#4085: include selected paragraph marks in the highlight decision

Match format_range for whole-cell segments and ordinary targets, including empty
paragraphs. Partial text columns leave their unselected marks out of the check.
Keep the large-run fixture prefix mark blue so it cannot mask the tail regression.

Before the fix, whole-cell and ordinary-mark regressions failed while the other5
highlight controls passed. All7 now pass, including inherited/empty cells,
unselected neighbours, empty-only ranges, partial columns and Undo/Redo.
Full cargo xtask ci passed all8 gates with serial tests. Previous head's CodeRabbit
docstring measurement95.24% exceeds80%; all3 new tests have documentation.
Native Word comparison remains pending. No new interface strings.

ROADMAP.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 **Stage: alpha** · next: beta, ~15 points (60% → 75% ready for real work) and ~150–230 h away
 
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-25 · **Change:** trivial (full-target highlight check beyond 10,000 runs, #4085; previously trivial: highlight shortcut toggle, #4085; previously minor: progress log: Spanish proofing, #3360, #3553; previously trivial: progress log: Insert › Table's grid previews the hovered table on the page, #3931; previously trivial: progress log: interface translations come from storytold/craft-i18n through the `craft-i18n` crate; previously trivial: progress log: disabled-control reasons translated in every interface language, #2678; previously trivial: progress log: mail merge record navigation and record ranges for printing, #3028; previously trivial: selection bar for right-to-left paragraphs and table rows; previously trivial: group connector rerouting preserves rotated and flipped free or unresolved endpoints under nonuniform group scaling; readiness estimates unchanged; previously trivial: progress log: a word with no break opportunity in it no longer makes the layout quadratic, #3412; previously trivial: progress log: a relationship the markup names without the prefix is read as it wrote, and an ordinary `id` names no part; previously trivial: progress log: a document with many relationships opens in the time its part takes, and an id the text only mentions is not a reference, #3411; previously trivial: progress log: read only and comments-only protection grey out edits; previously trivial: progress log: an empty paragraph with a hidden mark shows nothing, not even its list number, #3982; previously trivial: progress log: "NaN" in the Font dialog's Size box no longer closes the app, #3663; previously trivial: progress log: a table cell span from a `.json` file no longer overflows, #3637; previously trivial: progress log: a click in the footer while editing the header moves there; previously trivial: explicit documents keep the editor when recovery discovery finishes; readable recovery controls; previously trivial: Slovenian interface catalog, 2,614 entries; previously trivial: Insert Table of Figures dialog for any caption label, #3013; previously trivial: progress log: Home › Underline drop-down, #2738; previously trivial: personal templates in File › New and Save as Word Template, #2852; previously trivial: progress log: the scrollbar page tip stays on one line, #3341; previously trivial: progress log: forms protection greys out the control buttons; previously trivial: progress log: a document with many content controls saves in the time the controls take, #13; previously trivial: progress log: Word signature lines kept on save; previously trivial: a Thai run with Latin finds one installed font covering it all on Linux too, #1549; previously trivial: progress log: closing the header returns to the body selection, #3331; previously trivial: progress log: saving to a NAS share mounted by GVFS, #3003; previously trivial: progress log: a picture dragged near the bottom of a page lands there, #3169; previously trivial: centred list labels after leading page breaks, #2964; previously trivial: progress log: inline pictures drag to an insertion cursor and stay inline, #2233, #2234; previously trivial: progress log: a text file saved over itself closes without asking, #2376; previously trivial: progress log: a text frame in the paragraph defaults frames nothing, #2360; previously trivial: fixed font inputs in four layout controls; previously trivial: typing no longer starts render threads on every repaint, #3027; 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: progress log: banded rows shade as in Word, #3415; previously trivial: progress log: the table handles show while the caret is in the table, #2428; previously trivial: progress log: a click below a floating table reaches the text after it, #2038; previously trivial: progress log: Delete on selected table cells leaves one empty paragraph in each, #2802; previously trivial: progress log: lam-alef in exported PDFs extracts whole with fonts that draw it as two glyphs, #2310; 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: progress log: a text box that keeps the keyboard no longer resets the input method every frame, #2986; previously trivial: progress log: recovery copies and .json files store pictures as base64, #586 follow-up; previously trivial: progress log: legacy menu keys, #1697; previously trivial: progress log: shape gradients and transparency, #1500; previously trivial: progress log: Focus fills the screen, and Full Screen View shows the pages alone, #1678; previously trivial: Line truncated
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-25 · **Change:** trivial (highlight target includes selected paragraph marks, #4085; previously trivial: full-target highlight check beyond 10,000 runs, #4085; previously trivial: highlight shortcut toggle, #4085; previously minor: progress log: Spanish proofing, #3360, #3553; previously trivial: progress log: Insert › Table's grid previews the hovered table on the page, #3931; previously trivial: progress log: interface translations come from storytold/craft-i18n through the `craft-i18n` crate; previously trivial: progress log: disabled-control reasons translated in every interface language, #2678; previously trivial: progress log: mail merge record navigation and record ranges for printing, #3028; previously trivial: selection bar for right-to-left paragraphs and table rows; previously trivial: group connector rerouting preserves rotated and flipped free or unresolved endpoints under nonuniform group scaling; readiness estimates unchanged; previously trivial: progress log: a word with no break opportunity in it no longer makes the layout quadratic, #3412; previously trivial: progress log: a relationship the markup names without the prefix is read as it wrote, and an ordinary `id` names no part; previously trivial: progress log: a document with many relationships opens in the time its part takes, and an id the text only mentions is not a reference, #3411; previously trivial: progress log: read only and comments-only protection grey out edits; previously trivial: progress log: an empty paragraph with a hidden mark shows nothing, not even its list number, #3982; previously trivial: progress log: "NaN" in the Font dialog's Size box no longer closes the app, #3663; previously trivial: progress log: a table cell span from a `.json` file no longer overflows, #3637; previously trivial: progress log: a click in the footer while editing the header moves there; previously trivial: explicit documents keep the editor when recovery discovery finishes; readable recovery controls; previously trivial: Slovenian interface catalog, 2,614 entries; previously trivial: Insert Table of Figures dialog for any caption label, #3013; previously trivial: progress log: Home › Underline drop-down, #2738; previously trivial: personal templates in File › New and Save as Word Template, #2852; previously trivial: progress log: the scrollbar page tip stays on one line, #3341; previously trivial: progress log: forms protection greys out the control buttons; previously trivial: progress log: a document with many content controls saves in the time the controls take, #13; previously trivial: progress log: Word signature lines kept on save; previously trivial: a Thai run with Latin finds one installed font covering it all on Linux too, #1549; previously trivial: progress log: closing the header returns to the body selection, #3331; previously trivial: progress log: saving to a NAS share mounted by GVFS, #3003; previously trivial: progress log: a picture dragged near the bottom of a page lands there, #3169; previously trivial: centred list labels after leading page breaks, #2964; previously trivial: progress log: inline pictures drag to an insertion cursor and stay inline, #2233, #2234; previously trivial: progress log: a text file saved over itself closes without asking, #2376; previously trivial: progress log: a text frame in the paragraph defaults frames nothing, #2360; previously trivial: fixed font inputs in four layout controls; previously trivial: typing no longer starts render threads on every repaint, #3027; 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: progress log: banded rows shade as in Word, #3415; previously trivial: progress log: the table handles show while the caret is in the table, #2428; previously trivial: progress log: a click below a floating table reaches the text after it, #2038; previously trivial: progress log: Delete on selected table cells leaves one empty paragraph in each, #2802; previously trivial: progress log: lam-alef in exported PDFs extracts whole with fonts that draw it as two glyphs, #2310; 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: progress log: a text box that keeps the keyboard no longer resets the input method every frame, #2986; previously trivial: progress log: recovery copies and .json files store pictures as base64, #586 follow-up; previously trivial: progress log: legacy menu keys, #1697; previously trivial: progress log: shape gradients and transparency, #1500; previously trivial: progress log: Focus fills the Line truncated
 > **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-18 · **Change:** trivial (English dialects in proofing, #1281; previously trivial: triple borders draw three lines, #1740; previously trivial: progress log: double-clicking a later page's footer no longer scrolls up, #2103; previously trivial: long navigation headings wrap onto further lines within the pane, #3015; previously trivial: clearing a no-match font query keeps the recent heading visible, #2068; previously trivial: a word after a slash wraps whole, like Word, #2963; previously trivial: RTF export writes sections (gap 19); previously trivial: ODT export writes sections (gap 19); previously trivial: progress log: pasted blockquotes are indented paragraphs, #1270; previously trivial: progress log: print-area strings translated in every catalog; previously trivial: progress log: comments readable in the dark theme, #2045; previously trivial: progress log: ODT sections, #1379; previously trivial: progress log: table deletes, Change Case and Unlink Fields respect Track Changes and locked content controls, #1329; previously trivial: progress log: rounded rectangle corners, #1476; previously trivial: progress log: Save As type list, #1399; previously trivial: progress log: privacy options on save, #1062; previously trivial: progress log: equation pictures in theme colours on Windows, #1002; previously trivial: symbol fonts, #776; previously trivial: the save prompt answers from the keyboard, #861; previously trivial: table column and row markers on the rulers, #700; previously trivial: table borders and the resize handle drag on the page, #217; previously trivial: formatting revisions landed, #41; previously trivial: Draw tab ink, #307, and Draw Table and Eraser, #303, landed: catalog 402/434; previously minor: readiness table with hours per audience; full number back to the additive weighted sum, 60%; mainstream and essentials numbers added; alpha gate checked; previously major: full re-measure against Word for Mac 16.113.4; restructured to the craftrules progress-docs standard) · **Target:** Microsoft Word (Microsoft 365) for Mac 16.113.4
 > **Printing update:** 2026-10-12 · direct desktop printing through craft-print; details below.
 
@@ -173,6 +173,7 @@ Imported Word 97–2003 `.doc`/`.dot` files now ask for a supported DOCX target
 
 | Date | What landed |
 | 2026-10-23 | Interface translations come from storytold/craft-i18n, shared with the other Crafting Apps: the catalogs are embedded at build time from the commit in `craft-i18n.rev` and looked up through craft-libs' `craft-i18n` crate; `crates/ui-egui/src/i18n/*.tsv` are gone (translations now go to craft-i18n). Strings other apps already translate show translated; a build without `CRAFT_I18N_DIR` is English only |
+| 2026-10-25 | #4085 mark review: whole-cell and ordinary highlight targets include their selected paragraph marks; empty, inherited and partial-column controls added. |
 | 2026-10-25 | #4085 review: highlight toggling checks the full target with constant resolved-run storage; a different colour after 10,000 runs prevents clearing. |
 | 2026-10-24 | #4085: Ctrl+Alt+H toggles the last chosen highlight colour; explicit colour setters remain idempotent. Mixed, inherited and pending formatting and Undo/Redo covered by command/key regressions. |
 | 2026-10-22 | Compare results opened as new or revised untitled documents start without the previous document's version snapshots. A comparison or mailing result rejected by protection keeps the snapshots and save target with the original document. |
@@ -601,6 +602,7 @@ Footer page-table height and body wrapping are corrected. Other pagination gaps
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-10-25 | trivial | Highlight decisions include fully selected paragraph marks in whole cells and ordinary ranges, including empty paragraphs; partial text columns exclude unselected marks (#4085). |
 | 2026-10-25 | trivial | Highlight toggle checks the full target beyond 10,000 runs without collecting resolved formatting; mixed and inherited tails and Undo/Redo covered (#4085). |
 | 2026-10-24 | trivial | Highlight shortcut toggles the last chosen colour off when the whole selection has it; explicit colour commands remain setters (#4085). |
 | 2026-10-23 | trivial | Progress log: interface translations from storytold/craft-i18n through the `craft-i18n` crate |

crates/engine/src/cmd/format.rs

@@ -401,7 +401,7 @@ fn target_has_highlight(s: &Session, h: Highlight) -> bool {
     if let Some(rows) = column_rows(s) {
         for (a, b) in rows {
             let Some(p) = s.doc.para_at(&a) else { continue };
-            if a == b {
+            if a == b || (a.off == 0 && b.off == p.len()) {
                 seen = true;
                 if !matches(p.props.style.as_deref(), &p.mark) {
                     return false;
@@ -425,6 +425,13 @@ fn target_has_highlight(s: &Session, h: Highlight) -> bool {
             let Some(p) = s.doc.para(a.story, &path) else { continue };
             let from = if path == a.path { a.off } else { 0 };
             let to = if path == b.path { b.off } else { p.len() };
+            // Match format_range: fully selected paragraphs include their mark.
+            if to == p.len() && (from == 0 || path != a.path) {
+                seen = true;
+                if !matches(p.props.style.as_deref(), &p.mark) {
+                    return false;
+                }
+            }
             for (r, c) in p.run_ranges() {
                 if r.end > from && r.start < to {
                     seen = true;

crates/engine/src/tests_typing.rs

@@ -2592,6 +2592,7 @@ fn highlight_toggle_checks_past_the_resolved_run_limit() {
             } else {
                 doc.para_mut(StoryRef::Body, &Pos::body(1, 0).path).unwrap().runs[0].props.highlight = Some(Highlight::Yellow);
             }
+            doc.para_mut(StoryRef::Body, &Pos::body(0, 0).path).unwrap().mark.highlight = Some(Highlight::Blue);
             let original = doc.clone();
             let mut s = Session::new(doc);
             s.last_highlight = Highlight::Blue;
@@ -2629,3 +2630,126 @@ fn highlight_preview_preserves_the_session_colour_and_document() {
     assert_eq!(s.last_highlight, Highlight::Blue);
     assert_eq!(s.undo_depth(), depth);
 }
+
+/// Whole-cell column selections include paragraph marks, including empty cells and
+/// inherited mark colours; adjacent unselected cells and undo/redo keep their formatting.
+#[test]
+fn highlight_toggle_checks_whole_cell_marks() {
+    use wordcraft_doc::props::Highlight;
+    use wordcraft_doc::{CharProps, Paragraph};
+    for inherited in [false, true] {
+        for empty in [false, true] {
+            let mut s = s();
+            run(&mut s, "insert.table", json!({"rows":2,"cols":2}));
+            let (table, _, _) = s.sel.focus.path.cell().unwrap();
+            let pos = |row, col| {
+                let mut path = table.clone();
+                path.0.extend([row, col, 0]);
+                Pos::new(StoryRef::Body, path, 0)
+            };
+            if inherited {
+                s.doc.styles.default_chr.highlight = Some(Highlight::Yellow);
+            }
+            for row in 0..2 {
+                for col in 0..2 {
+                    let p = s.doc.para_mut(StoryRef::Body, &pos(row, col).path).unwrap();
+                    let colour = if col == 0 { Highlight::Blue } else { Highlight::Red };
+                    *p = Paragraph::with_text(
+                        if empty && row == 1 && col == 0 { "" } else { "AB" },
+                        CharProps { highlight: Some(colour), ..Default::default() },
+                    );
+                    p.mark.highlight = Some(colour);
+                    if row == 1 && col == 0 {
+                        p.mark.highlight = if inherited { None } else { Some(Highlight::Yellow) };
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+            s.last_highlight = Highlight::Blue;
+            run(&mut s, "caret.set", json!({"pos":pos(0,0)}));
+            run(&mut s, "table.selectColumn", json!({}));
+            assert!(!s.cell_range().unwrap().stream);
+            let original = serde_json::to_value(&s.doc).unwrap();
+            run(&mut s, "format.highlight", json!({}));
+            for row in 0..2 {
+                let p = s.doc.para_at(&pos(row, 0)).unwrap();
+                assert_eq!(p.mark.highlight, Some(Highlight::Blue), "inherited={inherited}, empty={empty}");
+                assert!(p.runs.iter().all(|r| r.props.highlight == Some(Highlight::Blue)));
+            }
+            run(&mut s, "format.highlight", json!({}));
+            for row in 0..2 {
+                let p = s.doc.para_at(&pos(row, 0)).unwrap();
+                assert_eq!(p.mark.highlight, Some(Highlight::None));
+                assert!(p.runs.iter().all(|r| r.props.highlight == Some(Highlight::None)));
+                let other = s.doc.para_at(&pos(row, 1)).unwrap();
+                assert_eq!(other.mark.highlight, Some(Highlight::Red));
+                assert!(other.runs.iter().all(|r| r.props.highlight == Some(Highlight::Red)));
+            }
+            run(&mut s, "edit.undo", json!({}));
+            run(&mut s, "edit.undo", json!({}));
+            assert_eq!(serde_json::to_value(&s.doc).unwrap(), original);
+            run(&mut s, "edit.redo", json!({}));
+            assert_eq!(s.doc.para_at(&pos(1, 0)).unwrap().mark.highlight, Some(Highlight::Blue));
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+/// Fully selected marks participate even when the selection has no text runs or an
+/// empty paragraph between blue runs; repeated toggles and undo preserve these targets.
+#[test]
+fn highlight_toggle_checks_ordinary_paragraph_marks() {
+    use wordcraft_doc::props::Highlight;
+    for text in ["AB", "AB\n\nAB", "\n"] {
+        let mut doc = wordcraft_doc::Document::from_text(text);
+        doc.styles.default_chr.highlight = Some(Highlight::Blue);
+        let paths = doc.para_paths(StoryRef::Body);
+        for path in &paths {
+            let p = doc.para_mut(StoryRef::Body, path).unwrap();
+            p.mark.highlight = Some(Highlight::Blue);
+            for r in &mut p.runs {
+                r.props.highlight = Some(Highlight::Blue);
+            }
+        }
+        let mismatch = if text == "AB\n\nAB" { 1 } else { 0 };
+        doc.para_mut(StoryRef::Body, &paths[mismatch]).unwrap().mark.highlight = Some(Highlight::Yellow);
+        let original = serde_json::to_value(&doc).unwrap();
+        let mut s = Session::new(doc);
+        s.last_highlight = Highlight::Blue;
+        run(&mut s, "select.all", json!({}));
+        run(&mut s, "format.highlight", json!({}));
+        for path in &paths {
+            let p = s.doc.para(StoryRef::Body, path).unwrap();
+            assert_eq!(p.mark.highlight, Some(Highlight::Blue), "text={text:?}");
+            assert!(p.runs.iter().all(|r| r.props.highlight == Some(Highlight::Blue)));
+        }
+        run(&mut s, "format.highlight", json!({}));
+        assert!(paths.iter().all(|p| s.doc.para(StoryRef::Body, p).unwrap().mark.highlight == Some(Highlight::None)));
+        run(&mut s, "edit.undo", json!({}));
+        run(&mut s, "edit.undo", json!({}));
+        assert_eq!(serde_json::to_value(&s.doc).unwrap(), original);
+    }
+}
+
+/// A partial text column excludes paragraph marks and text beyond its selected offsets,
+/// so a different mark colour must not prevent clearing the selected blue characters.
+#[test]
+fn highlight_partial_column_ignores_unselected_marks() {
+    use wordcraft_doc::props::Highlight;
+    let mut doc = wordcraft_doc::Document::from_text("AB\nAB");
+    for path in doc.para_paths(StoryRef::Body) {
+        let p = doc.para_mut(StoryRef::Body, &path).unwrap();
+        p.mark.highlight = Some(Highlight::Yellow);
+        for r in &mut p.runs {
+            r.props.highlight = Some(Highlight::Blue);
+        }
+    }
+    let mut s = Session::new(doc);
+    s.last_highlight = Highlight::Blue;
+    run(&mut s, "select.column", json!({"anchor":Pos::body(0,0),"focus":Pos::body(1,1)}));
+    run(&mut s, "format.highlight", json!({}));
+    for row in 0..2 {
+        let p = s.doc.para_at(&Pos::body(row, 0)).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(p.props_of_char(0).highlight, Some(Highlight::None));
+        assert_eq!(p.props_of_char(1).highlight, Some(Highlight::Blue));
+        assert_eq!(p.mark.highlight, Some(Highlight::Yellow));
+    }
+}

docs/gaps.md

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Where WordCraft falls short of Word
 
 > **Highlight update:** 2026-10-25 · Highlight shortcut toggles the last chosen colour off when the whole selection has it; explicit colour commands remain setters (#4085). Readiness estimates unchanged.
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-25 · **Change:** trivial (full-target highlight check beyond 10,000 runs, #4085; previously trivial: highlight shortcut toggle, #4085; previously minor: #8 narrowed: Spanish proofing (Spain, Mexico, Latin America, Uruguay) from the installed Hunspell dictionaries, #3360, #3553; previously trivial: gap 10: group connector rerouting preserves transformed free and unresolved endpoints under nonuniform scaling; obstacle routing still missing; readiness estimates unchanged; previously trivial: a word with no break opportunity in it no longer makes the layout quadratic, #3412; previously trivial: the ranked gap list held two rows each for #19, #20 and #21; each gap appears once now; a document with many relationships opens in the time its part takes, #3411; 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: 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, #Line truncated
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-25 · **Change:** trivial (highlight target includes selected paragraph marks, #4085; previously trivial: full-target highlight check beyond 10,000 runs, #4085; previously trivial: highlight shortcut toggle, #4085; previously minor: #8 narrowed: Spanish proofing (Spain, Mexico, Latin America, Uruguay) from the installed Hunspell dictionaries, #3360, #3553; previously trivial: gap 10: group connector rerouting preserves transformed free and unresolved endpoints under nonuniform scaling; obstacle routing still missing; readiness estimates unchanged; previously trivial: a word with no break opportunity in it no longer makes the layout quadratic, #3412; previously trivial: the ranked gap list held two rows each for #19, #20 and #21; each gap appears once now; a document with many relationships opens in the time its part takes, #3411; 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: 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, #7Line truncated
 
 Recovery discovery no longer interrupts an explicitly created or opened document. Older copies remain in File › Recover, whose buttons use the interface palette. See [local recovery](recovery.md).
 
@@ -125,6 +125,7 @@ Footer page-table height and body wrapping are corrected. Other pagination gaps
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-10-25 | trivial | Highlight decisions include fully selected paragraph marks in whole cells and ordinary ranges, including empty paragraphs; partial text columns exclude unselected marks (#4085). |
 | 2026-10-25 | trivial | Highlight toggle checks the full target beyond 10,000 runs without collecting resolved formatting; mixed and inherited tails and Undo/Redo covered (#4085). |
 | 2026-10-24 | trivial | Highlight shortcut toggles the last chosen colour off when the whole selection has it; explicit colour commands remain setters (#4085). |
 | 2026-10-22 | minor | #8 narrowed: Spanish proofing (es-ES, es-MX, es-419, es-UY spelling from the installed Hunspell dictionaries, Uruguayan `vos` forms, generic and opening-mark checks, #3360, #3553) |

docs/typing-parity.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Typing parity with Word
 
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-11 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-25 · **Change:** trivial (full-target highlight check beyond 10,000 runs, #4085; previously trivial: highlight shortcut toggle, #4085; previously trivial: while an input method composes, the caret and its candidate window sit at the input method's cursor inside the composition; previously trivial: Ctrl+Tab types a tab in a table cell, #3137; previously trivial: List AutoFormat triggers in front of an already-written paragraph, not only a fresh empty one, checked in Word for Windows, #3352; previously trivial: AltGr types its characters without opening KeyTips on Linux, #2388; previously trivial: Delete on whole selected cells leaves one empty paragraph in each, with the cell's last paragraph's formatting; nested tables go too, #2802; 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: a text box that keeps the keyboard no longer resets the input method every frame, #2986; previously trivial: a slash opening a word travels whole to the next line, #2963; previously trivial: typing over a selection takes the first selected character's formatting, also when the selection was made right to left, #2879; previously trivial: Turkish and Azerbaijani case mapping in AutoCorrect, #1923; previously trivial: smart quotes in Hebrew pinned: logical order, ” in acronyms as in Word, #1670; previously trivial: Backspace on a selected table, rows or columns deletes them, Delete clears them, #1844; previously trivial: typed text takes its direction from its own letters, #1543; previously trivial: an input method's request to erase text around the caret is honoured, so web typing in Cyrillic and other non-Latin text no longer repeats, #1480; previously trivial: `-->` AutoCorrect replacement, #2223; previously trivial: a heading-list preset keeps Heading styles and makes other paragraphs Heading 1, as in Word, #1793; previously trivial: numbered headings: a heading-linked Multilevel List numbers new headings by their style; numbering keeps a heading a heading, #1793; previously trivial: reversing an automatic capital adds an exception, #1857; previously trivial: smart quotes open after guillemets and low quotes and nest; previously trivial: Enter on an empty list item numbered by its paragraph style moves it up a level, #2143; previously trivial: Backspace after a section break and Delete before it remove the break, also on the last paragraph, #2127; previously trivial: a table inserted in right-to-left text is right to left, so Tab moves left, #2634; previously trivial: Shift+Delete cuts the selection on every platform, #1669; previously trivial: Select All then Delete removes a table the document starts with, #1198; previously trivial: Alt+numpad character codes, #961; previously trivial: Down and Up from a line start beside a table go into it, #1007; previously trivial: sample-text formulas on Enter, #1067; previously trivial: Track Changes: Accept All after a tracked delete from a paragraph end keeps the next paragraph; Reject All after typing into an empty paragraph keeps it (#864); previously minor: Correct TWo INitial CApitals, cAPS LOCK and table-cell capitals, #544; previously trivial: complex-script caret and Backspace, #604; Move Paragraph Up/Down, Promote/Demote, Go Back and Alt+X keys, #343) · **Target:** Microsoft Word (Microsoft 365) for Mac 16.113.4
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-11 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-25 · **Change:** trivial (highlight target includes selected paragraph marks, #4085; previously trivial: full-target highlight check beyond 10,000 runs, #4085; previously trivial: highlight shortcut toggle, #4085; previously trivial: while an input method composes, the caret and its candidate window sit at the input method's cursor inside the composition; previously trivial: Ctrl+Tab types a tab in a table cell, #3137; previously trivial: List AutoFormat triggers in front of an already-written paragraph, not only a fresh empty one, checked in Word for Windows, #3352; previously trivial: AltGr types its characters without opening KeyTips on Linux, #2388; previously trivial: Delete on whole selected cells leaves one empty paragraph in each, with the cell's last paragraph's formatting; nested tables go too, #2802; 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: a text box that keeps the keyboard no longer resets the input method every frame, #2986; previously trivial: a slash opening a word travels whole to the next line, #2963; previously trivial: typing over a selection takes the first selected character's formatting, also when the selection was made right to left, #2879; previously trivial: Turkish and Azerbaijani case mapping in AutoCorrect, #1923; previously trivial: smart quotes in Hebrew pinned: logical order, ” in acronyms as in Word, #1670; previously trivial: Backspace on a selected table, rows or columns deletes them, Delete clears them, #1844; previously trivial: typed text takes its direction from its own letters, #1543; previously trivial: an input method's request to erase text around the caret is honoured, so web typing in Cyrillic and other non-Latin text no longer repeats, #1480; previously trivial: `-->` AutoCorrect replacement, #2223; previously trivial: a heading-list preset keeps Heading styles and makes other paragraphs Heading 1, as in Word, #1793; previously trivial: numbered headings: a heading-linked Multilevel List numbers new headings by their style; numbering keeps a heading a heading, #1793; previously trivial: reversing an automatic capital adds an exception, #1857; previously trivial: smart quotes open after guillemets and low quotes and nest; previously trivial: Enter on an empty list item numbered by its paragraph style moves it up a level, #2143; previously trivial: Backspace after a section break and Delete before it remove the break, also on the last paragraph, #2127; previously trivial: a table inserted in right-to-left text is right to left, so Tab moves left, #2634; previously trivial: Shift+Delete cuts the selection on every platform, #1669; previously trivial: Select All then Delete removes a table the document starts with, #1198; previously trivial: Alt+numpad character codes, #961; previously trivial: Down and Up from a line start beside a table go into it, #1007; previously trivial: sample-text formulas on Enter, #1067; previously trivial: Track Changes: Accept All after a tracked delete from a paragraph end keeps the next paragraph; Reject All after typing into an empty paragraph keeps it (#864); previously minor: Correct TWo INitial CApitals, cAPS LOCK and table-cell capitals, #544; previously trivial: complex-script caret and Backspace, #604; Move Paragraph Up/Down, Promote/Demote, Go Back and Alt+X keys, #343) · **Target:** Microsoft Word (Microsoft 365) for Mac 16.113.4
 
 What Word does when you type, observed black-box (same keystrokes typed into Word and
 WordCraft, results read back paragraph by paragraph) and pinned by tests in
@@ -17,13 +17,17 @@ Choosing another colour applies it, and choosing No Color makes that the current
 Explicit `format.highlight {"color": ...}` remains an idempotent setter; omitting `color`
 uses the toggle. Ribbon and mini-toolbar colour buttons remain setters, not toggles.
 The highlight decision checks the complete target, including mixed colours after 10,000 runs;
-formatting-state queries retain their existing sampling limit. Palette state is outside document undo; the formatting itself is undoable.
+formatting-state queries retain their existing sampling limit. Fully selected paragraph marks
+(including whole cells and empty paragraphs) participate in that decision; partial text
+columns ignore marks outside the selected range. Palette state is outside document undo; the formatting itself is undoable.
 The existing selection/word/pending-caret targeting is unchanged (the separate request #4086
 is not addressed).
 
 Regressions: `highlight_shortcut_toggles_the_last_colour` and
 `highlight_toggle_handles_mixed_inherited_and_pending_formatting`. Synthetic command/key
-qualification; native Word comparison has not been performed for this change.
+qualification, with additional large-selection, non-mutating preview, whole-cell mark,
+empty-paragraph mark and partial-column controls. Native Word comparison has not been
+performed for this change.
 
 ## Sample text (#1067)
 
@@ -359,6 +363,7 @@ again.
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-10-25 | trivial | Highlight decisions include fully selected paragraph marks in whole cells and ordinary ranges, including empty paragraphs; partial text columns exclude unselected marks (#4085). |
 | 2026-10-25 | trivial | Highlight toggle checks the full target beyond 10,000 runs without collecting resolved formatting; mixed and inherited tails and Undo/Redo covered (#4085). |
 | 2026-10-24 | trivial | Highlight shortcut toggles the last chosen colour off when the whole selection has it; explicit colour commands remain setters (#4085). |
 | 2026-10-22 | trivial | Input methods: while composing, the caret and the candidate window follow the input method's cursor inside the marked text |