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Progress docs per craftrules standards/progress-docs.md: target-app parity, gaps, roadmap with alpha gate, readiness by audience (full / mainstream / essentials) with Opus 5.5 hours, and feature, format, layout, hardware, UI and localization parity docs. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# WordCraft roadmap: milestones and what's next
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> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-10 · **Change:** minor (beta distance restated: ~15 points, ~150–230 h; previously: alpha gate checked: six core workflows pass; previously major: milestones moved here from ROADMAP.md; Current focus set from the re-measured gaps) · **Target:** Microsoft Word (Microsoft 365) for Mac 16.113.4
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Forward-looking plan. The summary is [`ROADMAP.md`](../ROADMAP.md); the ranked work list is
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[`gaps.md`](gaps.md); the numbers are in [`target-app-parity.md`](target-app-parity.md). Hours are
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Opus 5.5 agent wall-clock.
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## Current focus (toward beta, ~150–230 h)
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1. **Merge or close the ~45 open PRs** before starting overlapping work: many close catalog gaps
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(Clipboard pane #264, Manage Styles #270, Group #267), fix field bugs (Hebrew RTL #20, IME
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fixes #155–#164) or add languages (de, nb, nn, he). Owner review needed.
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2. **DOCX real-world corpus** (gap #1, 30–50 h): collect openly licensed real-world .docx files,
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open/render/round-trip them, compare with Word locally, fix what breaks.
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3. **Preserve what we can't render** (gap #2, 10–15 h): charts, SmartArt, OLE, ink, group shapes
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survive a round trip and show their fallback pictures.
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4. **Stability sweep** (gap #3, 20–30 h): the open crash, hang and write-failure issues, plus an
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autosave/recovery soak test.
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5. **Pagination fidelity** (gap #4, 30–50 h): column balancing, footnote continuation, compat
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options, a local page-by-page comparison harness; an owner decision on an Aptos-metric font.
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6. **Formatting revisions and content controls** (gap #5, 12–18 h), **native printing** (gap #6,
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6–10 h), **dialog depth** (gap #7, 20–30 h).
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## Alpha gate (core workflows)
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The core-workflow gate from the craftrules progress-docs standard: what a typical Word user does
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every day, checked end to end on the main platform (macOS desktop), including save and reopen.
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"Partial" here means rough but not blocking: the workflow completes.
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| Core workflow | Works end to end? | Evidence | Hours to pass |
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| Write and format a document: type, fonts, paragraph formatting, styles, lists, undo, find/replace; save as .docx and reopen | yes | 422 commands, typing parity pinned by `tests_typing.rs`, DOCX round-trip tests (`crates/docx/tests/roundtrip.rs`) | 0 |
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| Open a .docx someone sent, edit it, send back a .docx Word opens | partial (not blocking) | Word opens our files; typical text/table/picture documents work; never tested on a real-world corpus; charts, SmartArt and OLE dropped silently, formatting revisions lost (gaps #1, #2, #5) | 0 (beta work: 50–80) |
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| Build a structured document: tables, pictures, headers/footers, page numbers, sections, columns | yes | Tables with row splitting and floating tables (#137), floating pictures (#136), first/odd/even headers; columns don't balance (gap #4) | 0 |
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| Review with others: comments, track changes, accept/reject, compare | yes | Margin balloons, tracked insert/delete incl. paragraph marks (#125, #244), compare; formatting revisions missing (#41) | 0 |
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| References for reports and papers: TOC, footnotes, citations and bibliography, captions | yes | Updatable TOC field (#52), notes, APA/MLA/Chicago/IEEE, Zotero (#189); long footnotes don't continue (gap #4) | 0 |
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| Share or print: export PDF, print | partial (not blocking) | PDF export solid (krilla); desktop printing goes through a PDF, no native print dialog (gap #6) | 0 (beta work: 6–10) |
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**Result: passes.** Every core workflow completes on macOS and the work saves and reopens; the
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partial rows are fidelity gaps (beta work), not broken workflows. WordCraft stays **alpha**.
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## Milestones
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| # | Milestone | State | Remaining |
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| M0 | Skeleton and vertical slice (model, layout, render, engine, Word-style UI, CLI, MCP, web) | done | — |
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| M1 | DOCX I/O | done (first version); real-world corpus not started; charts/SmartArt/OLE dropped | 45–75 h |
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| M2 | Home tab | done except Paste Special, Clipboard pane, Style Inspector, Manage Styles, Asian typography (PRs open for four) | 5–10 h |
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| M3 | Insert tab | mostly done; equations done (#191); charts, SmartArt, icons, 3D, screenshot, online media missing | 50–80 h |
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| M4 | Layout and Design tabs | done except column balancing, group | 6–10 h |
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| M5 | Tables | done (row splitting, floating tables, style formatting); custom table styles (#256); Draw Table missing | 6–10 h |
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| M6 | References | first version done (TOC fields, cross-references, Zotero); footnote continuation, 8 more bibliography styles missing | 15–25 h |
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| M7 | Review | done (balloons, paragraph-mark revisions); formatting revisions, move tracking, multilingual proofing missing | 35–60 h |
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| M8 | View | mostly done; window commands missing | 3–5 h |
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| M9 | Mailings | done (first version); Excel/Outlook data sources and email merge missing | 6–10 h |
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| M10 | File/Backstage | mostly done; native printing, Options depth missing | 12–20 h |
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| M11 | Draw and objects | text wrap, text boxes, canvas handles done; ink, rotation, grouping, contour wrap missing | 35–55 h |
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| M12 | Formats breadth (PDF, ODT, RTF, HTML, MD, TXT, LaTeX, `.doc` import) | done (first versions); `.doc` write, encryption, minor formats missing | 60–100 h |
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| M13 | Performance budgets | on track (1.4 ms relayout); large real-world documents unmeasured | 10–20 h |
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| M14 | 1.0 polish, packaging, signing | releases v0.1.0–v0.4.0 published (signed macOS, Windows MSI x64/x86/arm64, Linux, FreeBSD, web) | — |
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| M15 | Localization (12 key languages, RTL interface, proofing languages) | 9 UI languages, English proofing | 80–130 h |
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| M16 | Right-to-left and East Asian typography | RTL paragraphs done (#207) | 30–45 h |
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## Next after beta
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Charts and SmartArt editing, the Draw tab, `.doc` writing, PDF Reflow, the remaining interface
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languages, screen-reader access, ecosystem decisions (VBA, add-ins, cloud), an in-app assistant.
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## Revision history
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| Date | Change | Summary |
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| 2026-10-10 | trivial | Merged main: PRs that landed removed from the Current focus list |
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| 2026-10-10 | minor | Current focus heading back to ~150–230 h to beta: full number restored to the additive weighted sum (~60%), method aligned with the standard, no new evidence |
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| 2026-10-10 | minor | Alpha gate table added (core-workflow gate from the progress-docs standard): all six workflows pass, stage stays alpha |
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| 2026-10-10 | major | Created: milestones moved from ROADMAP.md with remaining hours; Current focus from gaps.md; M15–M16 added |
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