Skip to content
Merged
Show file tree
Hide file tree
Changes from all commits
Commits
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension

Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
33 changes: 33 additions & 0 deletions CHANGELOG.md
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -8,6 +8,39 @@ follow semantic versioning; release dates are ISO 8601.

### Public API

- **A DOCX export's report names a paragraph or a list item the page reads as markdown.** A
session reads markdown unless it is told not to (`markdown(false)`). It reads a paragraph, or a
list item, of plain text holding a mark of emphasis or code:
- text its emphasis marks style is set bold or italic;
- a heading is set bold, the first three levels larger;
- the marks its parser reads as syntax are dropped, a code span's backticks and a link's
address among them.

The DOCX export writes the text as authored, so Word showed `**bold**` with its asterisks and
none of the bold, without a note. It still writes it so; the note now says the markdown marks
are written as letters:
- the paragraph's note (`ParagraphNode`);
- a zone paragraph's, on its `page zone` note;
- a list's, for its items (`ListNode`).

It is read from the laid-out lines, which hold fewer marks than the text where the page read
it. The text is read as the page lays it out: less a paragraph's prefix's own marks, and a list
item with a marker typed before it taken off, as the page and the file both take it off. So
text the page sets as authored is not named:
- markdown off;
- no mark;
- an underscore inside a word, which markdown keeps;
- a marker typed before a list item;
- runs, which the page never reads.

Where the lines are not read — with no layout, or composed in a table cell, whose paragraphs are
matched to their lines by text and whose lists not at all — the note says whether the page reads
the marks is not measured, where the page's own parser drops a mark from the text.
Across the DOCX fidelity corpus the report names one paragraph: `TimelineMinimal`'s open-source
project line, whose `*(Open source)*` the page sets in italic and Word showed with its
asterisks. None of this changes what is written: the 62 documents of the corpus export to the
same bytes. In `DocxNodeFieldLedgerTest` a paragraph's `text` and a list's `nestedItems` move
from `WRITTEN` to `REPORTED`, and a list's `items` name it too.
- **A DOCX export's report names where a page zone's parts stand, and what its paragraphs
lose.** A page zone is written as one Word line. Word sets its parts one after another from
the page's left margin, and those after the first spacer against its right margin, on one
Expand Down
4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions docs/architecture/backend-capability-matrix.md
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -63,8 +63,8 @@ Payload records live in `core` under

| Capability (payload) | PDF (fixed) | PPTX (fixed) | DOCX (semantic) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paragraph — pre-wrapped lines, runs, alignment (`ParagraphFragmentPayload`) | ✅ `PdfParagraphFragmentRenderHandler` | ✅ `PptxParagraphFragmentRenderHandler` (one absolute, wrap-disabled frame per measured line) | ⚠️ semantic paragraphs (`DocxSemanticBackend`) — each run keeps its own style, falling back to the paragraph's when it has none; a centred or right-aligned left-to-right line of its own, of text alone and untracked, that Word sets a point or more wider or narrower at its half-point size has its letters spaced by the difference (`w:spacing`) and its room reckoned from the page's width; a `linkTarget` becomes a `w:hyperlink`, with a relationship for an address or `w:anchor` for one of the document's own anchors, and a run's own link wins over the paragraph's; a paragraph seated off its baseline (`TextVerticalAlign`) has its runs raised or lowered in the line (`w:position`) by the PDF backend's own correction (`ParagraphSeating`), one shift for the paragraph where the page seats each line by its own; Word and LibreOffice stand an exact line's baseline four fifths of the way down it whatever the face, where the page sets it the face's ascent down, so a paragraph whose face puts the two half a point or more apart — Spectral's, not Lato's — has its text moved to the page's baseline in the same position, matched at its middle line (not yet a list item's or a table text cell's; a picture among it moves with it in Word and stays on its own baseline in LibreOffice); lines a container stacks over one another tighter than their face each end halfway between their letters and the next line's (Word draws an exact line's text on screen only inside the line; its PDF export does not cut it), and the last layer of a shape container on one page, where its line runs past the foot, ends at the foot or below its letters; letters two lines share are split halfway so the page does not move, and a stack that holds a picture keeps its lines' own heights; a `bulletOffset` of spaces becomes the paragraph's indent (`w:ind` left, hanging or first line, by `indentStrategy`) in the flow and in cells, not yet over the flow, in an overlay's left-and-right pair, as a badge's initials or in a header or footer; one with letters in it is not written, its wrapped lines still set after the spaces that cover it; an auto-sized paragraph's text is written at its style's size, not the one the page fits it to; a `bookmark(...)` is Word's `HeadingN`, which Word's outline lists by the text of its Word paragraph — an overlay's pair's whole line, one level for both sides — at no level past the ninth. Outside a header or footer, the paragraph's report note (`ParagraphNode`) names each of these where it moves or renames something: the prefix's letters, and the room a path that writes no prefix leaves out where it moves a line; the size written and the size the page fits the text to, to Word's half point; an outline title that is not the text Word lists, a level past the ninth that shares it with another, and the right side's entry where the left holds the line's level |
| List hanging indent — a marker column and a content column (`ListBuilder.hangingIndent(true)`, `markerGap(...)`) | ✅ marker and content emitted as separate `ParagraphFragmentPayload` fragments at the resolved `markerX` / `contentX` | ✅ the same fragments — the fixed-layout pipeline resolves the geometry before either backend sees it | ⚠️ the top level only. `DocxSemanticBackend` exports a list as a real Word list — `numbering.xml`, `w:numPr` per item, the level carrying the marker — or, with rich items or a drawn marker, as paragraphs; content and nesting are unaffected. With the flag, the top level's marker column is the layout's — the marker's width and `markerGap`, the text and its wrapped lines where the page sets them — where the gap covers what Word may set the marker wider: a picture at its written size, its edges included, or text in the page's face (embedded, or a standard one Word sets in the same widths) grown to its half-point size, half a point clear. A Word list's level then indents and hangs by that column; a list of paragraphs writes the marker, a tab to a stop there, and hangs the item there. Word places content at absolute indents and has no relative-advance primitive, so without the layout's measure the gap could not be honoured; a Word list without the flag that the layout placed and that does not nest takes the page's column too, the spaces the page sets its wrapped lines after, its marker followed by a space (`w:suff`) and an item that wraps measured at Word's half-point size; a list that nests items, a list built as a tree of items (laid out flattened), and a marker the gap does not clear keep the stated column (180 twips, plus 120 per nesting level) — except, in a list of paragraphs, a nested rich item with no marker, which stands where the layout set its text, its measure weighed at Word's half-point sizes, where the layout's items are matched to the list's; a list that nests only such items sets its top level at the page's column too. The report counts, on the list, the items that stand at a stated column, a space past their marker or two spaces a level in, and names a centred or right-aligned list written flush left, a lineSpacing not written where the layout's items are not the list's own and one wraps (in a list composed in a table cell, its wrapping not measured), a continuationIndent not written where an item of a markerless list or a tree of items without the flag wraps or its wrapping is not measured, and the rows the page draws as a marker alone for blank items of a flagged list, which are not written |
| Paragraph — pre-wrapped lines, runs, alignment (`ParagraphFragmentPayload`) | ✅ `PdfParagraphFragmentRenderHandler` | ✅ `PptxParagraphFragmentRenderHandler` (one absolute, wrap-disabled frame per measured line) | ⚠️ semantic paragraphs (`DocxSemanticBackend`) — each run keeps its own style, falling back to the paragraph's when it has none; a centred or right-aligned left-to-right line of its own, of text alone and untracked, that Word sets a point or more wider or narrower at its half-point size has its letters spaced by the difference (`w:spacing`) and its room reckoned from the page's width; a `linkTarget` becomes a `w:hyperlink`, with a relationship for an address or `w:anchor` for one of the document's own anchors, and a run's own link wins over the paragraph's; a paragraph seated off its baseline (`TextVerticalAlign`) has its runs raised or lowered in the line (`w:position`) by the PDF backend's own correction (`ParagraphSeating`), one shift for the paragraph where the page seats each line by its own; Word and LibreOffice stand an exact line's baseline four fifths of the way down it whatever the face, where the page sets it the face's ascent down, so a paragraph whose face puts the two half a point or more apart — Spectral's, not Lato's — has its text moved to the page's baseline in the same position, matched at its middle line (not yet a list item's or a table text cell's; a picture among it moves with it in Word and stays on its own baseline in LibreOffice); lines a container stacks over one another tighter than their face each end halfway between their letters and the next line's (Word draws an exact line's text on screen only inside the line; its PDF export does not cut it), and the last layer of a shape container on one page, where its line runs past the foot, ends at the foot or below its letters; letters two lines share are split halfway so the page does not move, and a stack that holds a picture keeps its lines' own heights; a `bulletOffset` of spaces becomes the paragraph's indent (`w:ind` left, hanging or first line, by `indentStrategy`) in the flow and in cells, not yet over the flow, in an overlay's left-and-right pair, as a badge's initials or in a header or footer; one with letters in it is not written, its wrapped lines still set after the spaces that cover it; an auto-sized paragraph's text is written at its style's size, not the one the page fits it to; a paragraph a session reads as markdown — the default, unless `markdown(false)` — is written as authored, its marks as letters and none of their style, not yet as the page sets it; a `bookmark(...)` is Word's `HeadingN`, which Word's outline lists by the text of its Word paragraph — an overlay's pair's whole line, one level for both sides — at no level past the ninth. Outside a header or footer, the paragraph's report note (`ParagraphNode`) names each of these where it moves or renames something: the prefix's letters, and the room a path that writes no prefix leaves out where it moves a line; the size written and the size the page fits the text to, to Word's half point; the marks of a paragraph the page read as markdown, where its laid-out lines hold fewer of them than its text, not measured where its lines are not read; an outline title that is not the text Word lists, a level past the ninth that shares it with another, and the right side's entry where the left holds the line's level |
| List hanging indent — a marker column and a content column (`ListBuilder.hangingIndent(true)`, `markerGap(...)`) | ✅ marker and content emitted as separate `ParagraphFragmentPayload` fragments at the resolved `markerX` / `contentX` | ✅ the same fragments — the fixed-layout pipeline resolves the geometry before either backend sees it | ⚠️ the top level only. `DocxSemanticBackend` exports a list as a real Word list — `numbering.xml`, `w:numPr` per item, the level carrying the marker — or, with rich items or a drawn marker, as paragraphs; content and nesting are unaffected. With the flag, the top level's marker column is the layout's — the marker's width and `markerGap`, the text and its wrapped lines where the page sets them — where the gap covers what Word may set the marker wider: a picture at its written size, its edges included, or text in the page's face (embedded, or a standard one Word sets in the same widths) grown to its half-point size, half a point clear. A Word list's level then indents and hangs by that column; a list of paragraphs writes the marker, a tab to a stop there, and hangs the item there. Word places content at absolute indents and has no relative-advance primitive, so without the layout's measure the gap could not be honoured; a Word list without the flag that the layout placed and that does not nest takes the page's column too, the spaces the page sets its wrapped lines after, its marker followed by a space (`w:suff`) and an item that wraps measured at Word's half-point size; a list that nests items, a list built as a tree of items (laid out flattened), and a marker the gap does not clear keep the stated column (180 twips, plus 120 per nesting level) — except, in a list of paragraphs, a nested rich item with no marker, which stands where the layout set its text, its measure weighed at Word's half-point sizes, where the layout's items are matched to the list's; a list that nests only such items sets its top level at the page's column too. The report counts, on the list, the items that stand at a stated column, a space past their marker or two spaces a level in, and names a centred or right-aligned list written flush left, a lineSpacing not written where the layout's items are not the list's own and one wraps (in a list composed in a table cell, its wrapping not measured), a continuationIndent not written where an item of a markerless list or a tree of items without the flag wraps or its wrapping is not measured, the rows the page draws as a marker alone for blank items of a flagged list, which are not written, and items the page reads as markdown, whose marks are written as letters |
| Inline code/badge chips (`InlineBackground` on text spans) | ✅ `PdfParagraphFragmentRenderHandler` | ✅ `PptxParagraphFragmentRenderHandler` | ⚠️ `DocxSemanticBackend` — the fill becomes the run's own `w:shd`, in a paragraph and in a list item alike, so a badge still reads as a badge. What Word has no way to say is the shape: shading covers the glyph box, so the corner radius and the padding above and below the letters are not in the file, and the export records them. The padding beside the letters is written as the room it takes (`spaceAfterTheLastLetter`): character spacing after the chip's last letter, shaded with it, and after the letter before the chip, unshaded. A chip opening its line or following a picture has no letter before it, so its left padding is not in the file; no space is written after right-to-left letters or after a symbol or emoji. The export records, chip by chip, how each side was written. LibreOffice sets no spacing after a line's last letter, so it does not apply the right padding of a chip that ends a line. A `w:shd` fill is opaque, so a translucent chip is flattened first against what this export wrote underneath it — the paragraph's shading, the cell's, or the page — so the chip agrees with the file it is in, which on a white page is the colour the PDF shows. It stops being translucent, and that is recorded with the rest |
| Inline images (`ParagraphImageSpan`) | ✅ `PdfParagraphFragmentRenderHandler` | ✅ `PptxParagraphFragmentRenderHandler` | ✅ `DocxSemanticBackend.writeInlinePicture` (a picture in its own run where it sits among the words, at its size, inside the run's or the paragraph's link; raised or lowered by `w:position` to where the page's alignment and `baselineOffset` put it, from the layout's measure of the paragraph's first line — in a list, the list's text on a line as tall as the item's own tallest picture; LibreOffice ignores `w:position` on a picture and stands it on the baseline, so a picture the export draws itself (icon, emoji, shape) that the page raises carries the rise as transparent rows and needs no `w:position`, while one the page lowers stands in LibreOffice higher than on the page by as much as the page lowers it — up to the text's descent for a centred icon as tall as its line; the editor clips a picture to an exact line height, so a paragraph holding a picture that leaves its text — past the ascent or the descent, in Word's placement or on the baseline — has its lines written at least the height the picture reaches, grown by the editor rather than clipped, every line of the paragraph since Word has one line height for it, and each as tall as the editor's font makes it — for 14pt text about 2.5pt taller than the page's in LibreOffice; a picture inside its text in both editors keeps the exact height; a paragraph of one line of text in a Word paragraph of its own, with room above for its pictures' reach, keeps an exact line at the page's height of it, the pictures set in it where the page puts them in Word and what their ink reaches past it taken from the gaps around it, and in LibreOffice a lowered picture there stands higher and loses what passes the line's top; its description is the text it stands for or empty) |
| Inline vector shapes (`ParagraphShapeSpan`) | ✅ `PdfParagraphFragmentRenderHandler` | ⚠️ `PptxParagraphFragmentRenderHandler` + `PptxInlineGeometry` (distinct per-corner radii render with the top-left radius — single-adjust preset) | ⚠️ `DocxSemanticBackend.writeInlinePicture` + `DocxShapePictures` (a transparent PNG drawn by the shared `InlineSvgRasters` from the outline, fill and stroke — every outline kind, each layer centred in the run's box — placed as an inline picture is; the picture takes as far as the stroked ink reaches past the outline — half the stroke on an edge, more at a sharp corner's miter — and a pixel on each side, measured side by side, and is lowered by what it takes below, so no edge is cut and a shape takes that much more room in the line; a list marker that draws a disc is its picture; at the top level of a `hangingIndent(true)` list that does not nest it is followed by a tab to where the layout starts the item's text, the item's lines hanging there, when the picture clears that stop, else by a space) |
Expand Down
Loading
Loading