diff --git a/docs/file-format-parity.md b/docs/file-format-parity.md index bc9df5a2d2..518ce1bc37 100644 --- a/docs/file-format-parity.md +++ b/docs/file-format-parity.md @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ > **2026-11-05:** DOCX paragraph `w:adjustRightInd` keeps its default and explicit values through style resolution and schema-ordered repeated saves. -> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-11 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-08 · **Change:** trivial (XML line ends in text normalised, #5897); previously trivial (ODT pictures offered in several formats); previously trivial (ODT pictures offered in several formats); previously trivial (ODT pictures offered in several formats); previously trivial (ODT heading text of another size); previously trivial (built-in citation source lookups, #4888; current-main progress records retained); previously trivial (ODT: no settings for what the standard leaves open); previously trivial (picture brightness, contrast and transparency); previously trivial (ODT paragraph groups kept as read); previously trivial (ODT paragraphs with charts kept as read); previously trivial (ODT sections in cells and at empty paragraphs); previously trivial (ODT element audit); previously trivial (ODT reference marks written as such); previously trivial (ODT hidden sections stay hidden; lists kept as read); previously trivial (ODT manifest lists every file); previously trivial (ODT paragraphs with bookmarks, notes, objects and page-anchored frames written as read); previously trivial (ODT paragraphs with text boxes written as read); previously trivial (ODT paragraphs with comments and tracked changes written as read); previously trivial (ODT paragraphs with pictures and shapes written as read); previously trivial (ODT sections inside text boxes); previously trivial (ODT definitions sharing a name, sections around tables, chart replacement pictures, note citations, stacking order); previously trivial (ODT form definitions and indexes written as read); previously trivial (ODT gradient angles by the file's version; deviation documented); previously minor (ODT: unedited tables, pages, sections, properties and declarations written as read; no-edit loss gate); previously minor (ODT: unedited paragraphs and style definitions written as read); previously trivial (ODT author fields said not fixed); previously trivial (ODT default text colour; covered cells' content); previously trivial (ODT widow control profile case; tabs from the indent kept); previously trivial (ODT span kerning; note reference formatting; notes starting with a tab); previously trivial (ODT fixed and sender fields); previously trivial (ODT: table styles saved into their cells; ODT tables carry no Word table style; section column balance); previously trivial (ODT interpretation profile: the standard is law, what it leaves open (including unstated page margins) follows WordCraft, LibreOffice or custom settings); previously trivial (ODT form controls keep their place on the line and text areas their lines; custom shapes keep their geometry); previously trivial (ODT in-line frames placed against the text; in-line pictures saved standing on the baseline); previously trivial (ODT charts written back as they were while unchanged; frames' drawn outline; default header height); previously trivial (ODT header rows only where they repeat); previously trivial (ODT padding without a border; unequal columns; column breaks); previously trivial (ODT lines of only pictures laid out as LibreOffice does; default page without a layout); previously trivial (ODT pictures alone in a paragraph keep its size; in-line frames raised under an inherited paragraph relation); previously trivial (ODT tables fit the margins and keep their space above and below; header spacing kept); previously trivial (ODT frames anchored and placed by their style); previously trivial (ODT default font size saved; page-anchored frames placed from the page; text box paragraph styles kept; empty paragraphs keep their size); previously trivial (ODT default font size; locale-ordered dates); previously trivial (ODT page background pictures); previously trivial (ODT tables fixed layout; tables starting a page); previously trivial (emphasis marks: model, layout, DOCX `w:em`, ODT `style:text-emphasize`, `format.emphasisMark`); previously trivial (ODT variables as SET/REF fields; character styles keep what they turn off); previously trivial (ODT styles keep what they turn off; WMF/EMF pictures kept; pictures in text boxes shown by LibreOffice); previously trivial (ODT unstated page margins are LibreOffice's 2 cm; drawings outside a paragraph join the next one); previously trivial (ODT placeholders as content controls, template dates, user name fields, unsized pages, style-only templates, found with LibreOffice's own templates); previously trivial (ODT hidden form controls kept; `.ott` templates opened and saved); previously trivial (ODT fidelity re-estimated at ~90%; a kept form control made another kind is saved as that kind); previously trivial (ODT form control sizes and buttons kept); previously trivial (ODT turned text in cells and text boxes); previously trivial (ODT macros and unknown package parts kept); previously trivial (ODT table cell formulas as formula fields); previously trivial (ODT custom shapes drawn from their own geometry); previously trivial (ODT bibliography marks as citations of sources); previously trivial (ODT linked text boxes); previously trivial (ODT picture crops and contour wrapping); previously trivial (ODT fidelity re-estimated at ~85%); previously trivial (ODT custom document properties and user fields as DOCPROPERTY); previously trivial (ODT connectors read and written glued); previously trivial (ODT borders around text read and written); previously trivial (ODT index marks read and written as XE fields; an index held around its entries updates); previously trivial (ODT ruby read and written); previously trivial (ODT page breaks after a paragraph, kept lines, widow control, hyphenation, table alignment and width and row heights); previously trivial (in-line drawings raised or lowered by their run's position; ODT in-line frames keep their place on the baseline; leading's space after the last line; text box borders shown by LibreOffice); previously trivial (ODT form controls opened and saved as content controls); previously trivial (password-protected ODT opened and saved); previously trivial (ODT headers and footers keep their shapes, text boxes, charts and embedded objects on save); previously trivial (ODT embedded spreadsheets and OLE objects kept whole instead of lost; flat ODT sub-documents valid `office:document`s); previously trivial (ODT charts in drawing groups drawn on open); previously trivial (ODT charts opened and saved as editable charts; flat ODT sub-documents no longer end the body); previously trivial (ODT leading read as an at-least spacing); previously trivial (ODT tracked formatting changes; changed regions named by `xml:id`); previously trivial (ODT drop caps; tab stops no longer drop a paragraph's background); previously trivial (flat ODT `.fodt` opened and saved; ODT fidelity re-estimated at ~80%); previously trivial (ODT page settings; a footnote no longer takes a footer's text); previously trivial (ODT dates in their formats, sequences, chapters and references); previously trivial (ODT bookmarks over text); previously trivial (ODT tables of contents and indexes; ODT fidelity re-estimated); previously trivial (ODT polygons, polylines and paths); previously trivial (ODT arrowheads, dashes and gradients); previously trivial (ODT groups of shapes and pictures); previously trivial (ODT rotated and mirrored shapes and pictures); previously trivial (ODT drawing shapes read and written); previously trivial (ODT text box frames keep their line, fill, padding and fit); previously trivial (ODT Asian and complex-script fonts); previously trivial (ODT right-to-left paragraphs); previously trivial (ODT text boxes kept); previously trivial (ODT unnumbered headings detached from the outline); previously trivial (ODT contextual spacing and layout settings); previously trivial (ODT custom character styles kept); previously trivial (ODT list level positions); previously trivial (ODT custom paragraph styles kept); previously trivial (ODT equations written as formula objects); previously trivial (ODT numbered headings written as headings); previously trivial (ODT floating pictures); previously trivial (ODT paragraph borders and background); previously trivial (ODT heading numbering); previously trivial (ODT font-face names); previously trivial (ODT table cell borders and padding); previously trivial (ODT heading, title, quote and preformatted styles keep their look); previously trivial (ODT tab stops read and written); previously trivial (ODT character formatting read and written); previously trivial (ODT lists keep their number formats, bullets and identity); previously trivial (ODT comments read and written); previously trivial (ODT footnotes and endnotes read and written); previously trivial (ODT headers, footers and text fields written; fields read); previously trivial (ODT paragraph spacing, indents and line spacing read and written); previously trivial (Replace and Remove Table of Contents treat Word's title above a section break as Word does, #4041); previously trivial (a password-protected .docx opened from the file manager asks for its password also when the startup document was replaced, #5299); previously minor (`w:altChunk` brought in on open; MHT opens; HTML style sheets, paragraph margins and Word's web-page defaults; broader corpus qualification and readiness estimates unchanged); previously trivial (a VML horizontal rule (`o:hr`) is drawn across its line at Word's measured width and kept on save, with rotation and flips, #3956); previously trivial (soft edges on a see-through solid fill fade from the fill's own opacity, #1600); previously trivial (DOCX table rows and cells inside selected alternate-content branches survive open and repeated saves (#5219); broader corpus qualification and readiness estimates unchanged); previously trivial (a list inside a Markdown block quote is written back inside the quote); previously trivial (arrowheads keep their kind, width and length and are drawn at Word's sizes); previously trivial (.doc: the default font is the stylesheet's standard font (Aptos in Word 365 files), #5066); previously trivial (a paragraph naming an undefined style is formatted as Normal, as in Word, #5077); previously trivial (a hyperlinked TOC writes its page numbers as `PAGEREF _Toc… \h` fields, as Word does, #5097); previously trivial (HTML import ends the empty comments and at once, #5040); previously trivial (chart and SmartArt text the font lacks is drawn in a fallback face, so Chinese labels no longer show boxes, #4720); previously trivial (bibliography sources keep a corporate author (`b:Corporate`): read, written, cited and listed whole, #4848); previously trivial (custom-property bookmark-link preservation, #4767); previously trivial (note conversion preserves content with an ordered reference/run walk, #4750); previously trivial (DOCX comment-ID save lookups); previously trivial (built-in heading styles have their outline level without `w:outlineLvl`, #4696); previously trivial (DOCX comment ranges inside footnotes and endnotes are kept on read, #4548); previously trivial (RTF import and export keep Windows and Enhanced Metafile pictures (`\wmetafile`, `\emfblip`), #4259); previously trivial (#4658 bounds nested Markdown reference-label work); previously trivial (HTML import keeps preformatted lines with CR or CRLF input newlines, #4810); previously trivial (DOCX parts stored under another casing keep their embedded fonts through a save, and a private save of a kept glossary escapes the attribute values it rewrites; previously trivial: the `.doc` reader logs what its copy budget leaves out, once a kind per document; importers bound hostile expansion: font names, links, ODS repeats, LaTeX wrappers, Markdown delimiters, #3692/#3713; previously trivial: repeated DOCX style IDs: save/reopen regression; previously trivial: Markdown code spans keep line-broken text literal, #3738; previously trivial: Arabic list labels: `arabicAlpha` and `arabicAbjad` draw the 28 Arabic letters (alphabetical and abjad order), doubling past the last letter; Hebrew, Hindi, Thai and Vietnamese still show decimal (`doc::section::tests::arabic_letters_count_in_both_orders`); previously trivial: localized TOC style ids read as the TOC styles, and a TOC in columns keeps its layout through Update Table, #3889; previously trivial: cu20we: outline caps; previously trivial: a relationship the markup names without the prefix is read as it wrote: an unqualified `id` on an element that carries a relationship names that relationship, and the writer keeps the attribute with the id the new package holds the part under; an ordinary `id` — a VML shape's, a drawing's — names no part; previously trivial: the reader takes the relationship ids the markup refers to from the relationship attributes of the main document it has already parsed, so a document with many relationships opens in the time its part takes, #3411; previously trivial: a table cell span from a `.json` file stays within 63 columns through Insert Column and Merge Cells, #3637; previously trivial: the file commands that change the document are checked on a protected document, the protection of a protected document needs an explicit stop, the session author can't change through `file.setAuthor` under protection (the CLI's `--author` uses the same protection check), and the post-check compares the settings and the metadata; previously trivial: a document with many content controls saves in the time the controls take, #13; previously trivial: `majorBidi`/`minorBidi` theme fonts follow the settings' theme font language, as measured in Word; previously trivial: Word signature lines are kept on save, still signable; previously trivial: Times New Roman keeps Liberation Serif under the roman-font rule; previously trivial: shape gradients and transparency, #1500; previously trivial: a folder that keeps no Unix modes, such as a NAS share mounted by GVFS, still takes a save, #3003; previously trivial: a text frame in the paragraph defaults frames nothing, #2360; previously trivial: table style band sizes written, a style without them unbanded as in Word, #3415; previously trivial: HTML export writes ruby (furigana, phonetic guides) and HTML import reads it back, #1681; previously trivial: RTF import decodes the East Asian multibyte code pages, #1653; previously trivial: PDF export: lam-alef drawn as two glyphs at one x extracts in reading order, #2310; previously trivial: native .json stores pictures and kept parts as base64, #586 follow-up; previously trivial: ODT headers and footers read from each master page, #863; previously trivial: RTF import compares heading and code formatting with the file's stylesheet; previously trivial: text typed into a content control takes the control's formatting; localized placeholder styles recognised; previously trivial: forms protection keeps its content controls: no inserting, Properties or Remove Content Control; previously trivial: Word XML and web pages saved as `.doc` open by what they hold, #2853; previously trivial: a VML shape in a header cell is always placed on the page, user-checked in Word for Mac, #1775; previously trivial: `w:sym` characters keep their symbol font when the text's font changes and are written back as `w:sym`, #2036; previously trivial: RTF export writes sections (gap 19); previously trivial: ODT export writes sections (gap 19); previously trivial: two lines in one and horizontal in vertical (`w:eastAsianLayout`) kept on save; previously trivial: PDF outline targets follow leading page breaks; previously trivial: positional tabs `w:ptab` read and kept on save, #2367; previously trivial: DOCX: mixed right-to-left runs split and marked `w:rtl` with their language, #1543; previously trivial: `w:doNotTrackMoves` round-trips and turns move tracking off; previously trivial: legacy outline, shadow, emboss and imprint text effects drawn, #2534; previously trivial: DOCX glossary documents (building blocks) read, kept and written; previously trivial: cached field results keep their visible run formatting; previously trivial: cached REF results retain hyperlink destinations; previously trivial: CLI conversions can explicitly refresh fields; previously trivial: a copied equation also goes in the clipboard's MathML formats, #1297; previously trivial: a pasted HTML `
` is an indented paragraph, not the Quote style, #1270); previously trivial: every table style part round-trips, #714; previously trivial: VML freeforms read and kept on save; previously trivial: multi-paragraph field instructions no longer add blank lines; previously trivial: `flowChartOr` draws its circle and cross spokes, as in Word; previously trivial: RTF: Mac OS Roman and DOS text, #1653; previously trivial: VML text boxes keep their internal margins, fit to their text and vertical alignment; hidden drawings not shown; previously trivial: PDF export draws horizontal and vertical lines inside groups, #1474; previously trivial: symbol-font text exported as Unicode, #776; previously trivial: text-box margins, Resize shape to fit text and freeforms in groups, #743; previously trivial: formatted paste from the system clipboard's HTML and RTF, #687; previously trivial: independent complex-script formatting inheritance and round-trip regression tests; previously trivial: import/export fixes for TXT, RTF, ODT, HTML and LaTeX, #433–#440; previously major: first version; every format Word reads or writes, measured from the readers and writers on origin/main); previously trivial (page-number preservation review follow-up, #2201) · **Target:** Microsoft Word (Microsoft 365) for Mac 16.113.4, plus Word for Windows' extra formats +> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-11 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-08 · **Change:** trivial (XML line ends in text normalised, #5897); previously trivial (ODT pictures offered in several formats); previously trivial (ODT pictures offered in several formats); previously trivial (ODT pictures offered in several formats); previously trivial (ODT heading text of another size); previously trivial (built-in citation source lookups, #4888; current-main progress records retained); previously trivial (ODT: no settings for what the standard leaves open); previously trivial (picture brightness, contrast and transparency); previously trivial (ODT paragraph groups kept as read); previously trivial (ODT paragraphs with charts kept as read); previously trivial (ODT sections in cells and at empty paragraphs); previously trivial (ODT element audit); previously trivial (ODT reference marks written as such); previously trivial (ODT hidden sections stay hidden; lists kept as read); previously trivial (ODT manifest lists every file); previously trivial (ODT paragraphs with bookmarks, notes, objects and page-anchored frames written as read); previously trivial (ODT paragraphs with text boxes written as read); previously trivial (ODT paragraphs with comments and tracked changes written as read); previously trivial (ODT paragraphs with pictures and shapes written as read); previously trivial (ODT sections inside text boxes); previously trivial (ODT definitions sharing a name, sections around tables, chart replacement pictures, note citations, stacking order); previously trivial (ODT form definitions and indexes written as read); previously trivial (ODT gradient angles by the file's version; deviation documented); previously minor (ODT: unedited tables, pages, sections, properties and declarations written as read; no-edit loss gate); previously minor (ODT: unedited paragraphs and style definitions written as read); previously trivial (ODT author fields said not fixed); previously trivial (ODT default text colour; covered cells' content); previously trivial (ODT widow control profile case; tabs from the indent kept); previously trivial (ODT span kerning; note reference formatting; notes starting with a tab); previously trivial (ODT fixed and sender fields); previously trivial (ODT: table styles saved into their cells; ODT tables carry no Word table style; section column balance); previously trivial (ODT interpretation profile: the standard is law, what it leaves open (including unstated page margins) follows WordCraft, LibreOffice or custom settings); previously trivial (ODT form controls keep their place on the line and text areas their lines; custom shapes keep their geometry); previously trivial (ODT in-line frames placed against the text; in-line pictures saved standing on the baseline); previously trivial (ODT charts written back as they were while unchanged; frames' drawn outline; default header height); previously trivial (ODT header rows only where they repeat); previously trivial (ODT padding without a border; unequal columns; column breaks); previously trivial (ODT lines of only pictures laid out as LibreOffice does; default page without a layout); previously trivial (ODT pictures alone in a paragraph keep its size; in-line frames raised under an inherited paragraph relation); previously trivial (ODT tables fit the margins and keep their space above and below; header spacing kept); previously trivial (ODT frames anchored and placed by their style); previously trivial (ODT default font size saved; page-anchored frames placed from the page; text box paragraph styles kept; empty paragraphs keep their size); previously trivial (ODT default font size; locale-ordered dates); previously trivial (ODT page background pictures); previously trivial (ODT tables fixed layout; tables starting a page); previously trivial (emphasis marks: model, layout, DOCX `w:em`, ODT `style:text-emphasize`, `format.emphasisMark`); previously trivial (ODT variables as SET/REF fields; character styles keep what they turn off); previously trivial (ODT styles keep what they turn off; WMF/EMF pictures kept; pictures in text boxes shown by LibreOffice); previously trivial (ODT unstated page margins are LibreOffice's 2 cm; drawings outside a paragraph join the next one); previously trivial (ODT placeholders as content controls, template dates, user name fields, unsized pages, style-only templates, found with LibreOffice's own templates); previously trivial (ODT hidden form controls kept; `.ott` templates opened and saved); previously trivial (ODT fidelity re-estimated at ~90%; a kept form control made another kind is saved as that kind); previously trivial (ODT form control sizes and buttons kept); previously trivial (ODT turned text in cells and text boxes); previously trivial (ODT macros and unknown package parts kept); previously trivial (ODT table cell formulas as formula fields); previously trivial (ODT custom shapes drawn from their own geometry); previously trivial (ODT bibliography marks as citations of sources); previously trivial (ODT linked text boxes); previously trivial (ODT picture crops and contour wrapping); previously trivial (ODT fidelity re-estimated at ~85%); previously trivial (ODT custom document properties and user fields as DOCPROPERTY); previously trivial (ODT connectors read and written glued); previously trivial (ODT borders around text read and written); previously trivial (ODT index marks read and written as XE fields; an index held around its entries updates); previously trivial (ODT ruby read and written); previously trivial (ODT page breaks after a paragraph, kept lines, widow control, hyphenation, table alignment and width and row heights); previously trivial (in-line drawings raised or lowered by their run's position; ODT in-line frames keep their place on the baseline; leading's space after the last line; text box borders shown by LibreOffice); previously trivial (ODT form controls opened and saved as content controls); previously trivial (password-protected ODT opened and saved); previously trivial (ODT headers and footers keep their shapes, text boxes, charts and embedded objects on save); previously trivial (ODT embedded spreadsheets and OLE objects kept whole instead of lost; flat ODT sub-documents valid `office:document`s); previously trivial (ODT charts in drawing groups drawn on open); previously trivial (ODT charts opened and saved as editable charts; flat ODT sub-documents no longer end the body); previously trivial (ODT leading read as an at-least spacing); previously trivial (ODT tracked formatting changes; changed regions named by `xml:id`); previously trivial (ODT drop caps; tab stops no longer drop a paragraph's background); previously trivial (flat ODT `.fodt` opened and saved; ODT fidelity re-estimated at ~80%); previously trivial (ODT page settings; a footnote no longer takes a footer's text); previously trivial (ODT dates in their formats, sequences, chapters and references); previously trivial (ODT bookmarks over text); previously trivial (ODT tables of contents and indexes; ODT fidelity re-estimated); previously trivial (ODT polygons, polylines and paths); previously trivial (ODT arrowheads, dashes and gradients); previously trivial (ODT groups of shapes and pictures); previously trivial (ODT rotated and mirrored shapes and pictures); previously trivial (ODT drawing shapes read and written); previously trivial (ODT text box frames keep their line, fill, padding and fit); previously trivial (ODT Asian and complex-script fonts); previously trivial (ODT right-to-left paragraphs); previously trivial (ODT text boxes kept); previously trivial (ODT unnumbered headings detached from the outline); previously trivial (ODT contextual spacing and layout settings); previously trivial (ODT custom character styles kept); previously trivial (ODT list level positions); previously trivial (ODT custom paragraph styles kept); previously trivial (ODT equations written as formula objects); previously trivial (ODT numbered headings written as headings); previously trivial (ODT floating pictures); previously trivial (ODT paragraph borders and background); previously trivial (ODT heading numbering); previously trivial (ODT font-face names); previously trivial (ODT table cell borders and padding); previously trivial (ODT heading, title, quote and preformatted styles keep their look); previously trivial (ODT tab stops read and written); previously trivial (ODT character formatting read and written); previously trivial (ODT lists keep their number formats, bullets and identity); previously trivial (ODT comments read and written); previously trivial (ODT footnotes and endnotes read and written); previously trivial (ODT headers, footers and text fields written; fields read); previously trivial (ODT paragraph spacing, indents and line spacing read and written); previously trivial (Replace and Remove Table of Contents treat Word's title above a section break as Word does, #4041); previously trivial (a password-protected .docx opened from the file manager asks for its password also when the startup document was replaced, #5299); previously minor (`w:altChunk` brought in on open; MHT opens; HTML style sheets, paragraph margins and Word's web-page defaults; broader corpus qualification and readiness estimates unchanged); previously trivial (a VML horizontal rule (`o:hr`) is drawn across its line at Word's measured width and kept on save, with rotation and flips, #3956); previously trivial (soft edges on a see-through solid fill fade from the fill's own opacity, #1600); previously trivial (DOCX table rows and cells inside selected alternate-content branches survive open and repeated saves (#5219); broader corpus qualification and readiness estimates unchanged); previously trivial (a list inside a Markdown block quote is written back inside the quote); previously trivial (arrowheads keep their kind, width and length and are drawn at Word's sizes); previously trivial (.doc: the default font is the stylesheet's standard font (Aptos in Word 365 files), #5066); previously trivial (a paragraph naming an undefined style is formatted as Normal, as in Word, #5077); previously trivial (a hyperlinked TOC writes its page numbers as `PAGEREF _Toc… \h` fields, as Word does, #5097); previously trivial (HTML import ends the empty comments and at once, #5040); previously trivial (chart and SmartArt text the font lacks is drawn in a fallback face, so Chinese labels no longer show boxes, #4720); previously trivial (bibliography sources keep a corporate author (`b:Corporate`): read, written, cited and listed whole, #4848); previously trivial (custom-property bookmark-link preservation, #4767); previously trivial (note conversion preserves content with an ordered reference/run walk, #4750); previously trivial (DOCX comment-ID save lookups); previously trivial (built-in heading styles have their outline level without `w:outlineLvl`, #4696); previously trivial (DOCX comment ranges inside footnotes and endnotes are kept on read, #4548); previously trivial (RTF import and export keep Windows and Enhanced Metafile pictures (`\wmetafile`, `\emfblip`), #4259); previously trivial (#4658 bounds nested Markdown reference-label work); previously trivial (HTML import keeps preformatted lines with CR or CRLF input newlines, #4810); previously trivial (DOCX parts stored under another casing keep their embedded fonts through a save, and a private save of a kept glossary escapes the attribute values it rewrites; previously trivial: the `.doc` reader logs what its copy budget leaves out, once a kind per document; importers bound hostile expansion: font names, links, ODS repeats, LaTeX wrappers, Markdown delimiters, #3692/#3713; previously trivial: repeated DOCX style IDs: save/reopen regression; previously trivial: Markdown code spans keep line-broken text literal, #3738; previously trivial: Arabic list labels: `arabicAlpha` and `arabicAbjad` draw the 28 Arabic letters (alphabetical and abjad order), doubling past the last letter; Hebrew, Hindi, Thai and Vietnamese still show decimal (`doc::section::tests::arabic_letters_count_in_both_orders`); previously trivial: localized TOC style ids read as the TOC styles, and a TOC in columns keeps its layout through Update Table, #3889; previously trivial: cu20we: outline caps; previously trivial: a relationship the markup names without the prefix is read as it wrote: an unqualified `id` on an element that carries a relationship names that relationship, and the writer keeps the attribute with the id the new package holds the part under; an ordinary `id` — a VML shape's, a drawing's — names no part; previously trivial: the reader takes the relationship ids the markup refers to from the relationship attributes of the main document it has already parsed, so a document with many relationships opens in the time its part takes, #3411; previously trivial: a table cell span from a `.json` file stays within 63 columns through Insert Column and Merge Cells, #3637; previously trivial: the file commands that change the document are checked on a protected document, the protection of a protected document needs an explicit stop, the session author can't change through `file.setAuthor` under protection (the CLI's `--author` uses the same protection check), and the post-check compares the settings and the metadata; previously trivial: a document with many content controls saves in the time the controls take, #13; previously trivial: `majorBidi`/`minorBidi` theme fonts follow the settings' theme font language, as measured in Word; previously trivial: Word signature lines are kept on save, still signable; previously trivial: Times New Roman keeps Liberation Serif under the roman-font rule; previously trivial: shape gradients and transparency, #1500; previously trivial: a folder that keeps no Unix modes, such as a NAS share mounted by GVFS, still takes a save, #3003; previously trivial: a text frame in the paragraph defaults frames nothing, #2360; previously trivial: table style band sizes written, a style without them unbanded as in Word, #3415; previously trivial: HTML export writes ruby (furigana, phonetic guides) and HTML import reads it back, #1681; previously trivial: RTF import decodes the East Asian multibyte code pages, #1653; previously trivial: PDF export: lam-alef drawn as two glyphs at one x extracts in reading order, #2310; previously trivial: native .json stores pictures and kept parts as base64, #586 follow-up; previously trivial: ODT headers and footers read from each master page, #863; previously trivial: RTF import compares heading and code formatting with the file's stylesheet; previously trivial: text typed into a content control takes the control's formatting; localized placeholder styles recognised; previously trivial: forms protection keeps its content controls: no inserting, Properties or Remove Content Control; previously trivial: Word XML and web pages saved as `.doc` open by what they hold, #2853; previously trivial: a VML shape in a header cell is always placed on the page, user-checked in Word for Mac, #1775; previously trivial: `w:sym` characters keep their symbol font when the text's font changes and are written back as `w:sym`, #2036; previously trivial: RTF export writes sections (gap 19); previously trivial: ODT export writes sections (gap 19); previously trivial: two lines in one and horizontal in vertical (`w:eastAsianLayout`) kept on save; previously trivial: PDF outline targets follow leading page breaks; previously trivial: positional tabs `w:ptab` read and kept on save, #2367; previously trivial: DOCX: mixed right-to-left runs split and marked `w:rtl` with their language, #1543; previously trivial: `w:doNotTrackMoves` round-trips and turns move tracking off; previously trivial: legacy outline, shadow, emboss and imprint text effects drawn, #2534; previously trivial: DOCX glossary documents (building blocks) read, kept and written; previously trivial: cached field results keep their visible run formatting; previously trivial: cached REF results retain hyperlink destinations; previously trivial: CLI conversions can explicitly refresh fields; previously trivial: a copied equation also goes in the clipboard's MathML formats, #1297; previously trivial: a pasted HTML `` is an indented paragraph, not the Quote style, #1270); previously trivial: every table style part round-trips, #714; previously trivial: VML freeforms read and kept on save; previously trivial: multi-paragraph field instructions no longer add blank lines; previously trivial: `flowChartOr` draws its circle and cross spokes, as in Word; previously trivial: RTF: Mac OS Roman and DOS text, #1653; previously trivial: VML text boxes keep their internal margins, fit to their text and vertical alignment; hidden drawings not shown; previously trivial: PDF export draws horizontal and vertical lines inside groups, #1474; previously trivial: symbol-font text exported as Unicode, #776; previously trivial: text-box margins, Resize shape to fit text and freeforms in groups, #743; previously trivial: formatted paste from the system clipboard's HTML and RTF, #687; previously trivial: independent complex-script formatting inheritance and round-trip regression tests; previously trivial: import/export fixes for TXT, RTF, ODT, HTML and LaTeX, #433–#440; previously major: first version; every format Word reads or writes, measured from the readers and writers on origin/main); previously trivial (page-number preservation review follow-up, #2201; refreshed field results retained) · **Target:** Microsoft Word (Microsoft 365) for Mac 16.113.4, plus Word for Windows' extra formats > **CLI path update:** 2026-11-04 · Options before a non-Unicode input filename no longer make the CLI reject that filename; text option values still require Unicode; `run --file` and `run --script` retain native paths. No ranked gap or readiness estimate changes. > **Legacy form update:** 2026-10-22 · trivial: field names and selected drop-down labels decode numeric XML character references once. @@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ attributes inside stories and style or list definitions; a regenerated theme. Te -> **Page-number update:** 2026-11-07 · `insert.pageNumber` at the top/bottom preserves existing header/footer blocks and appends numbering on its own paragraph (#2201). Gallery-generated numbering can switch plain/X-of-Y format and alignment in place, retaining paragraph-mark formatting and neighboring content. PAGE fields with user text, custom paragraph/run formatting or field metadata remain untouched, as do ambiguous stories with another PAGE; detection includes simple/range fields, deep tables and nested/grouped anchored text boxes and terminates on cycles. An otherwise untouched empty Header/Footer paragraph carrying paragraph-mark formatting is reused after DOCX reopen. Synthetic regressions cover format switches, alignment, selection, undo/redo, clean repeated requests, user-owned controls and imported paragraph marks, alongside all nine original preservation cases and DOCX round trips. Native Word interoperability is not established by these tests. Section-slot selection and readiness estimates are unchanged. +> **Page-number update:** 2026-11-08 · `insert.pageNumber` at the top/bottom preserves existing header/footer blocks and appends numbering on its own paragraph (#2201). Gallery-generated numbering can switch plain/X-of-Y format and alignment in place, retaining paragraph-mark formatting and neighboring content. PAGE fields with user text, custom paragraph/run formatting or field metadata remain untouched, as do ambiguous stories with another PAGE; detection includes simple/range fields, deep tables and nested/grouped anchored text boxes and terminates on cycles. An otherwise untouched empty Header/Footer paragraph carrying paragraph-mark formatting is reused after DOCX reopen. Synthetic regressions cover format switches, alignment, selection, undo/redo, clean repeated requests, user-owned controls and imported paragraph marks, alongside all nine original preservation cases and DOCX round trips. Native Word interoperability is not established by these tests. Section-slot selection and readiness estimates are unchanged. Existing PAGE/NUMPAGES result caches are retained for repeated requests and later gallery changes; field instructions, flags and formatting remain part of the conservative ownership check. ## Saving legacy Word imports @@ -323,6 +323,8 @@ For field results, the engine parser treats a backslash in quoted arguments as e ## Revision history +> 2026-11-08 · Page-number cached-result follow-up (#2201): refreshed PAGE/NUMPAGES display results survive identical requests and gallery format/alignment changes after DOCX reopen. All 13 existing preservation regressions remain, with a new cached-result fixture; readiness estimates unchanged. + > 2026-11-07 · VML text boxes: `mso-layout-flow-alt:bottom-to-top` reads as `vert270` with any `layout-flow`, and `layout-flow:vertical` or `vertical-ideographic` otherwise as `vert`, so a compatibility-mode header's turned text box is drawn turned (#5193, `it::text_boxes::vml_text_boxes_keep_their_inset_fit_and_anchor`). > 2026-11-07 · Page-number preservation review follow-up (#2201): generated format/alignment changes retain neighboring content and paragraph marks; imported empty Header/Footer marks survive reuse; repeated requests keep clean state and undo depth. All nine original regressions remain. Readiness estimates unchanged. diff --git a/docs/gaps.md b/docs/gaps.md index 7a66943400..629a125931 100644 --- a/docs/gaps.md +++ b/docs/gaps.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ > **CLI path update:** 2026-11-04 · Options before a non-Unicode input filename no longer make the CLI reject that filename; text option values still require Unicode; `run --file` and `run --script` retain native paths. No ranked gap or readiness estimate changes. -> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-08 · **Change:** trivial (#10 narrowed: a turned inline picture whose file keeps no room for the turn keeps its line to its frame, as in Word); previously trivial (Protected typing boundary lookup counts preceding objects once and indexes editable permission IDs (#3614); caret movement and enforcement policy are unchanged; previously trivial: View windows: several open documents and Switch Windows in the engine; previously trivial: explicit documents keep the editor when recovery discovery finishes; readable recovery controls; previously trivial: text mini toolbar available with the right-click menu, #2959; previously trivial: personal templates in File › New and Save as Word Template, #2852; previously trivial: tracked table/row/cell/section property changes record in WordCraft, narrowing gap 5; previously trivial: a document with many content controls saves in the time the controls take, #13; previously trivial: Format Page Numbers dialog carries Word's number formats and Continue from previous section / Start at, #1113; previously trivial: centred list labels after leading page breaks, #2964; previously trivial: fixed font inputs in four layout controls; previously trivial: a right, centre or decimal tab whose text doesn't fit, or a left tab past the right indent, goes to the next line with its text, #1840; previously trivial: Bullets and Numbering toggle off style-inherited lists at their effective level, including basedOn chains and numbered ListParagraph styles; other paragraphs and list definitions stay unchanged (related to #3459); previously trivial (gap 4: a float anchored right after a page break, before text, is drawn on the new page, #4262); previously trivial (Drawing Canvas members picked and moved on their own, #2637); previously trivial (gap 4: a float anchored on a later page of a long paragraph is drawn there, #4250); previously trivial (#29: typed `\int`, `\sum`… + Space wait for their limits, observed in Word for Windows on #4938, #4917); previously trivial (only the PDF sent to the printer leaves out link annotations; Save these pages as PDF keeps them, #4734; no ranked gap changed); previously trivial (print helpers erase loaded plaintext inputs before driver work, #5710); previously trivial (Windows print submissions use isolated helpers so a cancelled driver cannot block a retry, #5710); previously trivial (print cancellation remains available without a document; sending-boundary limitation clarified, #5710); previously trivial (gap 6: a print job waiting on its driver can be cancelled, #5710; no ranked gap changed); previously trivial (gap 6: the printer list no longer waits on printer drivers, #5710; no ranked gap changed); previously trivial (Page drawing indexes text-box warp lookups per paragraph (#3614)); previously trivial (built-in citation source lookups, #4888; current-main progress records retained); previously trivial (MATH construction reuse, #3630); previously trivial (DOCX `w:adjustRightInd` defaults true and is written in schema order); previously trivial (ink page lookups reuse scanned paragraph prefixes, #3614); previously trivial (#19: ODT settings for what the standard leaves open removed); previously trivial (#19: ODT element audit; files from other applications checked); previously trivial (#11: the dialogs of the mirrored Arabic interface read right to left: label-and-field rows, tables (list columns, the Models table), tile galleries and the Add/Remove arrows follow the reading direction, through one `rtl::Table` helper that draws exactly as before in English; no ranked gap closed, readiness estimates unchanged); previously trivial (#4: fonts that aren't installed are flagged in the font box and status bar); previously trivial (#19: ODT sections inside text boxes kept as read); previously trivial (#19: an ODT saved without edits keeps what WordCraft doesn't model); previously trivial (#19: ODT interpretation profile, WordCraft / LibreOffice / custom); previously trivial (#19: ODT form controls placed and multi-line; custom shapes keep their geometry); previously trivial (#19: ODT in-line frames placed against the text; template instantiation listed as left); previously trivial (#19: ODT charts kept as read; frame outlines; default header height); previously trivial (#19: ODT tables no longer gain repeated header rows); previously trivial (#19: ODT padding without a border, unequal columns, column breaks, picture-only lines); previously trivial (#19: ODT tables' margins and spacing, header spacing, pictures alone in a paragraph); previously trivial (#19: no LibreOffice template changes page count through a save); previously trivial (#19: ODT variables, emphasis marks, page backgrounds, fixed tables, default size); previously trivial (#19: ODT checked against LibreOffice's own templates: placeholders, first-page styles, unsized pages, metafile logos, `.ott`); previously trivial (#19: ODT at ~90%: custom shapes, cell formulas, macros kept, turned text, control sizes and buttons); previously trivial (#19 narrowed: ODT read and written nearly whole; estimate 18–27 h → 10–16 h); previously trivial (#10 narrowed: text in a turned text box is drawn turned with it); previously trivial (gap 19 narrowed: ODT heading numbering read and written); previously trivial (gap 19 narrowed: ODT table borders and padding read and written); previously trivial (gap 19 narrowed: ODT heading style looks read and written); previously trivial (gap 19 narrowed: ODT tab stops read and written); previously trivial (gap 19 narrowed: ODT character formatting read and written); previously trivial (gap 19 narrowed: ODT list formats read and written); previously trivial (gap 19 narrowed: ODT comments read and written); previously trivial (gap 19 narrowed: ODT footnotes and endnotes read and written); previously trivial (gap 19 narrowed: ODT headers and footers written, text fields and paragraph spacing read and written); previously trivial (#8: Options › Language lists Your languages and Add a language… replaces the Language packs table); previously trivial (#8: the missing-pack bar works on a fresh install and counts the caret's language); previously trivial (#8: Language pack languages are in Set Proofing Language, Review › Language and the status bar; built-in proofing is named as such); previously trivial (#20: layout resource caps and linear-time passes (#3867, #3866)); previously trivial (#3 narrowed: a pasted text box story is charged for the formatting it copies); previously trivial (#3 narrowed: a .doc table row keeps one override per cell); previously trivial (#3 narrowed: a .doc file's sections find their paragraphs by index); previously minor (#11: Arabic interface with mirrored shell landed, #1195; hi/id/pt-PT and Hebrew UI remain); previously trivial (#8: language-packs-2 is published and pinned: 75 packs, adding Danish, German (Germany, Austria, Switzerland), Esperanto, Estonian, Persian, Croatian, Hungarian, Norwegian (Bokmål, Nynorsk), Dutch and Swedish (Sweden, Finland); no ranked gap changed); previously trivial (#8: language-packs-1 is published and pinned, 61 packs: Lithuanian, Romanian, Catalan, French, Greek, Slovak, Serbian and Latvian install as Language packs; Dutch, German and the other compounding languages wait on craft-proof; no ranked gap changed); previously minor (#8: Language packs: every other language's spelling and hyphenation installs from File › Options › Language or the missing-pack bar, through the font store; Lithuanian and Romanian are available as a Language pack once language-packs-1 is published; Dutch, Catalan, French, Greek, Slovak, Serbian and Latvian packs wait on craft-proof engine support); previously trivial (gap 8: English spelling reads SCOWL 2026, one dictionary per English, #40, #520, #5205; no ranked gap changed);; previously trivial (DOCX table rows and cells inside selected alternate-content branches survive open and repeated saves (#5219); broader corpus qualification and readiness estimates unchanged); previously trivial (#26 narrowed: MHT opens and `w:altChunk` content is brought in on open; saving MHT remains) previously trivial (gap 8 points at craft-proof in craft-libs, its data in craft-i18n, #5202; no ranked gap changed); previously trivial (arrowheads keep their kind, width and length and are drawn at Word's sizes; no ranked gap changed); previously trivial (.doc default font from the stylesheet's standard font, #5066; no ranked gap changed); previously trivial (a middle or bottom cell of a row split across pages lines up on the first page; no ranked gap changed); previously trivial (tab leader dots spaced and placed as in Word; no ranked gap changed); previously trivial (a list level above counts its first number at the first deeper item; no ranked gap changed); previously trivial (only the PDF sent to the printer leaves out link annotations; Save these pages as PDF keeps them, #4734; no ranked gap changed); previously trivial (documents with links print: the print job leaves out link annotations, #4734; no ranked gap changed; previously trivial: aligned-copy review fixes retain the document axis through scrolling and include secondary selections (#4764)); previously trivial (connector rerouting indexes laid-out object positions once per batch (#3631); previously trivial (custom-property bookmark-link preservation, #4767); previously trivial (Relative font-size commands preserve mixed sizes in the selection (#4903); existing button steps and one-point shortcuts are unchanged; readiness estimates unchanged); previously trivial (Arabic Backspace removes one combining mark and keeps its base letter (#4757); previously trivial (note conversion reference-run membership uses one ordered walk, #4750); previously trivial (DOCX comment-ID save lookups); previously trivial (gap 19: RTF reads and writes WMF and EMF pictures, #4259); previously trivial (#4658 bounds nested Markdown reference-label work); previously trivial (HTML import keeps preformatted lines with CR or CRLF input newlines, #4810); previously trivial (Recipient labels continue across product-sized sheets instead of stopping after the first sheet (#4880)); previously trivial (View windows: several open documents and Switch Windows in the engine; previously trivial: explicit documents keep the editor when recovery discovery finishes; readable recovery controls; previously trivial: text mini toolbar available with the right-click menu, #2959; previously trivial: personal templates in File › New and Save as Word Template, #2852; previously trivial: tracked table/row/cell/section property changes record in WordCraft, narrowing gap 5; previously trivial: a document with many content controls saves in the time the controls take, #13; previously trivial: Format Page Numbers dialog carries Word's number formats and Continue from previous section / Start at, #1113; previously trivial: centred list labels after leading page breaks, #2964; previously trivial: fixed font inputs in four layout controls; previously trivial: a right, centre or decimal tab whose text doesn't fit, or a left tab past the right indent, goes to the next line with its text, #1840; previously trivial: Bullets and Numbering toggle off style-inherited lists at their effective level, including basedOn chains and numbered ListParagraph styles; other paragraphs and list definitions stay unchanged (related to #3459); previously trivial: Russian sorting keeps ё with е and recognises decomposed ё/й; previously trivial: #8: English dialects — en-GB, en-CA, en-AU… flag each other's spellings, #1281; previously trivial: #1: shape gradients and transparency, #1500; previously trivial: text typed into a content control takes the control's formatting; localized placeholder styles recognised; previously trivial: forms protection keeps its content controls: no inserting, Properties or Remove Content Control; previously trivial: clearing a no-match font query keeps the recent heading visible, #2068; previously trivial: line breaking: a slash opening a word travels whole to the next line, #2963; previously trivial: recipient list search and merged-only view, #1576; previously trivial: #2 impact restated: only ink rendering and OLE editing remain; previously trivial: #2 narrowed: native ink nested in groups and drawing canvases kept on save; previously trivial: opening a DOCX no longer copies its pictures; previously trivial: RTF export writes sections (gap 19); previously trivial: ODT export writes sections (gap 19); previously trivial: automatic Asian/Latin and Asian/number spacing laid out, #2358; previously trivial: hint-reliant CJK outlines; previously trivial: numbered headings, #1793; previously trivial: legacy outline, shadow, emboss and imprint text effects drawn, #2534; previously trivial: #8 narrowed: Indonesian proofing from the installed Hunspell dictionary, #498; previously trivial: glossary/building blocks closed; previously trivial: Split Cells and Convert Text to Table follow the Word check, #2592; previously trivial: Language dialog keeps inherited proofing language and no-proof choices (#2717); previously trivial: #29: a copied equation also goes in the MathML clipboard formats, #1297; previously trivial: #24: the Spike, Ctrl+F3 and Ctrl+Shift+F3; previously trivial: VML freeforms read and kept on save; previously trivial: consistent preferred cell widths; previously trivial: multi-paragraph field instructions no longer add blank lines; previously trivial: page-break-only list paragraphs hide their labels; previously trivial: floating-table overlap ignores empty line-break lines; previously trivial: copies keep their formatting on the clipboard as HTML, #1523; previously trivial: sample-text formulas on Enter, #1067; previously trivial: #29: copied equations as MathML, OMML open as #1297, #816; previously trivial: the Font list no longer keeps every previewed font in memory, #848; 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 Table and Eraser landed, #303; previously minor: beta distance restated: ~15 points, ~150–230 h; previously: first version; every known shortfall from the 2026-10-10 re-measure, ranked); previously trivial (page-number preservation review follow-up, #2201) · **Target:** Microsoft Word (Microsoft 365) for Mac 16.113.4 +> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-08 · **Change:** trivial (#10 narrowed: a turned inline picture whose file keeps no room for the turn keeps its line to its frame, as in Word); previously trivial (Protected typing boundary lookup counts preceding objects once and indexes editable permission IDs (#3614); caret movement and enforcement policy are unchanged; previously trivial: View windows: several open documents and Switch Windows in the engine; previously trivial: explicit documents keep the editor when recovery discovery finishes; readable recovery controls; previously trivial: text mini toolbar available with the right-click menu, #2959; previously trivial: personal templates in File › New and Save as Word Template, #2852; previously trivial: tracked table/row/cell/section property changes record in WordCraft, narrowing gap 5; previously trivial: a document with many content controls saves in the time the controls take, #13; previously trivial: Format Page Numbers dialog carries Word's number formats and Continue from previous section / Start at, #1113; previously trivial: centred list labels after leading page breaks, #2964; previously trivial: fixed font inputs in four layout controls; previously trivial: a right, centre or decimal tab whose text doesn't fit, or a left tab past the right indent, goes to the next line with its text, #1840; previously trivial: Bullets and Numbering toggle off style-inherited lists at their effective level, including basedOn chains and numbered ListParagraph styles; other paragraphs and list definitions stay unchanged (related to #3459); previously trivial (gap 4: a float anchored right after a page break, before text, is drawn on the new page, #4262); previously trivial (Drawing Canvas members picked and moved on their own, #2637); previously trivial (gap 4: a float anchored on a later page of a long paragraph is drawn there, #4250); previously trivial (#29: typed `\int`, `\sum`… + Space wait for their limits, observed in Word for Windows on #4938, #4917); previously trivial (only the PDF sent to the printer leaves out link annotations; Save these pages as PDF keeps them, #4734; no ranked gap changed); previously trivial (print helpers erase loaded plaintext inputs before driver work, #5710); previously trivial (Windows print submissions use isolated helpers so a cancelled driver cannot block a retry, #5710); previously trivial (print cancellation remains available without a document; sending-boundary limitation clarified, #5710); previously trivial (gap 6: a print job waiting on its driver can be cancelled, #5710; no ranked gap changed); previously trivial (gap 6: the printer list no longer waits on printer drivers, #5710; no ranked gap changed); previously trivial (Page drawing indexes text-box warp lookups per paragraph (#3614)); previously trivial (built-in citation source lookups, #4888; current-main progress records retained); previously trivial (MATH construction reuse, #3630); previously trivial (DOCX `w:adjustRightInd` defaults true and is written in schema order); previously trivial (ink page lookups reuse scanned paragraph prefixes, #3614); previously trivial (#19: ODT settings for what the standard leaves open removed); previously trivial (#19: ODT element audit; files from other applications checked); previously trivial (#11: the dialogs of the mirrored Arabic interface read right to left: label-and-field rows, tables (list columns, the Models table), tile galleries and the Add/Remove arrows follow the reading direction, through one `rtl::Table` helper that draws exactly as before in English; no ranked gap closed, readiness estimates unchanged); previously trivial (#4: fonts that aren't installed are flagged in the font box and status bar); previously trivial (#19: ODT sections inside text boxes kept as read); previously trivial (#19: an ODT saved without edits keeps what WordCraft doesn't model); previously trivial (#19: ODT interpretation profile, WordCraft / LibreOffice / custom); previously trivial (#19: ODT form controls placed and multi-line; custom shapes keep their geometry); previously trivial (#19: ODT in-line frames placed against the text; template instantiation listed as left); previously trivial (#19: ODT charts kept as read; frame outlines; default header height); previously trivial (#19: ODT tables no longer gain repeated header rows); previously trivial (#19: ODT padding without a border, unequal columns, column breaks, picture-only lines); previously trivial (#19: ODT tables' margins and spacing, header spacing, pictures alone in a paragraph); previously trivial (#19: no LibreOffice template changes page count through a save); previously trivial (#19: ODT variables, emphasis marks, page backgrounds, fixed tables, default size); previously trivial (#19: ODT checked against LibreOffice's own templates: placeholders, first-page styles, unsized pages, metafile logos, `.ott`); previously trivial (#19: ODT at ~90%: custom shapes, cell formulas, macros kept, turned text, control sizes and buttons); previously trivial (#19 narrowed: ODT read and written nearly whole; estimate 18–27 h → 10–16 h); previously trivial (#10 narrowed: text in a turned text box is drawn turned with it); previously trivial (gap 19 narrowed: ODT heading numbering read and written); previously trivial (gap 19 narrowed: ODT table borders and padding read and written); previously trivial (gap 19 narrowed: ODT heading style looks read and written); previously trivial (gap 19 narrowed: ODT tab stops read and written); previously trivial (gap 19 narrowed: ODT character formatting read and written); previously trivial (gap 19 narrowed: ODT list formats read and written); previously trivial (gap 19 narrowed: ODT comments read and written); previously trivial (gap 19 narrowed: ODT footnotes and endnotes read and written); previously trivial (gap 19 narrowed: ODT headers and footers written, text fields and paragraph spacing read and written); previously trivial (#8: Options › Language lists Your languages and Add a language… replaces the Language packs table); previously trivial (#8: the missing-pack bar works on a fresh install and counts the caret's language); previously trivial (#8: Language pack languages are in Set Proofing Language, Review › Language and the status bar; built-in proofing is named as such); previously trivial (#20: layout resource caps and linear-time passes (#3867, #3866)); previously trivial (#3 narrowed: a pasted text box story is charged for the formatting it copies); previously trivial (#3 narrowed: a .doc table row keeps one override per cell); previously trivial (#3 narrowed: a .doc file's sections find their paragraphs by index); previously minor (#11: Arabic interface with mirrored shell landed, #1195; hi/id/pt-PT and Hebrew UI remain); previously trivial (#8: language-packs-2 is published and pinned: 75 packs, adding Danish, German (Germany, Austria, Switzerland), Esperanto, Estonian, Persian, Croatian, Hungarian, Norwegian (Bokmål, Nynorsk), Dutch and Swedish (Sweden, Finland); no ranked gap changed); previously trivial (#8: language-packs-1 is published and pinned, 61 packs: Lithuanian, Romanian, Catalan, French, Greek, Slovak, Serbian and Latvian install as Language packs; Dutch, German and the other compounding languages wait on craft-proof; no ranked gap changed); previously minor (#8: Language packs: every other language's spelling and hyphenation installs from File › Options › Language or the missing-pack bar, through the font store; Lithuanian and Romanian are available as a Language pack once language-packs-1 is published; Dutch, Catalan, French, Greek, Slovak, Serbian and Latvian packs wait on craft-proof engine support); previously trivial (gap 8: English spelling reads SCOWL 2026, one dictionary per English, #40, #520, #5205; no ranked gap changed);; previously trivial (DOCX table rows and cells inside selected alternate-content branches survive open and repeated saves (#5219); broader corpus qualification and readiness estimates unchanged); previously trivial (#26 narrowed: MHT opens and `w:altChunk` content is brought in on open; saving MHT remains) previously trivial (gap 8 points at craft-proof in craft-libs, its data in craft-i18n, #5202; no ranked gap changed); previously trivial (arrowheads keep their kind, width and length and are drawn at Word's sizes; no ranked gap changed); previously trivial (.doc default font from the stylesheet's standard font, #5066; no ranked gap changed); previously trivial (a middle or bottom cell of a row split across pages lines up on the first page; no ranked gap changed); previously trivial (tab leader dots spaced and placed as in Word; no ranked gap changed); previously trivial (a list level above counts its first number at the first deeper item; no ranked gap changed); previously trivial (only the PDF sent to the printer leaves out link annotations; Save these pages as PDF keeps them, #4734; no ranked gap changed); previously trivial (documents with links print: the print job leaves out link annotations, #4734; no ranked gap changed; previously trivial: aligned-copy review fixes retain the document axis through scrolling and include secondary selections (#4764)); previously trivial (connector rerouting indexes laid-out object positions once per batch (#3631); previously trivial (custom-property bookmark-link preservation, #4767); previously trivial (Relative font-size commands preserve mixed sizes in the selection (#4903); existing button steps and one-point shortcuts are unchanged; readiness estimates unchanged); previously trivial (Arabic Backspace removes one combining mark and keeps its base letter (#4757); previously trivial (note conversion reference-run membership uses one ordered walk, #4750); previously trivial (DOCX comment-ID save lookups); previously trivial (gap 19: RTF reads and writes WMF and EMF pictures, #4259); previously trivial (#4658 bounds nested Markdown reference-label work); previously trivial (HTML import keeps preformatted lines with CR or CRLF input newlines, #4810); previously trivial (Recipient labels continue across product-sized sheets instead of stopping after the first sheet (#4880)); previously trivial (View windows: several open documents and Switch Windows in the engine; previously trivial: explicit documents keep the editor when recovery discovery finishes; readable recovery controls; previously trivial: text mini toolbar available with the right-click menu, #2959; previously trivial: personal templates in File › New and Save as Word Template, #2852; previously trivial: tracked table/row/cell/section property changes record in WordCraft, narrowing gap 5; previously trivial: a document with many content controls saves in the time the controls take, #13; previously trivial: Format Page Numbers dialog carries Word's number formats and Continue from previous section / Start at, #1113; previously trivial: centred list labels after leading page breaks, #2964; previously trivial: fixed font inputs in four layout controls; previously trivial: a right, centre or decimal tab whose text doesn't fit, or a left tab past the right indent, goes to the next line with its text, #1840; previously trivial: Bullets and Numbering toggle off style-inherited lists at their effective level, including basedOn chains and numbered ListParagraph styles; other paragraphs and list definitions stay unchanged (related to #3459); previously trivial: Russian sorting keeps ё with е and recognises decomposed ё/й; previously trivial: #8: English dialects — en-GB, en-CA, en-AU… flag each other's spellings, #1281; previously trivial: #1: shape gradients and transparency, #1500; previously trivial: text typed into a content control takes the control's formatting; localized placeholder styles recognised; previously trivial: forms protection keeps its content controls: no inserting, Properties or Remove Content Control; previously trivial: clearing a no-match font query keeps the recent heading visible, #2068; previously trivial: line breaking: a slash opening a word travels whole to the next line, #2963; previously trivial: recipient list search and merged-only view, #1576; previously trivial: #2 impact restated: only ink rendering and OLE editing remain; previously trivial: #2 narrowed: native ink nested in groups and drawing canvases kept on save; previously trivial: opening a DOCX no longer copies its pictures; previously trivial: RTF export writes sections (gap 19); previously trivial: ODT export writes sections (gap 19); previously trivial: automatic Asian/Latin and Asian/number spacing laid out, #2358; previously trivial: hint-reliant CJK outlines; previously trivial: numbered headings, #1793; previously trivial: legacy outline, shadow, emboss and imprint text effects drawn, #2534; previously trivial: #8 narrowed: Indonesian proofing from the installed Hunspell dictionary, #498; previously trivial: glossary/building blocks closed; previously trivial: Split Cells and Convert Text to Table follow the Word check, #2592; previously trivial: Language dialog keeps inherited proofing language and no-proof choices (#2717); previously trivial: #29: a copied equation also goes in the MathML clipboard formats, #1297; previously trivial: #24: the Spike, Ctrl+F3 and Ctrl+Shift+F3; previously trivial: VML freeforms read and kept on save; previously trivial: consistent preferred cell widths; previously trivial: multi-paragraph field instructions no longer add blank lines; previously trivial: page-break-only list paragraphs hide their labels; previously trivial: floating-table overlap ignores empty line-break lines; previously trivial: copies keep their formatting on the clipboard as HTML, #1523; previously trivial: sample-text formulas on Enter, #1067; previously trivial: #29: copied equations as MathML, OMML open as #1297, #816; previously trivial: the Font list no longer keeps every previewed font in memory, #848; 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 Table and Eraser landed, #303; previously minor: beta distance restated: ~15 points, ~150–230 h; previously: first version; every known shortfall from the 2026-10-10 re-measure, ranked); previously trivial (page-number preservation review follow-up, #2201; refreshed field results retained) · **Target:** Microsoft Word (Microsoft 365) for Mac 16.113.4 > **Page Setup update:** 2026-11-07 · Page Setup number boxes keep long input inside the field, including accepted margin values after focus leaves (#5650); accepted ranges and readiness estimates are unchanged. > **Floating anchor row segments:** 2026-11-07 · A floating anchor after a manual page/column break counts visible content on the far side of the same wrapped row. Marker-only cover anchors retain their previous-page rule. Synthetic picture spacing, placement and history controls; no new native Word measurement. Readiness estimates unchanged. @@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ The same gaps grouped the way the parity documents are, for agents working in on - **Localization gaps:** #8, #11, #16, #17; native-speaker review of every catalog (human). - **Stability and performance gaps:** #3, #20. -> **Page-number update:** 2026-11-07 · top/bottom numbering preserves header/footer text, formatting, tables and existing user-owned PAGE fields, including fields in deep tables and anchored text boxes (#2201). Generated numbering in its own paragraph can change plain/X-of-Y format and alignment while retaining surrounding content and paragraph-mark formatting. An otherwise untouched empty Header/Footer paragraph keeps its mark formatting when reused after DOCX reopen; identical requests leave undo depth and dirty state unchanged. Nested/grouped-box traversal, cycle termination, unrelated-story separation and section-slot behavior remain covered. Readiness estimates and broader file-fidelity gaps are unchanged. +> **Page-number update:** 2026-11-08 · top/bottom numbering preserves header/footer text, formatting, tables and existing user-owned PAGE fields, including fields in deep tables and anchored text boxes (#2201). Generated numbering in its own paragraph can change plain/X-of-Y format and alignment while retaining surrounding content and paragraph-mark formatting. An otherwise untouched empty Header/Footer paragraph keeps its mark formatting when reused after DOCX reopen; identical requests leave undo depth and dirty state unchanged. Nested/grouped-box traversal, cycle termination, unrelated-story separation and section-slot behavior remain covered. Readiness estimates and broader file-fidelity gaps are unchanged. Existing PAGE/NUMPAGES result caches are retained for repeated requests and later gallery changes; field instructions, flags and formatting remain part of the conservative ownership check. The Language dialog reads effective character formatting, including document defaults, paragraph styles and character styles. Accepting it unchanged keeps inherited language and no-proof choices (#2717); explicit direct formatting still takes precedence. Other proofing and Windows-specific reports remain separate. @@ -183,6 +183,8 @@ Page Setup's margin, paper-size and document-grid number boxes scroll long text ## Revision history +> 2026-11-08 · Page-number cached-result follow-up (#2201): refreshed PAGE/NUMPAGES display results survive identical requests and gallery format/alignment changes after DOCX reopen. All 13 existing preservation regressions remain, with a new cached-result fixture; readiness estimates unchanged. + > 2026-11-07 · Page-number preservation review follow-up (#2201): generated format/alignment changes retain neighboring content and paragraph marks; imported empty Header/Footer marks survive reuse; repeated requests keep clean state and undo depth. All nine original regressions remain. Readiness estimates unchanged. > 2026-11-03 · Section `w:chapStyle` values now preserve the complete unsigned-byte range, including 10; values above 255 are rejected.