Text: draw tab leaders in the tab's gap (fixes #1877)

docs/type-parity.md

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 # Type parity
 
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-14 · **Change:** minor (type in symbols, pattern tiles, graph designs and opacity masks gets its layout bounds back on opening a native file, #1738; score unchanged; Escape while typing ends the edit, #1686; Select › Same on type, #1737; `justify` when creating point type, #1748; scores unchanged; OpenType stylistic sets, alternates, figure styles, superscript and subscript as character features, #1607; a wide word in non-rectangular area type moves down, #1615; scores unchanged; Character Styles New/Redefine capture the first selected character at run boundaries and end prior typing before capture; boundary and typing-history input tests and full workspace CI pass; scores and hours unchanged; Character styles retain explicit Auto leading, propagate resets and preserve local leading overrides; scores and hours unchanged; Linux font folders from fontconfig, #1529; commands and MCP `add_text` report area type that does not fit its frame, #1471; Tabs panel stop drags, #1458; Fit Headline in a frame one line tall, #1444; frames and paths beyond a billion points hold no text, #1451; scores unchanged; missing glyphs are looked for again after a font rescan, #1376; scores unchanged; Full-name font matching (#1258); Windows font-service QA pending; scores unchanged; 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)
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-14 · **Change:** minor (tab leaders are drawn in the tab's gap, #1877; type in symbols, pattern tiles, graph designs and opacity masks gets its layout bounds back on opening a native file, #1738; score unchanged; Escape while typing ends the edit, #1686; Select › Same on type, #1737; `justify` when creating point type, #1748; scores unchanged; OpenType stylistic sets, alternates, figure styles, superscript and subscript as character features, #1607; a wide word in non-rectangular area type moves down, #1615; scores unchanged; Character Styles New/Redefine capture the first selected character at run boundaries and end prior typing before capture; boundary and typing-history input tests and full workspace CI pass; scores and hours unchanged; Character styles retain explicit Auto leading, propagate resets and preserve local leading overrides; scores and hours unchanged; Linux font folders from fontconfig, #1529; commands and MCP `add_text` report area type that does not fit its frame, #1471; Tabs panel stop drags, #1458; Fit Headline in a frame one line tall, #1444; frames and paths beyond a billion points hold no text, #1451; scores unchanged; missing glyphs are looked for again after a font rescan, #1376; scores unchanged; Full-name font matching (#1258); Windows font-service QA pending; scores unchanged; 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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 | Every-line and Single-line composers | done | tuned by eye, never compared side by side |
 | Hyphenation… and Justification… options | missing | |
 | Optical Margin Alignment | missing | menu stub |
-| Tab stops and leaders; Tabs panel | partial | Tabs panel and stops with leaders in the model (`text.tabs.set`); a stop drags from where the press landed (#1458); leader drawing not verified against the docs |
+| Tab stops and leaders; Tabs panel | partial | Tabs panel and stops with leaders in the model (`text.tabs.set`); a stop drags from where the press landed (#1458); leaders fill the tab's gap, repeated on a grid so they line up from line to line (#1877) |
 | Hidden characters (Show Hidden Characters) | done | `type.hiddenCharacters` |
 | Spell check (Check Spelling, Auto Spell Check, custom dictionary) | missing | menu stubs; needs an openly licensed dictionary |
 | Smart Punctuation, Change Case, Find & Replace | done | |
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ Character Styles menu New/Redefine and footer New capture the first selected cha
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
+| 2026-10-14 | minor | Tab leaders are drawn: the leader's characters fill the tab's gap in the tab's font and size, whole copies on a grid from the frame's edge so leaders line up across lines (fixes #1877); scores and hours unchanged |
 | 2026-10-14 | minor | Type inside symbols, pattern tiles, graph designs and opacity masks gets its layout bounds back on opening a native file, so warped type in a symbol looks the same after save and reopen (#1833, #1738). Score unchanged (estimated) |
 | 2026-10-14 | minor | Escape while typing ends the edit, keeps the type selected and switches to the Selection tool (#1802, #1686, #1656); Select › Same matches type on its characters' fill and stroke (#1746, #1737); `text.create`, `text.createInPath` and the MCP `add_text` tool take `justify`, so point type can be centred on or end at its point (#1752, #1748); scores and hours unchanged |
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | Area type in a non-rectangular shape moves a word too wide for the top lines down to the first line that holds it instead of breaking it (#1617, fixes #1615); Stylistic sets (ss01–ss20), stylistic and titling alternates, proportional and lining figures, and superscript and subscript glyphs can be turned on as OpenType features of a character style (`text.setStyle {features}`), and the OpenType panel keeps them (#1611, fixes #1607); scores and hours unchanged |