Control panel fields: Escape reverts any typed value; parity docs for the text modes

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

ROADMAP.md

@@ -349,8 +349,8 @@ list) · [roadmap.md](docs/roadmap.md) (milestones, plan) · [parity-checklist.m
 Newest first.
 
 - **2026-10-21** · The text Control panel has InDesign's two modes: A (Character Formatting Controls: font and style, size and leading, All Caps/Superscript/Underline and Small Caps/Subscript/Strikethrough, kerning and tracking, vertical and horizontal scale, baseline shift and skew, character style and language) and ¶ (Paragraph Formatting Controls: the nine alignments, left/first line and right/last line indents, space before and after, the drop cap's lines and characters, paragraph style, Hyphenate and Align to Baseline Grid). It used to show a fixed mix of both. Found in the Learn Skills Daily course, chapter 16. No readiness percentage change.
-- **2026-10-20** · With the Type tool, the Control panel's font size, leading and tracking fields have a spinner and a list of common values, as in InDesign (auto leading in parentheses). No readiness percentage change.
 - **2026-10-21** · Properties › Character and Paragraph: ••• (More Options) expands the section in place, as InDesign's: Character adds vertical and horizontal scale, baseline shift, skew, language and OpenType, and All Caps, Small Caps, Superscript, Subscript, Underline and Strikethrough; Paragraph adds the left, right, first line and last line indents, space before and after, the drop cap's lines and characters, Align to Baseline Grid and Hyphenate. It used to open the Character or Paragraph panel; the language field moved under ••• as in InDesign. Found in the Learn Skills Daily course, chapter 16. No readiness percentage change.
+- **2026-10-20** · With the Type tool, the Control panel's font size, leading and tracking fields have a spinner and a list of common values, as in InDesign (auto leading in parentheses). No readiness percentage change.
 - **2026-10-16** · Type › Reload Fonts (`font.reload`): fonts installed, edited or removed while DesignCraft runs are read again without a restart, and the open documents recompose with them (#328, #547). An edited font file is noticed by its length and modification time; bundled, added and document fonts stay as they are. InDesign does this by itself, so noticing changes automatically is still open (gap 6). No readiness percentage change.
 - **2026-10-16** · Parents can be deleted from their Pages-panel context menu or `layout.parents.delete {id}`. Applied-page and based-on references are cleared, local override copies survive, and Undo restores the parent. Addresses the deletion portion of #956; no readiness percentage change.
 - **2026-10-17** · File › Package writes the document's and the IDML's links relative to the package (`Links/logo.png`, `file:Links/logo.png`), so a package holds no path from the machine that made it; opening a document resolves them to the files beside it. Links › Copy Link(s) To still links by full path. (#340). No readiness percentage change.

crates/ui-egui/src/chrome.rs

@@ -1643,6 +1643,22 @@ mod tests {
         h.key_press(egui::Key::Escape);
         h.run_steps(3);
         assert_eq!(h.state().app.session.doc().unwrap().doc.story(sid).unwrap().format_after(0).over.leading, auto, "Escape leaves it automatic");
+        // Escape also reverts a different number, in the leading field and in a plain one. (It
+        // leaves the text too, so each try selects it again.)
+        for (shown, typed) in [("(87.6 pt)", "20"), ("73 pt", "50")] {
+            h.state_mut().app.run("text.select", serde_json::json!({"story": f["story"], "anchor": 0, "focus": 8})).unwrap();
+            h.state_mut().app.session.set_tool("type");
+            h.run_steps(3);
+            let r = field(&h, shown);
+            press(&mut h, r.center());
+            h.run_steps(2);
+            h.event(egui::Event::Key { key: egui::Key::A, physical_key: None, pressed: true, repeat: false, modifiers: egui::Modifiers::COMMAND });
+            h.event(egui::Event::Text(typed.into()));
+            h.key_press(egui::Key::Escape);
+            h.run_steps(3);
+        }
+        assert_eq!(h.state().app.session.doc().unwrap().doc.story(sid).unwrap().format_after(0).over.leading, auto, "still automatic");
+        assert_eq!(size_of(&h), Some(73.0), "the size is unchanged");
     }
 
     /// The course's chapter 16: the text Control panel has InDesign's two modes. A shows the

crates/ui-egui/src/widgets.rs

@@ -228,10 +228,12 @@ impl<'a> NumField<'a> {
         }
         if r.lost_focus() {
             // An automatic value (in parentheses) typed over commits even when it's the same
-            // number: typing "14.4 pt" over "(14.4 pt)" makes it a fixed value. Escape cancels it.
+            // number: typing "14.4 pt" over "(14.4 pt)" makes it a fixed value. Escape reverts
+            // whatever was typed, as in InDesign.
             let escaped = ui.input(|i| i.key_pressed(egui::Key::Escape));
-            let typed_over_auto = self.parens && !escaped && !buf.trim_start().starts_with('(');
-            if let Some(v) = self.parse(&buf).map(clamp)
+            let typed_over_auto = self.parens && !buf.trim_start().starts_with('(');
+            if escaped {
+            } else if let Some(v) = self.parse(&buf).map(clamp)
                 && (typed_over_auto || self.value.is_none_or(|old| (old - v).abs() > 1e-9))
             {
                 out = Some(v);

docs/ui-parity.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # UI and interaction parity
 
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-15 · **Change:** minor (live corners work; document views row: scrollbars, Alt pans while editing text; Tabs panel listed as present (#343); spring-loaded Zoom navigation; paragraph style override feedback and clearing) · **Target:** Adobe InDesign 2026 (21.6, Medium Dark, macOS)
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-21 · **Change:** minor (text Control panel Character/Paragraph modes; Properties ••• expands Character and Paragraph; live corners work; document views row: scrollbars, Alt pans while editing text; Tabs panel listed as present (#343); spring-loaded Zoom navigation; paragraph style override feedback and clearing) · **Target:** Adobe InDesign 2026 (21.6, Medium Dark, macOS)
 
 Tools, handles, snapping, nudging, modifiers, shortcuts, panels, menus, context menus and feel,
 against InDesign 2026. The look was measured from the running app
@@ -26,8 +26,8 @@ basics of editing fail for too many users on Windows and Linux.
 
 | Area | InDesign 2026 | DesignCraft | Status | Evidence |
 |---|---|---|---|---|
-| Chrome: app bar, Control panel, Tools panel, dock, doc tabs, status bar | Medium Dark, measured sizes | measured look | ✓ | 11-observed-ui.md |
-| Properties panel and Contextual Task Bar | per selection | ✓, task bar movable (#143) | ✓ | |
+| Chrome: app bar, Control panel, Tools panel, dock, doc tabs, status bar | Medium Dark, measured sizes | measured look; the text Control panel switches between Character (A) and Paragraph (¶) Formatting Controls, and Escape in a field reverts what was typed | ✓ | 11-observed-ui.md; Learn Skills Daily course, chapter 16 |
+| Properties panel and Contextual Task Bar | per selection | ✓, task bar movable (#143); ••• expands Character (scales, baseline shift, skew, language, case and position buttons) and Paragraph (indents, spacing, drop cap, baseline grid, hyphenation) in place | ✓ | Learn Skills Daily course, chapter 16 |
 | Selection tool: click, marquee, move, Alt-duplicate, resize handles, rotate from corners | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Cmd/Ctrl held with another tool borrows the selection tool used last (Selection or Direct Selection) for one gesture, #919 |
 | Direct Selection, Pen family, Pencil, Scissors | ✓ | ✓ | ~ | moving reference point "0" fails (#337) |
 | Live corners (yellow handle) | ✓ | ✓ widget on a selected rectangle frame; diamonds drag the corner size (Shift: one corner), Alt-click steps the shape (Shift+Alt: all) | ✓ | #186 |
@@ -122,6 +122,7 @@ covers checking the sampled and redefined settings in the styles tutorial (2:45
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-10-21 | minor | Chrome row: the text Control panel's A/¶ modes; Properties row: ••• expands Character and Paragraph in place |
 | 2026-10-11 | minor | Live corners row to ✓: widget, diamonds, drag, Shift-drag, Alt-click shape cycling (#186) |
 | 2026-10-11 | minor | Added held Cmd+Space / Cmd+Alt+Space Zoom navigation and canvas input regression tests |
 | 2026-10-10 | minor | Threading row corrected to ✗ after checking the code (no out-port interaction, no thread command) |