabic shaping and mirrored brackets in text
-  layers; right-to-left list markers and indents; right-to-left names in the layers panel, tabs
+  layers; a paragraph's base direction forced with Text ▸ Text direction (#1830); right-to-left
+  list markers and indents; right-to-left names in the layers panel, tabs
   and canvas labels (visual order, joined Arabic); inline IME composition with the candidate window
   at the caret; system-font fallback for scripts the UI fonts lack. Devanagari shapes through
   harfrust. No vertical text (Figma has none either).
@@ -125,6 +126,7 @@ Hindi and Arabic. Traditional Chinese is not planned (no catalog; its users see
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-11-05 | minor | Documents: a paragraph's base direction can be forced left to right or right to left (Text ▸ Text direction, `text.direction`, `node.set textDirection`, the Type settings control, the `.fig` lines' `sourceDirectionality`), as Add right-to-left text says (#1830); detection stays the default. Four new UI strings (English only; other catalogs fall back). |
 | 2026-10-30 | minor | Bosnian (`bs`, Bosanski) draft catalog: every UI string (1,906), command label (629) and menu wording (31), machine-drafted in Latin script with ijekavian forms and marked as a draft awaiting native review. Bosnian plurals: one for 1, 21, 31… (not 11), few for 2–4, 22–24… (not 12–14), other for the rest. Grade and hours unchanged (Bosnian is not one of the twelve key languages) |
 | 2026-10-29 | minor | German terminology corrections (M10): gradient stops, OpenType stylistic sets and the Home-screen preference; partial review, catalog remains a draft. Nine existing translations corrected; keys, placeholders, coverage, grade and estimates unchanged |
 | 2026-10-28 | minor | Arabic draft: 1,857 UI entries, 620 command labels and 31 menu wordings, with count-neutral plurals. AI-assisted, native review pending. Desktop uses the existing Arabic fallback and bidi; web requires an embedded Arabic face. No panel mirroring or parity-grade increase claimed |

docs/ui-parity.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # UI and interaction parity
 
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-02 · **Change:** minor (a click with the Bend tool on a sharp point curves it, its handles along the line between its neighbours, as Edit vector layers says (#1875); wrap style: Auto, Balance and Pretty on a text layer decide where its lines break, as Explore text properties says (#1827), with the Type settings control, `text.wrapStyle`, `node.set wrapStyle`, inspect and the CSS `text-wrap`; Backspace or Delete at the start of a list item keeps the item's indentation level, as the lists article says; max lines on auto-width text keep it auto width, hugging that many lines, as the text properties article says; superscript and subscript are synthesised where the font has no glyphs for them, from the standard glyphs shrunk and shifted by the font's OS/2 metrics, and a run mixing available and unavailable glyphs is synthesised whole, as Explore text properties says (#1828); Alt+Enter while editing text opens the link at the caret, as the accessibility page documents; Minimize, by its shortcut or the button by the file name, collapses the navigation bar and both sidebars as the help center says, with the right sidebar back while something is selected (#1835); the interface size keys of the help center's accessibility page: Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+Alt with =, - and 0 step the interface through the Preferences sizes and back to the system's size; Cmd/Ctrl+Alt+arrows rotate the selection a degree at a time, 15 with Shift, as the help center's accessibility page says; they resized before; the Layers panel answers Ctrl+1 as well as Alt+1 on Windows and Linux, the two keys the help center gives it; the colour picker's Image tab shows a placeholder and Upload from computer, an asset preview, and a file dropped on it replaces the image, keeping the fill mode, crop and position (#1682); the keyboard's Menu key opens the context menu, as Shift+F10 does; the eyedropper with Cmd/Ctrl+Shift makes a colour style or variable of what it picks; sidebar number and text fields keep their text vertically centered when focused, including typography spacing; with the pen out, Enter or a double-click ends the path and edits the vector with the Move tool instead of drawing on (#1430); the Actions palette offers only commands that run from it, and no second row reading like a menu item: Place image opens the file dialog (#1574); Preferences ▸ Scroll wheel zoom: a mouse wheel zooms the canvas about the pointer and Cmd/Ctrl+wheel scrolls (#1390); boolean operations refuse input past their caps, and a boolean group past them draws without its result (#1104); the selection and hover outlines of rounded rectangles and frames follow their corners (#1506); colour picker review fixes for text undo, fitted sidebars, moving controls and gradient variables; Corner smoothing: an original icon and the shared number-field drag gesture, preserving fractional baselines; guides snap to layers when dragged; Crop image: Object ▸ Crop image, the right-click menu and the image fill row enter crop mode (`image.crop`, #1464); the Design panel's sections on one grid — 16 / 8 margins, 88 + 8 + 88 + 8 + 24 columns, 24 pt rows, 4 pt between a row's buttons (#858); the toolbar on one 32 pt grid, without its Resources button (#1210); colour picker LCH and OKLCH models; an XML (Android Vector Drawable) export format; Context menus: the Menu key reaches egui 0.37 but is unbound (row done → partial); the Text on a path tool; board tool keys pinned; community fixes: the text box by dragging, the font picker keys, the pen path on leaving Design, a still canvas in vector edit mode, a scrolling pages list, colour emoji, readable new text in frames, system theme on first run; the Small caps sample in Type settings drawn from capitals; recent files as cards; vector edit mode: hovering, hatching, selecting and dragging filled regions; home screen: Templates tab, first-run templates and Getting started tips; number fields: scrub rates, arrow steps, arithmetic with brackets, relative edits of mixed values; outline mode's hidden layers and object bounds; Hide when publishing; cursors per tool and modifier; panel widths; dark pages for files made in the dark theme; drag threshold and double-clicks into text in groups; rotation origin on Alt+R and placing with Enter: no documented shortcut missing; keyboard shortcut parity suite and bindings; cursor chat and spotlight in live sessions; layers and assets panels behaviour suite and fixes; vector multi-edit and the vector edit tail; canvas navigation, guides and grids behaviour suite and fixes; shapes and vector behaviour suite and fixes; paint and effects behaviour suite and fixes; frames, groups, sections and masks behaviour suite and fixes; layers panel keyboard: F2 rename, Shift+F10 context menu, F8 box selection; selection and transform behaviour suite and fixes; Display P3: gamut warning and soft-proof (true P3 blocked upstream); several windows; boolean hit testingLine truncated
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-05 · **Change:** minor (text direction per paragraph: Text ▸ Text direction forces a paragraph left to right or right to left, as Add right-to-left text says (#1830), with `text.direction`, `node.set textDirection`, the Type settings control once a right-to-left script is in the text, inspect, the CSS `direction` and the `.fig` lines' `sourceDirectionality`; a click with the Bend tool on a sharp point curves it, its handles along the line between its neighbours, as Edit vector layers says (#1875); wrap style: Auto, Balance and Pretty on a text layer decide where its lines break, as Explore text properties says (#1827), with the Type settings control, `text.wrapStyle`, `node.set wrapStyle`, inspect and the CSS `text-wrap`; Backspace or Delete at the start of a list item keeps the item's indentation level, as the lists article says; max lines on auto-width text keep it auto width, hugging that many lines, as the text properties article says; superscript and subscript are synthesised where the font has no glyphs for them, from the standard glyphs shrunk and shifted by the font's OS/2 metrics, and a run mixing available and unavailable glyphs is synthesised whole, as Explore text properties says (#1828); Alt+Enter while editing text opens the link at the caret, as the accessibility page documents; Minimize, by its shortcut or the button by the file name, collapses the navigation bar and both sidebars as the help center says, with the right sidebar back while something is selected (#1835); the interface size keys of the help center's accessibility page: Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+Alt with =, - and 0 step the interface through the Preferences sizes and back to the system's size; Cmd/Ctrl+Alt+arrows rotate the selection a degree at a time, 15 with Shift, as the help center's accessibility page says; they resized before; the Layers panel answers Ctrl+1 as well as Alt+1 on Windows and Linux, the two keys the help center gives it; the colour picker's Image tab shows a placeholder and Upload from computer, an asset preview, and a file dropped on it replaces the image, keeping the fill mode, crop and position (#1682); the keyboard's Menu key opens the context menu, as Shift+F10 does; the eyedropper with Cmd/Ctrl+Shift makes a colour style or variable of what it picks; sidebar number and text fields keep their text vertically centered when focused, including typography spacing; with the pen out, Enter or a double-click ends the path and edits the vector with the Move tool instead of drawing on (#1430); the Actions palette offers only commands that run from it, and no second row reading like a menu item: Place image opens the file dialog (#1574); Preferences ▸ Scroll wheel zoom: a mouse wheel zooms the canvas about the pointer and Cmd/Ctrl+wheel scrolls (#1390); boolean operations refuse input past their caps, and a boolean group past them draws without its result (#1104); the selection and hover outlines of rounded rectangles and frames follow their corners (#1506); colour picker review fixes for text undo, fitted sidebars, moving controls and gradient variables; Corner smoothing: an original icon and the shared number-field drag gesture, preserving fractional baselines; guides snap to layers when dragged; Crop image: Object ▸ Crop image, the right-click menu and the image fill row enter crop mode (`image.crop`, #1464); the Design panel's sections on one grid — 16 / 8 margins, 88 + 8 + 88 + 8 + 24 columns, 24 pt rows, 4 pt between a row's buttons (#858); the toolbar on one 32 pt grid, without its Resources button (#1210); colour picker LCH and OKLCH models; an XML (Android Vector Drawable) export format; Context menus: the Menu key reaches egui 0.37 but is unbound (row done → partial); the Text on a path tool; board tool keys pinned; community fixes: the text box by dragging, the font picker keys, the pen path on leaving Design, a still canvas in vector edit mode, a scrolling pages list, colour emoji, readable new text in frames, system theme on first run; the Small caps sample in Type settings drawn from capitals; recent files as cards; vector edit mode: hovering, hatching, selecting and dragging filled regions; home screen: Templates tab, first-run templates and Getting started tips; number fields: scrub rates, arrow steps, arithmetic with brackets, relative edits of mixed values; outline mode's hidden layers and object bounds; Hide when publishing; cursors per tool and modifier; panel widths; dark pages for files made in the dark theme; drag threshold and double-clicks into text in groups; rotation origin on Alt+R and placing with Enter: no documented shortcut missing; keyboard shortcut parity suite and bindings; cursor chat and spotlight in live sessions; layers and assets panels behaviour suite and fixes; vector multi-edit and the vector edit tail; canvas navigation, guides and grids behaviour suite and fixes; shapes and vector behaviour suite and fixes; Line truncated
 
 Fine canvas control is what Figma users feel first: handles, snapping, nudging, modifier keys,
 drag behaviour, numeric precision. This checklist covers the tools, gestures and panels. Status:
@@ -91,6 +91,7 @@ interaction feel not yet compared.
 | Boolean groups: clicked where the result is, double-click or Cmd/Ctrl-click into operands, live results while dragging or editing points, per-operand operations | done | a group past the path operations' caps (250 000 segments, 2 million possible crossings, 4 million segments swept over a fold) draws without its result, with a warning, and Flatten refuses it (#1104) |
 | Text: point, auto height, fixed; caret, words, lines, IME | done | Backspace or Delete at the start of a list item takes its marker and keeps its level, the paragraph starting where the item's text did ("delete the counter, but keep the same level of indentation", Create bulleted and numbered lists; `text_tail_tests::list_keys_at_list_items`, text crate `behaviour_tests`); max lines on auto-width text keep it auto width, hugging up to that many lines and growing with its longest line ("Text resizing is set to auto height or auto width", Explore text properties; `text_behaviour_tests::max_lines_on_auto_width_text_keeps_auto_width_and_hugs_that_many_lines`); Alt+Enter while editing opens the link at the caret, web and mail links only (`text.openLink`; "press ⌥Option Return/Alt Enter to activate a focused link", Accessibility at Figma; `text_link_tests`); the font picker previews a family on the canvas while hovered (no undo step; Escape restores, #653) and Up/Down step through it (#352); a selection highlight after a line break starts at that line's start and an empty last line shows its mark (#665); carets step over whole emoji and accented letters; colour emoji draw from their colour tables (#300); IME composition replayed in tests as macOS sends it, not yet checked on a Mac (#747); CJK words by script run (no dictionary); vertical trim in Type settings; no spell check |
 | Text: wrap style (Auto, Balance, Pretty) | done | per text layer (`wrapStyle` on `node.set`, `text.wrapStyle`, the Type settings control under Vertical trim, inspect, CSS `text-wrap: balance` or `pretty`): Auto breaks greedily; Balance narrows each paragraph as far as it goes without another line, so its lines come out close to the same length (what browsers do for `text-wrap: balance`); Pretty keeps lines full and, when the last line is one word, narrows one of the last four lines just enough to give a word to the lines after it (Explore text properties: "Auto: Figma fits as many words as possible on each line before wrapping to the next", "Balance: Figma distributes text as evenly as possible across every line, so each line is close to the same length", "Pretty: Figma keeps each line full, but adjusts the last four lines to avoid an orphan"). Saved line breaks from a file still win. Not yet included: per-paragraph settings, text-style support and the `.fig` import/export mapping (#1827). Test: `text_behaviour_tests::balance_and_pretty_wrap_styles_break_lines_as_documented` |
+| Text: direction override (Text ▸ Text direction) | done | per paragraph (`ParaList::direction`: auto, ltr, rtl): Text ▸ Text direction ▸ Auto / Left to right / Right to left and `text.direction {direction, ids?}` set the edited paragraphs while editing, else every paragraph of the selected texts; `node.set textDirection` the layer's (or the chars `start`/`end` name); the Type settings control appears once a right-to-left script is in the text or a direction is forced; inspect reports `textDirection` when the paragraphs agree and `lineDirections` otherwise; Dev Mode's CSS writes `direction: ltr` or `rtl` when every paragraph is forced the same way; `.fig` import and export carry each line's `sourceDirectionality`. Layout gives the paragraph its base level, so a forced right-to-left paragraph of Latin letters starts at the right, mirrors its list gutter and indent and orders its runs right to left, and a forced left-to-right paragraph of Hebrew the other way ("By default, Figma automatically handles text direction based on language detection. However, controls are available to override text direction per paragraph", "Go to Text > Text direction. Select Left to right or Right to left", Add right-to-left text). Not included: a direction in text styles (the article names none). Tests: `text_behaviour_tests::text_direction_is_forced_per_paragraph`, `fig::text_direction_tests` |
 | Text: superscript and subscript | done | `sups` / `subs` use the font's own glyphs where it has the feature and every letter or digit of the run gets one; otherwise the standard glyphs are drawn shrunk and raised or lowered by the font's OS/2 superscript and subscript metrics (0.65 em at 0.35 em up or 0.14 em down without them), and a run mixing available and unavailable glyphs is synthesised whole, as Explore text properties says ("Figma draws a synthesized version by using the font's standard version of the character, shrinking it, and positioning it accordingly"; mixed glyphs "all update to the synthesized form for consistency"), #1828; tests `text::tests::superscript_native_or_synthesised_and_never_mixed`, `text_behaviour_tests::superscript_and_subscript_are_synthesised_without_glyphs_for_them` |
 | Eyedropper (I) | done | picks the colour seen under the pointer (opaque) into the selection's fill and the recent colours, one undo step (`fx_behaviour_tests`); with Cmd/Ctrl+Shift held it makes a colour style or variable of it instead, as the reference app's eyedropper does: a Create from color window asks which, its name (the next free "Color n") and a variable's collection (the file's first, or a new one made with it in the same undo step), and leaves the selection's fills alone (`eyedropper_create_tests`, `sampled_color_tests`) |
 | Comment (C), Shift+C to show/hide | done | local only |
@@ -178,6 +179,7 @@ in the table. `crates/ui-egui/src/shortcut_keys_tests.rs` drives the keys a look
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-11-05 | minor | M4, #1830: a paragraph's base direction can be forced (`TextDirection`: Auto, Ltr, Rtl on `ParaList`): Text ▸ Text direction ▸ Auto / Left to right / Right to left (`text.directionAuto` / `Ltr` / `Rtl`) and `text.direction {direction, ids?}` set the edited paragraphs while editing, else the layer's; `node.set textDirection`; the Type settings control once a right-to-left script is in the text; inspect `textDirection` / `lineDirections`; CSS `direction`; `.fig` lines' `sourceDirectionality` in and out. Layout gives each paragraph its base level (`Bidi::of` runs the algorithm per paragraph, as it starts over at each). Before, direction came from the letters only ("controls are available to override text direction per paragraph", Add right-to-left text). Tests: `text_behaviour_tests::text_direction_is_forced_per_paragraph`, `fig::text_direction_tests::a_lines_source_directionality_is_its_paragraphs_direction_both_ways`. |
 | 2026-11-02 | patch | M8, #1875: a click with the Bend tool on a sharp point between two segments gives it handles along the line between its neighbours, a third of the way to each ("Click on a point or path where you want to add a curve", Edit vector layers); a click on a curved point still makes it sharp, a drag still sets the handles by hand, an endpoint is left alone. Between a handle's end and a point both within reach of the pointer, the nearer one on the page is hit (the handle on a tie), so a short path's point (its handles a few pixels long) can be clicked again. Before, only a drag curved a point, and a short one left two tiny handles in its direction. Tests: `vectoredit::tests::short_handles_leave_their_point_clickable`, `vectoredit::tests::a_bend_click_curves_a_sharp_point_between_its_neighbours`, `bend_tool_smooths_and_sharpens_points`. Numbers unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-02 | minor | M4, #1827: wrap style on a text layer (`WrapStyle`: Auto, Balance, Pretty): Balance re-breaks each paragraph at the narrowest width that keeps its line count (bisection over the greedy breaker, as browsers balance), Pretty narrows one of the last four lines just enough so the last line isn't one word; `text.wrapStyle`, `node.set wrapStyle` (`textWrap` too), inspect `wrapStyle`, Dev Mode CSS `text-wrap` (Tailwind `text-balance` / `text-pretty`), the Type settings control under Vertical trim. Per-paragraph settings, text-style support and the `.fig` import/export mapping stay open. Test: `text_behaviour_tests::balance_and_pretty_wrap_styles_break_lines_as_documented`. |
 | 2026-11-02 | patch | M4: Backspace or Delete at the start of a list item takes its marker and keeps its level ("Use Backspace or Delete at the beginning of a list item to delete the counter, but keep the same level of indentation", Create bulleted and numbered lists): a plain paragraph may now carry a list level, and the text layout starts it where that level's item text starts (the gutters stay even when no list is left). Backspace used to drop the level too, and Delete at an item's start deleted the next character. Tab on such a paragraph types a tab, as outside a list. Tests: `text_tail_tests::list_keys_at_list_items`, text crate `behaviour_tests::a_plain_paragraph_at_a_list_level_starts_where_the_items_text_does` |