Type: Digits — Default, Arabic, Hindi and Farsi numeral systems

Adds the Character panel menu's Digits option (with the Middle Eastern /
Indic options, beside Paragraph Direction in the Paragraph panel) as a
character attribute: CharStyle::digits, saved only when set, with
text.setFormat {digits} and text.setRangeStyle {id, start, end, digits}
("default" | "arabic" | "hindi" | "farsi"; a bad value is an error).

Shaping draws every digit of the Western, Arabic-Indic (U+0660–U+0669)
and Eastern Arabic-Indic (U+06F0–U+06F9) sets in the chosen system,
whatever was typed, before font fallback, so a font without the
Arabic-Indic digits gets a fallback for them. The text, its clusters,
the caret, selection and search stay as typed, as with All Caps; SVG
export writes the digits as drawn.

Catalog rows for Digits, Arabic, Hindi and Farsi in the ten translated
languages. Docs: docs/mcp.md (Digits), type-parity.md (digit types
done; Character Direction, kashidas, composers and the split caret
still missing), target-app-parity.md and gaps.md.

Behaviour from the public documentation (a character-level option with
the values Arabic, Hindi and Farsi in the Character panel menu):
https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/desktop/language-and-proofing/arabic-and-hebrew/choose-digit-types.html

Tests: doc (the mapping and serialization), text (glyphs of "page 3" in
Hindi/Farsi equal the typed Arabic-Indic digits' on the typed clusters;
skips without a font covering the three sets), engine (setFormat,
setRangeStyle, undo, error), svg (digits written as drawn), ui-egui
(the menu shows with the Indic options).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- **Missing:** hyphenation and justification options, Optical Margin Alignment (type core); CJK vertical
composition (ruby, mojikumi sets and dialog, kinsoku settings #633, manual tate-chu-yoko), Middle Eastern
features beyond bidi, variable font axes, spell check with an open dictionary,
features beyond bidi and digit types (Character Direction, kashidas, composers), variable font axes, spell check with an open dictionary,
Touch Type, Retype, Snap to Glyph; optional preservation of font sizes during group scaling (#1034 enhancement).
Itemized in [type-parity.md](type-parity.md).
- **Impact:** professional typography and Japanese/Chinese publishing.
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| Date | Change | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-11 | minor | G4: Middle Eastern digit types done (Character panel menu › Digits); estimate unchanged |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | G4: proportional vertical metrics (#966) done; estimate unchanged |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | G11: #893 fixed (merged regions of crossing lines left seams); #937 still open, estimate unchanged |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | #1034: corrected scaled type controls; optional group font-size preservation remains separate. Estimates unchanged at this rounding. |
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{"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"text.setFormat","params":{"proportionalMetrics":true}}}
```
## Digits
`text.setFormat {digits: "default"|"arabic"|"hindi"|"farsi"}` (the selected type, or `ids`) and `text.setRangeStyle {id,
start, end, digits}` (a range) set the numeral system the characters' digits are drawn in, as the Character panel menu's
Digits does with the Middle Eastern (Indic) options shown: `arabic` draws every digit as the Western 0–9, `hindi` as the
Arabic-Indic ٠–٩ (U+0660–U+0669) and `farsi` as the Eastern Arabic-Indic ۰–۹ (U+06F0–U+06F9), whichever of the three sets
was typed; `default` leaves each digit as typed. The text keeps the digits that were typed (`text.get`, search, the
caret and selection are unchanged); only the glyphs change, as with All Caps, and SVG export writes the digits as drawn.
A digit the font lacks comes from a fallback font. Default and saved only when set. One undo step.
```json
{"name":"run_command","arguments":{"command":"text.setFormat","params":{"digits":"hindi"}}}
```
## New type in a Japanese interface
While the interface is in Japanese (Preferences › User Interface › Language, or `auto` on a Japanese system), new type starts with em
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# Parity with Adobe Illustrator
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-11 · **Change:** minor (PDF export warns when the pixel cap lowers raster-effect resolution; Drawing tools: Live Corners round corners between curved sides, #1144; Type advanced: proportional vertical metrics (`vpal`) done, #966; Shape Builder: #893 fixed, merged regions of crossing lines no longer keep seams; scores unchanged while #937 is open; #1034: document-point character controls after object/group scaling; full readiness recomputed as the standard's additive weighted sum, ~62%; per-audience hours; essentials-user score ~75% added; ready-for-real-work re-examined: 50% → 55%, mainstream 65% added; earlier the same day: full re-measure against Illustrator 2026 30.x; merged the ROADMAP's parity estimate, honest assessment and "Shipped so far" into this file) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x; public release notes through 30.7, August 2026)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-11 · **Change:** minor (Type core: Middle Eastern digit types done, Character panel menu › Digits; PDF export warns when the pixel cap lowers raster-effect resolution; Drawing tools: Live Corners round corners between curved sides, #1144; Type advanced: proportional vertical metrics (`vpal`) done, #966; Shape Builder: #893 fixed, merged regions of crossing lines no longer keep seams; scores unchanged while #937 is open; #1034: document-point character controls after object/group scaling; full readiness recomputed as the standard's additive weighted sum, ~62%; per-audience hours; essentials-user score ~75% added; ready-for-real-work re-examined: 50% → 55%, mainstream 65% added; earlier the same day: full re-measure against Illustrator 2026 30.x; merged the ROADMAP's parity estimate, honest assessment and "Shipped so far" into this file) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x; public release notes through 30.7, August 2026)
The authoritative parity assessment. [`ROADMAP.md`](../ROADMAP.md) summarizes it; [`gaps.md`](gaps.md) is
the work list made from it. Deep areas have their own checklists: [UI and interaction](ui-parity.md),
@@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ about 1–1.5 agent-hours each, so the other rows (estimated on the older scale)
| Live vector effects | 5 | 85% | Outline Object, Pathfinder Hard/Soft Mix and Trap, SVG Filters, the Transform effect's Transform Objects/Patterns and Scale Strokes & Effects options | 6–10 |
| Raster effects (Effect Gallery, Document Raster Effects Settings) | 4 | 35% | ~36 Photoshop-style filters (Artistic, Brush Strokes, Sketch, Stylize), Smart Blur's Edge Only / Overlay Edge modes, Glass's and Texturizer's Load Texture and the Effect Gallery; Document Raster Effects Settings, raster effects in PDF, the pixel-filter pipeline, Radial Blur, Smart Blur, Unsharp Mask, Glowing Edges, Distort (Diffuse Glow, Glass, Ocean Ripple), Pixelate (Color Halftone, Crystallize, Mezzotint, Pointillize), Texture (Craquelure, Grain, Mosaic Tiles, Patchwork, Stained Glass, Texturizer) and Video (De-Interlace, NTSC Colors) are done | 19–31 |
| 3D and Materials | 4 | ~8% | Initial Revolve only, with simple lighting and Revolve-specific visible-surface expansion; Extrude & Bevel, Inflate, Rotate, caps, materials, shadows and more complete visibility remain | 45–75 |
| Type core | 9 | 80% | Middle Eastern features beyond bidi layout and Paragraph Direction (Character Direction, digit types, kashidas, the Middle Eastern composers, editable bidirectional SVG text, a split caret where directions meet); Hyphenation… and Justification… options (Every-line Composer for justified and ragged text, per object, is done; it is tuned by eye, not yet compared side by side with Illustrator; mixed type sizes in a paragraph still break single-line), Optical Margin Alignment, paragraph spacing limit for vertically justified area type, hidden characters, paragraph attributes in the Type tool's copy and paste (the characters keep their styles, the paragraphs take the destination's), mixed-value display in the Paragraph panel for a selection across differing paragraphs, Transform Again after a type-area resize (it scales the type), partial selection of type-area anchors by marquee, optional font-size preservation during group scaling (scaled character controls fixed in #1034) | 14–19 |
| Type core | 9 | 80% | Middle Eastern features beyond bidi layout and Paragraph Direction (Character Direction, kashidas, the Middle Eastern composers, editable bidirectional SVG text, a split caret where directions meet); Hyphenation… and Justification… options (Every-line Composer for justified and ragged text, per object, is done; it is tuned by eye, not yet compared side by side with Illustrator; mixed type sizes in a paragraph still break single-line), Optical Margin Alignment, paragraph spacing limit for vertically justified area type, hidden characters, paragraph attributes in the Type tool's copy and paste (the characters keep their styles, the paragraphs take the destination's), mixed-value display in the Paragraph panel for a selection across differing paragraphs, Transform Again after a type-area resize (it scales the type), partial selection of type-area anchors by marquee, optional font-size preservation during group scaling (scaled character controls fixed in #1034) | 14–19 |
| Type advanced | 4 | 50% | CJK composition for vertical type (ruby, mojikumi beyond Line-end Punctuation Half Width — the other sets (and their paragraph-start bracket and indent rules), custom kinsoku sets (beyond Hard, Soft and None) and the Mojikumi Settings dialog —, manual tate-chu-yoko), variable font axis sliders (named instances are styles), tab leaders, spell check (open dictionary), Touch Type, Retype; vertical point/area/path type and Type Orientation have initial support (beyond parity, not scored: inline symbols in text) | 20–28 |
| Symbols, blends, envelopes, Repeat, perspective | 5 | 88% | symbol libraries (original), dynamic symbols, envelope Anti-Alias/Preserve Shape output and warp point editing, brush interpolation in blends (M8 fidelity pass done) | 5–8 |
| Image Trace, graphs, image tools | 3 | 72% | graph Design/Column/Marker artwork (series colours set with Group Selection are done), Create Object Mosaic, per-feature stroke/fill choice and varying widths in Image Trace's Create Strokes (Vector Halftone and the Image Trace View modes, Palette and Create Strokes are done) | 6–10 |
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| Date | Change | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-11 | minor | Type core: Middle Eastern digit types (Character panel menu › Digits: Default, Arabic, Hindi, Farsi; `{digits}`) leave the missing list; score and hours unchanged at this rounding (estimated) |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | PDF raster-effect cap reductions are reported per original object with requested/achieved ppi; scores and hours unchanged |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | Platforms: Preferences › Performance › Linux Display Server opens the window through XWayland, where file drops work (#1151); score unchanged (estimated) |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | Drawing tools: Live Corners on corners between curved sides (#1144) leaves the missing list; score and hours unchanged at this rounding (estimated) |
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# Type parity
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-11 · **Change:** minor (the font menu's script filter lists Thai fonts; Thai, Lao, Khmer and Myanmar lines break between words; the caret steps over whole clusters such as Thai consonants with their marks; Thai typed in a font without Thai falls back to a font made for Thai; earlier: Proportional Metrics in vertical type, `vpal`, #966) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-11 · **Change:** minor (Middle Eastern digit types: Character panel menu › Digits, `{digits}`; the font menu's script filter lists Thai fonts; Thai, Lao, Khmer and Myanmar lines break between words; the caret steps over whole clusters such as Thai consonants with their marks; Thai typed in a font without Thai falls back to a font made for Thai; earlier: Proportional Metrics in vertical type, `vpal`, #966) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
Type is Illustrator's largest single area by use (weight 13 of 105 across "Type core" and "Type advanced" in
[target-app-parity.md](target-app-parity.md)). This checklist lists the features one by one. Status is from the
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| Snap to Glyph | missing | menu stub |
| Thai, Lao, Khmer, Myanmar: shaping (marks, reordering), lines broken between words, word-by-word caret and double-click | done | words found by ICU4X's line segmenter: dictionaries on the desktop, LSTM models on the web |
| Middle Eastern: bidirectional layout, Paragraph Direction | done | |
| Middle Eastern: Character Direction, digit types, kashidas, Middle Eastern composers, split caret | missing | |
| Middle Eastern: digit types (Character panel menu › Digits: Default, Arabic, Hindi, Farsi) | done | `text.setFormat` / `text.setRangeStyle {digits}`; the text keeps the typed digits, the glyphs and SVG export follow the style |
| Middle Eastern: Character Direction, kashidas, Middle Eastern composers, split caret | missing | |
| CJK: input methods (marked text, candidate window) | done | |
| CJK: kinsoku (Hard, Soft, None), Line-end Punctuation Half Width, tate-chu-yoko (auto) | done / partial | custom kinsoku sets, the Mojikumi Settings dialog and the other mojikumi sets missing |
| CJK: Proportional Metrics (`palt` in horizontal type, `vpal` in vertical type) | done | #966 |
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| Date | Change | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-11 | minor | Middle Eastern: digit types done (Character panel menu › Digits: Default, Arabic, Hindi, Farsi; `text.setFormat` / `text.setRangeStyle {digits}`); Character Direction, kashidas, composers and the split caret still missing; scores unchanged at this rounding |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | Thai, Lao, Khmer and Myanmar words for the caret (Ctrl/Alt+arrows) and double-click; combining marks count as part of a word; score unchanged (estimated) |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | Font menu: a Thai script filter beside Japanese and Latin; score unchanged (estimated) |
| 2026-10-11 | minor | Thai, Lao, Khmer and Myanmar text breaks its lines between words (ICU4X line segmenter) instead of only at spaces; score unchanged (estimated) |