A threaded story measured each type-on-a-path frame, and each area frame
whose lines align to the center, the bottom or justify vertically, with
the whole rest of the story. A story of 1,500 one-line paragraphs through
40 such frames was laid out over about 2.1 million bytes while the frames
were measured.
- Area type without Shrink Text to Fit now takes the paragraph probe for
every vertical alignment. A reflow pass that places less text is
undone, so when the final layout stops before the last paragraph break
measured, every pass placed the same lines as with the whole rest.
- Type on a path takes it when its line starts at the start bracket: no
Dynamic Text, Optical Margin Alignment or Roman Hanging Punctuation,
the first paragraph aligned Left, Justify Left or Auto, and vertical
type or no right-to-left text in the rest of the story. The story is
scanned for right-to-left text once per distribution.
- Shrink Text to Fit, the other path settings and a share that ends in
the story's last paragraph are still measured with the whole rest.
The same 40 frames are now measured over 21,035 bytes (aligned to the
center) and 20,583 bytes (paths aligned Left). Each frame's share is
unchanged: the tests compare every slice with the whole-rest result for
both distribution entry points, across alignments, frame shapes, wraps,
path settings, right-to-left text, styles, lists and seeded stories.
Global Edit does not take images or text, so a group holding type or an
image is not a missing case. docs/gaps.md drops it from G5's Missing
line and states the exclusion next to the similar-groups entry, with
the help page. docs/ui-parity.md states the same exclusion and no longer
lists highlighting the matches before the start as remaining, since it
ships with a regression test. docs/target-app-parity.md gains an
Evidence line.
Closing a modified tab that is not in front shows it while the Save
Changes dialog asks about it. After Save or Don't Save, the closed tab's
neighbor became the current document instead of the document that was in
front before the question.
Closing a background tab with its close button, or `file.close` with its
`index`, now remembers the uid of the document in front in the dialog's
protected `__front` field, and once the asked document closes, that
document is made current again while it is still open. The field
survives a Save dialog shown off the UI thread. Cancel keeps the asked
document in front, closing the document in front still brings its
neighbor forward, and Close All and Quit are unchanged.
A band whose top and bottom are equal lost its only piece when the repeated cut was removed, so the line kept the frame's whole width. Anchor cuts now apply only to a band with height.
docs/target-app-parity.md listed the "Preferences that act" bullet three
times. Two older copies disagreed on Highlight Alternate Glyphs (one said
on by default, the code sets it off in Prefs::default) and still counted
about 14 stored options. The newest copy is kept, now with the Highlight
Alternate Glyphs clause (off by default), and its count names the two
options still stored only: Scratch Disks and the legacy vector clipboard.
The older of the two "Preferences audit (2026-10-30)" bullets, which still
listed five stored-only options, is removed, and the UI chrome summary row
now says 2 options, matching docs/gaps.md G12.
Crossings of the middle of a line's band that lay within a few units of rounding of each other were joined as a seam, so two contours of an area type frame 1e-7 pt apart at x = 1e8 held one line across the gap between them. A vertical edge crosses the middle at its own x with no rounding, so a gap at one is no longer joined.
Brushes, Spot Color Objects, Pattern Objects and Gradient Objects left
out a fill or stroke that was hidden or at an opacity of 0, but still
listed an object that was itself hidden or at an opacity of 0, and the
objects inside such a group or layer. They now leave those out, their
characters' paints and colorized images included. With Selection Only,
an object selected inside a hidden group or layer, or one at an
opacity of 0, is left out too. Objects still counts every object.
With Invert Wrap and an offset, each piece of a line's band kept only the x that one part of the shape held within the offset of every height of the piece. Where the offsets of two parts met across a gap (one above and one below), the heights between them held neither part, and the line lost that x although the grown shape covered the whole band.
The band is now also cut at every height an offset above or below an anchor of the shape (when there are at most 64 of them), and the horizontal edges at the ends of a piece's window count, so the window of the piece between the meeting offsets reaches both parts.
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