diff --git a/ROADMAP.md b/ROADMAP.md
index b162eef38a..502426c45d 100644
--- a/ROADMAP.md
+++ b/ROADMAP.md
@@ -152,6 +152,7 @@ Ranked, to beta (detail and remaining milestones in [docs/roadmap.md](docs/roadm
 - 2026-11-05: ODT table rows kept from breaking across pages stay so (gap 19): they came back from a save free to break.
 - 2026-11-05: ODT: a watermark added, changed or removed, and Different Odd & Even Pages turned on or off, in a file read from ODT are saved.
 - 2026-11-05: ODT pictures offered in several formats show and survive a save (gap 19): LibreOffice's letter templates lost theirs.
+- 2026-11-07: An in-line picture lowered past its own height (`w:position`) lowers its line as far, as in Word; all 156 synthetic lines measured for #3984 match Word (#5796). Exact spacing keeps the line's baseline.
 - 2026-11-06: Windows print submissions run in separate helper processes (#5710). A helper acknowledges cancellation before it stops, so a driver stalled in a cancelled job cannot hold another job’s provider lock. A private temporary PDF and bounded settings messages cross the process boundary; normal shutdown reaps helpers and removes their inputs. The helper erases its plaintext inputs before driver work; a hard app crash during startup can still leave private temporary files. Jobs already sending still complete. Readiness estimates unchanged.
 - 2026-11-06: File › Print: before sending starts, Cancel printing stops a waiting job, frees the Print page and keeps the settings; a successfully cancelled job is never sent. Cancellation remains available after the last document closes. Quitting cancels waiting jobs and joins jobs already sending (#5710). On Windows, winprint repeats the DEVMODE conversion after sending starts. A stall during that repeat prevents cancellation and can keep shutdown waiting, even before a native job exists. Readiness estimates unchanged.
 - 2026-11-06: File › Print on Windows no longer waits on printer drivers to list printers (#5710). The list used to wait until each printer's driver said whether it prints on both sides, and a networked printer asleep in power save could keep it empty with Refresh unavailable; now discovery asks no driver (the Windows spooler still supplies the list), and printing still checks the job's options with the driver. The reporter's sleeping printer has not been retested yet. Readiness estimates unchanged.
@@ -824,6 +825,7 @@ MATH glyphs that reference the same construction now share its immutable variant
 |---|---|---|
 | 2026-11-07 | trivial | Page Setup also bounds the unfocused margin display after a long numeric paste; the accepted value is retained (#5650). |
 | 2026-11-05 | trivial | Page Setup's margin, paper-size and document-grid number boxes scroll long text inside the field instead of enlarging the dialog (#5650). Readiness estimates unchanged. |
+| 2026-11-07 | trivial | Progress log: An in-line picture lowered past its own height (`w:position`) lowers its line as far, as in Word; all 156 synthetic lines measured for #3984 match Word (#5796). |
 | 2026-11-06 | trivial | Print helpers remove loaded PDF/settings files before driver work, tolerate prior removal and report cleanup errors; a held-driver regression checks the files are already absent (#5710) |
 | 2026-11-06 | trivial | Windows print submissions isolated per helper process; cancelled driver work cannot block a retry (#5710) |
 | 2026-11-06 | trivial | Progress log: print cancellation before sending, including without a document, and the Windows repeated-conversion limitation (#5710) |
diff --git a/crates/layout/src/display/lines.rs b/crates/layout/src/display/lines.rs
index 7068e855a4..e888dedfbb 100644
--- a/crates/layout/src/display/lines.rs
+++ b/crates/layout/src/display/lines.rs
@@ -656,7 +656,7 @@ fn inline_objects(ctx: &LineContext<'_, '_, '_>, out: &mut Vec<Draw>) {
             Some(o @ InlineObject::Field { .. }) => {
                 if let Some(wordcraft_doc::legacy_form::LegacyForm::CheckBox { checked, .. }) = o.legacy_form() {
                     let color = pl.styles.get(c.style as usize).map_or(Rgb::BLACK, |st| text_color(&st.rc.color, None));
-                    let frame = Rect::new(cx, base - c.obj_h, c.adv, c.obj_h + c.obj_d);
+                    let frame = Rect::new(cx, base - c.obj_h.max(0.0), c.adv, c.obj_h + c.obj_d);
                     check_box(frame, checked, color, alpha, out);
                 }
             }
diff --git a/crates/layout/src/display/objects.rs b/crates/layout/src/display/objects.rs
index 1cc37988df..5e0b04e6e1 100644
--- a/crates/layout/src/display/objects.rs
+++ b/crates/layout/src/display/objects.rs
@@ -491,7 +491,8 @@ pub(crate) fn effects_in(effects: wordcraft_doc::effects::ShapeEffects, spin: Sp
 pub(crate) fn inline_rect(obj: Option<&InlineObject>, cx: f32, base: f32, adv: f32, (obj_h, obj_d): (f32, f32), line: f32) -> Rect {
     let frame = obj.and_then(InlineObject::frame);
     let [l, t, r, b] = frame.map_or([0.0; 4], |(_, _, float)| float.effect_extent());
-    let room = Rect::new(cx + l, base - obj_h + t, (adv - l - r).max(0.0), (obj_h + obj_d - t - b).max(0.0));
+    // Lowered further than its height, it is drawn with its top on the baseline (Word).
+    let room = Rect::new(cx + l, base - obj_h.max(0.0) + t, (adv - l - r).max(0.0), (obj_h + obj_d - t - b).max(0.0));
     // A horizontal rule is as wide as its share of the paragraph's width, whatever narrows its
     // line, and is placed by its alignment in what the line has left: it runs past the margin
     // beside a float or a first-line indent, as in Word (see `ParaLayout::rule_room`).
diff --git a/crates/layout/src/para/lines.rs b/crates/layout/src/para/lines.rs
index fbc4947e34..9edfeb2b7f 100644
--- a/crates/layout/src/para/lines.rs
+++ b/crates/layout/src/para/lines.rs
@@ -438,8 +438,10 @@ impl<'e> Breaker<'e> {
                     if matches!(rp.line_spacing, LineSpacing::Exactly(_)) { (st.ascent, st.descent) } else { (c.obj_h, c.obj_d) }
                 } else {
                     ex.obj_asc = ex.obj_asc.max(c.obj_h);
-                    // A lowered picture reaches below the baseline.
-                    ex.obj_desc = ex.obj_desc.max(c.obj_d);
+                    // A lowered picture reaches below the baseline, with exact spacing no further
+                    // than its height (the line's box is fixed; its baseline stays where it was).
+                    let reach = if matches!(rp.line_spacing, LineSpacing::Exactly(_)) { c.obj_d.min(c.obj_h + c.obj_d) } else { c.obj_d };
+                    ex.obj_desc = ex.obj_desc.max(reach);
                     (st.ascent, st.descent)
                 }
             } else {
diff --git a/crates/layout/src/para/paragraph.rs b/crates/layout/src/para/paragraph.rs
index b712f9dce5..07a75bef44 100644
--- a/crates/layout/src/para/paragraph.rs
+++ b/crates/layout/src/para/paragraph.rs
@@ -338,7 +338,8 @@ impl<'a> Shaped<'a> {
     /// A picture, shape or text box: inline, as wide and high as it is; a floating one takes no room.
     /// An inline drawing: it stands on the baseline, raised or lowered by its run's position
     /// (`raise`, points, as Word moves an inline picture with `w:position`). Its cluster reaches
-    /// `obj_h` above the baseline and `obj_d` below it (negative when raised clear of it).
+    /// `obj_h` above the baseline and `obj_d` below it (negative when raised clear of it; `obj_h`
+    /// negative when lowered further than its height, drawn with its top on the baseline).
     fn drawing(&mut self, cx: &Cx, (k, o): (usize, &InlineObject), slot: Slot, raise: f32) {
         let env = cx.env;
         // A hidden one takes no room, and with no height its line doesn't draw it.
@@ -368,10 +369,10 @@ impl<'a> Shaped<'a> {
             let [el, et, er, eb] = float.effect_extent();
             let (px, py) = float.spin_pad(w * s, h * s);
             let tall = h * s + et + eb + 2.0 * py;
-            // Lowered at most until its top is on the baseline. The bound is made finite and
-            // not above `clamp`'s top whatever the extents give (`clamp` panics otherwise).
-            let floor = if tall.is_finite() { -tall.max(0.0) } else { 0.0 };
-            let raise = if raise.is_finite() { raise.clamp(floor, 1584.0) } else { 0.0 };
+            // Lowered further than its height, its top stays on the baseline while the line
+            // reaches as far down as the lowering (Word, measured: a 6 pt picture lowered 30 pt
+            // makes a 30 pt line); `obj_h` is then negative. Word's positions run to 1584 pt.
+            let raise = if raise.is_finite() { raise.clamp(-1584.0, 1584.0) } else { 0.0 };
             self.b.clusters.push(slot.cluster(ClKind::Object(k), w * s + el + er + 2.0 * px, (tall + raise, -raise)));
         } else {
             self.push(slot, ClKind::Object(k), 0.0, 0.0);
diff --git a/crates/layout/src/tests.rs b/crates/layout/src/tests.rs
index 45612e2222..ca0805afc7 100644
--- a/crates/layout/src/tests.rs
+++ b/crates/layout/src/tests.rs
@@ -5598,8 +5598,13 @@ fn an_inline_picture_moves_with_its_runs_position() {
     assert!(line.top + line.height - line.baseline >= 30.0 - 0.01, "{line:?}");
     let r = display::inline_rect(Some(&picture(40.0, 30.0, Default::default())), 0.0, 100.0, c.adv, (c.obj_h, c.obj_d), c.adv);
     assert_eq!((r.y, r.h), (100.0, 30.0));
-    // Lowered further than that: still only to its top.
-    assert_eq!(line_of(-500.0).0.obj_d, 30.0);
+    // Lowered further than that: the line reaches as far down, the picture's top staying on the
+    // baseline (Word).
+    let (c, line, _) = line_of(-500.0);
+    assert_eq!((c.obj_h, c.obj_d), (-470.0, 500.0));
+    assert!(line.top + line.height - line.baseline >= 500.0 - 0.01, "{line:?}");
+    let r = display::inline_rect(Some(&picture(40.0, 30.0, Default::default())), 0.0, 100.0, c.adv, (c.obj_h, c.obj_d), c.adv);
+    assert_eq!((r.y, r.h), (100.0, 30.0));
     // Raised: it stands clear of the baseline, as tall as before.
     let (c, _, _) = line_of(6.0);
     assert_eq!((c.obj_h, c.obj_d), (36.0, -6.0));
@@ -13694,7 +13699,7 @@ fn lowered_pictures_and_check_boxes_take_words_line_heights() {
         let Some(Placed::Lines { para, .. }) = l.pages[0].items.iter().find(|i| matches!(i, Placed::Lines { .. })) else { panic!() };
         let c = para.clusters.iter().find(|c| matches!(c.kind, para::ClKind::Object(_))).unwrap();
         let (line, st) = (&para.lines[0], &para.styles[c.style as usize]);
-        (line.height, line.baseline - c.obj_h - line.top, st.ascent + st.descent)
+        (line.height, line.baseline - c.obj_h.max(0.0) - line.top, st.ascent + st.descent)
     };
     for m in [1.0, 1.15, 1.5] {
         let share = |font: f32| (m - 1.0) * font;
@@ -13711,10 +13716,36 @@ fn lowered_pictures_and_check_boxes_take_words_line_heights() {
             let (h, top, font) = line_of("", m, 6.0, raise);
             assert!((h - font * m).abs() < 0.01 && (top - (font - reach)).abs() < 0.01, "{raise} at {m}: {h}, {top}");
         }
+        // Lowered further than its height: as far down as it's lowered, the font's height at least,
+        // its top on the baseline (Word: a 6 pt picture lowered 10 pt takes the font's 11.5 pt,
+        // lowered 30 pt 30 pt; beside text, the text's ascent and the 30 pt).
+        let (h, top, font) = line_of("", m, 6.0, -10.0);
+        assert!((h - font * m).abs() < 0.01 && (top - (font - 10.0)).abs() < 0.01, "6 lowered 10 at {m}: {h}, {top}");
+        let (h, top, font) = line_of("", m, 6.0, -30.0);
+        assert!((h - 30.0 - share(font)).abs() < 0.01 && top.abs() < 0.01, "6 lowered 30 at {m}: {h}, {top}");
+        let (h, top, font) = line_of("x", m, 6.0, -30.0);
+        let asc = h - 30.0 - share(font);
+        assert!(asc > 0.0 && asc < font && (top - asc).abs() < 0.01, "6 lowered 30 beside text at {m}: {h}, {top}");
         // Beside text, lowered: the text's ascent is no matter, the picture reaching further.
         let (h, top, font) = line_of("x", m, 30.0, -10.0);
         assert!((h - 30.0 - share(font)).abs() < 0.01 && top.abs() < 0.01, "beside text at {m}: {h}, {top}");
     }
+    // Exact spacing keeps the line's box and its baseline: a picture lowered past its height sits
+    // where one lowered by its height does.
+    let exact = |raise: f32| {
+        let mut d = Document::from_text("x");
+        let props = wordcraft_doc::CharProps { position: Some(raise), ..Default::default() };
+        let p = d.para_mut(StoryRef::Body, &Path::top(0)).unwrap();
+        p.props.line_spacing = Some(LineSpacing::Exactly(20.0));
+        let at = p.len();
+        p.insert_object(at, picture(40.0, 6.0, Default::default()), &props).unwrap();
+        let l = lay(&d);
+        let Some(Placed::Lines { para, .. }) = l.pages[0].items.iter().find(|i| matches!(i, Placed::Lines { .. })) else { panic!() };
+        (para.lines[0].height, para.lines[0].baseline - para.lines[0].top)
+    };
+    let (h, base) = exact(-6.0);
+    assert!((h - 20.0).abs() < 0.01, "{h}");
+    assert_eq!(exact(-30.0), (h, base));
     // A check box sizes its line as text of its size, alone or beside text.
     let box_line = |lead: &str, m: f32, size: u32| {
         let mut d = Document::from_text(lead);
diff --git a/docs/gaps.md b/docs/gaps.md
index 6413817c74..173a8d8db9 100644
--- a/docs/gaps.md
+++ b/docs/gaps.md
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ Page drawing indexes text-box warp lookups by paragraph and story for the curren
 |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 1 | **DOCX never tested on real-world files.** No corpus of files from Word, Google Docs, LibreOffice and Pages has been opened, rendered and round-tripped and compared with Word page by page | B | No corpus in the repo; `crates/docx/tests` are synthetic fixtures (including omitted/empty paragraph defaults and imported TOC range preservation); "DOCX fidelity corpus: not started" since 2026-10-06. Field reports fixed one by one: a cover page's theme-coloured shapes (#611), freeforms inside groups and text-box margins and Resize to fit (#743), shape gradients and transparency (#1500), cover-page positions relative to the page and freeforms drawn back to their start (#743), Word's text watermark in headers, read and written (#1290), VML freeform rule lines in headers, and `flowChartOr` drawn with its spokes (#1644); explicit DrawingML outline dashes and flat/square/round caps preserved; paragraph-relative header/footer/cell/text-box float origins corrected (cu20we, synthetic regressions) | Everyone: the files people receive are the files that break | 30–50 | [file-format-parity.md](file-format-parity.md) |
 | 3 | **Crashes and freezes in the field**: startup crash on Intel UHD Graphics (#170, open), a crash on macOS 12.7.6 Intel (#979, open) (lag on GPUs without a DirectX 12 driver fixed, #316; 32-bit Windows exited at launch because DirectX 12 graphics pipeline creation failed, now OpenGL), freezes (#59 Thai fonts and #31 font selector, both open; #77 closed), broken shape tool (#142, open); the Windows 11 no-write-without-admin (#218) and unmovable images (#82) reports are closed (pictures and shapes in Behind Text drag through the text over them, #1313); memory growth on every font change fixed (#848: the font list no longer loads each family it previews) | B | 197 open issues (2026-10-12), among them the crash and freeze reports #170, #979, #59 and #31 | Anyone hit loses work or trust; the never-crash standard covers panics, not hangs or GPU driver faults | 20–30 | [target-app-parity.md](target-app-parity.md) (Stability) |
-| 4 | **Pagination differs from Word**: Aptos has no metric-matched substitute; legacy compatibility options only partially covered; no page-by-page comparison harness | B | SECTIONPAGES now counts shared continuous-section pages in body and header/footer fields; legacy same-style cell spacing preserved for measured modes 11/12/14, with mode 15 and non-cell controls; Contextual spacing corrected in body/header probes and repeated table-cell runs; [layout-parity.md](layout-parity.md); [typing-parity.md](typing-parity.md) Known gaps; non-overlapping body floating tables clear header tables; stray labels on page-break-only list paragraphs fixed multi-paragraph field-code blank lines fixed; centred numbered heading labels after leading page breaks fixed (#2964); Arial Unicode MS no longer selects monospace substitutes; a slash opening a word travels whole to the next line (#2963) 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, so a TOC entry's page number keeps its leader (#1840). A floating object anchored on a later page of a long paragraph is drawn on that page, also when footnotes or widow control move its line on (#4250). Fonts the document uses that aren't installed are flagged in the font box and status bar, except those drawn in a metric-compatible substitute (Carlito for Calibri, Liberation Sans for Arial) and symbol-font text (Symbol, Wingdings, Webdings), so the user knows when line breaks can differ from where the document was made; `font.missing` lists the substituted fonts in the text the current view lays out (capped, for hostile documents), marking the metric-compatible ones `metricCompatible`. | Page counts and line breaks differ, which matters for forms, legal and academic work | 30–50 + owner (font) | [layout-parity.md](layout-parity.md) |
+| 4 | **Pagination differs from Word**: Aptos has no metric-matched substitute; legacy compatibility options only partially covered; no page-by-page comparison harness | B | In-line pictures raised or lowered (`w:position`) set their line's height as in Word, past their own height too (#3984, #5796). SECTIONPAGES now counts shared continuous-section pages in body and header/footer fields; legacy same-style cell spacing preserved for measured modes 11/12/14, with mode 15 and non-cell controls; Contextual spacing corrected in body/header probes and repeated table-cell runs; [layout-parity.md](layout-parity.md); [typing-parity.md](typing-parity.md) Known gaps; non-overlapping body floating tables clear header tables; stray labels on page-break-only list paragraphs fixed multi-paragraph field-code blank lines fixed; centred numbered heading labels after leading page breaks fixed (#2964); Arial Unicode MS no longer selects monospace substitutes; a slash opening a word travels whole to the next line (#2963) 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, so a TOC entry's page number keeps its leader (#1840). A floating object anchored on a later page of a long paragraph is drawn on that page, also when footnotes or widow control move its line on (#4250). Fonts the document uses that aren't installed are flagged in the font box and status bar, except those drawn in a metric-compatible substitute (Carlito for Calibri, Liberation Sans for Arial) and symbol-font text (Symbol, Wingdings, Webdings), so the user knows when line breaks can differ from where the document was made; `font.missing` lists the substituted fonts in the text the current view lays out (capped, for hostile documents), marking the metric-compatible ones `metricCompatible`. | Page counts and line breaks differ, which matters for forms, legal and academic work | 30–50 + owner (font) | [layout-parity.md](layout-parity.md) |
 | 4 | **Pagination differs from Word**: Aptos has no metric-matched substitute; legacy compatibility options only partially covered; no page-by-page comparison harness | B | SECTIONPAGES now counts shared continuous-section pages in body and header/footer fields; legacy same-style cell spacing preserved for measured modes 11/12/14, with mode 15 and non-cell controls; Contextual spacing corrected in body/header probes and repeated table-cell runs; [layout-parity.md](layout-parity.md); [typing-parity.md](typing-parity.md) Known gaps; non-overlapping body floating tables clear header tables; stray labels on page-break-only list paragraphs fixed multi-paragraph field-code blank lines fixed; centred numbered heading labels after leading page breaks fixed (#2964); Arial Unicode MS no longer selects monospace substitutes; a slash opening a word travels whole to the next line (#2963) 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, so a TOC entry's page number keeps its leader (#1840). A floating object anchored on a later page of a long paragraph is drawn on that page, also when footnotes or widow control move its line on (#4250); one anchored right after a page break, before text, is drawn on the new page (#4262). Fonts the document uses that aren't installed are flagged in the font box and status bar, except those drawn in a metric-compatible substitute (Carlito for Calibri, Liberation Sans for Arial) and symbol-font text (Symbol, Wingdings, Webdings), so the user knows when line breaks can differ from where the document was made; `font.missing` lists the substituted fonts in the text the current view lays out (capped, for hostile documents), marking the metric-compatible ones `metricCompatible`. | Page counts and line breaks differ, which matters for forms, legal and academic work | 30–50 + owner (font) | [layout-parity.md](layout-parity.md) |
 | 2 | **Word's native ink is not drawn from its strokes**; OLE objects show only their picture | B | Every native ink form is preserved: drawing-level ink with its optional picture fallback, direct run-level content parts, and ink members of groups and drawing canvases (kept in their place among the members, drawn from their fallback picture). Drawing canvases are read and written (#344); group shapes (`wpg`) read and written (#267). Charts and SmartArt are drawn (#292) and, with OLE objects, written back with all their parts on save (#319) | Pen notes from Word show only as their picture and can't be edited; OLE objects can't be opened | 45–70 to render and edit charts and SmartArt (#13) | [file-format-parity.md](file-format-parity.md) |
 | 5 | **Content controls** landed (#381): `w:sdt` kept, shown and edited (Developer tab, Design Mode, Properties). Move tracking landed (#400): `w:moveFrom`/`w:moveTo` with their named ranges round-trip, a tracked cut and paste of a paragraph or sentence records a move, either end accepts/rejects both, green double strike/underline markup and "Moved from/to" balloons; Track Changes Options has the Moves rows (Moved from / Moved to mark and colour) and `w:doNotTrackMoves` (Track moves off: a cut and paste is a deletion and an insertion) round-trips; still missing: drag-and-drop moves (no text drag yet). Formatting revisions landed (#41): `w:rPrChange`/`w:pPrChange`/`w:tblPrChange`/`w:trPrChange`/`w:tcPrChange`/`w:sectPrChange`/`w:numberingChange` round-trip, are recorded while tracking, accepted/rejected and shown in balloons; still missing: tracked style-definition changes (table, row, cell and section property changes now record in WordCraft too, #41 follow-up). Opaque custom XML backing stores now survive saves; binding evaluation remains absent. Replace All now checks content-control locks before editing any match; a refused batch preserves the document and undo history. | B | List-label pitch corrected in synthetic metric controls; Issues #41, #400; source grep | Legal and editorial review workflows; templates with form controls | 5–8 | [file-format-parity.md](file-format-parity.md) |
@@ -188,6 +188,7 @@ Page Setup's margin, paper-size and document-grid number boxes scroll long text
 | 2026-11-05 | trivial | Page Setup's margin, paper-size and document-grid number boxes scroll long text inside the field instead of enlarging the dialog (#5650). Readiness estimates unchanged. |
 | 2026-11-04 | trivial | Field argument import and page-format-aware layout/cache follow-ups; no ranked gap changed |
 | 2026-11-03 | trivial | Field argument parsing follows Word quoted backslash escapes; body PAGE formatting follows the active section in paragraphs and tables; no ranked gap changed |
+| 2026-11-07 | trivial | Pagination gap #4: An in-line picture lowered past its own height (`w:position`) lowers its line as far, as in Word; all 156 synthetic lines measured for #3984 match Word (#5796). |
 | 2026-11-06 | trivial | Print helpers remove loaded PDF/settings files before driver work, tolerate prior removal and report cleanup errors; a held-driver regression checks the files are already absent (#5710) |
 | 2026-11-06 | trivial | Windows print submissions use a separate helper per job, preserving provider serialization inside the helper. An acknowledged cancellation stops that helper, so a stalled cancelled driver cannot block a later job; normal shutdown reaps helpers and removes temporary PDFs. The helper erases its plaintext inputs before driver work; a hard app crash during startup can still leave private temporary files. Startup requires an explicit start grant; after sending begins, jobs complete (#5710) |
 | 2026-11-06 | trivial | Gap 6: File › Print: before sending starts, Cancel printing (`ui.printCancel`) stops a waiting job and frees the Print page while keeping its settings, including after the last document closes; a successfully cancelled job is never sent. Quitting cancels waiting jobs and joins jobs already sending (#5710). On Windows, winprint repeats the DEVMODE conversion after sending starts. A stall during that repeat prevents cancellation and can keep shutdown waiting, even before a native job exists. No ranked gap changed; readiness estimates unchanged |
diff --git a/docs/layout-parity.md b/docs/layout-parity.md
index 22f362923f..b3bb97b603 100644
--- a/docs/layout-parity.md
+++ b/docs/layout-parity.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Layout and pagination parity with Microsoft Word
 
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-05 · **Change:** trivial (a float anchored right after a page break, before text, is drawn on the new page, #4262); previously trivial (a float anchored on a later page of a long paragraph is drawn there, #4250); previously trivial (the line between columns runs as tall as the section's text, so columns for selected text have it, #5178); previously trivial (a line of only pictures is as tall as they reach, never less than its font's height; a legacy check box sizes its line as text of its size, #3984); previously trivial (spaces before a line's first character keep their width in justified and distributed lines, as in Word); previously trivial (Page drawing indexes text-box warp lookups per paragraph (#3614)); previously trivial (Times and Courier take their Windows counterparts' line spacing; previously trivial: group connector rerouting preserves transformed free and unresolved endpoints under nonuniform scaling; readiness estimates unchanged; previously trivial: a word with no break opportunity in it no longer makes the layout quadratic, #3412; previously trivial: an empty paragraph whose mark is hidden shows nothing, not even its list number, which is still counted, #3982; previously trivial: a Thai run with Latin finds one installed font covering it all on Linux too, #1549; previously trivial: symbol fonts keep their line height without the font; previously trivial: an equation-array row without `&` is centred, #2617; previously trivial: a superscript or subscript sizes its line at the full font size, without its raise or drop, as Word does; previously trivial: an object dragged near the bottom of a page lands where it is dropped, #3169; previously trivial: centred list labels after leading page breaks, #2964; previously trivial: fixed font inputs in four layout controls; previously trivial: justified lines shrink their spaces by Word's measured limits; 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: a click below a floating table goes to the text beside or after it, not to a cell of its last row, #2038; previously trivial: shapes drawn with their gradients and transparency, #1500; previously trivial: paragraphs above a float's anchor wrap around it, also when that pushes the anchor onto the next page, #2048; previously trivial: triple borders draw three lines, #1740; previously trivial: the caret, clicks and selection edges fall between the letters of a ligature, #1974; previously trivial: a word after a slash wraps whole, like Word, #2963; previously trivial: VML header-cell floats always on the page, user-checked in Word for Mac, #1775; previously trivial: an at-least row with no room for its minimum starts the next page whole, #1742; previously trivial: AutoFit donors lose equal widths down to their content minima; previously trivial: automatic space between Asian text and Latin text or digits, #2358; previously trivial: hint-reliant CJK outlines; previously trivial: positional tabs go to the margins or indents, #2367; previously trivial: field results with right-to-left text read right to left, #1670; previously trivial: a list bullet no installed font can draw shows the level's default bullet, #1683; previously trivial: a missing Thai font is drawn in one Thai face for the whole run, #1549; previously trivial: the caret after spaces hanging past the margin stays at the margin, #2146; previously trivial: covered black-circle fallback before UI sans; previously trivial: resolved split-cell continuation top insets; previously trivial: Symbol PCL6 alias uses Symbol encoding; previously trivial: exact full font names select their installed face; previously trivial: Arial Unicode MS uses proportional fallbacks; previously trivial: DrawingML outline dashes, including zero-width paths; previously trivial: TOCs include table-cell headings and retain full targets; previously trivial: kept table rows follow the next row; previously trivial: consistent cell widths override a stale table grid; 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: paragraph spacing adds up when the document turns HTML auto spacing off; previously trivial: an inherited footer sizes its percentage tables by its own section; previously trivial: an empty section mark stays on a full page; previously trivial: a fitting row with less room than its minimum height moves on whole; oversized rows still split; previously trivial: text past an exact-height row is cut off; previously trivial: a list number stays with text after a leading page break; previously trivial: a bookmark after a page break takes no line; previously trivial: a page break followed by a page break before or a next-page section starts one page; previously trivial: All Caps and Small Caps draw ß as SS, #1581; previously trivial: justified vertical page alignment, #1320; previously trivial: page numbers restart at 0; previously trivial: a list label moves with its first line when the paragraph is centred or end-aligned (#1159); previously trivial (a click just outside a floating table, by a cell whose text is turned, goes to the text beside or after it, #4181; previously trivial: group connector rerouting preserves transformed free and unresolved endpoints under nonuniform scaling; readiness estimates unchanged; previously trivial: a word with no break opportunity in it no longer makes the layout quadratic, #3412; previously trivial: an empty paragraph whose mark is hidden shows nothing, not even its list number, which is still counted, #3982; previously trivial: a Thai run with Latin finds one installed font covering it all on Linux too, #1549; previously trivial: symbol fonts keep their line height without the font; previously trivial: an equation-array row without `&` is centred, #2617; previously trivial: a superscript or subscript sizes its line at the full font size, without its raise or drop, as Word does; previously trivial: an object dragged near the bottom of a page lands where it is dropped, #3169; previously trivial: centred list labels after leading page breaks, #2964; previously trivial: fixed font inputs in four layout controls; previously trivial: justified lines shrink their spaces by Word's measured limits; 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: a click below a floating table goes to the text beside or after it, not to a cell of its last row, #2038; previously trivial: shapes drawn with their gradients and transparency, #1500; previously trivial: paragraphs above a float's anchor wrap around it, also when that pushes the anchor onto the next page, #2048; previously trivial: triple borders draw three lines, #1740; previously trivial: the caret, clicks and selection edges fall between the letters of a ligature, #1974; previously trivial: a word after a slash wraps whole, like Word, #2963; previously trivial: VML header-cell floats always on the page, user-checked in Word for Mac, #1775; previously trivial: an at-least row with no room for its minimum starts the next page whole, #1742; previously trivial: AutoFit donors lose equal widths down to their content minima; previously trivial: automatic space between Asian text and Latin text or digits, #2358; previously trivial: hint-reliant CJK outlines; previously trivial: positional tabs go to the margins or indents, #2367; previously trivial: field results with right-to-left text read right to left, #1670; previously trivial: a list bullet no installed font can draw shows the level's default bullet, #1683; previously trivial: a missing Thai font is drawn in one Thai face for the whole run, #1549; previously trivial: the caret after spaces hanging past the margin stays at the margin, #2146; previously trivial: covered black-circle fallback before UI sans; previously trivial: resolved split-cell continuation top insets; previously trivial: Symbol PCL6 alias uses Symbol encoding; previously trivial: exact full font names select their installed face; previously trivial: Arial Unicode MS uses proportional fallbacks; previously trivial: DrawingML outline dashes, including zero-width paths; previously trivial: TOCs include table-cell headings and retain full targets; previously trivial: kept table rows follow the next row; previously trivial: consistent cell widths override a stale table grid; 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: paragraph spacing adds up when the document turns HTML auto spacing off; previously trivial: an inherited footer sizes its percentage tables by its own section; previously trivial: an empty section mark stays on a full page; previously trivial: a fitting row with less room than its minimum height moves on whole; oversized rows still split; previously trivial: text past an exact-height row is cut off; previously trivial: a list number stays with text after a leading page break; previously trivial: a bookmark after a page break takes no line; previously trivial: a page break followed by a page break before or a next-page section starts one page; previously trivial: All Caps and Small Caps draw ß as SS, #1581; previously trivial: justified vertical page alignment, #1320; previously trivial: page numbers restart at 0; previously trivial: a list label moves with its first line when the paragraph is centred or end-aligned (#1159); previously trivial (PR #4545: eligible cell floats keep in-bounds offsets; overflow confinement retains the front-of-text, turned-cell and native-acceptance limits); previously trivial (MATH construction reuse, #3630; previously trivial: continuous sections one after another go onto new pages instead of running off the page; empty marks after another empty section mark take a line each until the page is full, then stay at its bottom drawing nothing, not even a list label; an empty mark that takes no room draws no list label either; a kept-together paragraph is measured against the page it would move to, so a tall different first-page header no longer splits it, #3907; previously trivial: a justified line ending in a manual line break is stretched to the margin unless `w:doNotExpandShiftReturn` is set, #3924; previously trivial: a no-break space is as wide as a space, #4192; previously trivial: a bookmark or other zero-width marker is no line-break opportunity, #4193; 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 (ODT documents: a line of only pictures keeps its font's height; no setting for it any more); previously trivial (ODT documents: padding is the standard's box model always; picture-only line height is an ODF interpretation setting); previously trivial (行頭禁則 also covers the small kana and the prolonged sound mark at ordinary break opportunities, as JIS X 4051 §4 specifies, inferred from the standard and synthetic tests rather than checked in Word); previously trivial (a missing font is drawn in an installed metric twin before any other substitute: Arial for Helvetica on Windows, Tinos before macOS Times for Times New Roman); previously trivial (ODT documents: padding without a border takes room); previously trivial (ODT documents: a line of only pictures is as tall as they are); previously trivial (ODT documents: a table's own space above and below; header and footer spacing kept past a tall header); previously trivial (a page break before a table's first row moves the table; emphasis marks drawn with room in the line); previously trivial (text in a turned text box turns with it; previously trivial: an in-line picture, shape or chart moves with its run's raise or lowering, Word's `w:position`; previously trivial (layout work bounds: header-row repeats budgeted per layout, cached picture outlines charged to the decode budget, linked-box chain widths exact up to a work cap, #3867); previously trivial (the line between columns runs as tall as the section's text, so columns for selected text have it, #5178); previously trivial (a table row that would leave a cell empty on a page that already holds something, its picture or first line not fitting there, moves on whole instead of leaving the other cells' text beside the empty cell, #4272); previously trivial (a middle or bottom cell of a row split across pages lines up on the first page); previously trivial (tab leader dots spaced and placed as in Word); previously trivial (a level above that hasn't counted yet takes its first number at the first deeper item); previously trivial (paragraph side borders lie beyond their distance from the text, #5036); previously trivial (with a header taller than the top margin, Margin-anchored drawings, header-cell pins and header-table obstacles use the rendered body top; TopMargin and InsideMargin keep their declared band, #2485; previously trivial: connector rerouting indexes laid-out object positions once per batch (#3631); previously trivial (field results take the `\* DollarText`, `\* Hex` and `\* ArabicDash` switches, #4226; previously trivial: a cell spanning columns shares its extra minimum width by the columns' preferred widths, equally in automatic tables, #1883; previously trivial: continuous sections one after another go onto new pages instead of running off the page; empty marks after another empty section mark take a line each until the page is full, then stay at its bottom drawing nothing, not even a list label; an empty mark that takes no room draws no list label either; a kept-together paragraph is measured against the page it would move to, so a tall different first-page header no longer splits it, #3907; previously trivial: a justified line ending in a manual line break is stretched to the margin unless `w:doNotExpandShiftReturn` is set, #3924; previously trivial: a no-break space is as wide as a space, #4192; previously trivial: a bookmark or other zero-width marker is no line-break opportunity, #4193; 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: Preserve grapheme edit/wrap boundaries across independently drawn font/style pieces; Exact-spacing table contact uses the specified line height rather than paragraph-mark metrics (#3977); previously trivial: cu20we: restrict pre-spacing float origins to paragraph anchors; document cap helpers and regressions; previously trivial: cu20we: outline caps; previously trivial: cu20we: box float paragraph origin; previously trivial: group connector rerouting preserves transformed free and unresolved endpoints under nonuniform scaling; readiness estimates unchanged; previously trivial: a word with no break opportunity in it no longer makes the layout quadratic, #3412; previously trivial: an empty paragraph whose mark is hidden shows nothing, not even its list number, which is still counted, #3982; previously trivial: a Thai run with Latin finds one installed font covering it all on Linux too, #1549; previously trivial: symbol fonts keep their line height without the font; previously trivial: an equation-array row without `&` is centred, #2617; previously trivial: a superscript or subscript sizes its line at the full font size, without its raise or drop, as Word does; previously trivial: an object dragged near the bottom of a page lands where it is dropped, #3169; previously trivial: centred list labels after leading page breaks, #2964; previously trivial: fixed font inputs in four layout controls; previously trivial: justified lines shrink their spaces by Word's measured limits; 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: a click below a floating table goes to the text beside or after it, not to a cell of its last row, #2038; previously trivial: shapes drawn with their gradients and transparency, #1500; previously trivial: paragraphs above a float's anchor wrap around it, also when that pushes the anchor onto the next page, #2048; previously trivial: triple borders draw three lines, #1740; previously trivial: the caret, clicks and selection edges fall between the letters of a ligature, #1974; previously trivial: a word after a slash wraps whole, like Word, #2963; previously trivial: VML header-cell floats always on the page, user-checked in Word for Mac, #1775; previously trivial: an at-least row with no room for its minimum starts the next page whole, #1742; previously trivial: AutoFit donors lose equal widths down to their content minima; previously trivial: automatic space between Asian text and Latin text or digits, #2358; previously trivial: hint-reliant CJK outlines; previously trivial: positional tabs go to the margins or indents, #2367; previously trivial: field results with right-to-left text read right to left, #1670; previously trivial: a list bullet no installed font can draw shows the level's default bullet, #1683; previously trivial: a missing Thai font is drawn in one Thai face for the whole run, #1549; previously trivial: the caret after spaces hanging past the margin stays at the margin, #2146; previously trivial: covered black-circle fallback before UI sans; previously trivial: resolved split-cell continuation top insets; previously trivial: Symbol PCL6 alias uses Symbol encoding; previously trivial: exact full font names select their installed face; previously trivial: Arial Unicode MS uses proportional fallbacks; previously trivial: DrawingML outline dashes, including zero-width paths; previously trivial: TOCs include table-cell headings and retain full targets; previously trivial: kept table rows follow the next row; previously trivial: consistent cell widths override a stale table grid; 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: paragraph spacing adds up when the document turns HTML auto spacing off; previously trivial: an inherited footer sizes its percentage tables by its own section; previously trivial: an empty section mark stays on a full page; previously trivial: a fitting row with less room than its minimum height moves on whole; oversized rows still split; previously trivial: text past an exact-height row is cut off; previously trivial: a list number stays with text after a leading page break; previously trivial: a bookmark after a page break takes no line; previously trivial: a page break followed by a page break before or a next-page section starts one page; previously trivial: All Caps and Small Caps draw ß as SS, #1581; previously trivial: justified vertical page alignment, #1320; previously trivial: page numbers restart at 0; previously trivial: a list label moves with its first line when the paragraph is centred or end-aligned (#1159); previously trivial: PAGE fields in a paragraph split across pages show the page they are on, #1352; previously trivial: a dragged floating object anchors in the column it lands in, #884; previously trivial: a paragraph ending on a page with footnotes keeps its space after above the separator, #1116; previously trivial: symbol-font text drawn as Unicode symbols, #776; previously trivial: large-table scrolling measured and fixed, #811; previously trivial: text boxes use their own margins; Resize shape to fit text never cuts text, #743; previously trivial: complex-script shaping and Myanmar line breaking, #604; previously trivial: body page totals, table-cell footnotes and bookmark link pages fixed, #450 #451 #455; previously major: first version; line breaking, pagination and object placement checked against Word's behaviour from the layout source on origin/main) · **Target:** Microsoft Word (Microsoft 365) for Mac 16.113.4
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-11-06 · **Change:** trivial (a picture lowered further than its own height lowers its line as far, its top on the baseline); previously trivial (a float anchored right after a page break, before text, is drawn on the new page, #4262); previously trivial (a float anchored on a later page of a long paragraph is drawn there, #4250); previously trivial (the line between columns runs as tall as the section's text, so columns for selected text have it, #5178); previously trivial (a line of only pictures is as tall as they reach, never less than its font's height; a legacy check box sizes its line as text of its size, #3984); previously trivial (spaces before a line's first character keep their width in justified and distributed lines, as in Word); previously trivial (Page drawing indexes text-box warp lookups per paragraph (#3614)); previously trivial (Times and Courier take their Windows counterparts' line spacing; previously trivial: group connector rerouting preserves transformed free and unresolved endpoints under nonuniform scaling; readiness estimates unchanged; previously trivial: a word with no break opportunity in it no longer makes the layout quadratic, #3412; previously trivial: an empty paragraph whose mark is hidden shows nothing, not even its list number, which is still counted, #3982; previously trivial: a Thai run with Latin finds one installed font covering it all on Linux too, #1549; previously trivial: symbol fonts keep their line height without the font; previously trivial: an equation-array row without `&` is centred, #2617; previously trivial: a superscript or subscript sizes its line at the full font size, without its raise or drop, as Word does; previously trivial: an object dragged near the bottom of a page lands where it is dropped, #3169; previously trivial: centred list labels after leading page breaks, #2964; previously trivial: fixed font inputs in four layout controls; previously trivial: justified lines shrink their spaces by Word's measured limits; 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: a click below a floating table goes to the text beside or after it, not to a cell of its last row, #2038; previously trivial: shapes drawn with their gradients and transparency, #1500; previously trivial: paragraphs above a float's anchor wrap around it, also when that pushes the anchor onto the next page, #2048; previously trivial: triple borders draw three lines, #1740; previously trivial: the caret, clicks and selection edges fall between the letters of a ligature, #1974; previously trivial: a word after a slash wraps whole, like Word, #2963; previously trivial: VML header-cell floats always on the page, user-checked in Word for Mac, #1775; previously trivial: an at-least row with no room for its minimum starts the next page whole, #1742; previously trivial: AutoFit donors lose equal widths down to their content minima; previously trivial: automatic space between Asian text and Latin text or digits, #2358; previously trivial: hint-reliant CJK outlines; previously trivial: positional tabs go to the margins or indents, #2367; previously trivial: field results with right-to-left text read right to left, #1670; previously trivial: a list bullet no installed font can draw shows the level's default bullet, #1683; previously trivial: a missing Thai font is drawn in one Thai face for the whole run, #1549; previously trivial: the caret after spaces hanging past the margin stays at the margin, #2146; previously trivial: covered black-circle fallback before UI sans; previously trivial: resolved split-cell continuation top insets; previously trivial: Symbol PCL6 alias uses Symbol encoding; previously trivial: exact full font names select their installed face; previously trivial: Arial Unicode MS uses proportional fallbacks; previously trivial: DrawingML outline dashes, including zero-width paths; previously trivial: TOCs include table-cell headings and retain full targets; previously trivial: kept table rows follow the next row; previously trivial: consistent cell widths override a stale table grid; 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: paragraph spacing adds up when the document turns HTML auto spacing off; previously trivial: an inherited footer sizes its percentage tables by its own section; previously trivial: an empty section mark stays on a full page; previously trivial: a fitting row with less room than its minimum height moves on whole; oversized rows still split; previously trivial: text past an exact-height row is cut off; previously trivial: a list number stays with text after a leading page break; previously trivial: a bookmark after a page break takes no line; previously trivial: a page break followed by a page break before or a next-page section starts one page; previously trivial: All Caps and Small Caps draw ß as SS, #1581; previously trivial: justified vertical page alignment, #1320; previously trivial: page numbers restart at 0; previously trivial: a list label moves with its first line when the paragraph is centred or end-aligned (#1159); previously trivial (a click just outside a floating table, by a cell whose text is turned, goes to the text beside or after it, #4181; previously trivial: group connector rerouting preserves transformed free and unresolved endpoints under nonuniform scaling; readiness estimates unchanged; previously trivial: a word with no break opportunity in it no longer makes the layout quadratic, #3412; previously trivial: an empty paragraph whose mark is hidden shows nothing, not even its list number, which is still counted, #3982; previously trivial: a Thai run with Latin finds one installed font covering it all on Linux too, #1549; previously trivial: symbol fonts keep their line height without the font; previously trivial: an equation-array row without `&` is centred, #2617; previously trivial: a superscript or subscript sizes its line at the full font size, without its raise or drop, as Word does; previously trivial: an object dragged near the bottom of a page lands where it is dropped, #3169; previously trivial: centred list labels after leading page breaks, #2964; previously trivial: fixed font inputs in four layout controls; previously trivial: justified lines shrink their spaces by Word's measured limits; 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: a click below a floating table goes to the text beside or after it, not to a cell of its last row, #2038; previously trivial: shapes drawn with their gradients and transparency, #1500; previously trivial: paragraphs above a float's anchor wrap around it, also when that pushes the anchor onto the next page, #2048; previously trivial: triple borders draw three lines, #1740; previously trivial: the caret, clicks and selection edges fall between the letters of a ligature, #1974; previously trivial: a word after a slash wraps whole, like Word, #2963; previously trivial: VML header-cell floats always on the page, user-checked in Word for Mac, #1775; previously trivial: an at-least row with no room for its minimum starts the next page whole, #1742; previously trivial: AutoFit donors lose equal widths down to their content minima; previously trivial: automatic space between Asian text and Latin text or digits, #2358; previously trivial: hint-reliant CJK outlines; previously trivial: positional tabs go to the margins or indents, #2367; previously trivial: field results with right-to-left text read right to left, #1670; previously trivial: a list bullet no installed font can draw shows the level's default bullet, #1683; previously trivial: a missing Thai font is drawn in one Thai face for the whole run, #1549; previously trivial: the caret after spaces hanging past the margin stays at the margin, #2146; previously trivial: covered black-circle fallback before UI sans; previously trivial: resolved split-cell continuation top insets; previously trivial: Symbol PCL6 alias uses Symbol encoding; previously trivial: exact full font names select their installed face; previously trivial: Arial Unicode MS uses proportional fallbacks; previously trivial: DrawingML outline dashes, including zero-width paths; previously trivial: TOCs include table-cell headings and retain full targets; previously trivial: kept table rows follow the next row; previously trivial: consistent cell widths override a stale table grid; 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: paragraph spacing adds up when the document turns HTML auto spacing off; previously trivial: an inherited footer sizes its percentage tables by its own section; previously trivial: an empty section mark stays on a full page; previously trivial: a fitting row with less room than its minimum height moves on whole; oversized rows still split; previously trivial: text past an exact-height row is cut off; previously trivial: a list number stays with text after a leading page break; previously trivial: a bookmark after a page break takes no line; previously trivial: a page break followed by a page break before or a next-page section starts one page; previously trivial: All Caps and Small Caps draw ß as SS, #1581; previously trivial: justified vertical page alignment, #1320; previously trivial: page numbers restart at 0; previously trivial: a list label moves with its first line when the paragraph is centred or end-aligned (#1159); previously trivial (PR #4545: eligible cell floats keep in-bounds offsets; overflow confinement retains the front-of-text, turned-cell and native-acceptance limits); previously trivial (MATH construction reuse, #3630; previously trivial: continuous sections one after another go onto new pages instead of running off the page; empty marks after another empty section mark take a line each until the page is full, then stay at its bottom drawing nothing, not even a list label; an empty mark that takes no room draws no list label either; a kept-together paragraph is measured against the page it would move to, so a tall different first-page header no longer splits it, #3907; previously trivial: a justified line ending in a manual line break is stretched to the margin unless `w:doNotExpandShiftReturn` is set, #3924; previously trivial: a no-break space is as wide as a space, #4192; previously trivial: a bookmark or other zero-width marker is no line-break opportunity, #4193; 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 (ODT documents: a line of only pictures keeps its font's height; no setting for it any more); previously trivial (ODT documents: padding is the standard's box model always; picture-only line height is an ODF interpretation setting); previously trivial (行頭禁則 also covers the small kana and the prolonged sound mark at ordinary break opportunities, as JIS X 4051 §4 specifies, inferred from the standard and synthetic tests rather than checked in Word); previously trivial (a missing font is drawn in an installed metric twin before any other substitute: Arial for Helvetica on Windows, Tinos before macOS Times for Times New Roman); previously trivial (ODT documents: padding without a border takes room); previously trivial (ODT documents: a line of only pictures is as tall as they are); previously trivial (ODT documents: a table's own space above and below; header and footer spacing kept past a tall header); previously trivial (a page break before a table's first row moves the table; emphasis marks drawn with room in the line); previously trivial (text in a turned text box turns with it; previously trivial: an in-line picture, shape or chart moves with its run's raise or lowering, Word's `w:position`; previously trivial (layout work bounds: header-row repeats budgeted per layout, cached picture outlines charged to the decode budget, linked-box chain widths exact up to a work cap, #3867); previously trivial (the line between columns runs as tall as the section's text, so columns for selected text have it, #5178); previously trivial (a table row that would leave a cell empty on a page that already holds something, its picture or first line not fitting there, moves on whole instead of leaving the other cells' text beside the empty cell, #4272); previously trivial (a middle or bottom cell of a row split across pages lines up on the first page); previously trivial (tab leader dots spaced and placed as in Word); previously trivial (a level above that hasn't counted yet takes its first number at the first deeper item); previously trivial (paragraph side borders lie beyond their distance from the text, #5036); previously trivial (with a header taller than the top margin, Margin-anchored drawings, header-cell pins and header-table obstacles use the rendered body top; TopMargin and InsideMargin keep their declared band, #2485; previously trivial: connector rerouting indexes laid-out object positions once per batch (#3631); previously trivial (field results take the `\* DollarText`, `\* Hex` and `\* ArabicDash` switches, #4226; previously trivial: a cell spanning columns shares its extra minimum width by the columns' preferred widths, equally in automatic tables, #1883; previously trivial: continuous sections one after another go onto new pages instead of running off the page; empty marks after another empty section mark take a line each until the page is full, then stay at its bottom drawing nothing, not even a list label; an empty mark that takes no room draws no list label either; a kept-together paragraph is measured against the page it would move to, so a tall different first-page header no longer splits it, #3907; previously trivial: a justified line ending in a manual line break is stretched to the margin unless `w:doNotExpandShiftReturn` is set, #3924; previously trivial: a no-break space is as wide as a space, #4192; previously trivial: a bookmark or other zero-width marker is no line-break opportunity, #4193; 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: Preserve grapheme edit/wrap boundaries across independently drawn font/style pieces; Exact-spacing table contact uses the specified line height rather than paragraph-mark metrics (#3977); previously trivial: cu20we: restrict pre-spacing float origins to paragraph anchors; document cap helpers and regressions; previously trivial: cu20we: outline caps; previously trivial: cu20we: box float paragraph origin; previously trivial: group connector rerouting preserves transformed free and unresolved endpoints under nonuniform scaling; readiness estimates unchanged; previously trivial: a word with no break opportunity in it no longer makes the layout quadratic, #3412; previously trivial: an empty paragraph whose mark is hidden shows nothing, not even its list number, which is still counted, #3982; previously trivial: a Thai run with Latin finds one installed font covering it all on Linux too, #1549; previously trivial: symbol fonts keep their line height without the font; previously trivial: an equation-array row without `&` is centred, #2617; previously trivial: a superscript or subscript sizes its line at the full font size, without its raise or drop, as Word does; previously trivial: an object dragged near the bottom of a page lands where it is dropped, #3169; previously trivial: centred list labels after leading page breaks, #2964; previously trivial: fixed font inputs in four layout controls; previously trivial: justified lines shrink their spaces by Word's measured limits; 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: a click below a floating table goes to the text beside or after it, not to a cell of its last row, #2038; previously trivial: shapes drawn with their gradients and transparency, #1500; previously trivial: paragraphs above a float's anchor wrap around it, also when that pushes the anchor onto the next page, #2048; previously trivial: triple borders draw three lines, #1740; previously trivial: the caret, clicks and selection edges fall between the letters of a ligature, #1974; previously trivial: a word after a slash wraps whole, like Word, #2963; previously trivial: VML header-cell floats always on the page, user-checked in Word for Mac, #1775; previously trivial: an at-least row with no room for its minimum starts the next page whole, #1742; previously trivial: AutoFit donors lose equal widths down to their content minima; previously trivial: automatic space between Asian text and Latin text or digits, #2358; previously trivial: hint-reliant CJK outlines; previously trivial: positional tabs go to the margins or indents, #2367; previously trivial: field results with right-to-left text read right to left, #1670; previously trivial: a list bullet no installed font can draw shows the level's default bullet, #1683; previously trivial: a missing Thai font is drawn in one Thai face for the whole run, #1549; previously trivial: the caret after spaces hanging past the margin stays at the margin, #2146; previously trivial: covered black-circle fallback before UI sans; previously trivial: resolved split-cell continuation top insets; previously trivial: Symbol PCL6 alias uses Symbol encoding; previously trivial: exact full font names select their installed face; previously trivial: Arial Unicode MS uses proportional fallbacks; previously trivial: DrawingML outline dashes, including zero-width paths; previously trivial: TOCs include table-cell headings and retain full targets; previously trivial: kept table rows follow the next row; previously trivial: consistent cell widths override a stale table grid; 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: paragraph spacing adds up when the document turns HTML auto spacing off; previously trivial: an inherited footer sizes its percentage tables by its own section; previously trivial: an empty section mark stays on a full page; previously trivial: a fitting row with less room than its minimum height moves on whole; oversized rows still split; previously trivial: text past an exact-height row is cut off; previously trivial: a list number stays with text after a leading page break; previously trivial: a bookmark after a page break takes no line; previously trivial: a page break followed by a page break before or a next-page section starts one page; previously trivial: All Caps and Small Caps draw ß as SS, #1581; previously trivial: justified vertical page alignment, #1320; previously trivial: page numbers restart at 0; previously trivial: a list label moves with its first line when the paragraph is centred or end-aligned (#1159); previously trivial: PAGE fields in a paragraph split across pages show the page they are on, #1352; previously trivial: a dragged floating object anchors in the column it lands in, #884; previously trivial: a paragraph ending on a page with footnotes keeps its space after above the separator, #1116; previously trivial: symbol-font text drawn as Unicode symbols, #776; previously trivial: large-table scrolling measured and fixed, #811; previously trivial: text boxes use their own margins; Resize shape to fit text never cuts text, #743; previously trivial: complex-script shaping and Myanmar line breaking, #604; previously trivial: body page totals, table-cell footnotes and bookmark link pages fixed, #450 #451 #455; previously major: first version; line breaking, pagination and object placement checked against Word's behaviour from the layout source on origin/main) · **Target:** Microsoft Word (Microsoft 365) for Mac 16.113.4
 
 A document only "opens correctly" if its pages break where Word breaks them: the same lines, the
 same page count, footnotes and pictures on the same pages. This checklist covers line breaking,
@@ -298,6 +298,7 @@ The front-of-text opt-out is retained from the earlier implementation; this patc
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 | 2026-11-04 | trivial | Header table measurements and fitted text-box heights use the page section’s PAGE format; cache reuse follows the field context |
 | 2026-11-03 | trivial | Body PAGE fields in tables use the active section number format; reflow views measure headers and footers with it before body placement |
+| 2026-11-06 | trivial | An in-line picture lowered further than its own height (`w:position`) was held with its top on the baseline and its line only as deep as the picture; Word keeps the top there but lowers the line as far as the position says. A 6 pt picture lowered 30 pt now makes a 30 pt line alone and the text's ascent plus 30 pt beside text, as in Word. This closes the gap noted on 2026-11-05: all 156 synthetic lines measured then now match Word within 0.35 pt, heights and picture positions. Exact spacing keeps the line's baseline as before (`tests::lowered_pictures_and_check_boxes_take_words_line_heights`, `tests::an_inline_picture_moves_with_its_runs_position`). |
 | 2026-11-05 | trivial | PR #4545: eligible cell floats retain in-bounds offsets and touch the outer cell edge only on overflow, ignoring wrap distances for object placement. Front-of-text, turned-cell and outside-cell opt-outs remain. Synthetic geometry controls; native front/behind-text parity remains unqualified. |
 | 2026-11-05 | trivial | With multiple spacing a line of only in-line pictures is as tall as they reach, raised or lowered, and never less than its font's height (a list label's font counting too): a picture shorter than the font keeps the font's ascent and descent, as noted for ODT documents below; a taller one ends at the line's bottom with no descent under it. The spacing adds its share of the font's height, not of a lowered picture's. A legacy check box sizes its line as text of its size. Measured in Word with Arial at 10 and 20 pt, single, 1.15, 1.25 and 1.5 spacing, 156 synthetic lines (`tests::lowered_pictures_and_check_boxes_take_words_line_heights`). Known gap: a picture lowered further than its own height is limited to that height where Word's line keeps growing. |
 | 2026-11-04 | trivial | PR #4609: relative REF keeps context already displayed by the own or a needed ancestor label; six synthetic legal-template cases and separate-list context follow the Word for Windows measurements reported by @pakiat in PR discussion. Existing unknown-switch/cache boundaries and readiness estimates unchanged; no new native Word run. |