docs: why the ribbon has no Font dialog

Character spacing and kerning live on a named style, not on a run — setting them
as direct formatting would need a new mark attribute and export work on both
formats. Everything else that dialog would hold is already on the Home tab.
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@@ -84,6 +84,17 @@ The ribbon surfaces a good deal the engine already carried with nothing to reach
underline and strikethrough line styles, Find and Replace as buttons, the page break, section
breaks, absolute left/right indent, the table-of-contents depth, cell margins, Save As.
## Dialogs
`ParagraphDialog` and `TabsDialog` open from Word's ↘ launcher in a group's corner. They are
chrome-agnostic, so classic could gain launchers of its own at no cost.
There is **no Font dialog**: the Home tab already carries change case and the underline and
strikethrough line styles, and the two things left over — `letterSpacingPt` and `kerning` — live
on a named style, not on a run. Setting them as direct formatting would mean a new mark attribute
and export work on both formats, which is more than a chrome rebuild. The style manager is where
they belong.
## What retiring classic would free
Recorded so the option stays visible, not as a plan: `Toolbar.svelte` and