* D0+D1: open Word 97-2003 .doc — container, FIB, piece table text (#28) New wordcraft-docbin crate (L2) reads the OLE2 container via the cfb crate (MIT) and parses the FIB and piece table from the [MS-DOC] specification: text pieces decode as UTF-16LE or Windows-1252 (table moved to wordcraft-doc::encoding), subdocument CP ranges, and Word's special characters map to the model's (tabs, breaks, hyphens). .doc/.dot registered in OPEN_EXTS and the I/O dispatch. Encrypted and Word 6/95 files give clear errors; every length is checked and proptest truncation/flips never panic. * D2: .doc formatting — stylesheet, fonts, CHPX/PAPX FKPs, sprms (#28) Sprm decoder with operand-size rules (incl. sprmTDefTable/sprmPChgTabs exceptions and the Prm0 isprm table), bin tables + ChpxFkp/PapxFkp page lookup, STSH styles (StdfBase layout validated against real Word files: bchUpe == cbStd, sti 0 = Normal) and the SttbfFfn font table in both extended and self-delimiting flavours. The CP walk now splits runs on formatting changes and resolves paragraph styles: bold/italic/strike/ underline/caps/hidden, colours (Ico palette + COLORREF), half-point sizes, super/subscript, fonts, highlights; alignment, indents, spacing, keep options, outline levels. Unknown sprms are skipped leniently; an env-gated corpus test opens real files (styles + text asserted). * D3: .doc structure — sections, headers/footers, tables, lists (#28) - Sections: PlcfSed/Sepx with 16-bit measurement sprms (sprmSXaPage & co), explicit sprmSBOrientation with a width/height fallback; even/odd/first header and footer stories from Plcfhdd become document parts. - Tables: sprmTDefTable grids (operand length fixed to cb+1 per the spec), horizontal merges (sprmTMerge), vertical merges (sprmTVertMerge), cell shading (sprmTSetShd / sprmTDefTableShd80), cell widths, valign, row height/header/cant-split, and table borders (sprmTTableBorders80 Brc80s). - Lists: PlfLst (LSTF + appended LVLs) and PlfLfo (LFO + LFOLVL overrides) resolved into the numbering model; sprmPIlvl/sprmPIlfo mark paragraphs. - Combined fixture (intro + table + list + 2 sections + header) round-trips through Document JSON; hostile proptests now mutate the structured fixture. * D4: .doc notes, fields, bookmarks and inline pictures (#28) - Footnotes/endnotes: PlcffndRef/PlcfEndRef reference CPs paired with the PlcffndTxt/PlcfEndTxt story ranges; each story walks into a Footnote or Endnote part and the 0x02 anchor becomes a NoteRef object. - Fields: 0x13/0x14/0x15 state machine in the walker — instruction text is hidden, the cached result kept; HYPERLINK fields keep their result as linked runs, everything else becomes one Field object. - Bookmarks: SttbfBkmk names + Plcfbkf/Plcfbkl CPs become BookmarkStart/ BookmarkEnd objects at their anchors. - Pictures: sprmCPicLocation points into the Data stream; the PICF header gives the display size (dxaGoal/dyaGoal scaled by mx/my) and the payload is format-sniffed (PNG/JPEG/GIF/BMP; metafiles are dropped with a warn). - Hostile proptests now truncate/flip a fixture with all of the above. * D5: .doc import hardening, caps and roadmap (#28) - Cap inline pictures at 5 000 per document. - Engine test: .doc/.dot bytes dispatch through the Word 97-2003 reader (garbage must error, never panic or open empty). - ROADMAP: Word 97-2003 import row (60% — text, formatting, styles, sections, headers/footers, tables, lists, notes, fields, bookmarks, raster pictures). Real-corpus validation stays opt-in: WORDCRAFT_DOCBIN_FIXTURES=<dir> cargo test -p wordcraft-docbin corpus_files_open. * Corpus fixes: compressed-piece FC space, PAPX query point, none-level labels (#28) Validated against two real files (kept locally under plan/word/fixtures, gitignored): a 1 MB Lorem-ipsum sample and a 2003 styles/lists/table sample. - FKP bin tables and pages address the WordDocument stream in true byte offsets; a compressed piece stores its base fc doubled (byte = fc/2), so fc_of_cp now unwinds the doubling. Before, every PAPX/CHPX lookup in compressed (cp1252) files landed on the wrong entry — tables collapsed to one row, lists and heading styles were lost. - The paragraph-properties query now uses the paragraph mark's own FC (inside the paragraph) instead of the FC after it, which picked up the next paragraph's FKP entry. - Fixture papx entries re-keyed to paragraph-start CPs, the real rgfc convention. - Counters::next_label returns nothing for NumFormat::None levels (Word's numFmt none shows no label; also fixes a latent docx-reader case). - Symbol/Wingdings bullet chars map to Unicode glyphs (• ▪ ○ ●). With this, both corpus files render headings, styles, nested and numbered lists, the tables and the PAGE field correctly; metafile-wrapped images and OLE objects stay dropped by policy (logged). * docbin: bound the text walk by real text; dedupe and cap pictures (#28) Hostile CP numbers no longer drive the work: - header/footnote/endnote story ranges from the Table stream are clamped to their subdocument (ccpHdd/ccpFtn/ccpEdn) with checked base additions, and every walk stops at the last piece's CP; a story spanning [0, 4e9) used to push billions of U+FFFD; - characters are found by binary search over the pieces (PieceTable::char_at), and an unreadable stretch (gap, truncated or out-of-stream piece) is skipped in one step rather than one U+FFFD per CP; the old per-character scan was O(chars x pieces); - the piece CPs are made non-decreasing at parse, so inverted pieces are empty and binary search stays sound; surrogate pairs now decode; - note references are looked up by binary search; the style's CharProps is borrowed, not cloned, per character; - pictures are interned by fc_pic (5000 anchors on one picture share one media entry and one copy) and the bytes copied per document are capped at 256 MB. Each fix has a crafted-bytes regression test; against the previous code the story, piece-claim, last-piece and many-pieces tests hang (killed at 60 s) and the shared picture test copies the picture once per anchor (80 GB). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * docbin: checked offset arithmetic in lists, sections and table rows (#28) - list.rs: PlfLst/PlfLfo/LVL offsets (at + 2 + cLst*28, at + 4 + lfoMac*16, off += len, ...) saturate, which matters on 32-bit targets (wasm32) where fc + n can overflow usize; the LFO override path no longer indexes abstracts directly. - sections.rs: the Sepx range (fc_sepx + 2 + cb) is checked; Plcfhdd is read only as far as the stories a capped section count can use (it used to reserve lcb/4 entries). - table.rs: sprmTDyaRowHeight = i16::MIN negated in i16 (overflow panic in debug builds); now -(v as f32). Regression tests: the row height test failed before (overflow panic with debug assertions, a 0 pt height without); the list test pins the saturating offsets (it only overflowed on 32-bit targets). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * Format the merged OPEN_EXTS list Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Brandon Thomas <echelon@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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WordCraft roadmap
WordCraft aims for complete feature parity with Microsoft Word, then goes further on speed, openness
and agent control. This file tracks where we are honestly. Generated numbers come from
cargo xtask parity (docs/parity.md).
Where we are (2026-10-09)
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Commands (every action, scriptable by CLI/MCP/control channel) | 390 |
| Feature catalog coverage (Word ribbon/menu features with a command) | 355 / 405 (88%) |
| Estimated real feature parity (depth and fidelity, not just a command) | ~62% |
| Distance to alpha | ~85% of the way; ≈20–25 h of Claude wall-clock work |
| Distance to 100% parity | ≈120–150 h of Claude Opus 5.5 wall-clock work (with parallel agents) |
| Tests | ~225 test functions (unit, round-trip, fuzz/proptest, MCP acceptance) |
| Layout speed (188-page document) | 61 ms cold, 1.4 ms relayout after an edit |
| Code | ~44k lines of Rust in 12 crates and 3 apps |
Catalog coverage overstates parity: many commands are first versions. The real-parity estimate weighs each area by how much of Word's behaviour it reproduces, and by how often people use it.
Alpha
What we mean by alpha: someone can write, format and review real documents every day, open the .docx files they receive and send back files Word opens cleanly, on every desktop platform from a signed download, without losing work.
| Alpha requirement | State |
|---|---|
| Editing, formatting, styles, lists, tables, headers/footers, references, review | done (first versions, tested) |
| Pagination fidelity: wrap, row splitting, hyphenation, drop caps, line numbers, borders | done this arc |
| Comments in margin balloons, track changes | done |
| Never-crash standard (no panics, hostile-param fuzzing, panic guard) | done |
| Autosave and crash recovery | done; needs a soak test |
| DOCX fidelity against a corpus of real-world files (open, render, round-trip, fix) | not started — the main alpha blocker (≈10 h) |
| Footnotes that continue onto the next page; column balancing | missing (≈4 h) |
| Native printing (today printing goes through PDF) | missing (≈4 h) |
| Signed builds for macOS, Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and web | pipeline written; needs the GitHub remote and release secrets from the owner |
| Real app icon / mascot art | placeholder; needs owner art |
So: alpha is roughly 85% of the way, with about 20–25 hours of agent work left, plus two
owner actions (push to github.com/storytold/wordcraft and enable the release secrets, and supply
the icon art).
Parity by area
| Area | Status | Parity |
|---|---|---|
| Typing, selection, clipboard, undo, find/replace | Solid; IME, autocorrect, smart quotes, list autoformat | 85% |
| Character & paragraph formatting | Nearly all properties; Font/Paragraph dialogs | 85% |
| Styles (gallery, pane, create/modify, style sets, themes) | Good | 75% |
| Lists (bullets, numbering, multilevel, restart, set value) | Good | 75% |
| Tables (insert, merge/split, styles, borders, header rows, sort, formula) | Good; rows split across pages; no drawn tables, no nested-table polish | 72% |
| Page layout (margins, size, orientation, columns, breaks, sections) | Good; page borders, line numbers, vertical alignment, drop caps, hyphenation; columns don't balance | 72% |
| Headers/footers, page numbers, fields | Good; first/even/odd, link to previous | 70% |
| Footnotes/endnotes | Placed and editable; long notes don't continue onto the next page | 60% |
| References (TOC, citations APA/MLA/Chicago/IEEE, bibliography, index, figures, cross-refs, TOA) | Working first versions; Zotero/Mendeley ADDIN fields and custom properties round-trip; Zotero in the app (ui.zotero.*, wordcraft-cli zotero): citations, bibliography, refresh, unlink, document preferences, in-text ↔ footnote switching, Zotero ribbon tab, Move Past Citation; Read Aloud player (speed, previous/next sentence, skips citations and bibliography) |
60% |
| Review (spelling, grammar, thesaurus, comments, track changes, compare, protect) | Good; comment balloons in the margin; no track-changes balloons | 75% |
| Mailings (mail merge, rules, preview, envelopes, labels) | Working | 70% |
| Pictures & shapes (insert, size, crop, recolour, effects, styles, float position) | Text wraps around floats (rectangular); text boxes render their text; no tight/contour wrap, no rotation handles | 55% |
| Draw tab (ink), SmartArt, charts, 3D models, equations editor | Not started / linear equations only | 5% |
| File formats: DOCX read/write | Good (Word opens our files); charts/SmartArt/OLE dropped; untested on a real-world corpus | 75% |
| File formats: PDF, ODT, RTF, HTML, Markdown, LaTeX, TXT | Working | 70% |
File formats: Word 97-2003 .doc/.dot import |
Text, formatting, styles, sections, headers/footers, tables, lists, notes, fields, bookmarks, pictures (spec-based reader; metafile images and Word 6/95 rejected) | 60% |
| View modes (print, web, draft, read, focus, zoom, navigation pane) | Working | 70% |
| Backstage (new from templates, open, info, export, options) | Working; printing goes through PDF | 55% |
| Agent control (CLI, MCP, control channel, macros) | Beyond Word | 100%+ |
Estimate to 100%
About 120–150 hours of Claude Opus 5.5 wall-clock work (with parallel agents), in this order:
- Alpha blockers (≈20–25 h): DOCX fidelity corpus, footnote continuation, column balancing, native printing, autosave soak test, first signed release.
- Objects (≈15 h): tight/through (contour) wrap, rotation and resize handles on the canvas, grouping, z-order polish, track-changes balloons and formatting revisions.
- Draw tab / ink (≈15 h).
- Charts (own renderer) and SmartArt-style diagrams (≈20 h).
- Equation editor (OMML read/write, 2D layout) (≈15 h).
- Dialog depth: every Word dialog with all its options (Font, Paragraph, Tabs, Borders and Shading, Page Setup, Styles, Columns, Index/TOC options, Mail Merge wizard, Options panes) (≈20 h).
- Accessibility (screen readers), localisation, RTL and complex scripts (≈15 h).
- Long tail: kerning/ligature options, drawn tables, nested-table polish, more templates, Word's less-used commands still missing from the catalog (≈10 h).
Milestones
| # | Milestone | State |
|---|---|---|
| M0 | Skeleton + vertical slice (model, layout, render, engine, Word-style UI, CLI, MCP, web) | done |
| M1 | DOCX I/O | done (first version; corpus testing next) |
| M2 | Home tab complete | done |
| M3 | Insert tab | mostly done (charts/SmartArt/icons/3D missing) |
| M4 | Layout + Design tabs | done except column balancing |
| M5 | Tables | done (row splitting landed) |
| M6 | References | first version done; footnote continuation missing |
| M7 | Review | done (margin balloons landed) |
| M8 | View | mostly done |
| M9 | Mailings | done (first version) |
| M10 | File/Backstage | mostly done; native printing missing |
| M11 | Draw + objects | text wrap and text boxes done; ink, rotation, grouping missing |
| M12 | Formats breadth (PDF, ODT, RTF, HTML, MD, TXT) | done (first versions) |
| M13 | Performance budgets | on track (1.4 ms relayout) |
| M14 | 1.0 polish, packaging, signing | pipeline written; waiting on remote and secrets |
Recently landed
- Ukrainian interface catalog: all existing 771 labels, Ukrainian locale detection and a persisted language choice (#85).
- Brazilian Portuguese interface catalog: all existing 771 labels,
pt-BRlocale detection and a persisted language choice (#127). - Text wraps around floating pictures and shapes; text boxes lay out their own text.
- Table rows split across pages between lines (Can't Split honoured, header rows repeat).
- Drop caps; automatic hyphenation with Word's 0.25" hyphenation zone; soft hyphens.
- Page borders measured from the page edge, line numbers, vertical alignment, column separators.
- Comment balloons in a markup area beside each page, with leader lines to their anchors.
Next
The DOCX fidelity corpus, then footnote continuation, column balancing and native printing.