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wordcraft by storytold

WordCraft v0.6.1

wordcraft expands into a more capable Word-style editor with rich document formatting, tables, charts, SmartArt, mail merge, accessibility tools, and broad file compatibility. It also adds new languages and polishing across layout, proofing, and everyday editing.
What's Changed

Hyperlinks cover only their own text (#413) by @vangel76 in #449

Groups keep rotated members' orientation; group resize; ink erase after rotation (#441, #442, #443, #445) by @vangel76 in #474

Mail merge: SKIPIF, NEXT, IF in preview, header/footer fields (#427, #428, #429, #430) by @vangel76 in #478

Options: interface size setting (#475) by @vangel76 in #480

Citations: eight more bibliography styles (#383) by @vangel76 in #388

Backstage: the side menu is fixed width, no dead resize handle by @vangel76 in #504

CLI: a closed stdout ends quietly instead of panicking (#508) by @vangel76 in #510

.doc import fixes: piece bold, section kinds, orientation, list overrides, style inheritance, alternate font names (#458–#463) by @vangel76 in #484

Dialogs: switching tabs keeps the window's top edge in place (#507) by @vangel76 in #511

Spelling: common words like "desktop" are recognised (#520) by @vangel76 in #522

Equation fixes: numbering removal, control colour, undo for navigation edits, LaTeX text spaces (#444, #446, #447, #448) by @vangel76 in #487

Import/export fixes: TXT encodings and list labels, RTF Unicode, ODT styles and cell colours, HTML borders and pre spaces, LaTeX alignment groups (#433–#440) by @vangel76 in #482

i18n(es): consistent tú register, fix swapped Page Up/Page Down by @diegozpy in #514

i18n: add Turkish (tr) interface translation by @PbyLoyth in #494

i18n audit: full ribbon sweep, and the table style sample in the interface language (re-lands #313's last three commits) by @dkhlapov in #411

Docs: collapse duplicate rows left by parallel merges by @vangel76 in #372

Add Word's common keyboard shortcuts by @vangel76 in #338

Field codes: show, edit, update, unlink, lock and step through fields like Word by @vangel76 in #349

Move paragraphs up/down, promote/demote headings, Go Back (Shift+F5) and Alt+X Unicode toggle by @vangel76 in #351

ci: refactor workflows to use storytold/craft-common-actions by @dylanmtaylor in #639

i18n: add Russian (ru) interface translation by @dkhlapov in #300

Customize Keyboard dialog (#368) by @vangel76 in #378

Customize Ribbon and Quick Access Toolbar (#379) by @vangel76 in #384

Tight and Through text wrapping follow the object's outline by @vangel76 in #360

Choose which side of an object text wraps on by @vangel76 in #364

Phonetic Guide: ruby text (furigana, pinyin) over base text by @vangel76 in #296

Enclose Characters: put a character in a circle, square, triangle or diamond by @vangel76 in #301

Insert › Icons: a library of original icons, a searchable picker and Icon Color by @vangel76 in #318

Mail merge: use Excel and OpenDocument spreadsheets as recipient lists by @vangel76 in #341

Balance newspaper columns before a continuous section break by @vangel76 in #353

Drawing Canvas: insert a canvas and draw shapes, pictures and text boxes inside it by @vangel76 in #356

Documents keep their own footnote separators and continuation notice by @vangel76 in #361

Right-to-left tables and sections by @vangel76 in #365

Shape Format › Text: direction, alignment and linked text boxes (#369) by @vangel76 in #380

Footnote and Endnote options per section (#385) by @vangel76 in #390

Track Changes: moves (w:moveFrom/w:moveTo) (#400) by @vangel76 in #404

Document grid: lines per page and characters per line (#391) by @vangel76 in #401

Draw: Lasso Select, Add Pen, Ink to Shape and Ink Replay (#395) by @vangel76 in #408

References dialogs: Caption, Index, Table of Contents, Create Source (#402) by @vangel76 in #410

Accessibility: Alt Text pane for every object, Mark as decorative, deeper checker (#386) by @vangel76 in #396

Dialogs: Line Numbers, Hyphenation, Language, Envelopes and Labels (#407) by @vangel76 in #414

Insert › Chart: create and edit column, bar, line, pie, area, scatter and doughnut charts (#409) by @vangel76 in #415

Content controls: keep, show and edit w:sdt (#381) by @vangel76 in #392

WordArt text effects and transforms, and shape connectors (#416) by @vangel76 in #481

Compare, Restrict Editing and AutoCorrect Options dialogs (#412) by @vangel76 in #476

Editing fixes: Center range, undo grouping, Change Case runs and offsets, Bold undo at caret (#418, #419, #420, #421, #424) by @vangel76 in #477

Layout fixes: mirrored margins, tall headers/footers push the body, endnote continuation, footnote caret on continuation pages (#452, #453, #454, #456, #457) by @vangel76 in #490

Chinese interface: keep a system CJK fallback after the bundled face; find PingFang on macOS 12 (#486) by @vangel76 in #495

Fixes: tracked paste marks, plain paste blank lines, paragraph marks in Replace All, Delete/Split columns and cells, Font dialog (#417, #422, #423, #431, #432, #466) by @vangel76 in #479

Fixes: footnotes in table cells, NUMPAGES, bookmark link pages, bookmark around final table, INCLUDEPICTURE results by @vangel76 in #483

Accessibility: the document canvas exposes its text to screen readers (#488) by @vangel76 in #489

Font list: installed Chinese fonts are listed, by their Chinese names in a Chinese interface (#505) by @vangel76 in #506

Paragraph dialog: mirror indents, same-style spacing, suppress line numbers, don't hyphenate (#512) by @vangel76 in #519

Right-click on a picture or shape: Wrap Text submenu (#513) by @vangel76 in #521

File › Options: Word's panes with working settings (#485) by @vangel76 in #492

Templates and Add-ins: attached template, update styles, Organizer (#377) by @vangel76 in #382

Vertical text for sections (w:textDirection) (#491) by @vangel76 in #496

Outline view: Outlining tab, levels, collapse/expand, Show Level (#493) by @vangel76 in #499

Insert › SmartArt: create and edit list, process, cycle, hierarchy, pyramid, radial, matrix and venn graphics (#497) by @vangel76 in #503

CI: FreeBSD and Windows ARM64 nightly and on release, not per PR by @echelon in #530

README: which AUR package to install (#509) by @dkhlapov in #616

Windows: DX12 starts without shipped DXC DLLs (#603) by @vangel76 in #609

docx: fix clippy large_enum_variant on main by @echelon in #779

Styles: Update to Match Selection takes the selection's formatting (#555) by @vangel76 in #562

AutoFormat: +---+ tables, arrow bullets, smileys inside words, border-line undo (#546) by @vangel76 in #547

Find and Replace: special characters (^p, ^t, …) and wildcards (#543) by @vangel76 in #553

Mini toolbar: every button fits, flush font box, proper dropdown arrows, dark-mode font list (#535) by @vangel76 in #540

Fonts: system fallback reads each font file once (#605) by @vangel76 in #610

Numbering: Chinese, Japanese and Korean number formats (一、二、三 …) (#534) by @vangel76 in #561

Font dialog: separate Asian and Latin text fonts (#505) by @vangel76 in #536

Chinese documents: character-unit indents, .doc indents and line spacing, floating tables, blank pages (#534) by @vangel76 in #550

DOCX: theme colours and theme fonts take precedence over the fixed values, as in Word by @LloydNicholson in #626

Open and save Word XML Document (Flat OPC); open Word 2003 XML (#548) by @vangel76 in #560

Find: each Find Next in the dialog moves one match (#468) by @alexanderalber in #556

Contributors: add my own entry (alexanderalber) by @alexanderalber in #566

IME composition text uses document fallback fonts instead of boxes (#565) by @MarekSpodBiedry in #578

Layout › Page Setup: the group launcher opens the Page Setup dialog (#471) by @alexanderalber in #563

Web: a CSV picked as recipients no longer turns the next TXT drop into recipients (#472) by @MarekSpodBiedry in #579

Zotero: a pending citation no longer edits a replacement document (#470) by @MarekSpodBiedry in #580

Zotero: a note with a picture stays when its citation moves to body text (#469) by @MarekSpodBiedry in #581

Pictures in headers/footers can be moved, resized and rotated by @DevCoderMax in #591

Paragraph dialog: OK keeps Exactly and At Least line spacing (#467) by @alexanderalber in #564

rustdoc: no links to private items in the UI crate (#665) by @dkhlapov in #683

Brand licence: name WordCraft, not DesignCraft (#664) by @dkhlapov in #682

Fonts: Palatino Linotype / Book Antiqua prefer Palatino look-alikes (#670) by @vangel76 in #677

fix(docx): preserve omitted paragraph defaults by @OPUZZLES in #647

Drag after a double/triple-click extends the selection by words/paragraphs (#549) by @dkhlapov in #649

Open playlists and other text files (.m3u, .m3u8, .log, .ini, …) (#569) by @dkhlapov in #648

Table: a vertical merge lays out and hit-tests as one cell (#640) by @vangel76 in #669

DOCX diagrams: theme-styled shapes and connectors, arrowheads, canvases, VML lines (#611) by @dkhlapov in #671

Complex scripts: shape Myanmar, Khmer and Indic text; caret and line breaks respect syllables (#604) by @dkhlapov in #652

More Colors… and a Colors dialog for custom colours (#606) by @dkhlapov in #666

Print: preview, page range, copies and collate on File > Print (#641) by @vangel76 in #674

Print Markup: comments in PDF, print, images and text copies (#589) by @dkhlapov in #667

Design tab: style set gallery gets its own box, no overlap with Colors and Fonts (#638) by @vangel76 in #673

Security: pictures travel in the reply, exported links keep only safe targets (#678, #679) by @petycomp in #681

docs: fix coordination error in ROADMAP.md by @lunar-me in #715

Release workflow: pass the Azure signing secrets by @echelon in #752

layout: make Myanmar fallback tests deterministic by @echelon in #807

View: Hide White Space between pages in Print Layout (#645) by @vangel76 in #684

Add fonts at run time: Add Font…, drop a font file, font.add (#582) by @dkhlapov in #668

References › Table of Authorities: labelled Insert, plus Update Table (#661) by @dkhlapov in #693

Input field borders reach 3:1 contrast in both themes (#657) by @dkhlapov in #696

Pictures: WMF drawings fill their frame like Word plays them by @naxvog in #739

Ink: draw the live pen stroke in the dark-page colour while drawing, not only after lifting the pen (#730) by @MarekSpodBiedry in #746

Backspace still erases while Shift is held (#707) by @MarekSpodBiedry in #747

Dark theme: readable text on the accent (#655) by @dkhlapov in #704

Let dialogs be dragged by their title bar instead of pinning them to the screen centre (#732) by @MarekSpodBiedry in #748

Layout: multiple line spacing adds its leading below the text, like Word by @naxvog in #719

Web: add wordcraft.ico as favicon via Trunk by @GhostMitra in #717

Track Changes: deletions in balloons (Show revisions in balloons now work) by @Matty-PW in #734

Layout: a page total in the footer no longer lays the body out twice (#771) by @dkhlapov in #773

speech: launch Windows PowerShell by full path for Read Aloud by @SteamSmith in #792

Save As: a bare filename typed in the dialog now saves correctly (#689) by @notdezzi in #757

Selection: dragging past the viewport edge auto-scrolls (#688) by @notdezzi in #758

#755: Line Numbers and Hyphenation measure in the Options unit by @edurbs in #795

M8.1: Bibliography DOCX round-trip: support extended fields (#410) and upstream sync (#532) by @yefan911 in #790

Ruler: the horizontal scale mirrors for right-to-left paragraphs (#692) by @notdezzi in #756

Ribbon and context-menu Paste insert the system clipboard's text (#584) by @MarekSpodBiedry in #593

MacOS window close by @nusenyaw66 in #539

fix: protect original files during native saves by @OPUZZLES in #621

Caret: glide and fade like Word for Windows; File › Options › Advanced › Animation turns it off by @arcanii in #570

Linux: open/save works without a portal file dialog (#576) by @vangel76 in #583

Accessibility Options: Animation effects setting that follows the system by @JeremyYao in #791

fix(docx): preserve custom XML stores through saves by @OPUZZLES in #612

Tables: resize by dragging column borders, row borders and the corner handle (#217) by @rabis7575 in #600

fix(docx): preserve unstyled TOC result ranges by @OPUZZLES in #617

.doc import: inline pictures, floating pictures and basic shapes (#551) by @vangel76 in #558

i18n: add Italian interface (it) by @fabiodalez-dev in #598

Add German (de) interface language by @arekown in #574

M15: Polish interface, and Polish spelling, grammar and hyphenation by @witkowski01 in #346

i18n: add Czech (cs) interface translation by @DanielKnourek in #387

Linux: the display theme asks the desktop, not winit by @gyurix in #298

Fix CJK fallback mixing serif/sans faces within one run by @jeleesky in #567

Open Word documents with WordCraft by default (file associations + Options button) by @vangel76 in #304

Tests: linear-time checks measure CPU time, robust under load by @echelon in #850

Linux: default to XWayland for file drag-and-drop on Wayland desktops by @dylanmtaylor in #220

Preserve independent complex-script formatting during DOCX round trips by @shirizhaki in #366

Numeral display modes: Arabic, Hindi, Context and System digits (view.numeral) by @abdo4312 in #501

Fix bulleted list toolbar button active state by @Cyberverse-cent0 in #651

web: use File System Access API showSaveFilePicker with download fallback by @GhostMitra in #728

Backstage: add Save As page and close on successful save by @GhostMitra in #727

Fix sentence-capitalization suggestions after ellipses by @ripdog in #742

Fix paragraph alignment focus by @Osaym in #690

ui-egui: fix Windows clippy in desktop_theme by @echelon in #872

Interface colours come from the theme (#656) by @dkhlapov in #705

Dark theme: gallery previews no longer bright white (#663) by @dkhlapov in #706

Skip non-English runs in proofing instead of flagging them (#100) by @regalf in #741

Added some fixes to the spanish "Info" Page on Wordcraft by @SammyL-eo in #695

One drop-down marker on every ribbon button (#659) by @dkhlapov in #697

Menu buttons grey out while their command is disabled (#658) by @dkhlapov in #698

Ribbon: large-button labels end above the group titles (#653) by @dkhlapov in #699

Layout › Paragraph: fields fit above the title and line up (#654) by @dkhlapov in #703

KeyTips: Quick Access Toolbar badges, saved option and native Alt fix (#620) by @m1ssha in #709

Add paginated Reading Mode with smooth column navigation by @ripdog in #740

i18n: add French (fr) interface by @pechnikov2026-star in #729

i18n(hu): complete the Hungarian catalog again by @Skaywalker in #842

Bidi: auto-detect RTL paragraph direction when typing Kurdish, Arabic and Hebrew by @Hevarh1 in #713

Layout: an inline picture wider than the text keeps its size, like Word by @naxvog in #745

Fix Navigation pane expanding for long headings by @ripdog in #759

i18n: complete Turkish interface catalog with 2,170 entries and full … by @yeniufuklar-com in #774

MCP: confine file access with --automation-read-root and --automation-write-root (#769) by @isaac-levine in #798

Persist the custom dictionary across sessions (#40) by @regalf in #796

DOCX: preserve native Word ink on save by @OPUZZLES in #592

AutoCorrect: TWo INitial CApitals, cAPS LOCK and table-cell capitals (#544) by @vangel76 in #545

Affix engine: FLAG UTF-8, 128 flag bits, continuation classes, FORBIDDENWORD (#100) by @edurbs in #782

Portuguese proofing: pt-BR spelling, suggestions, grammar and hyphenation (#100) by @edurbs in #797

Hyphenation: Bulgarian text follows the Bulgarian syllable rules by @bulgariamitko in #826

i18n: add Bulgarian (bg) interface translation by @bulgariamitko in #825

ODT import reads page size, orientation and margins from styles.xml (#810) by @MarekSpodBiedry in #829

Paste keeps other programs' formatting; clipboard pictures on Wayland (#687, #833) by @dkhlapov in #847

New documents follow the system region: A4, centimetres and decimal comma outside the US (#838) by @dkhlapov in #857

Ctrl/⌘+F focuses the Find box, so typing searches (#772) by @Yasas-Sri in #823

Comment cards show the time as well as the date (#812) by @MarekSpodBiedry in #828

fix(ui): equation gallery tiles follow the dark theme (#817) by @MarekSpodBiedry in #827

Accept and Reject at the caret cover a tracked change split by a comment (#809) by @MarekSpodBiedry in #830

Keep the font table and embedded fonts when saving a .docx (#770) by @MarekSpodBiedry in #831

Zoom after One Page keeps one page per row (#768) by @MarekSpodBiedry in #832

Tables: row borders stay apart around a vertical merge (#640) by @rabis7575 in #841

PDF export: internal links in linear time by @echelon in #937

fix(windows): start 32-bit builds on OpenGL so launch no longer exits by @odedigo in #839

Ribbon keytip letters like Word for Windows by @echelon in #922

fix(ui): draw non-Latin file names in the window caption by @odedigo in #840

Table of contents entries drawn plain, as in Word by @echelon in #930

Ribbon groups fit above their labels (View › Show, Developer › Controls, Layout › Paragraph) by @manucarcor in #910

Alt+Q moves to "Tell me" command search (#819) by @dkhlapov in #849

Spaces and tabs don't make a line taller by @echelon in #931

.doc: tab stops and section breaks read correctly by @echelon in #925

Word 365 cover pages: freeforms in groups, text-box margins and Resize to fit (#743) by @dkhlapov in #843

Heading numbers from a style's list level (6.4.5, not 6.15) by @echelon in #926

A list label raises its line, but doesn't deepen it by @echelon in #928

Sorting and table numbers follow the text's language (#836, #837) by @dkhlapov in #844

Hidden end-of-cell marks (hideMark) by @echelon in #939

ROADMAP: progress log table renders again by @echelon in #947

layout tests: fix clippy in a_hidden_cell_mark_takes_no_room by @echelon in #948

Text frames placed like Word's and kept on save by @echelon in #935

List indents and style indents combine like Word by @echelon in #927

AutoCorrect: the English replacement list applies only to English text (#835) by @dkhlapov in #846

Keep with next splits a paragraph that doesn't fit anyway by @echelon in #933

Start on File › Home when launched with nothing to open (#766) by @dkhlapov in #853

An empty continuous section mark takes no room by @echelon in #940

Undo history list beside the Quick Access Toolbar's Undo (#701) by @dkhlapov in #855

Paragraph-relative floats start above the space before by @echelon in #941

i18n(es): translate the equation gallery and built-in style names by @diegozpy in #854

Text after a column break uses the new column's width by @echelon in #934

Space before at the top of a page like Word by @echelon in #932

Tables: select, insert and move with the mouse; double-click a border to AutoFit by @rabis7575 in #637

Kerning and automatic paragraph spacing like Word by @echelon in #923

No automatic spacing between list items by @echelon in #924

Shift+F10 opens the context menu at the caret (#821) by @echelon in #920

Tables: the right-click menu offers the table's commands by @rabis7575 in #694

Tables: drags and Shift+arrows over cells select whole cells by @rabis7575 in #722

Rulers: table column and row markers; indents in a cell measured from it by @rabis7575 in #710

Alt+Q opens Search like Word (#819) by @echelon in #919

Tables: Ctrl, Alt, left-edge and selected-cells border drags by @rabis7575 in #720

Ctrl+F searches in the Navigation pane; one Find and Replace dialog (#712) by @echelon in #921

Fonts: documents use the craft-fonts Simplified Chinese face (fixes FreeBSD CI after #567) by @dkhlapov in #888

Smooth scrolling through a very large table (#811) by @dkhlapov in #891

Save Changes prompt answers from the keyboard (#861) by @dkhlapov in #870

Section breaks no longer delete the selected text (#852) by @dkhlapov in #875

Click in the left margin selects lines (selection bar) (#856) by @dkhlapov in #879

New Contributors

@diegozpy made their first contribution in #514

@PbyLoyth made their first contribution in #494

@dylanmtaylor made their first contribution in #639

@alexanderalber made their first contribution in #556

@DevCoderMax made their first contribution in #591

@OPUZZLES made their first contribution in #647

@petycomp made their first contribution in #681

@lunar-me made their first contribution in #715

@GhostMitra made their first contribution in #717

@Matty-PW made their first contribution in #734

@SteamSmith made their first contribution in #792

@notdezzi made their first contribution in #757

@yefan911 made their first contribution in #790

@nusenyaw66 made their first contribution in #539

@arcanii made their first contribution in #570

@JeremyYao made their first contribution in #791

@rabis7575 made their first contribution in #600

@fabiodalez-dev made their first contribution in #598

@arekown made their first contribution in #574

@DanielKnourek made their first contribution in #387

@gyurix made their first contribution in #298

@jeleesky made their first contribution in #567

@shirizhaki made their first contribution in #366

@abdo4312 made their first contribution in #501

@Cyberverse-cent0 made their first contribution in #651

@ripdog made their first contribution in #742

@Osaym made their first contribution in #690

@regalf made their first contribution in #741

@SammyL-eo made their first contribution in #695

@m1ssha made their first contribution in #709

@pechnikov2026-star made their first contribution in #729

@Skaywalker made their first contribution in #842

@Hevarh1 made their first contribution in #713

@yeniufuklar-com made their first contribution in #774

@isaac-levine made their first contribution in #798

@bulgariamitko made their first contribution in #826

@Yasas-Sri made their first contribution in #823

@odedigo made their first contribution in #839

@manucarcor made their first contribution in #910

Full Changelog: v0.5.0...v0.6.1
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wordcraft by storytold

WordCraft v0.5.0

wordcraft releases a major update with stronger Word and document-format compatibility, richer editing and layout tools, and new drawing, equation, table, and review features. It also adds language support, usability improvements, and a Linux riscv64 build.
What's Changed

Typing parity with Word: lists, AutoFormat and AutoCorrect as you type by @echelon in #204

Desktop: keep the off-screen check until the monitor size is known (#23) by @MarekSpodBiedry in #76

DOCX: keep a line break written directly in a paragraph (#96) by @MarekSpodBiedry in #101

Page break (Ctrl+Enter) survives ODT/TXT/Markdown/HTML export and no longer glues words (#84) by @MarekSpodBiedry in #86

HTML import: tables without borders stay borderless in .docx (#99) by @MarekSpodBiedry in #102

Control server closes on non-JSON input; hyperlinks follow only http/https/mailto (#34) by @dkhlapov in #72

Tests: don't read the sample document aloud on every run by @goldsbd in #75

Import: HTML without keeps its body; RTF pictures inside \shppict are kept by @goldsbd in #154

M6: TOC follow-ups from #52 review, and a whole TOC heading in LibreOffice by @goldsbd in #74

Dark page: View › Switch Modes shows the page dark with inverted colours by @gledguri in #194

Reject unknown WordCraft CLI options before side effects by @cyfung1031 in #166

Issue #126: Web hosting guide no longer lists the unsupported ?cpu renderer flag by @LloydNicholson in #177

PDF: draw fonts krilla can't subset as outlines instead of failing by @naxvog in #132

Lists: honour a list's own level definitions (w:lvlOverride/w:lvl) by @naxvog in #134

Add Brazilian Portuguese (pt-br) interface translation by @edurbs in #128

Desktop: send the window title only when it changes, so an idle app stops redrawing (#117) by @g1obalworlds in #180

Zoom the page with Ctrl+scroll and pinch (#139) by @Geljic in #179

Find/Replace skips text deleted under Track Changes (#89); a failed command keeps undo history by @goldsbd in #153

Find and Replace: Replace All now respects Track Changes (#88) by @MarekSpodBiedry in #92

#147: wire Picture Format UI for inserted pictures by @gittonyp in #150

DOCX: keep a .docm's macros and signatures on save; right content types for .docm/.dotx/.dotm by @goldsbd in #172

M2: styles.apply (Apply Styles) command; parity 355/405 by @StrajnarFilip in #114

Tables: draw style borders when w:tblBorders is empty (#143) by @edurbs in #148

Lists: a numbered list after a bulleted list keeps its numbering in ODT, RTF and Markdown (#83) by @MarekSpodBiedry in #87

Control port: require a per-window key (split from #54) by @lpgn in #124

DOCX: a style's East Asian / complex-script font no longer replaces the Latin font (#93) by @LloydNicholson in #111

Issue #174: Footnotes and endnotes from Word files show their number by @LloydNicholson in #103

PDF: put the shown text of fields and note numbers in the text layer by @naxvog in #133

LaTeX (.tex) import and export (#7) by @DWAA1660 in #11

Add Spanish interface language, and make ribbon overflow visible by @GeronimoCastano in #129

Layout: place floating pictures and shapes the way Word does by @naxvog in #136

Tables: Word 2013 table edge, and floating tables (w:tblpPr) by @naxvog in #137

Character border (Home > Font > Character Border) by @999sian in #60

Align WordCraft page rasters to physical texels by @cyfung1031 in #165

Add Ukrainian (uk) interface translation by @dmatviichuk in #91

Layout: picture line heights, body top below the header, table row heights by @naxvog in #138

Render: draw on-screen text like macOS, on whole pixels by @ssamstudio in #110

Layout: shrink spaces in justified lines like Word 2013+ (compatibility mode 15) by @ssamstudio in #109

HTML import: pictures referenced by a relative path are embedded (#98) by @LloydNicholson in #113

UI: keytips, mini-toolbar, ribbon overflow, macOS typography by @chiranjeevi-max in #43

Desktop and web: ask to save changes before New, Open or Close; AutoSave only files you saved by @goldsbd in #151

Envelopes, Labels, Finish & Merge: ask to save changes first (depends on #151) by @goldsbd in #171

Hidden text: no line breaks, hyphens, wrap areas or bookmark text from text that isn't shown (builds on #152) by @goldsbd in #173

Zotero integration: cite while you write, with a Zotero tab by @gledguri in #189

Read Aloud: player with speed control, sentence skipping, skips citations by @gledguri in #190

Import Word 97-2003 .doc files (#28) by @edurbs in #145

Text boxes and floating objects: editing, drag/resize, wrapping, overflow, footnotes by @WeebLabs in #46

Issue #175: Tables: cell text takes its table style's formatting; derived table styles keep their base by @LloydNicholson in #104

Equations: Word (OMML) import, layout and save, plus an equation editor like Word's by @gledguri in #191

Track changes: keep other authors' deletions, credit paragraph splits, exact edit snapshots (split from #54) by @lpgn in #125

Right-to-left and Persian text support (bidi, shaping, RTL paragraphs, DOCX) by @saeedemperor in #207

macOS: open documents from Finder, the Dock and open -a (#27) by @LloydNicholson in #223

Use the browser clock for comment and tracked-change dates on the web by @itrycodinganditsbad in #214

Shift+F3 runs Change Case again, not Find Previous (#186) by @vangel76 in #221

web: print straight to the system print dialog, not just export by @Dejan-Port in #209

Headless: name the author of tracked changes, and list review.trackChanges' value param by @vangel76 in #224

Cross-references point at real bookmarks, and Update Field refreshes them by @vangel76 in #227

Tests: shapes and pictures can be clicked, resized, dragged and nudged (#142, #82) by @vangel76 in #228

DOCX: absolutely positioned VML text boxes float instead of pushing the body down (#149) by @vangel76 in #242

Add a System interface theme that follows the OS light/dark appearance (#115) by @vangel76 in #249

Reject All removes paragraph breaks inserted with Track Changes on by @vangel76 in #244

Web: use the browser clock everywhere on wasm (follow-up to #214) by @dkhlapov in #230

On macOS, the window buttons sit centred in the title bar and the File back button no longer crowds them by @vangel76 in #255

File ▸ Home and File ▸ New are no longer the same page (#141) by @vangel76 in #254

Zoomed out, pages sit side by side in rows, like Print Layout in Word by @vangel76 in #251

Windows installer: show a finish page after installing (#198) by @vangel76 in #257

Font picker: build only the visible rows, cache font fallbacks (#121, #59) by @dkhlapov in #233

Contributors: add dkhlapov by @dkhlapov in #238

Font list offers every installed weight (Light, Medium, SemiBold, Black…), as Word does by @vangel76 in #239

Chinese interface shows every character instead of boxes on Windows by @vangel76 in #248

Table Layout › Text Direction turns the cell's text (#226) by @vangel76 in #245

File dialogs (Open, Save As, Export) no longer freeze the window on Linux (#94) by @vangel76 in #246

Select Recipients lets you type a list or pick a CSV, instead of a parameters error by @vangel76 in #247

Mailings: Start Mail Merge and Rules open menus, and Match Fields and Check for Errors show what they found by @vangel76 in #259

Touchpad scrolling follows your fingers and coasts after a flick; the mouse wheel scrolls further (#122) by @vangel76 in #252

View tab: Zoom In/Out buttons that step from the shown zoom (#67) by @dkhlapov in #232

View › Gridlines shows the page grid; Table Layout › View Gridlines outlines table cells (#69) by @vangel76 in #243

Create and modify your own table styles, and they stay in the .docx (#146) by @vangel76 in #256

Advanced Find: every match, Reading Highlight, search within a selection by @dkhlapov in #234

Paste Special: paste as formatted text, RTF, HTML or unformatted text by @dkhlapov in #235

Style Inspector: pane, styles.inspect query and per-level clearing by @dkhlapov in #236

Column Selection: Alt+drag or Ctrl+Shift+F8 selects a block of text by @dkhlapov in #237

i18n: add Serbian, both scripts (sr, sr-latn) by @Dejan-Port in #250

Tests: layout and PDF tests no longer depend on the fonts installed on the machine; PDF text of field results keeps ligature letters by @vangel76 in #261

File › Info keeps the Title, Author and other properties you type, and browser saves update the revision and modified stamps (#260, #262) by @vangel76 in #268

Show/Hide ¶: paragraph mark no longer overlaps text in mixed-direction paragraphs by @vangel76 in #278

Progress docs: re-measure against Word 16.113.4 (alpha, ~60% ready for real work) to the craftrules standard by @echelon in #277

i18n: translate the remaining untranslated interface strings; test the font fallback cache with legacy names by @echelon in #276

Desktop: File › Print opens the document in the system PDF viewer for printing by @vangel76 in #286

Tables: autofit by content, and floating tables inside cells by @naxvog in #291

Pictures: draw WMF and EMF pictures instead of a grey box by @naxvog in #293

Tests: the floating header text box test passes on FreeBSD (no font-dependent numbers) by @vangel76 in #284

Gridlines: the document's own grid spacing, and table gridlines on by default (follow-up to #243) by @dkhlapov in #283

Edit comments right in their balloons, and drag page margins on the ruler by @vangel76 in #289

Charts and SmartArt: draw them instead of dropping them by @naxvog in #292

Table sizing: Height/Width boxes, AutoFit to contents and a Table Properties dialog by @vangel76 in #287

Clipboard pane: the last 24 things you copied or cut, ready to paste again by @vangel76 in #264

Table styles: format every region with a live preview, delete your own styles, and see new ones first (#146) by @vangel76 in #263

Manage your styles: list, preview, delete and show or hide them in the gallery (#266) by @vangel76 in #270

Paste pictures from the clipboard: screenshots, Copy Image and copied picture files (#45) by @vangel76 in #272

Paragraph dialog gets an Asian Typography tab; layout honours kinsoku and mid-word Latin wrapping (#269) by @vangel76 in #271

Group and ungroup pictures, shapes and text boxes (Layout › Arrange › Group) by @vangel76 in #267

Shape Effects: shadow, glow and soft edges for shapes by @vangel76 in #280

UI: draw icons instead of symbols the interface fonts lack (✕ ✎ 💬 ➕ 📂 ⋯ ➢) by @dkhlapov in #305

AutoSave switch is greyed out, with the reason, when AutoSave can't save by @vangel76 in #302

UI: hover and pressed feedback for the drawn icon buttons (follow-up to #305) by @dkhlapov in #314

Re-land #264, #263, #270, #271, #267, #280 (their squash merges came out empty) by @echelon in #323

Open and save password-protected Word documents (#55) by @vangel76 in #281

Windows: smooth again on older graphics without a DirectX 12 driver by @vangel76 in #325

System interface theme follows OS changes again, and Dark page no longer darkens the interface by @vangel76 in #317

Long display equations wrap across lines like Word by @vangel76 in #329

Tests: equation-wrap test passes without a math font (FreeBSD CI red) by @echelon in #348

Rotate and flip pictures, shapes and text boxes freely by @vangel76 in #340

Define New Multilevel List and Track Changes Options dialogs by @vangel76 in #342

Equation gallery: group multi-letter operands in two templates (Yields, n×n Matrix) by @dkhlapov in #347

Import: hostile Markdown and HTML no longer take quadratic time by @g1obalworlds in #355

Long footnotes continue onto the next page by @vangel76 in #357

Charts, SmartArt and OLE objects are no longer lost when you save a .docx by @vangel76 in #333

Columns, Symbol and Field dialogs by @vangel76 in #335

Tabs and Borders and Shading dialogs by @vangel76 in #327

Bump quick-xml to 0.41: the namespace-declaration DoS was reachable (RUSTSEC-2026-0195) by @pkibiego in #363

Draw tables and split or merge cells with a pen and eraser by @vangel76 in #308

Draw tab: draw with pen, pencil and highlighter, erase ink, and hide ink by @vangel76 in #315

i18n: send interface text that skipped translation through the catalog by @dkhlapov in #313

Add Estonian interface translation by @henno in #294

Type in the font box to find a font by @vangel76 in #367

Rotated or flipped OLE objects keep their turn when saved to .docx by @vangel76 in #370

Layout: a drop cap in a font over 1000 pt no longer panics by @g1obalworlds in #389

Layout and render: extreme page numbers and wave borders no longer overflow or run away by @g1obalworlds in #393

Tables: Delete Columns never leaves a table with no rows by @g1obalworlds in #397

Track Changes: formatting revisions (w:rPrChange/w:pPrChange) (#41) by @vangel76 in #399

Bump version to 0.5.0; add Linux riscv64 release build by @echelon in #394

New Contributors

@gledguri made their first contribution in #194

@cyfung1031 made their first contribution in #166

@LloydNicholson made their first contribution in #177

@naxvog made their first contribution in #132

@edurbs made their first contribution in #128

@g1obalworlds made their first contribution in #180

@Geljic made their first contribution in #179

@gittonyp made their first contribution in #150

@StrajnarFilip made their first contribution in #114

@lpgn made their first contribution in #124

@GeronimoCastano made their first contribution in #129

@999sian made their first contribution in #60

@dmatviichuk made their first contribution in #91

@ssamstudio made their first contribution in #110

@chiranjeevi-max made their first contribution in #43

@WeebLabs made their first contribution in #46

@saeedemperor made their first contribution in #207

@itrycodinganditsbad made their first contribution in #214

@vangel76 made their first contribution in #221

@Dejan-Port made their first contribution in #209

@pkibiego made their first contribution in #363

@henno made their first contribution in #294

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WordCraft v0.4.0

wordcraft releases updates that improve document formatting, fix DOCX footnotes and tables of contents, and add interface language selection. It also remembers desktop settings and user names, with smoother controls and improved Windows and macOS support.
What's Changed

Apply heading/Title clears a paragraph's list numbering by @justinjohn0306 in #13

Layout: first-page header test no longer depends on installed fonts by @dkhlapov in #65

Fix font dropdown hang caused by nested egui context lock by @DWAA1660 in #9

Ctrl+-, Ctrl+= and Ctrl+0 no longer zoom the whole window (#14) by @MarekSpodBiedry in #36

Ruler: dragging an indent marker is one undo step (#57) by @MarekSpodBiedry in #62

Windows MSI: give WordCraft its own UpgradeCode (fixes #4) by @DWAA1660 in #10

M6: footnotes no longer cite themselves in saved .docx files by @goldsbd in #53

draw Symbol and Wingdings bullets as Unicode when the font is missing (#29) by @MarekSpodBiedry in #37

Default Windows startup to DirectX 12 by @DWAA1660 in #50

Options: remember the user name between runs (#32) by @MarekSpodBiedry in #35

M6: TOC page numbers, and save the TOC as a field Word can update by @goldsbd in #52

Desktop: remember the window size and position (#23) by @MarekSpodBiedry in #38

macOS DMG: branded window background and icon layout by @XusBadia in #21

Desktop: write log records to standard error and a rotating log file by @switch87 in #17

Interface languages: follow the system language, or pick one (#8) by @DWAA1660 in #12

New Contributors

@justinjohn0306 made their first contribution in #13

@dkhlapov made their first contribution in #65

@DWAA1660 made their first contribution in #9

@MarekSpodBiedry made their first contribution in #36

@goldsbd made their first contribution in #53

@XusBadia made their first contribution in #21

@switch87 made their first contribution in #17

Full Changelog: v0.3.0...v0.4.0
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WordCraft v0.3.0

wordcraft releases Flatpak and AppImage builds with zsync auto-updates, plus Windows-first build guidance and contributor credits.
What's Changed

About: contributor and model credits compiled in (grab bag + table, self-submitted names) by @echelon in #6

Release: Flatpak x86_64 + aarch64, AppImage zsync auto-update, README Downloads by @echelon in #22

README Downloads: where to get it, then builds (Windows first) by @echelon in #26

Full Changelog: v0.1.0...v0.3.0

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WordCraft v0.1.0

wordcraft releases v0.1.0, with shipped changes listed in its full changelog.

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