wordcraft/ROADMAP.md

# WordCraft roadmap

**Stage: alpha** · next: beta, ~15 points (60% → 75% ready for real work) and ~150–230 h away

> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-12 · **Change:** minor (Portuguese proofing; previously minor: Polish interface and Polish proofing; previously trivial: Turkish interface landed; 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

WordCraft aims for complete parity with Microsoft Word, then goes further on speed, openness and
agent control. This page is the summary; the assessment is
[`docs/target-app-parity.md`](docs/target-app-parity.md), the work list is
[`docs/gaps.md`](docs/gaps.md), and milestones and the current focus are in
[`docs/roadmap.md`](docs/roadmap.md).

## Headline numbers (2026-10-10)

| Number | Value | Kind |
|---|---|---|
| Ribbon/menu catalog coverage | **484 / 499 (97.0%)** | measured (`cargo xtask parity` → [`docs/parity-checklist.md`](docs/parity-checklist.md)) |
| **Feature breadth** (weighted, incl. dialog options, styles, languages beyond the ribbon) | **~80%** | estimated |
| **Ready for real work** (full target) | **~60%** (55–63%) | estimated, additive weighted sum over the dimensions |
| **Mainstream practitioner** | **~55%** | estimated: weekly-work depth × discounts for interaction (×0.93), stability (×0.90), file exchange (×0.90) |
| **Essentials user** | **~63%** | estimated: core-feature depth × discounts for launch (×0.90), discoverability (×0.95), opening received files (×0.92) |
| Remaining to **beta** | **~150–230 h** of Opus 5.5 agent wall-clock (gaps #1–#7) | estimated |
| Remaining to **full parity** with Word desktop | **~750–1,250 h** (70–80% parallelizable) | estimated |
| Commands / tests / code | 433 commands · 855 tests + 10 property blocks · ~88,700 lines of Rust | measured (source) |
| Releases | v0.4.0 (2026-10-10): signed macOS universal DMG, Windows MSI x64/x86/arm64, Linux AppImage/deb/rpm/Flatpak x86_64 + aarch64, FreeBSD, web | measured |

Hours are calibrated from this repo's PRs (equations #191: ~9.7k lines in ~5 h; `.doc` reader
#145: ~4.5k lines in ~10 h; layout fidelity PRs run 5–10× slower per line). The earlier "≈120–150 h
to 100%" (2026-10-06) left out localization, multilingual proofing, ecosystem, hardware, PDF Reflow
and `.doc` writing, and priced the DOCX corpus at 10 h; see
[methodology](docs/target-app-parity.md#methodology). The three readiness numbers, their weights,
discounts and the user evidence (120 issues from outside users, 4 praise, 0 "switched from Word",
~21 open core-path bugs) are in
[readiness numbers](docs/target-app-parity.md#readiness-numbers-full-mainstream-practitioner-essentials-user).

| Audience | Ready | Opus 5.5 agent wall-clock hours to ~95% | Work that dominates |
|---|---|---|---|
| Full target (ready for real work) | **~60%** | **~650–1,100 h** (70–80% parallelizes) | Breadth: charts/SmartArt/Draw, localization and proofing languages, East Asian and RTL typography, `.doc` writing, PDF Reflow, ecosystem; plus everything below |
| Mainstream practitioner | **~55%** | **~300–500 h** (~65% parallelizes) | DOCX real-world fidelity and preserving charts/SmartArt, pagination fidelity, formatting revisions, dialog depth, objects, stability |
| Essentials user | **~63%** | **~90–140 h** (~50% parallelizes) | Install/launch stability, opening files people send (corpus subset, chart fallbacks), native printing, picture handling, English spelling depth |

**Why alpha:** the core workflows (write, format, styles, lists, tables, references, review, mail
merge, open and save .docx) work end to end and ship as signed builds on every desktop platform
and the web. **Why not beta:** DOCX has never been tested on real-world files; charts, SmartArt and
OLE objects are dropped silently; pagination differs from Word (no Aptos-metric font, no column
balancing or footnote continuation); content controls are lost; there is open field evidence of
a startup crash and several hangs; no native printing. Gaps #1–#7 in [`docs/gaps.md`](docs/gaps.md)
are the beta list. All six core workflows pass the
[alpha gate](docs/roadmap.md#alpha-gate-core-workflows) end to end on macOS, with save and reopen;
the two partial ones (real-world .docx, printing) complete, roughly.

## By dimension

| Dimension | Parity | Hours to full | Doc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Features (depth) | 68% | 210–335 | [target-app-parity.md](docs/target-app-parity.md#feature-areas) |
| UI/UX fidelity | 65% | 65–100 | [ui-parity.md](docs/ui-parity.md) · [typing-parity.md](docs/typing-parity.md) |
| File formats | 60% | 185–300 | [file-format-parity.md](docs/file-format-parity.md) |
| Layout and pagination fidelity | 55% | 90–145 | [layout-parity.md](docs/layout-parity.md) |
| Hardware | 40% | 20–40 | [hardware-parity.md](docs/hardware-parity.md) |
| Localization | 27% | 75–120 + native review | [localization-parity.md](docs/localization-parity.md) |
| Performance | 75% | 10–20 | [layout-parity.md](docs/layout-parity.md#performance) |
| Stability | 50% | 25–45 | [gaps.md](docs/gaps.md) (#3) |
| Platforms | 95% (beyond Word on Linux, BSD, web) | 5–10 | this page |
| Ecosystem and plugins | 15% | 40–80 + owner decisions | [gaps.md](docs/gaps.md) (#22) |
| AI features | 40% (beyond Word for external agents; no in-app assistant) | 15–30 | [gaps.md](docs/gaps.md) (#25) |

## Features

| Area | Parity | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Typing, selection, clipboard, undo, find/replace | 85% | 8–12 |
| Character and paragraph formatting | 82% | 8–12 |
| Lists | 78% | 5–8 |
| Equations | 75% | 4–8 |
| Tables | 76% | 10–16 |
| Styles and themes | 74% | 8–12 |
| Review (comments, track changes, compare, protect) | 72% | 15–25 |
| View | 72% | 6–10 |
| Page layout and sections | 70% | 12–20 |
| Mailings | 70% | 6–10 |
| Headers, footers, page numbers, fields | 70% | 8–12 |
| References (TOC, citations, bibliography, captions, index) | 65% | 12–20 |
| Footnotes and endnotes | 60% | 5–8 |
| Pictures, shapes, text boxes, WordArt | 60% | 20–30 |
| Backstage, printing, options | 58% | 12–20 |
| Right-to-left and complex scripts | 50% | 15–25 |
| Proofing (spelling, grammar, thesaurus, languages) | 40% | 20–40 |
| Accessibility | 35% | 15–25 |
| East Asian typography | 25% | 15–25 |
| Charts, SmartArt, Draw/ink, 3D models, icons | 3% | 70–110 |
| Agent control (CLI, MCP, control channel, macros) | beyond Word | — |

Weights and evidence per area: [docs/target-app-parity.md](docs/target-app-parity.md#feature-areas).

## Languages

| Language | Code | Status | UI strings |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | en | full | 100% |
| Simplified Chinese | zh-hans | partial | ~95% |
| Spanish | es | partial | ~95% |
| Hindi | hi | none | 0% |
| Arabic | ar | none (document shaping and bidi work; no mirrored UI) | 0% |
| French | fr | partial (interface) | ~95% |
| Portuguese | pt-br (pt-PT none) | partial | ~95% |
| Indonesian | id | none | 0% |
| Japanese | ja | partial | ~95% |
| German | de | partial (#574) | ~95% |
| Korean | ko | none | 0% |
| Vietnamese | vi | none | 0% |

Also shipped: Traditional Chinese (`zh-hant`), Ukrainian (`uk`), Serbian (`sr`, `sr-latn`, #250), Russian (`ru`) and Polish (`pl`), all partial (~95%). Bulgarian (`bg`) covers everything the interface audit finds (2,419 entries). Estonian (`et`), Italian (`it`, #594) and Czech (`cs`) now have complete interface catalogs, and Turkish (`tr`) a complete 2,325-entry one (every key of the Russian catalog), all with
system-locale selection and a saved language choice (Italian also has 51 strings none of the others had yet); Estonian, Turkish, Italian and Czech proofing are not included. Hungarian (`hu`) has a
complete 2,419-entry catalog, also without proofing.
Proofing: English, Polish and Portuguese (spelling, grammar, hyphenation), chosen per run from its language. Word ships
30 interface languages and proofing for ~50. Detail: [docs/localization-parity.md](docs/localization-parity.md).

## Upcoming

Ranked, to beta (detail and remaining milestones in [docs/roadmap.md](docs/roadmap.md)):

1. Review and merge the ~45 open PRs that already close gaps (owner).
2. DOCX real-world corpus: open, render, round-trip, compare with Word (30–50 h).
3. Preserve charts, SmartArt, OLE and ink through a round trip with fallback pictures (10–15 h).
4. Stability sweep of the open crash, hang and write-failure issues; autosave soak test (20–30 h).
5. Pagination fidelity: column balancing, footnote continuation, compat options, comparison
   harness; an Aptos-metric font decision (30–50 h + owner).
6. Formatting revisions and content controls (12–18 h); native printing (6–10 h); dialog depth
   (20–30 h).

## Progress log

| Date | What landed |
| 2026-10-11 | Hide White Space (#645): `view.hideWhiteSpace` (View › Show checkbox, or double-click the gap between pages) collapses margins, headers and footers between pages to a thin line in Print Layout; screen only, page count unchanged |
| 2026-10-11 | Fonts: Palatino Linotype and Book Antiqua fall back to Palatino (macOS) or TeX Gyre Pagella / P052 / URW Palladio (Linux) before generic serif (#670) |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-12 | AutoCorrect capitals (#544): Correct TWo INitial CApitals (with exceptions), accidental cAPS LOCK, first letter of table cells; each undoable and switchable |
| 2026-10-11 | Turkish (`tr`) interface completed (#774): 2,325 entries, every key of the Russian catalog (equation gallery, built-in style names, watermarks, paper sizes, preview tiles); the interface audit checks Turkish too |
| 2026-10-12 | Navigation headings truncate within the resizable pane, with an ellipsis for long titles and full text on hover (#759) |
| 2026-10-11 | Reading Mode: existing View ribbon button now opens a read-only, viewport-column layout with animated horizontal paging, transient display controls, heading navigation (Navigation pane) and resize anchoring; document layout and export unchanged |
| 2026-10-11 | DOCX open/save keeps inherited complex-script size, bold and italic independent of Latin formatting; explicit values are retained, and font commands still format both scripts. Covered by synthetic round trips and a local GUI save/reopen check. |
| 2026-10-11 | Czech (`cs`) interface catalog: 2,021 entries (the full zh-hans key set), Czech locale detection and persisted language choice |
| 2026-10-12 | Portuguese proofing: pt-BR spelling against the installed Hunspell `pt_BR` dictionary (VERO; read at runtime, not bundled) — the affix engine grew `FLAG UTF-8`, 128 flag bits, continuation classes and `FORBIDDENWORD` to read it — suggestions tuned for Portuguese (missing accents first), conservative grammar rules with Portuguese messages, TeX Portuguese hyphenation patterns (BSD 3-clause, attributed); Review › Language offers Português (Brasil); a pt-br interface writes new documents in pt-BR |
| 2026-10-11 | Polish: interface (`pl`, the thirteenth language, every catalog key) and proofing — spelling against the installed Hunspell `pl_PL` dictionary (read at runtime, not bundled) through a new Hunspell-style affix engine, suggestions tuned for Polish, Polish grammar rules with Polish messages, TeX Polish hyphenation patterns (MIT option); proofing language per run (`w:lang`) for squiggles, F7, suggestions and hyphenation, languages without tools left unmarked; Review › Language menu and the status bar's language; a Polish interface writes new documents in Polish |
| 2026-10-11 | German (`de`) interface (#574): 2,021 translated entries covering the full zh-hans key set, locale and saved-preference tests, bundled-font checks; no German proofing resources |
| 2026-10-11 | `.doc` import keeps pictures and drawings (#551): inline and floating pictures (PNG, JPEG, DIB, EMF, WMF), shapes, lines, groups and text boxes with position and wrap, from [MS-ODRAW] |
| 2026-10-11 | Tables resize with the mouse (#217): drag a column border (the neighbour makes up the difference; Shift moves one column), a row's bottom border, or the handle past the bottom-right corner to scale the table; a dashed guide while dragging, one undo step per drag; `table.resizeDrag` for agents |
| 2026-10-11 | Animation effects setting: File › Options › Accessibility › Animation effects (Use system setting, On, Off). With the system's animations off (Windows' Animation effects, macOS' Reduce motion, the Linux/BSD desktop's setting, a browser's reduced motion) the page no longer smooth-scrolls: wheel notches and Ctrl+wheel zoom land at once, in the document and in every list and pane, and menus and buttons don't fade; `ui.animations` for agents |
| 2026-10-11 | Linux/BSD: Open, Save As, Export and Insert Picture work without a file chooser portal or zenity (labwc, sway…): WordCraft shows its own file browser and says how to get the system dialog; File › Open › Browse in WordCraft… is always there (#576) |
| 2026-10-11 | Every measurement follows File › Options › Advanced › Measurement units (#755): the Line Numbers "From text" distance and the Hyphenation zone, still fixed in inches after #485, now convert like every other dialog |
| 2026-10-11 | Review › Track Changes Options › Show revisions in balloons: tracked deletions in the body leave the text for "Deleted: …" balloons in the margin, joined to where they were (the option was saved but drew nothing new before) |
| 2026-10-11 | Security review fixes: `ui.render`/`ui.screenshot` without a `path` (and the MCP bridge's `render_page`/`screenshot`) return the PNG in the reply instead of writing a fixed name into the shared temporary folder; exported HTML/Markdown write `href` only for web, mail, bookmark and relative links, never `javascript:` and other schemes (one allow-list in `wordcraft_doc::link`) |
| 2026-10-11 | Design tab: the style set gallery gets a box and gaps of its own, so it no longer runs into Colors and Fonts (#638) |
| 2026-10-11 | File › Print: page preview, page range (all, current, selected, custom 1-3,5), odd/even, copies and collate go into the printed PDF (`file.printPdf`, `ui.print` params); printer, duplex and pages per sheet are still the system dialog's (#641, stage 1) |
| 2026-10-11 | A vertically merged table cell (eraser on a horizontal border) lays out, shows and clicks as one cell spanning its rows (#640) |
| 2026-10-11 | Word XML files (#548): Word XML Document (Flat OPC `.xml`) opens and saves through the DOCX reader and writer; Word 2003 XML opens (styles, lists, tables, sections, notes, comments, pictures, hyperlinks) |
| 2026-10-11 | Font fallback indexes which characters each installed font maps, reading each font file once (#605): text in a script no installed font covers no longer re-reads every system font per distinct character (200 such characters: 13 s → 0.2 s) |
| 2026-10-11 | Find and Replace special characters (`^p`, `^t`, `^#`, `^&` …) and Use wildcards (ranges, counts, word anchors, groups with `\1` in Replace); `^p` finds and splits paragraphs; Special ▾ menu and search options in the dialog (#543) |
| 2026-10-11 | Typing parity (#546): `+---+` Enter makes a table, `> ` `-> ` `=> ` arrow bullets, smileys inside words (`ok:)`), Undo right after a border line brings the characters back |
| 2026-10-11 | Windows: DirectX 12 shaders compile with FXC, built into Windows, so the app no longer quits at launch with "Parent device is lost" when no matching `dxcompiler.dll` + `dxil.dll` pair is around (#603) |
| 2026-10-11 | Insert › SmartArt (#497): list, process, cycle, hierarchy, pyramid, radial, matrix and Venn graphics laid out by our own code, Text Pane, SmartArt Design tab (Add Shape, Promote, Demote, layouts, colours, Reset); saved as DOCX diagram parts with the drawing. Catalog 410/441 (93.0%) |
| 2026-10-11 | Outline view (#493): Outlining tab, outline symbols and indents, collapse/expand, Show Level, first line only, plain text; catalog 428/450 → 441/463 (95.2%) |
| 2026-10-11 | Vertical sections (#491): Layout › Text Direction turns the section (or the cell or text box the caret is in); lines run top to bottom, right to left, ideographs upright; `w:textDirection` in `w:sectPr` read and written |
| 2026-10-11 | File › Options in Word's panes (#485): General, Display, Proofing, Save, Language, Accessibility, Advanced, Agents; initials, individual formatting marks, spelling ignore options, custom dictionary, overtype, typing replaces selection, measurement units, recent-documents count, print options; `file.options` reads and sets them headlessly |
| 2026-10-11 | Right-click Wrap Text submenu on pictures, shapes and text boxes: wrapping styles, Move with Text / Fix Position on Page (#513) |
| 2026-10-11 | Caret animation: keys and typing glide the caret to its new place in 100 ms along the curve measured from Word for Windows, and the blink fades; clicks and scripted moves don't glide. File › Options › Advanced › Animation turns it off, kept between runs; `ui.caretAnimation` for agents |
| 2026-10-11 | Paragraph dialog options (#512): mirror indents (`w:mirrorIndents`, laid out on even pages), same-style spacing, suppress line numbers, don't hyphenate |
| 2026-10-11 | Screen readers can read the document canvas (#488): paragraphs, headings, lists, tables, links, pictures and the caret exposed through AccessKit |
| 2026-10-11 | Add fonts without rebuilding (#582): Home › Font › Add Font… (end of the font list), dropping a TTF/OTF/TTC/WOFF/WOFF2 file, or `font.add`/`font.list`/`font.remove` for agents. Files are checked (50 MB cap, every face must parse and map characters), never replace a bundled or loaded face, and are kept between runs (desktop: `fonts` in the settings folder; web: IndexedDB). Linking a font by URL is still to come |
| 2026-10-11 | Print Markup (#589): File › Print/Export checkbox, `file.printMarkup`, `markup` on save/export commands and `wordcraft-cli convert --markup` print comments (with replies) in balloons beside each page, scaled to the paper like Word's "Document showing markup"; HTML, Markdown and text copies end with the comments |
| 2026-10-11 | Custom colours (#606): every colour drop-down gains Recent Colors and More Colors…, which opens a Colors dialog with a Standard honeycomb and a Custom hue/saturation field, lightness slider, RGB/HSL numbers and a hex box |
| 2026-10-11 | Complex scripts (#604): Myanmar, Khmer and Indic text shaped one script at a time in OpenType fallback fonts (regular weight, not AAT-only fonts), the caret and line breaks never split a syllable, Myanmar wraps between syllables, Backspace removes one sign at a time |
| 2026-10-11 | Any text file opens (#569): `.m3u`/`.m3u8` playlists and other unknown extensions open as plain text with encoding detection (UTF-8, BOMs, UTF-16, Windows-1252), misnamed Word/RTF files by their signature; binary files give a clear error |
| 2026-10-11 | Select by dragging whole units (#549): after a double-click the drag grows by words, after a triple-click by paragraphs, after Ctrl/⌘+click by sentences, as in Word |
| 2026-10-11 | Compare / Combine dialog with comparison settings, Restrict Editing pane (exceptions, SHA-512 password, locked styles; DOCX round trip), AutoCorrect Options dialog saved per user (#412) |
| 2026-10-11 | DOCX diagrams (#611): lines, connectors and boxes styled by the theme now show (they were invisible); callouts and flowchart boxes drawn as the nearest shape; VML lines, rectangles and ovals |
| 2026-10-11 | WordArt (#416): text fill/outline/shadow/glow/reflection, Transform warps, our own styles; straight/elbow/curved connectors glued to shapes that re-route; DOCX round trip |
| 2026-10-11 | Content controls (`w:sdt`) kept, shown and edited; Developer tab, Design Mode, Properties dialog (#381) |
| 2026-10-11 | Insert › Chart (#409): column, bar, line, area, pie, doughnut and scatter charts with Chart Design (type, Edit Data, title, legend, data labels), saved as real chart parts; catalog 408/439 (92.9%) |
| 2026-10-11 | Line Numbers, Hyphenation (zone, CAPS, consecutive limit, Manual), Language, Envelopes and Labels dialogs (#407); hyphenation options kept in DOCX; 30 modal dialogs |
| 2026-10-11 | Accessibility (#386): Alt Text pane for every object and table, Mark as decorative, alt text round-trips in DOCX, deeper checker with fix actions |
| 2026-10-11 | References dialogs (#402): Caption (labels, chapter numbering), Index and Mark Entry, Custom Table of Contents, Source Manager and Create/Edit Source, with TOC/INDEX/XE/SEQ switches honoured on update |
| 2026-10-11 | Font dialog: separate Asian text font and Latin text font (#505); `format.font {"eastAsia"}`; East Asian fonts found by the font scan (OS/2 code pages) |
| 2026-10-11 | Document grid (#391): Page Setup › Document Grid sets lines per page and characters per line (`w:docGrid` round trip); lines snap to the line pitch, East Asian characters to the character pitch; View › Gridlines shows it |
| 2026-10-11 | Move tracking (#400): `w:moveFrom`/`w:moveTo` and their named ranges kept in DOCX, a tracked cut and paste of a paragraph or sentence records a move, accept/reject at either end resolves both, green double strikethrough/underline and "Moved from/to" balloons |
| 2026-10-11 | Footnote and Endnote dialog from the References › Footnotes launcher: options per section or document (below text, end of section, number format, start at, restart each section or page), custom marks, convert footnotes ↔ endnotes; kept in DOCX (#385) |
| 2026-10-11 | Shape Format › Text: text direction, Align Text and linked text boxes (Create Link / Break Link), read and written in DOCX (#369) |
| 2026-10-11 | Quick Access Toolbar KeyTips in the customized button order (Alt/F10 then a number), disabled-command checks and a saved File › Options switch (`ui.keytips`), #620 |
| 2026-10-11 | Mail-merge recipients from Excel (.xlsx/.xlsm) and OpenDocument (.ods) spreadsheets, with Select Table to pick the sheet (#334) |
| 2026-10-11 | Insert › Icons (#309): a library of 61 original icons drawn in code, a searchable picker and Icon Color |
| 2026-10-11 | Home › Font › Enclose Characters (#297): circle, square, triangle or diamond around a character, saved as Word's `EQ \o\ac` field |
| 2026-10-11 | Phonetic Guide (#288): ruby text over base text, `w:ruby` round trip |
| 2026-10-12 | Custom XML backing stores preserved as opaque data and related properties through edited DOCX saves; content-control markup is handled by the existing reader/writer and #532 bibliography I/O remains separate; binding evaluation and readiness unchanged |
| 2026-10-12 | Imported TOCs keep actual result boundaries, nested page fields, formatting and locks through DOCX saves without relying on TOC styles; existing engine-managed styled TOCs remain refreshable |
| 2026-10-11 | Customize Ribbon and the Quick Access Toolbar: custom tabs and groups, hide and reorder tabs, add or remove toolbar commands (right-click any button, or the toolbar's … menu); kept between runs (#379, #376) |
| 2026-10-11 | Customize Keyboard: assign, remove and reset keyboard shortcuts; custom keys override built-ins and are kept between runs (#368) |
| 2026-10-12 | Native saves use exclusively created sibling temporary files, synchronize before replacement and clean up on failure; existing temporary-name files/links and original files on failed saves are protected. Synthetic CLI and focused tests on macOS; no new Word parity or readiness claim. |
| 2026-10-11 | Field codes like Word's field keys (#339): show codes (Alt+F9, Shift+F9), edit, unlink, lock and step through fields |
| 2026-10-11 | Word's common keyboard shortcuts (#330): 101 → 125 of ~250 |
| 2026-10-12 | Bulgarian (`bg`) interface: 2,419 catalog entries (every key of the reference catalog, the equation gallery and everything the interface audit finds), `bg-BG` system locales and a saved language choice; locale, catalog and bundled-font tests; no Bulgarian proofing resources |
| 2026-10-11 | Hungarian (`hu`) interface: all 2,419 catalog entries, built-in style names translated, `hu-HU` system locales and a saved language choice; locale, catalog and bundled-font tests; no Hungarian proofing resources |
| 2026-10-11 | Turkish (`tr`) interface: all 1,307 catalog entries, `tr-TR`/`tr-CY` system locales and a saved language choice; command search keeps Turkish dotted and dotless I apart (`italik` finds İtalik); locale, catalog, search and bundled-font tests; no Turkish proofing resources |
| 2026-10-11 | Italian (`it`) interface (#594): 2,399 entries, feature names as Italian Word users know them, locale and saved-preference tests, bundled-font checks; no Italian proofing resources |
| 2026-10-12 | Native drawing-level Word ink preserved through DOCX edits and repeated saves, including its InkML part and optional VML picture fallback; native ink rendering and editing remain missing |
| 2026-10-11 | Citations and bibliography in all 12 of Word's styles: Harvard, ISO 690 (author-date and numerical), Turabian, GB/T 7714, GOST (name and title sort) and SIST02 join APA, MLA, Chicago and IEEE; numbered styles count in order of first citation (#383) |
| 2026-10-11 | Interface size setting (#475): File › Options › General scales the interface 80–200 % on top of the system display scale, kept between runs; `ui.interfaceSize` for agents |
| 2026-10-11 | DOCX paragraph defaults: preserve omission separately from explicit empty defaults, with repeated-save and default-edit regressions |
| 2026-10-11 | Formatting revisions (#41): `w:rPrChange`/`w:pPrChange`, table/row/cell, section and numbering changes kept in DOCX; formatting recorded as revisions while tracking; accept/reject, Reviewing Pane descriptions, "Formatted: …" balloons and change bars |
| 2026-10-11 | Draw: Lasso Select (move, recolour, delete the strokes inside a loop), Add Pen gallery kept between runs, Ink to Shape (own recogniser: line, rectangle/square, ellipse/circle, triangle, polygon), Ink Replay in drawing order with play/pause/rewind/forward; drawing order kept in DOCX (#395); catalog 406/434 (93.5%) |
| 2026-10-10 | Estonian (`et`) interface (#294): 1,161 translated entries, locale and saved-preference tests, bundled-font checks; no Estonian proofing resources |
| 2026-10-10 | Draw tab: pen, pencil and highlighter ink, stroke eraser, Select, Review › Hide Ink; ink saved to DOCX as DrawingML freeforms (#307); catalog 399/431 (92.6%) |
| 2026-10-10 | Draw Table and Eraser (#303): a pen draws one-cell tables and splits cells along drawn lines; the eraser merges the cells beside a border. Catalog 393/431 (91.2%) |
| 2026-10-10 | DOCX charts, SmartArt and OLE objects survive open and save with their parts (#319) |
| 2026-10-10 | Full re-measure against Word for Mac 16.113.4 and progress docs to the craftrules standard (this page, `docs/target-app-parity.md`, `gaps.md`, `roadmap.md`, `architecture.md`, format/layout/UI/hardware/localization parity; `docs/parity.md` → `docs/parity-checklist.md`). Landed the same day (~80 PRs): equations with OMML and an Equation tab (#191); Word 97-2003 `.doc` import (#145); right-to-left and Persian text (#207); Zotero integration (#189); Read Aloud player (#190); text boxes and floating objects editable (#46) and placed like Word (#136); floating tables (#137); track-changes fixes (#125, #244); typing parity with Word (#204); hidden text (#173); save prompts and AutoSave rules (#151); LaTeX import/export (#11); keytips and mini-toolbar (#43); Spanish, Ukrainian and Brazilian Portuguese interfaces; system theme (#249); Linux file dialogs no longer freeze (#246); Chinese UI font on Windows (#248); every installed font weight (#239); cell text direction (#245); Paste Special (#235), Advanced Find (#234), Column Selection (#237), Style Inspector (#236), custom table styles (#256), View gridlines (#243), zoom buttons (#232), inertial touchpad scrolling (#252), File Info fields kept (#268), ¶ in mixed-direction paragraphs (#278), Serbian interface (#250), table Height/Width boxes, AutoFit Contents and Table Properties (#44), AutoSave switch greyed out with the reason where it can't save (.md/.txt/.html, unsaved, browser) (#196, #176), OpenGL fallback on Windows PCs without a DirectX 12 driver (#316), Columns, Symbol and Field dialogs (#321), Tabs and Borders and Shading dialogs (#320); free rotation and flips for pictures, shapes and text boxes with a rotation handle (#332); v0.4.0 released; file associations on Windows and Linux with a Make-default button in Options (#295) |
| 2026-10-09 | Interface languages follow the system or Options (#12; zh-hans, zh-hant, ja); TOC page numbers as an updatable field (#52); rotating log file (#17); window geometry remembered (#38) |
| 2026-10-08 | v0.2.0 and v0.3.0 released; Flatpak and AppImage auto-update (#22) |
| 2026-10-07 | v0.1.0 released; contributor credits in About (#6) |
| 2026-10-06 | Layout arc: wrap around floats, text boxes, page borders, line numbers, row splitting, drop caps, hyphenation, comment balloons; release pipeline for every platform; first estimate (~62% real feature parity, 120–150 h to 100%) |
| 2026-10-05 | M0–M12 first versions: model, layout, render, engine with 200+ commands, Word-style UI, DOCX I/O, PDF and other formats, references, review, mailings, CLI, MCP, web |

## Revision history

| Date | Change | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | Progress log and shipped languages: Turkish interface completed, 2,325 entries (#774) |
| 2026-10-12 | trivial | Progress log: Navigation heading truncation (#759) |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | Progress log: Reading Mode implementation |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | DOCX complex-script formatting inheritance fix and round-trip coverage |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | Czech (`cs`) interface catalog added |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | Progress log: German interface (#574) |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | Progress log: tables resize with the mouse (#217) |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | Progress log: Animation effects setting |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | Progress log: built-in file browser when the system file dialog is unavailable (#576) |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | Progress log: security review fixes (temp files, exported link schemes) |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | Progress log: Find and Replace special characters and wildcards (#543) |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | Progress log: Windows DX12 shaders compiled with FXC (#603) |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | Progress log: Insert › SmartArt (#497); catalog 429/451 → 437/458 (95.4%) |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | Progress log: Outline view (#493) |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | Progress log: vertical sections (#491) |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | Progress log: Paragraph dialog options, mirror indents (#512) |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | Progress log: Print Markup (#589) |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | Progress log: custom colours via More Colors… (#606) |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | Progress log: complex-script shaping (#604) |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | Progress log: unknown text extensions open as text (#569) |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | Progress log: drag-select by words/paragraphs/sentences (#549) |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | Progress log: content controls (#381) |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | Progress log: Insert › Chart (#409); catalog 408/439 (92.9%) |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | Progress log: Line Numbers, Hyphenation, Language, Envelopes and Labels dialogs (#407) |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | Progress log: Alt Text pane, decorative objects, deeper accessibility checker (#386) |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | Progress log: Draw lasso, Add Pen, Ink to Shape, Ink Replay (#395); catalog 406/434 |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | Progress log: document grid (#391) |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | Progress log: text direction, Align Text and linked text boxes (#369) |
| 2026-10-10 | trivial | Progress: Drawing Canvas (#344): insert, shapes/pictures/text boxes inside, Fit/Expand/Scale, DOCX `wpc:wpc`, turns and flips as a whole; catalog 404/434 |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | Quick Access Toolbar KeyTips and persisted enable/disable setting (#620) |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | Progress log: mail-merge recipients from .xlsx/.xlsm/.ods (#334) |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | Insert › Icons landed (#309): catalog 402/434 → 403/434 (92.9%) |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | Enclose Characters (#297): catalog 403/434 (92.9%) |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | Progress log: opaque custom XML store preservation, with synthetic package regressions and explicit limits |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | Preserve imported TOC ranges and retain #538 refresh/undo/save coverage on current main; readiness unchanged |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | Progress log: Customize Ribbon and the Quick Access Toolbar (#379) |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | Omitted `w:pPrDefault` stays omitted across saves; explicit empty/default properties and later spacing edits remain writable. Synthetic preservation checks only; readiness estimates unchanged |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | Progress log: Customize Keyboard (#368) |
| 2026-10-12 | trivial | Native saves protect existing temporary-name entries and originals on pre-replacement failure; synthetic macOS evidence, explicit durability/platform limits; readiness unchanged |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | Word's common keyboard shortcuts (#330): 125 of ~250 |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | Collapsed duplicate rows left by parallel merges |
| 2026-10-12 | trivial | Bulgarian interface (`bg`): progress log and shipped languages |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | Hungarian interface (`hu`): progress log and shipped languages |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | Turkish interface (`tr`): progress log and shipped languages |
| 2026-10-12 | minor | Native drawing-level ink and its picture fallback survive DOCX edits and repeated saves; adapted to the current graphic writer; rendering and editing InkML remain missing |
| 2026-10-11 | trivial | Progress log: eight more bibliography styles (#383) |
| 2026-10-10 | trivial | Progress log: Draw tab ink (#307) |
| 2026-10-10 | trivial | Draw Table and Eraser (#303): catalog 393/431 (91.2%) |
| 2026-10-10 | trivial | Progress log: charts, SmartArt and OLE objects kept on DOCX save (#319) |
| 2026-10-10 | trivial | Progress log: contour wrap (#354) |
| 2026-10-10 | trivial | Progress log: free rotation and flips (#332) |
| 2026-10-10 | trivial | Progress log: Windows OpenGL fallback without a DirectX 12 driver (#316) |
| 2026-10-10 | minor | Password-protected .docx (#281): files encrypted with a password (agile encryption) open and save; File › Info › Encrypt with Password |
| 2026-10-10 | minor | Relanded clipboard pane, table styles editor, Manage Styles, Asian typography (kinsoku), Group/Ungroup and Shape Effects (#264 #263 #270 #271 #267 #280): catalog 390/431 (90.5%) |
| 2026-10-10 | minor | Polish interface and proofing landed: Localization 25% → 27%, Proofing 35% → 40% |
| 2026-10-10 | minor | Merged main: catalog 384/430 (89.3%), 431 commands; Paste Special, Advanced Find, Column Selection, Style Inspector, custom table styles, gridlines, zoom buttons, touchpad scrolling, File Info, Serbian landed; mainstream 54→55% |
| 2026-10-10 | minor | Readiness table with hours per audience; full number restored to the additive weighted sum (~47% → ~60%): method aligned with the standard, no new evidence; beta distance back to ~15 points and ~150–230 h |
| 2026-10-10 | minor | Mainstream practitioner (~54%) and essentials user (~63%) numbers added; full number recomputed 60% → ~47% with the standard's discounts; beta distance now ~28 points and ~450–700 h; stage stays alpha |
| 2026-10-10 | minor | Alpha gate checked (six core workflows pass); stage stays alpha |
| 2026-10-10 | major | Full re-measure; restructured to the progress-docs standard (stage banner, two numbers, dimensions, languages, upcoming, progress log); parity tables moved to `docs/target-app-parity.md`, milestones to `docs/roadmap.md` |
| 2026-10-09 | minor | Recently landed: RTL, Ukrainian and Brazilian Portuguese |
| 2026-10-06 | major | First honest estimate: 88% catalog, ~62% real parity, alpha ~85% of the way |