The editing copy of a PDF-compatible .ai wrote every image as its outline
filled with its average color. Embedded images are now written with their
pixels, and linked images as placed files with a preview:
- Embedded images are rasters in the form of the version 7 specification
(section 8, https://13thmonkey.org/documentation/fonts/AI7FileFormat.pdf):
%AI5_BeginRaster, the color space, the image matrix and the XI operands
of current files, then the samples in binary in a %%BeginData section.
Gray, RGB and CMYK images keep their samples (CMYK images their ink
amounts), and see-through images their alpha channel after the color
samples. The matrix is written to ten decimals.
- Linked images are placed files (section 16): the matrix, the box of the
file's pixels and its path, %%IncludeFile, the folder relative to the
document's (when the relative path ends in the path's file name), and a
preview of at most 256 pixels a side.
- Images that can't be decoded or have more than 33,554,432 pixels (the
most the reader reads) are written as their outlines filled mid gray,
images of 16 bits a channel (CMYK TIFFs included) at 8 bits, and linked
images in opacity masks and pattern tiles as embedded images, each with
a warning.
Each of these is written in the form VectorCraft's .ai reader reads, and
the tests read the written data back through that reader.
The reader now gives an image its name and opacity mask when the
operators that end its raster (XH, Xr and the N after %AI5_EndRaster) come
before its dictionary, reads an empty relative folder as the document's
own folder, and looks for the %%EndData that ends an image's samples
after the alpha channel its XI operands give it, preferring one whose next
line is XH, so samples that hold the marker's bytes are read whole.
Tests: the round trip of every kind of image and its state, a second write
of what is read back giving the same bytes, the raster and placed-file
forms, previews of large linked images, and the engine's editing copy with
every save option; a fuzz case for damaged images and placed files.
Docs: docs/file-format-parity.md.
In the legacy format, area type whose story flows through several linked
areas has one text path (`Tp` ... `TP`) for each area, each with its own
matrix and frame (version 7 specification, sections 15 and 15.5.3). The
reader kept only the first frame, placed it with the text object's last
valid matrix, and put the whole story in that one frame.
Each linked area with a frame now opens as its own area type object,
placed with its own matrix, and the frames are threaded in file order.
The first frame holds the story: the characters after every `TP`, and
the overflow text. When the file opens, the story is laid out again
through the thread (section 15.1 lists the flow from area to area as
final-form information). A linked area without a frame is left out.
Area type with one area opens as before.
The dictionary that follows a text object (its opacity mask, text wrap,
name and other keys) went to its one object. Its opacity mask and text
wrap now go on every frame, and its other keys on the first frame.
Point type is read with its first text path's matrix, and type on a
path with the matrix and start of the first text path that has a path.
Area type with no frame at all opens as point type with its first text
path's matrix. Before, these used the last valid matrix and, for type
on a path, the last start.
One text object reads at most 4,096 text paths. The number of frames
times the story's character count is kept to 4,194,304, so a longer
story keeps fewer frames. Frames past either limit are left out, with a
warning.
A legacy .ai in the version 7 form names a linked image's file with
`(path) modified XG` and draws the image with `XF`, which takes the
operands `XI` takes and has no samples after it (Adobe Illustrator File
Format Specification 7.0, sections 8.2 and 8.3). The reader ignored both
operators, so the image was dropped without a warning.
- `XF` after `XG` becomes a linked image of that file, its pixels placed
as an `XI` image of the same operands is placed. The file keeps no
pixels of it, so a placeholder stands in until the file is relinked in
the Links panel, with a note in the open result. No pixels are read,
so the image is not held to the pixel limit of `XI`'s samples.
- An `XF` without a file name before it, or with operands `XI` couldn't
read (no matrix, too few numbers, no pixels, or samples of other than
1 or 8 bits), is left out with the existing "an image VectorCraft
can't read was left out" warning. An `XG` applies only to the image
after it in the same raster object; `() 1 XG` before an embedded `XI`
keeps that image embedded.
- A PostScript page draws nothing for `XF`, so there the placeholder's
area is left out of the comparison of the layers with the page, and
the file keeps its layers. A PDF part draws the image's pixels, so a
file with one is compared with it there as before, and its layers are
not used without the PDF part.
- Linked images of different files get image keys of their own even
when they show the same pixels (the placeholder, or two identical
placed-file previews), so updating or exporting one file's image
reads that file only.
- `vectorcraft_doc::links::missing_placeholder` draws the placeholder: a
light tile, crossed out, as SVG import shows for a missing file.
Tests: reader tests for the placement, the image keys and the cases left
out, an end-to-end test of a legacy file with a linked image, a test of
a file with a PDF part, and a fuzz case for damaged files with `XG` and
`XF`. The new note has a row in each catalog that translates the
placed-file note.
Type in the text document of a .ai or EPS file's editing data that names
no character or paragraph style, a story without style runs included, is
set in [Normal Character Style] and [Normal Paragraph Style]. The reader
took what such type leaves out from the text document's base attributes
instead, or built-in defaults for a story without paragraph runs, and it
did not read paragraph styles.
A Large Canvas file (1:10) holds the normal styles' lengths at the art's
scale (1.2 for 12 pt) and the base attributes' at the page's (12). The
reader scaled the base attributes' 12 by 10, so the type came in at
120 pt. In an EPS the page comparison then rejected the layers, and the
file opened as its printed page without its linked images.
In any file whose normal styles differ from the base attributes, such
type now takes what the normal styles set, such as font, size, colors,
stroke, alignment, indents, space before and after, and hyphenation.
`.ai` and EPS editing-data import now reads object tags
(`/identifier (string) XT`) and applies each one to the object before it,
whatever kind of object it is. The `AdobeURL` tag sets the object's URL.
Every other tag is added to the object's data in order, up to 64 per
object. A tag with no object right before it, with an empty identifier,
or with an identifier or string longer than 64 KiB is ignored, and so
are tags in a pattern's or brush's art. A clipping path keeps its own
tags; the copy that paints its fill gets none.
Before, a tag on art that shows was an operator the reader did not know,
so it stopped the editing data from being read, and brush art holding a
tag was not read, so the brushes using it were left out.
An image's tags follow the `XH` that ends its data, and the state written
after a group or a gradient mesh is still theirs when their tags come
first. When a drawn look stands for an object whose style is not found,
the look keeps the object's note, URL and data, and a live blend keeps
those of its drawn steps.
The editing copy for other apps now writes linear and radial gradients and
grid patterns as themselves instead of as average colors and cut tiles.
- Gradients the art uses are defined in the setup (`n Bn`, then
`%AI5_BeginGradient` … `Bd`, the stops as `Bs` with their opacity and
midpoints, `BD`), and gradient swatches nothing uses in a non-printing
block. Stops keep gray, CMYK, RGB and spot colors at a tint. A
gradient that isn't a swatch gets a name that no swatch or pattern of
the document has.
- Each fill or stroke with a gradient is an instance around its painting
operator (`Bb`, `Bh`, `Bg`, `Xm`, `Bm`, `Bc`, `BB`), on a compound
path's last subpath and on clipping paths too. `Bg` places the gradient
relative to the path: a linear one by its angle and its start and length
as fractions of the path's extent along it, a radial one by the matrix
that takes the unit circle onto its extent ellipse, its center as
fractions of the path's bounds in that circle's space and its radius as
a multiple of the one the center's distances to the right side and to
the bottom give. In a pattern's tile the placement is mirrored top to
bottom.
- Patterns whose tiles make a grid and hold their art are defined with
`%AI3_BeginPattern` … `E`, the tile's box first, and fills and strokes
paint with `p` and `P`; gradient and pattern swatches are in the palette.
- Freeform gradients, gradients along or across a stroke and gradients
without stops, with more than 256 stops or without extent are written
as their average color, and other patterns as their tiles cut to the
shape, each with a warning. Gradients that dither or mix perceptually
are written as classic ones, stops linked to global process colors as
their colors, and pattern swatches without the placement that moves,
turns or scales their pattern, with warnings.
- Reading: an unpainted box that a pattern's definition marks as its
tile's box (`AIPattern_Editor_Backing_Tile_Rect`) is no longer read as
art, and a linear gradient whose stops all lie at one place keeps each
stop on its side.
The definitions, instances and patterns follow sections 3.4, 3.5 and 14
of the version 7 specification
(http://mercator.elte.hu/~saman/hu/okt/AI7FileFormat.pdf). The stop
opacity, `Bg`'s placement and the marked tile box follow the newer form
that current .ai files carry, which that specification predates.
Each of these is written in the form VectorCraft's .ai reader reads, and
the tests read the written data back through that reader.
Docs: docs/file-format-parity.md.
While Select All holds a threaded story, a paragraph whose text starts in one of the
story's locked or hidden frames is no longer converted, and the empty parts of a converted
paragraph in such a frame are no longer restyled. Before, a locked frame whose first
paragraph took in the previous frame's empty last part was converted, and so was a
paragraph that ran on from a locked first frame into an editable one.
After Select All in a frame of threaded text, Remove Line Breaks and
Remove Paragraph Breaks changed only the edited frame, and Convert to
Text over MCP converted only the selected frame. Both now act on the
text of every frame of the story as one undo step.
- addon.cleanup.removeBreaks reads the frames of the story as one text,
so a break at the end of a frame before a word in the next one becomes
a space. The same applies when every frame of a story is selected as
objects.
- text.convertListToText without ids, id or a range converts every
paragraph of the story. Locked and hidden frames of the selected story
are not converted, even when ids names them. When the call converts
the whole story, the story stays selected; before, the call reset the
Type tool's selection to the edited frame.
- A selection inside one frame, and unthreaded type, behave as before.
Docs: docs/mcp.md, docs/target-app-parity.md.
`the_fallback_glyph_of_a_consonant_after_its_vowel_sign_is_reported` expected
the fallback face's cmap glyph for the vowel sign I. On the Ubuntu runner the
fallback face is Noto Sans Devanagari, whose shaping draws the sign with
another glyph (545 instead of 32), so the test failed on `main`. It now checks
that two glyphs are drawn in Ka's cluster, the first is not Ka's and the
second is, and keeps the `text.glyphAlternates` checks.
Fixes#5750
Where two open paths lie along the same stretch, the planar map gave
that stretch to one of them only, so a merge or an erase across it left
the other path in place there. Every other open path along an edge now
has its own piece in `lines_under`, under a closed path's outline or
along a line in front. `lines`, `edges` and Live Paint's edges stay one
per stretch, and an Alt-click there still takes the piece in front.
Doc comments for the Select add-on commands, the Select by Link Status
dialog body, the Links panel menu and the test helpers (review: docstring
coverage).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Selection Tools add-on: addon.select.byLinkStatus selects the image
objects and placed documents whose link is linked, embedded, missing or
modified (one status or several), as links.list reports it. Optional ids
limit the search, add adds to the selection, and zoom runs the existing
Zoom to Selection in the desktop app. Objects that are hidden, locked, on
a template layer or outside the isolated group are left out and returned
with the reason. Only the selection changes.
Select Linked / Embedded / Missing / Modified are in Object > Plug-ins >
Selection Tools and the Links panel menu. Each is off when no image has
that status, and Shift adds to the selection. Select by Link Status...
lists the images with name, status and format, with a name search, a
status filter, checkboxes with All / None and Zoom to Selection. The
status bar says what was selected and how many were left out, with
plural rows in every catalog.
Tests: engine (statuses, ids, add, zoom, skip reasons, bad params),
command sweep, and UI (message, list filtering, menu items, Links panel
menu, headless dialog frame). Docs: mcp, target-app-parity, ui-parity,
roadmap.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Review of #5694 asked for two changes.
Add-on, not a core tool, as Enclosing Lasso is:
- The command is addon.contour.set, in an add-on module of its own
(crates/engine/src/cmd/addons/contour.rs) with its tests beside it.
- The tool is listed under Object > Plug-ins > Contour and under its own
"Contour" heading in All Tools. It has no Basic or Advanced toolbar
slot and no default shortcut. The Contour bar is unchanged.
- The add-on drawer test lists Contour with the other add-on tools.
- Docs (mcp.md, the parity documents, ROADMAP) say add-on and use the
new command name; mcp.md gains a Contour add-on section.
Translations: rows for "Contour", "Contour Tool", "Sharp", "Bake" and
"Turn the Contour into plain paths" in all 26 catalogs ("Round" and
"Square" already had them). Drafted from each catalog's own vocabulary
(for Bake, the verb it uses for Expand Appearance; a word other than the
catalog's Stroke or Path word for the tool's name where they collide);
they are not native-speaker reviewed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two fixes from review of #5694, each with a test that fails without it:
- Dragging a selected Contour sent the tool's own corner options, so a
Round or Square Contour came back Sharp and lost its miter limit, and
the Contour bar (which reads the effect) disagreed with the shape. The
press now reads the Contour's own corners and miter limit and every
preview of that drag carries them; a new Contour still takes the tool's
options.
- A drag that never moved the distance (along the edge, or rounded to
nothing by Shift) previewed offset 0 and committed an unchanged copy
and an undo step. Nothing is previewed until the distance leaves where
it started.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add a Contour tool (Modify group). Dragging away from a selected path or
shape's edge makes a copy of it that carries a live Offset Path effect,
grown by the drag; dragging toward the inside shrinks it. The result is
one undo step and stays editable until baked with Expand Appearance. A
second drag on a selected Contour changes its distance instead of
nesting another effect.
- object.contour: the command behind it (offset, sharp/round/square
corners, miter limit), usable over MCP and the control channel too.
- Contour tool: live preview, Shift rounds to whole points, Escape
cancels, a dashed guide with a white halo shows the outline the shape
had, and a pill shows the distance.
- Contour bar: a floating bar above the selection with the offset box,
Sharp / Round / Square and Bake (Expand Appearance).
- Toolbar slot under Modify (Basic and Advanced) and dc-contour.svg, an
original icon with its ASSETS.md row.
- Tests for the command, the tool's pointer gestures and the bar; the
border-with-a-gap recipe (two Contours, bake, Minus Front) is covered
end to end.
- Docs: beyond-Illustrator row, revision histories and the ROADMAP log.
Beyond Illustrator: a VectorCraft design built on Offset Path. Scores and
estimates unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Control bar asks whether Select > Start Global Edit can run every
frame it shows a one-object selection. For a path, compound path or
symbol instance that check built the object's form: a copy of every
anchor and handle, normalized into a unit box. On a 200,000-anchor path
it took about 2.2 to 3.0 ms a frame.
The check now walks the object the same way and measures only the box
of those points, then applies the same size test, so it gives the same
answer for every object without allocating. Starting Global Edit still
builds the forms it compares.
A document tab dragged sideways along the tab strip moves its document to the
place an insertion line marks; the current document stays current. Dragged
above or below the strip, the tab still tears off into a floating window. The
views Window > New Window opened move with their document, and each document
keeps its own zoom, centre and artboard.
The move is the engine command `document.move {from?, to}`, so the control
channel, MCP and recordings reach it, and a replay moves the document before
the steps recorded after it. `sync_views` keeps the views with their documents
by uid when the documents change order.
Behaviour: https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/customizing-workspace.html
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A Type Tools add-on command (Object › Plug-ins › Type Tools › Release Type on a
Path…, `addon.type.releasePath`): each selected type on a path becomes point
type with the same runs, character and paragraph attributes, on one straight
line whose baseline starts where its first character sat, and the plain path
it was set on, with its exact shape and transform, in its layer and stacking
place, with no fill or stroke. `mode` keeps both, the path only or the text
only; `keepOriginal` leaves the type on a path and adds the released objects
above it. Other objects are left alone, nothing to release makes no undo step,
the run is one undo step and the released objects are selected. The command
dialog previews it as Type on a Path Options does (#5360): Cancel leaves no
history, OK is one step. Tests, command_sweep cases, catalog rows in all 26
languages, docs/mcp.md and the parity docs (beyond Illustrator: scores
unchanged).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
addon.pathtools.cornerSet takes `every` ("all", "odd" or "even"; default
"all"), which keeps, of the anchors already chosen (named, direct-selected
or all), only the odd- or even-numbered ones, counted along each path from
its first anchor as number 1. Anchors that take no corner still count, so
the pattern follows the path's anchor order on open and closed paths; when
nothing is left the command says so. Unknown values are refused.
Object › Plug-ins › Path Precision Tools › Set Corners… (also a button in
the Anchor Inspector's Corners section) opens a dialog with Radius, Corner
kind and Anchors (All / Odd-Numbered / Even-Numbered) that previews on the
canvas and commits as one undo step.
A path or compound path whose Transform effect made copies expanded to
one compound path of every copy. It now expands to a group of one object
per copy, each painted as the path, as gradient copies already did; a
second Transform effect's copies nest in a group per copy of the first.
Drawing is unchanged.
# Conflicts:
# docs/effects-parity.md
Locking or hiding the layer (or a group) around the isolated object left
its art selectable with the Selection tool: the isolation branch of the
hit test only checked for a locked artboard, and the marquee's checked
nothing. Both now pass over isolated art that isn't editable.
When a fallback face draws Ka with the vowel sign I, the vowel sign's
glyph comes first in Ka's cluster, and text.glyphAlternates reported it
for Ka, laid out or overflowing. The query now finds the face that draws
the character and takes that face's glyph for it by the same rule as
for the requested face.
When the requested font has no glyph for a character, the text draws it
from a fallback face, and text.glyphAlternates reports that glyph. For
a character that overflows its area, the query shaped the character
alone but kept only a glyph of the requested face, so it reported the
requested face's default glyph (0). It now takes the first glyph drawn
for the character when the requested face draws none, as it does for
laid-out text.
A symbol instance whose fill has an opacity of 0 no longer counts as
stained. Expand Appearance and the other places that build an
instance's art used to rebuild every solid paint as an unlinked color
even though the tint changed nothing, so the art lost its global and
spot swatch links.
Ka, the halant, Ka again and the vowel sign I are shaped as one cluster:
the vowel sign, the first Ka's half form, then the second Ka's default
glyph. The glyph lookup looked for the character's default glyph across
the whole cluster before its alternates, so for the first Ka it found
the second Ka's default glyph instead of the half form. It again goes
through the cluster in order, and takes the first glyph that is the
character's default glyph or one of its alternates and is not the
default glyph of another character of the grapheme, so a vowel sign's
glyph that the font also lists as an alternate of the consonant is not
reported for the consonant.
The enabled check of artboard.deleteEmpty built the full list of empty
artboards, measuring the visual bounds of the art against every
artboard, each time the Artboards panel menu was drawn. It now returns
false at once in a document with one artboard (that artboard is never
deleted). With two or more, it asks the new
Document::any_artboard_without_art whether any unlocked artboard has no
art, which is the same answer as a non-empty list.
Document::any_artboard_without_art builds the symbol boxes once for all
the artboards and first tests each path and compound path by a quick
box: its control points' box grown by the farthest its strokes reach
(Appearance::outset), with a margin for rounding. An artboard that no
quick box meets is reported empty without measuring along any path.
Only when every artboard may hold art is each one measured.
Document::artboard_has_art also skips measuring an object whose quick
box misses the artboard; its answers are unchanged.
The check of gradient.presets.save found the proxy paints through
Node::proxy_paint, which measures the object's geometric bounds for a
gradient box the check does not use. Node::proxy_paint_only picks the
same paint without measuring, and the engine's proxy_paint uses it, so
the Fill and Stroke proxies and the mixed-paint test no longer measure
each object either.
With an open stroked path of 200,000 anchors selected, the two checks
take under 0.01 ms instead of 21.9 ms and 17.2 ms in a release build, and
Delete Empty Artboards' check takes 0.85 ms instead of 42.1 ms with a
second, empty artboard.
Tests compare each check with what its command does (one artboard, all
empty, one empty, locked empty, nested art; with and without a
gradient), compare any_empty_artboards with the previous check and with
measuring every object on 120 seeded documents, compare the quick boxes
with the visual bounds on seeded strokes, and compare proxy_paint_only
with proxy_paint on seeded objects.
Docs: docs/target-app-parity.md, one line under Delete Empty Artboards.
text.glyphAlternates reported the default glyph as `chosen` for any
character that overflows its area. A character whose style substitutes
another glyph (`salt`, or `vert` in vertical type) was reported with a
glyph it is not drawn with. The query now shapes such a character alone,
with the rest of its grapheme in their own styles and in the text's
writing direction, by the same helper text.setGlyphAlternate uses.
The helper also shapes the character in the direction its paragraph
sets it in, from its bidi level, so a parenthesis set right to left is
reported with its mirrored glyph in both commands.
Ka with a nukta and the vowel sign I is shaped as one cluster: the vowel
sign's glyph, then the ligature of Ka and the nukta. The ligature is
neither Ka's default glyph nor an alternate, so the lookup found no
glyph for Ka: text.glyphAlternates reported the vowel sign's glyph and
text.setGlyphAlternate reported Ka's default glyph. When the cluster
holds neither, the lookup now takes the first glyph that is not drawn
for another character of the grapheme.
text.glyphAlternates reported the first glyph of the character's
cluster as the chosen glyph. A vowel sign drawn before its consonant
(Devanagari Ka with the vowel sign I) comes first in that cluster, so
the query reported the vowel sign's glyph for Ka, while
text.setGlyphAlternate reported Ka's own glyph. Both commands now take
the character's glyph by the same rule, and so does the check in
text.setGlyphAlternate that the chosen glyph is drawn.
A character that overflows its area is shaped with its grapheme, and
each character of the grapheme now keeps its own style there, so a
nukta of another size no longer makes a ligature with its consonant
that the laid-out text does not draw. A test font with a Devanagari
nukta ligature checks both.
Paint and effect edits matched the active row across all selected
objects at once, so one object without an equal row made every object
edit the row at the raw index. ItemTarget::per_target and
effect_targets now match each object against the first one on its own,
as items_per_target does. effect_targets also looks up the row in the
stack it belongs to when deciding whether an effect edit is
object-level, so an effect on a row that sits lower in another object's
stack no longer fails with "no appearance item".
The `method` text of `paint.editGradient` and two passages of
docs/mcp.md said a CMYK document writes RGB and Lab gradient stops in
CMYK. An export that converts colors to an RGB destination profile
converts them to that profile first, so in a CMYK document they stay
RGB and a Perceptual spot gradient with such stops is written as an
image with the spot warning. The texts now say so, and the test of RGB
stops in a CMYK document also checks the RGB destination case.
A dashed stroke of a path with more than 1,024 path elements was outlined
whole in every frame after an edit. It is now outlined in and around the
view like a solid stroke. dash_kept runs the pattern along every segment
and keeps only the dashes and dots on the segments near the view, so they
sit where dashing the whole path puts them and the pixels are the same.
A pattern too fine to draw is still drawn solid, and that solid stroke is
cropped too.
At 1600 x 1200 the frame after one anchor moves takes 14 ms instead of
102 ms on a filled closed path of 50,000 anchors with 6 pt dashes and
4 pt gaps. anchor_bench now includes that document.
The link-watch worker now signals a condition variable when it ends,
whether it stored its stamps or unwound, and Session::wait_link_scan
blocks until then. The place tests' idle helper waits on it once per look
in place of a 5 ms sleep under a 20 s wall-clock bound, and the engine's
link-watch and link-path tests wait on it in place of spinning under a
10 s bound. The link-watch tests date a rewritten file 2 s after the one
it replaces instead of sleeping 30 ms before writing it.
text.setGlyphAlternate looked for the character's glyph only in a
cluster as long as the character. A character followed by a combining
mark is shaped in one cluster with the mark, so the lookup found
nothing: under a substituting feature such as salt, `gid: null`
reported the default glyph instead of the one drawn, and a request for
the default glyph changed nothing.
The lookup now also takes a cluster that holds the character's
grapheme, and in a cluster of several glyphs takes the character's
default glyph or one of its alternates. Text that overflows its area
is shaped with the whole grapheme.
The method help of paint.editGradient and docs/mcp.md said a Perceptual
gradient with spot stops becomes an image in PDF unless every other stop
is paper white, CMYK or gray. PDF export checks each stop's color as it is
written: a CMYK document, or an export that converts colors to a CMYK
destination profile, writes RGB and Lab stops in CMYK, so the gradient
becomes a DeviceN shading. Both texts now say so, and a test covers the
CMYK document and CMYK destination cases.
text.tabs.set and text.tabs.clear return without an edit when every
targeted paragraph already holds the stops. That path skipped the
settlement Session::edit does first, so a typing session in progress
stayed open. The command now ends it first, as the Variables commands
do: the typing is its own undo step whether or not the stops change.
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