diff --git a/tests/corpus.test.ts b/tests/corpus.test.ts
index b7eb2e5..729a929 100644
--- a/tests/corpus.test.ts
+++ b/tests/corpus.test.ts
@@ -53,16 +53,35 @@ describe.skipIf(!files.length)('the authored corpus', () => {
 
   for (const f of files) {
     it(`${f} imports and survives its own round trip`, async () => {
-      const doc = importAny(f, load(f));
+      const read = readAny(f, load(f));
+      const doc = read.content;
       expect(outline(doc).length).toBeGreaterThan(0);
       const margins = { top: 2, bottom: 2, left: 2, right: 2 };
+      // The file's own stylesheet goes back out with it, as it does when the app saves:
+      // a style the document names but builtinStyleSheet() has never heard of can only
+      // be written from there.
       const again = f.endsWith('.odt')
-        ? importOdt(await buildOdt(doc, margins, 'portrait'))
-        : importDocx(await buildDocx(doc, margins, 'portrait'));
+        ? importOdt(await buildOdt(doc, margins, 'portrait', undefined, undefined, undefined, read.styles))
+        : importDocx(await buildDocx(doc, margins, 'portrait', undefined, undefined, undefined, read.styles));
       expect(outline(again.content)).toEqual(outline(doc));
     });
   }
 
+  // What the legs above cannot see: both sides of a round trip go through the same
+  // importer, so a file read wrongly but consistently still compares equal. 15-chapters
+  // carries chapter numbering on its heading styles and two heading styles of its own —
+  // read as a list, or as body text, either would round-trip happily.
+  const CHAPTERS = ['heading1+brk:Introduction', 'heading2:Motivation',
+    'heading1+brk:Results', 'heading2:Method',
+    'heading1[Appendix 1]+brk:Appendix', 'heading2[Appendix 2]:List of Tables'];
+  for (const f of files.filter((n) => n.startsWith('15-chapters'))) {
+    it(`${f} reads its numbered chapters as headings`, () => {
+      const doc = importAny(f, load(f));
+      expect(outline(doc).filter((l) => l.startsWith('heading'))).toEqual(CHAPTERS);
+      expect(outline(doc).filter((l) => /^(ordered|bullet)List|^listItem/.test(l))).toEqual([]);
+    });
+  }
+
   // Word re-saves of the same documents (tests/corpus/word/): Word rewrites the file
   // in its own dialect — rsids, proofErr, separator notes, theme docDefaults — which
   // neither the docx lib nor LibreOffice produce, so this is the third author here.
diff --git a/tests/corpus/15-chapters.docx b/tests/corpus/15-chapters.docx
new file mode 100644
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diff --git a/tests/corpus/15-chapters.odt b/tests/corpus/15-chapters.odt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ac5c59b
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diff --git a/tests/render-parity/make-fixtures.mjs b/tests/render-parity/make-fixtures.mjs
index c903645..6af9ef1 100644
--- a/tests/render-parity/make-fixtures.mjs
+++ b/tests/render-parity/make-fixtures.mjs
@@ -31,25 +31,35 @@ const para = (text, o = {}) => new Paragraph({ children: [new TextRun({ text, ..
 // Spacing, font and outline level are declared: LibreOffice fills a built-in style's
 // gaps from its own defaults where Word uses only what the file declares, and without
 // the level it converts a heading to a <text:p> merely carrying the heading's style.
-const heading = (id, name, halfPt, before, after, level) => ({
+const heading = (id, name, halfPt, before, after, level, numbering) => ({
   id, name, basedOn: 'Normal', next: 'Normal', quickFormat: true,
   run: { font: 'Arial', size: halfPt, bold: true },
-  paragraph: { spacing: { before, after }, outlineLevel: level },
+  paragraph: { spacing: { before, after }, outlineLevel: level, ...(numbering ? { numbering } : {}) },
 });
 
-async function write(name, sections, defaultRun = { font: 'Times New Roman', size: 24 }, extra = {}) {
+// `chapters` names a numbering the heading styles carry: chapter numbering lives on the
+// style in both products, never on the paragraph. `extra.styles` adds the document's own
+// styles beside the built-ins rather than replacing the whole block.
+async function write(name, sections, defaultRun = { font: 'Times New Roman', size: 24 }, extra = {}, chapters = null) {
   if (only && !only.test(name)) return;
+  const { styles: ownStyles, ...rest } = extra;
+  const h1 = heading('Heading1', 'Heading 1', 36, 240, 120, 0, chapters && { reference: chapters, level: 0 });
+  const h2 = heading('Heading2', 'Heading 2', 32, 200, 100, 1, chapters && { reference: chapters, level: 1 });
+  // The package writes its own Heading1-6 regardless, so a second definition under the
+  // same id leaves two — and LibreOffice reads the first, dropping everything declared
+  // here. A numbered heading therefore rides the factory slot instead (see FACTORY_SLOTS
+  // in src/lib/export/CLAUDE.md); the plain fixtures keep the shape they were built with.
   const doc = new Document({
     styles: {
-      default: { document: { run: defaultRun } },
+      default: { document: { run: defaultRun }, ...(chapters ? { heading1: h1, heading2: h2 } : {}) },
       paragraphStyles: [
         // Word always writes an explicit Normal; the docx lib would emit docDefaults only.
         { id: 'Normal', name: 'Normal', run: defaultRun, paragraph: { spacing: { after: 0 } } },
-        heading('Heading1', 'Heading 1', 36, 240, 120, 0),
-        heading('Heading2', 'Heading 2', 32, 200, 100, 1),
+        ...(chapters ? [] : [h1, h2]),
+        ...(ownStyles?.paragraphStyles ?? []),
       ],
     },
-    ...extra,
+    ...rest,
     sections,
   });
   writeFileSync(join(OUT, name), await Packer.toBuffer(doc));
@@ -286,6 +296,49 @@ await write('14-formulas.docx', [{
   ],
 }]);
 
+// 15. Chapter numbering on the heading styles, plus heading styles of the document's
+// own ("Appendix 1"/"2", named nothing like "Heading n"). Both live in the stylesheet
+// and nowhere in the document tree, so only a leg carrying it exercises them.
+await write('15-chapters.docx', [{
+  properties: { page },
+  children: [
+    para('Introduction', { p: { style: 'Heading1', pageBreakBefore: true } }),
+    para(LOREM),
+    para('Motivation', { p: { style: 'Heading2' } }),
+    para(LOREM),
+    para('Results', { p: { style: 'Heading1', pageBreakBefore: true } }),
+    para(LOREM),
+    para('Method', { p: { style: 'Heading2' } }),
+    para(LOREM),
+    para('Appendix', { p: { style: 'Appendix1', pageBreakBefore: true } }),
+    para(LOREM),
+    para('List of Tables', { p: { style: 'Appendix2' } }),
+    para(LOREM),
+  ],
+}], undefined, {
+  styles: {
+    paragraphStyles: [
+      { id: 'Appendix1', name: 'Appendix 1', basedOn: 'Heading1', next: 'Normal', quickFormat: true,
+        paragraph: { outlineLevel: 0 } },
+      { id: 'Appendix2', name: 'Appendix 2', basedOn: 'Heading2', next: 'Normal', quickFormat: true,
+        paragraph: { outlineLevel: 1 } },
+    ],
+  },
+  numbering: {
+    config: [{
+      reference: 'chapter-numbering',
+      levels: [
+        // The level names the style it numbers and the style points back at the level:
+        // both halves, or LibreOffice reads the pair as an ordinary list.
+        { level: 0, format: LevelFormat.DECIMAL, text: '%1.', alignment: AlignmentType.START,
+          style: { paragraph: { indent: { left: 0, hanging: 360 } }, style: 'Heading1' } },
+        { level: 1, format: LevelFormat.DECIMAL, text: '%1.%2', alignment: AlignmentType.START,
+          style: { paragraph: { indent: { left: 0, hanging: 432 } }, style: 'Heading2' } },
+      ],
+    }],
+  },
+}, 'chapter-numbering');
+
 // ODT twins, written by LibreOffice itself — the dominant ODT producer, so they carry
 // its own conventions (percentage font sizes, Text Body, list styles) and exercise the
 // foreign-document path our own exporter never produces.