Both formats carry a vertical anchor on the box body — ODF
draw:textarea-vertical-align, DOCX wps:bodyPr/@anchor — and both
sides of the I/O hard-coded "top", so an imported box dropped its
centering and a saved one never got it. New textVAlign attr, read
and written in both formats, rendered by flexing the rotor (the
handles are absolute and stay out of that flow), set in the Shape
Format tab beside the vertical-text button.
Both frame toolbars and the ribbon's Arrange group now offer the two
run-through entries; they are one wrap mode, told apart by inFront.
Picking any mode by hand drops the offsets and the coordinate system
they were measured in (droppedFrameAttrs), so a page-placed frame set
to a side wrap no longer exports page-relative coordinates for a
paragraph-relative offset.
A frame out of the flow has no text position to re-anchor to, so the
drag adds the pointer delta to its own offsets (startFreeMove).
Word's w:tblpPr takes a table out of the flow; the editor kept it in, so
whatever followed — and every frame anchored to it — sat as far down as the
table is tall. It now arrives as the box whose content a table may be, which
is the shape LibreOffice keeps such a table in, and both exporters write it
back as the file's own floating one. A drawing in one of its cells is
ordinary table text, so the box-in-box guard lets it stand.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Wzs2qG6Y5qm7mKmJHfu44G
The browser hit-tests a behind-text frame last of all — the page and every
paragraph over it come first — so a cover picture could not be clicked at all:
the caret landed in the text as if it were not there. A mousedown over one now
goes to the frame's own node view, which selects and drags it as any other
frame; text painted over the point still wins, as the caret does in both
products. A box's node view mirrors renderHTML's data-wrap for it, as an
image's already did.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Wzs2qG6Y5qm7mKmJHfu44G
Both importers matched a file's format against the seven date and four time
formats the picker offers and kept anything else as the text the producer had
cached — a Word template's `DATE \@ "MMMM d"` then froze at the day it was
written. An unlisted format now rides its own DOCX picture as the key:
`findFormat` parses it, so display, ODF number style and DOCX picture are
derived from it as they are for a catalog entry, and it re-exports unchanged.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Wzs2qG6Y5qm7mKmJHfu44G
The check was queued in idle time, which on a long document falls between two
pagination passes: its decoration swap redraws the view, and the pass behind it
pays for the redraw. It now waits until no pass is running or queued
(`isPaginating`), so an opened file paginates first and is checked after.
Measured on a 460-page file: settled 5.99 s → 5.10 s (interleaved A/B, median
of seven; a second set of nine gave 5.76 → 5.34). Spacer, index and text-box
geometry byte-identical on five files.
Checking every word of a 460-page file costs half a second, and at mount it was paid
before the document was on screen. The pass now waits for idle time (2 s timeout), as
does the one a language or dictionary change asks for; the check after an edit is
unchanged. The file is named 200 ms earlier and settles 700 ms earlier, with the same
page count, spacers, page numbers and references.
The format pre-pass and the importer read the same inflated archive, where each
unzipped the file for itself, and a picture is encoded through the browser's
Uint8Array.toBase64, the chunked loop standing in where there is none.
On a 14 MB file holding 600 pictures that takes 250 ms of inflating and 285 ms of
encoding off the open: it lands 480 ms earlier and settles 240 ms earlier, and a
small illustrated file lands 170 ms earlier.
Cross-references resolve in one batch per pass, the index reads every leader gap
before filling one, and a zone's tabs lay out with the other zones' — and only
where a field asks for the page count or the chapter map.
List marker and list style decorations are rebuilt only for a transaction
reaching into a list; the unsaved dot compares documents structurally, and the
autosave serializes when it writes rather than per keystroke.
The columns flow applies every op it can judge in a pass, so a section pages in
one pass. Two long files that took 33 s and 20 s now settle in 9 s and 2 s.
A `:has()` left of `+` in editor.css made Chromium restyle every element
under .tiptap on each inserted child, so the band-clearing rule keys on a
data-wrap-band attribute the imageLine plugin writes. getLineRects reuses
one Range instead of leaving hundreds alive. TipTap's Placeholder, which
hit-tested the viewport on every keystroke, is replaced by placeholder.ts.
docPosBeforeElement is memoised per pass. At 124 pages the pass after a
split drops from 410 to 150 ms and the split keystroke from 219 to 50 ms.
The dirty ranges ride the plugin state and are mapped through every
transaction; the check after a pause swaps only those textblocks'
squiggles, and the whole document is checked on a language or
dictionary change. The pause after a keystroke in a 124-page document
drops from 363 ms to 11 ms (Chromium) and from 1.4 s to 17 ms (Firefox).
A unit test drives the recheck; the dom run asserts the pause is free.
Every document-scoped key now goes through docKey(), which hangs it off the
tab's document id; the first document keeps the empty id, so existing browser
copies read back unchanged. A fresh tab takes up the most recently used
document no live tab holds, else starts a new one — one signed timestamp per
document (edentext-live@id) says which, written only by the tab holding it.
Snapshots and embedded fonts get a database per document. The picture store
stays shared and content-addressed, so its sweep now drops only keys no stored
document names any more, instead of the open document's own.
The MathML operator dictionary makes ( [ { | stretchy, so a plain bracket grew
to the tallest thing in its row — next to a sum with a fraction, C(b) came out
in full row height. Only a fence node emits stretchy brackets now.
The 1x1 fixture carried an IDAT from a different image: its CRC fails and the
zlib stream is truncated. Chromium and WebKit render it anyway, Firefox reports
"Image corrupt or truncated", and the same bytes sat in eleven fixtures.
A page break reaches the file only from a body block or a list item — a cell,
a frame and a note body all drop it — and an indent on a list item's paragraph
is the same; a plugin sweeps both. A note anchor keeps no marks and stays out
of a text box. Sub- and superscript exclude each other, a font stack the
contenteditable leaves behind keeps its first family, and a weight Bold already
claims is no second attribute. A table's first row is all header cells or none
(the promotion carrying each cell's own attrs), a replace into a table reads the
lost column weight back from the column, and a list item holds no table.
Three regression tests for what a 5000-seed sweep turned up, each checked to
fail without its fix. A run repeating its style's own plain underline is
lossy by design, so the generator no longer puts one under a named style.
An .odt kept only the first paragraph of a list item; the rest ride it SEG-separated and
are split back out inside the same item. A header row the table did not ask to repeat
came back as ordinary cells, and only DOCX wrote it. An endnote's picture pointed at a
relationship the package never minted, and neither note's pictures were read through
their own part's relationships. A frame band-wrapped flush left is at no side of its own.
Blocks wrapped into columns drop a page break nothing there honours, and a cell's content
expression now says what both exporters can write into one.
Found with the showcase documents and by fuzzing the export options through
the round trip and the schemas. ODT: a style's line spacing as a percentage,
section masters laid out from their own zones, variants in schema order, the
watermark on section pages, NCName-encoded style names. DOCX: a section begins
a page, odd/even and w:fmt document-wide, styles with line spacing, shading and
borders, w:numPr and w:pBdr in order. Both importers: the next style, page
setup and text width per section. Editor: chapter counters via counter-set,
a heading in columns stays with its text.
GitHub Pages serves a .dic as text/x-c and leaves it uncompressed, while
text/plain goes out gzipped: the English list cost 552 KB over the wire
where 191 KB would do. Only the fetch path changes; the mount name the
checker sees stays <code>.dic. Measured first load 1.83 → 1.70 MB.
Brave ships with the File System Access API off, so a save is a download and
the browser's dialog cannot hand a changed name back: the bytes must be built
in the format chosen beforehand, or a renamed file carries the other format.
One entry per format settles that on every route, the DOCX export entry goes
as its duplicate, and the DOM run covers the download route.
Chrome's macOS save panel shows no format popup and admits only the first
picker type's extensions, so a second type could never be chosen there. Both
extensions now share one type, for documents and templates alike, and the
typed extension decides what is written. A document without a file saves
through that same picker, and the Save entry no longer names .odt.
A list of timestamps in both file menus paid for itself only on the day
something went wrong, and it was in the way on every other. The entries
are gone; loadDocument now offers the versions where the browser copy has
actually failed the reader — newest first, one question each, and the one
taken up starts under the boot flag like any other document. The store
loses its reactive singleton with them.
One version every five minutes goes into an IndexedDB store, pictures
inline, and both file menus list them by time; a click puts that text
back and leaves the page setup, the styles and the zones alone. The
browser copy is one document deep, so a bad edit had nothing behind it.
The picker lists .odt and .docx, and the chosen extension decides which
exporter runs and which format the document keeps — no silent switch to
.odt for a file that came in as .docx. Both save paths now build their
bytes through one helper instead of repeating the argument list.
The heading constants move to styles/headings.ts and the filename logic to
storage/documentName.ts, which were all the editor needed of the exporter
at startup. Main chunk 2.1 MB → 1.37 MB (gzip 615 KB → 411 KB).
A reload that cut a slow start short looked like a freeze, and the parked
document was reachable only through the browser's storage tools. The user
is asked for another try; only declining parks it.
The 1 s debounce lost a tab closed inside it. Writes now queue behind each
other, so an older write finishing late can neither store an older document
nor sweep the pictures a newer one added; a page revived from the
back/forward cache writes again.
The corpus legs pass seven of the exporters' nineteen arguments, so the other
twelve — note configuration, page decoration, line and page numbering, the
header/footer zones, document properties — were never round-tripped from a
file. A new unit test sets all of them and reads them back out of both formats.
The kitchen sink had only ever been written, never imported; it now makes both
round trips and comes back identical. Two fixture repairs it needed: notes in
anchor order, and a section break with sections to open.
Caught: a document holding no note yet lost its note configuration on .docx.
The corpus leg out of one format and into the other compared block types and
text, so anything the trip dropped below that passed. It now compares every
attribute each node carries, with the values a format states in its own units
excluded: proportional vs absolute column widths, and a formula's inline flag,
which ODF has no place for.
Two the stricter leg caught: a note lost the paragraph style it names and fell
to the stock 10pt, and a link stored an attribute equal to its default.
Comparison stopped at the first divergence on a page, so one displaced line
reported every line behind it and a slipped page hid what followed: a
468-page reference reported 4 differences while hiding 465 pages. The line
streams are aligned instead — nearest resync within 60 lines, contiguous
divergences merged, neighbouring lines off by the same amount collapsed to
a count — and it reports 5766. Reference PDFs are cached by file hash
(corpus 9:00 cold against 5:41 cached), each run prints its counts against
the last, and --quick skips what measured over 50 pages.
ODF says it with style:page-usage right/left on the section's page layout (read
only where the master is no half of a mirrored pair, which alternates by itself),
Word with a w:type oddPage/evenPage section break; both insert the blank page the
side needs, and so does pagination now — the printed number decides the side.
In the ribbon's Breaks menu under "This section". Measured against the reference
that keeps LibreOffice's own blank pages: the largest fixture 875 → 774 reports,
another 25 → 30 with its page count 27 → 29 against LibreOffice's 32.
Probed: restart the numbering at 2 on the third sheet of a mirrored document and
LibreOffice puts sheets 2 and 3 both at the outer margin with the left-page zone —
two left pages in a row. Restart at 5 and the parity stays with the sheets. Mirrored
margins, the page border and the odd/even zone now all read `printedPageNumber`.
On a fixture built for it the sheets went 15.0/30.1 → 30.1/15.0mm, LibreOffice's
30.0/15.0. One fixture rises 26 → 62 reports, all downstream of a page-count defect
there: its heads now agree with the numbers we print instead of another layout's sheets.
The inner/outer pair was read from a file, rendered and written back, but nothing
could turn it on — a book layout could only be inherited. Both margin UIs get a
checkbox beside the four fields, and while it is on the left/right fields read
Inner/Outer. A margin preset changes the values, not whether the setup is a book.
`withMirrored` keeps the key absent rather than false, so an unmirrored page setup
still compares equal. Driven headlessly: ticking it stores the flag, renames the
fields and moves an even page's text by the difference (1.5/3cm → 57px).
LibreOffice's compatibility option (ODF AddParaTableSpacingAtStart, Word's
w:suppressSpBfAfterPgBrk read the other way round). Off, the block that opens a
page loses its space above however the page broke — probed by flipping the flag
in one 63-page document, whose chapter heading then moved from 25.4mm to 20.0mm,
which is where the editor had been drawing every one of them. On is the default
both products write, and both formats carry the flag back out. Fixture 244 → 160.
Probed: a header of one 10pt line with a 12mm bottom margin puts the body at the
band's min-height, not 12mm lower, and a footer's trailing margin is dropped the
same way — while a margin between two of the zone's paragraphs counts in full
(two lines 12mm apart give a 20.16mm band). The collapsed zone paragraph carries
only the margins between its source paragraphs now. One 16-page fixture went
183 reports → 5, its body having sat 10.3mm low on every page.
The edge→zone distance was document-wide, so an index whose header starts 4cm
down had its body open 14.5mm too high and the page under it followed. HfSet
carries the section's own pair (and its first page's, where the page style hands
over): ODF's page-layout margin is that distance, Word's is w:pgMar
w:header/w:footer, and both exports write it back.
Both importers capped every side at 10cm, which is the Layout panel's limit and
no file's: a back cover pushing its last lines to the page foot with a 21cm top
margin rendered 11cm high. fitMargins caps only what would leave the page no
strip of text at all, and the zone distances follow the page's own height.
The outline level's character style, its indent and the stop its label's tab
runs to were never read, so a 96pt grey chapter number rendered at the
heading's own size and everything under it sat ~30mm high. The label is an
inline block now — one set larger than its heading grows the line as both
products grow it — hung out of the paragraph's indent with the level's stop as
its minimum width. text-indent inherits into that block and would shrink it by
exactly what it hangs out, so the label zeroes it. Both formats carry all of it
back out (ODF's label alignment, Word's w:suff / w:ind / w:rPr).
A numbered thesis lost every "1.", "2.1.4" and "A." on import: the outline
definition was read as a list wrapping headings and dropped. It is now a
document-level definition on the style sheet (format, prefix, suffix,
display-levels, start per level), drawn by CSS counters that reset down the
levels, and carried by both formats — ODF's text:outline-style, Word's
multilevel numbering bound to the heading styles. The contents rows count the
same way, since no text walk can read a CSS counter.
LibreOffice's Left Page / Right Page chain into each other through
style:next-style-name, which was read as the different-first-page idiom: one
master's geometry and zones governed the whole section, so a book-style body
lost its running head on every second page and its inner/outer margins with
it. A next-style cycle now becomes one mirrored setup — the right page's
geometry, the left page's zones as the even variant — and style:page-usage
left/right marks the margins as mirrored.
ODF's table:align="margins" means the table spans between its own margins, and
style:width is then the width the producing page had. Read as a left-aligned
table, the undeclared right margin was derived from that width against ours and
the table came out narrow — measured 12.4cm on a 14.7cm text width, its column
rule 10.4mm left of where LibreOffice draws it.
Writes agile encryption with Word's own parameters (AES-256-CBC in 4096-byte
segments, 100000 SHA-512 rounds, HMAC integrity) into a compound file built
here — cfb.ts, MiniFAT and DIFAT included. Reads that and the older standard
encryption LibreOffice writes, whose package is AES-ECB. Verified both ways
against LibreOffice.
Writes LibreOffice's whole-package form: AES-256-GCM keyed by Argon2id over
SHA-256 of the password, the deflated package as one encrypted-package entry.
Reads that plus the per-entry AES-CBC/GCM form with PBKDF2 that every earlier
version writes; the nonce sits ahead of the ciphertext, which no manifest says.
Blowfish and unknown algorithms report an unsupported-encryption error.
ReviewMarginLayer draws the cards in a strip right of the page, at the height
of the line each belongs to, with a dashed leader running through the gap
under it. A balloon is pushed down by the one above (balloonStack, measured
per card, unit-tested) and the column belongs to its page, so it never runs
past the sheet. The strip is only reserved where the margin has something to
show; the smoke test guards a card's content against its box.
storage/markup holds the display mode (all, simple, none, original) plus, per
kind, whether it shows and where its cards go; markupView folds that into what
the page acts on. Bars, leader and both panes ask reviewItems instead of the
document, the page takes the hiding attributes, and trackChanges drops its
author decoration where the mode shows a finished text.
A TOC field regenerates its rows from the styles named `toc 1`…`toc 9`, and its
cached rows are skipped on import — so those styles were never seen and the index
fell back to the editor's 0.5cm per level, dropping the file's space-after with it.
Measured on a 60-row index: a 5.1mm row pitch against LibreOffice's 6.9mm.
They now land as Contents 1…10, and the DOCX export writes the rows back under
them instead of the fallback indent.
Word caches a BIBLIOGRAPHY field's rows as a w:tbl inside the field, and
only the field's paragraphs were skipped — so the list arrived once as the
regenerated index node and once as that table. Measured on a 49-page
document: two pages of duplicate. StyleName IEEE now reads as the numbered
style it is, so its citations show [1] instead of the source key.
The clipboard carries HTML, and in an HTML string any block tag inside a
<p> closes it — so a copied box arrived as loose paragraphs. It is now
serialized as an inline span carrying its blocks as JSON, read back by a
matching parse rule; its plain text stays in the span for readers that
cannot take the attribute back.
Entries were stored as an HTML string, where any block tag inside a <p>
closes it — so a copied text box, which holds blocks, lost its place in
the line. They now keep the slice's nodes; an entry written earlier keeps
its HTML string, which insertContent takes just as well.
Steffen Becker