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Tables: a percentage-width table from Word 2013 takes its share after its outer borders - #5181
In compatibility mode 15 (Word 2013 and later) WordCraft moves a table in by half its left border, which matches Word for tables whose width is in points. A percentage-width table kept its full width while moving in, so a bordered 100% table ran half a border past the right margin, and the line between its columns, with the text on either side of it, sat half a border to the right of where Word draws it.
What Word does
Measured in Word for Windows (16.0.20527.20112, Current Channel), exporting to PDF: a two-column table in a compatibility mode 15 document, 3.75 pt cell margins, a single border of width w on every cell side, the text area's edges read from a left-aligned and a right-aligned word in each cell.
table width
text edges (pt), w = 0
w = 0.75
w = 3
w = 6
100%
75.74 · 293.98 | 301.49 · 519.75
76.22 · 294.10 | 301.49 · 519.39
77.30 · 293.98 | 301.49 · 518.19
78.74 · 293.98 | 301.49 · 516.75
8000 twips (autofit or fixed), or auto
75.74 · 268.30 | 275.81 · 468.39
76.22 · 268.78 | 276.17 · 468.75
77.30 · 269.86 | 277.25 · 469.83
78.74 · 271.30 | 278.81 · 471.39
So a percentage reaches its width with the outer edges of the outer borders: only the outer edges move in, by half a border each, and the line between the columns stays at the middle. A width in points keeps its columns, and everything moves right by half the left border, which WordCraft already did.
Before this change WordCraft drew the 100% rows as 77.25 · 295.40 | 302.90 · 521.05 (w = 3); now 77.25 · 293.90 | 301.40 · 518.05, the same distance from Word's figures as the borderless table. The points-wide rows were already right and are unchanged.
More cases, same setup (6 pt borders unless said):
case
Word
before
after
100%, left 6 pt, right 0.75 pt, inside 0.75 pt
78.74 · 295.30 | 302.69 · 519.27
—
78.75 · 295.21 | 302.71 · 519.17
100%, end-aligned
78.74 · 293.98 | 301.49 · 516.75
81.75 · 296.90 | 304.40 · 519.55
78.75 · 293.90 | 301.40 · 516.55
8000 twips, end-aligned
124.10 · 316.66 | 324.07 · 516.63
127.05 · 319.55 | 327.05 · 519.55
124.05 · 316.55 | 324.05 · 516.55
100%, row exception (w:tblPrEx) turning left and right off
75.74 · 293.98 | 301.49 · 519.75
78.75 · 293.90 | 301.40 · 516.55
75.75 · 293.90 | 301.40 · 519.55
100%, AutoFit, both cells holding 60 words
78.74 · 293.98 | 301.49 · 516.75
—
78.75 · 293.90 | 301.40 · 516.55
So with unequal outer borders Word scales all the columns (the line between them moves by about half the difference); an end-aligned table puts its end border's outer edge on the margin, whatever its width is given in; and the borders that count are the ones the cells draw.
Other shares (corrects this PR's first version). The figures above are for 100%. Word takes the share of the room left after the outer borders' outer halves: columns = share × (text width − start half − end half). My first version took the share first and the halves after, which gives Word's width only at 100%. Same setup, 25% to 120%, with equal and unequal outer lines (below, the middle of each vertical line, in pt):
case
Word
old formula (calculated)
now
50%, 6 and 6 pt
75.0 · 186.4 · 297.6
75.0 · 184.8 · 294.6
75.0 · 186.4 · 297.6
75%, 6 and 6 pt
75.0 · 242.1 · 409.0
75.0 · 241.2 · 407.5
75.0 · 242.0 · 409.0
50%, 6 and 0.75 pt
75.0 · 187.0 · 299.0
75.0 · 186.1 · 297.3
75.0 · 187.0 · 299.0
A centred left-to-right table centres its outer edges, the borders' outer halves included, so unequal lines move its columns off the middle:
a percentage is taken of the room left after the halves of the first row's outer start and end borders, taken as its cells draw them (layout_table's order: the cell's own, the row's exceptions, the table style's conditional parts, the table's), the same halves the start offset uses;
an end-aligned table moves in by the end border's half, as a start-aligned one already did by the start border's;
a centred left-to-right table centres its outer edges.
Modes 14 and earlier are unchanged.
Tests
tests::a_percentage_table_from_word_2013_ends_its_outer_borders_at_its_width: 0.75, 3 and 6 pt borders; the 100% table's outer cell edges move in by half a border and the line between the columns stays at the middle; the same table 400 pt wide still moves right by half its left border. It fails without the change (0.75: [(72.375, 306.375), (306.375, 540.375)]).
tests::a_table_from_word_2013_ends_at_the_borders_its_cells_draw: end-aligned 100% and 400 pt tables, and a row exception turning the outer borders off. It fails without the follow-up commit (100% end-aligned [(78.0, 309.0), (309.0, 540.0)], start-aligned [(75.0, 306.0), (306.0, 537.0)]).
tests::a_percentage_table_from_word_2013_takes_its_share_after_its_outer_borders: fails without the change (25%, lines 1.5 and 1.5: columns 115.5, Word 116.625).
tests::a_centred_table_from_word_2013_centres_its_outer_edges: also fails without the change.
Results. Measured on #6002's branch, which contains this one: 60 of 60 mode 15 top-level probes (25% to 120%; start, end and centred; equal and unequal lines) match Word within 0.3 pt. On two sets of real documents, the count of lines matching Word's PDF is the same as on main: 4,114 of 8,571 and 4,725 of 6,575.
Not covered:
a percentage-width table whose columns AutoFit sizes from percentage cell widths keeps the widths AutoFit gives it, as before; I haven't measured that case in Word;
a right-to-left centred table: Word's position doesn't follow this rule, and I don't have a formula for it yet;
a percentage table wider than its cell: Word clips it, this draws it past the cell;
Improved percentage-width table sizing and outer-border positioning in Word 2013 compatibility mode 15 and later, accounting for the visible halves of the outer borders.
Corrected start- and end-alignment offsets based on the corresponding outer border widths. Point-width tables and earlier compatibility modes retain their prior behavior.
Improved border positioning when cell borders, row exceptions, or conditional table styles affect the outer edges.
Documentation
Updated layout, roadmap, and compatibility notes to describe the table-border behavior.
…s at its width
In compatibility mode 15 a table moves in by half its left border, which
matches Word for tables with a width in points. A percentage-width table,
though, reaches its width in Word with the outer edges of its outer borders:
its columns give up those borders' outer halves. WordCraft kept the full width
and moved it, so a bordered 100% table ran half a border past the right margin
and the lines between its columns and their text sat half a border to the
right (measured in Word for Windows with 0.75pt, 3pt and 6pt borders).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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In compatibility mode 15 or later, table layout resolves outer borders and uses their halves to adjust percentage-width sizing and alignment. Tests cover percentage-width and fixed-width tables, including end alignment, row exceptions, and conditional first-row formatting. Project documents record the behavior.
table_frame resolves outer borders using cell borders, row exceptions, conditional table-style borders, and table borders. In compatibility mode 15 or later, percentage-width sizing and start and end offsets account for outer-border halves. Tests cover percentage-width and fixed-width tables, end alignment, row exceptions, and conditional first-row formatting. Project documents record the behavior.
Full Arabic and RTL Support #66 — The PR adjusts end-aligned table offsets in right-to-left documents in compatibility mode 15, which overlaps with the issue’s native RTL table-layout objective.
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Minor · Align the outer border at the end margin. · table.rs:504
crates/layout/src/table.rs:504 Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Align the outer border at the end margin.
For a right-aligned 100% table with 6 pt borders, this branch places the right border center at the margin. The border extends 3 pt past it, so the reported overflow remains. Account for the end border half when aligning percentage-width tables; preserve point-width behavior. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Review comment at @crates/layout/src/table.rs at line 504:
Update the right-alignment branch for percentage-width tables so the outer right
border ends at the available margin, accounting for half the end border width;
preserve the existing alignment behavior for point-width tables.
Minor · Reserve the border halves in the AutoFit cap. · table.rs:471
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Reserve the border halves in the AutoFit cap.
For a start-aligned, unindented mode 15 percentage table, AutoFit can increase the reduced grid to avail. The current cap then places the outer border beyond avail by the border halves.
A reduced grid can also be below avail while its painted width already exceeds avail. The proposed cap prevents further AutoFit expansion in that case, but it does not move the initial target back inside avail. A nonzero indent also remains outside this limit because the start position includes indent.
Suggested fix
- let cap = avail.max(total);+ let cap = if new_borders && t.props.width_pct.is_some_and(|p| p > 0.0) {+ total.max(avail - start_half - end_half)+ } else {+ avail.max(total)+ };
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Review comment at @crates/layout/src/table.rs at line 471:
Update the AutoFit width calculation around cap so percentage tables with
new_borders reserve start_half and end_half within avail, while retaining total
as the minimum. Also constrain the initial target—not just later expansion—and
account for indent so the painted table width stays within avail.
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Review comments at @crates/layout/src/table.rs:
- Around line 431-432: Update the start_half and end_half calculations to use
the effective outer borders after applying the same row-exception and
conditional-style precedence as layout_table uses for drawing; then pass those
resolved borders to outer_half so sizing excludes only borders that are actually
drawn.
- Around line 434-442: Update the percentage-width handling in the table layout
so mode 15 columns are scaled to the full percentage width, then reduce only the
first and last entries of grid by start_half and end_half, clamping each at
zero. Recompute total from the adjusted grid so unequal outer border halves do
not shift interior column boundaries.
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Review comments at @crates/layout/src/table.rs:
- Line 504: Update the right-alignment branch for percentage-width tables so the
outer right border ends at the available margin, accounting for half the end
border width; preserve the existing alignment behavior for point-width tables.
- Line 471: Update the AutoFit width calculation around cap so percentage tables
with new_borders reserve start_half and end_half within avail, while retaining
total as the minimum. Also constrain the initial target—not just later
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Measured in Word for Windows (compatibility mode 15): an end-aligned table
puts its end border's outer edge on the margin, for a percentage width or a
width in points; WordCraft put the border's middle there, half a border past
the margin. And the outer borders a percentage width gives room to are the
ones the first row's cells draw, so a row exception (w:tblPrEx) or the table
style's conditional parts turning them off leave the table its whole width,
as cell borders already did.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
@coderabbitai Thanks. Both outside-diff notes, measured in Word for Windows (6 pt borders, mode 15):
table.rs:504 end alignment: right. An end-aligned 100% table lands exactly where a start-aligned one does (text 78.74 · 516.75 pt), and an end-aligned 8000-twip table puts its right border's outer edge on the margin too (text ends at 516.63; we had 519.55), so this isn't limited to percentage widths. An end-aligned table now moves in by the end border's half, as a start-aligned one does by the start border's. Covered by tests::a_table_from_word_2013_ends_at_the_borders_its_cells_draw. In 8140374.
table.rs:471 AutoFit cap: I couldn't reproduce an overflow. A 100% AutoFit table with 60 words in each cell lays out as Word does (text 78.74 · 516.75 in Word, 78.75 · 516.55 here, the same 0.1–0.2 pt as the borderless table), so AutoFit doesn't widen the reduced width here. If you have a case where it does, I'll measure it.
Add a test for the first-row conditional border override in edge_border.
The branch that takes a first-row conditional border from the table style is not exercised by the changed tests. Both tests build tables with no table style, so the branch always evaluates to its default. Removing or reordering it leaves both tests passing. Add a case with a table style whose first-row part sets a border that conflicts with the table's own border, and assert the outer edges of a percentage-width table.
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Review comment at @crates/layout/src/tests.rs around lines 5731 - 5777:
Extend the Word 2013 border test using the existing table setup to apply a table
style whose first-row conditional formatting specifies a border conflicting with
the table border. Assert the percentage-width table’s outer cell edges reflect
the first-row conditional border, exercising the first-row branch in
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Review comments at @crates/layout/src/tests.rs:
- Around line 5731-5777: Extend the Word 2013 border test using the existing
table setup to apply a table style whose first-row conditional formatting
specifies a border conflicting with the table border. Assert the
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End alignment: The current table_frame code applies the end-border half-offset in mode 15 and later, for both percentage and point widths. The named regression test checks that the 100% start- and end-aligned tables have matching cell edges. It also checks that the 400 pt table’s end cell edge sits 3 pt inside the margin for a 6 pt border.
AutoFit: Your measurements do not support my overflow concern for that case. I have no concrete reproducer to offer, so I would not treat the cap expression alone as a confirmed defect or request a change on that basis.
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## Roadmap
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# Layout and pagination parity with Microsoft Word
## Footer page tables
Spanning cell minima retain each column's text minimum and share extra width in preferred-column proportions; automatic tables share equally. Nested measurement normalizes preferred grid weights as layout does.
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# Layout and pagination parity with Microsoft Word
## Floating tables across header and body
A body floating table with `tblOverlap=never` clears floating header tables.
Allowed overlap retains its requested position. Original native controls confirm
both cases. Earlier-body reflow around late tables remains separate.
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Measured in Word for Windows: a table style whose first-row part turns the
left and right borders off gives a one-row 100% table its whole width while
the table shows first-row formatting, and the borders' halves come off when it
doesn't. The test covers that branch of the border lookup.
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@coderabbitai Thanks for confirming the fixes. On the nitpick about the table style's conditional borders in edge_border: measured in Word for Windows first. A table style with 6 pt borders whose first-row part sets the left and right cell borders to nil gives a one-row 100% table its whole width when the table shows first-row formatting (text 75.74 · 519.75 pt, as without borders) and takes the borders' halves off when it doesn't (78.74 · 516.75). Added tests::a_table_from_word_2013_takes_its_outer_borders_from_its_style_s_parts for both; it fails with the style branch removed from edge_border (first row's borders off [(75.0, 306.0), (306.0, 537.0)], plain [(72.0, 306.0), (306.0, 540.0)]). In 65c2177.
@pakiat Thanks for measuring both cases in Word. The conditional-style branch in edge_border is necessary. I withdraw the nitpick.
I inspected the implementation and a_table_from_word_2013_takes_its_outer_borders_from_its_style_s_parts. The test checks both outcomes:
With first-row formatting enabled, the explicit nil side borders preserve the borderless table’s full width.
With first-row formatting disabled, the 6 pt style borders move each outer cell edge inward by 3 pt.
edge_border retains the conditional border before outer_half checks visibility. This prevents an explicit nil border from falling back to the visible table border.
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# Layout and pagination parity with Microsoft Word
## Footer page tables
Spanning cell minima retain each column's text minimum and share extra width in preferred-column proportions; automatic tables share equally. Nested measurement normalizes preferred grid weights as layout does.
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Summary: In compatibility mode 15, this change makes percentage-width tables end their outer borders at the table width by giving up half of the first row's outer start and end borders, and makes end-aligned tables move in by the end border's half, matching Word 2013 behaviour for bordered tables.
Logical units:
Percentage-width adjustment in table_frame in crates/layout/src/table.rs, using border precedence from layout_table (cell, row exception, style conditional, table)
End-aligned offset in table_frame for Align::Right and RTL right alignment
New test a_percentage_table_from_word_2013_ends_its_outer_borders_at_its_width in crates/layout/src/tests.rs
Findings:
[tests] crates/layout/src/tests.rs, a_percentage_table_from_word_2013_ends_its_outer_borders_at_its_width / table_frame / edge_border: the test only sets table-level borders, so the new precedence is untested. Add cases where a cell or a w:tblPrEx row exception overrides or removes the table border, and where the style supplies it.
[tests] crates/layout/src/tests.rs, same test / table_frame: no case covers end-aligned tables, although table_frame now subtracts end_offset for Align::Right (and adds it for RTL right alignment). Add percentage and points-width, end-aligned cases, including RTL/bidiVisual, asserting the end border's outer edge lands on the margin.
[tests] crates/layout/src/tests.rs, same test: no regression case for compatibility mode < 15. Add a mode-14 percentage table and end-aligned table asserting the old full-width / no end offset behaviour, so the new_borders gate is pinned.
[tests] crates/layout/src/tests.rs, same test: unequal start/end borders are described as moving the middle line, but are not tested. Add a case with different left/right widths (and a centred table) asserting both outer edges and the column divider.
Overlaps: None listed.
Verdict: Needs changes. The 3 most important points are: (1) border precedence (cell, row exception, style, table) is untested, (2) end-aligned and RTL cases are untested, (3) mode < 15 regression behaviour is unpinned.
…n; tests
Measured in Word for Windows (compatibility mode 15, w:bidiVisual, 400pt and
100% tables, 6pt/6pt, 6pt/0.75pt and 0.75pt/6pt outer borders): a
right-to-left table aligned to the end (the left margin) keeps its edge on
the margin whatever its borders, as main has it. 8140374 moved it in by the
end border's half; that goes.
a_table_from_word_2013_ends_its_borders_by_mode_cell_side_and_direction pins
what the probes measured and the other tests didn't: compatibility mode 14
keeps the whole width, cells turning the outer borders off (tcBorders nil),
unequal outer borders sharing the rest equally, a centred 100% table, and the
right-to-left end-aligned case (which fails with 8140374's offset).
The style-part test edits the styles through Arc::make_mut after the main
merge (the sheet is shared now).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Thanks for the review. 39a26c7 adds the cases. Measuring them also found one bug, which this commit fixes.
Some of the coverage was already there, in two tests that sit next to the one the review looked at:
a_table_from_word_2013_ends_at_the_borders_its_cells_draw covers the end-aligned 100% and 400pt tables and the w:tblPrEx row exception.
a_table_from_word_2013_takes_its_outer_borders_from_its_style_s_parts covers a table style's first-row part turning the outer borders off.
a_table_from_word_2013_ends_its_borders_by_mode_cell_side_and_direction adds the rest. Each case was measured in Word for Windows on synthetic two-column tables, from text edges in PDF exports:
Bug found: the last row exposed a bug in this PR. 8140374 moved a right-to-left end-aligned table in by its end border's half, but Word, and main, keep it on the margin. That offset is removed. The new test fails if it is put back, and after the fix WordCraft matches Word within 0.15 pt in every probe above.
Not covered: a right-to-left start-aligned table (on the right margin) sits 2.9–3 pt further in in Word than in WordCraft. That is the same on main before this PR, for both 400 pt and percentage tables, and it doesn't follow either border's half in a simple way (6/6 and 6/0.75 give 5.9 pt, 0.75/6 gives 3.3 pt). I've left it out of this PR rather than fit a formula to three points. I can open a separate issue with the probe numbers.
2e94f7f also merges main, with docs-only conflicts. After the merge, the style-part test edits d.styles through Arc::make_mut, because the style sheet is shared now. cargo test -p wordcraft-layout --lib passes apart from four tests (two hyphenation tests, bidi::letters_join_across_a_change_of_formatting and fragmented_hidden_text_lays_out_like_the_visible_text). Those four fail on a clean main on this machine too, which has no hyphenation data and doesn't have the same fonts. fmt and clippy (--all-targets) are clean.
Extract the repeated cell-edge collection into one helper.
Four new tests repeat the same 4-line expression. It collects each Placed::Cell as (rect.x, rect.x + rect.w) from l.pages[0].items and sorts the result by left edge. A change to this expression must be made in four places.
Add one helper near lay and call it from each test closure.
♻️ Proposed helper
/// The first page's cell rectangles as (left, right) edges, ordered left to right.fncell_edges(doc:&Document) -> Vec<(f32,f32)>{let l = lay(doc);letmut out:Vec<(f32,f32)> =
l.pages[0].items.iter().filter_map(|i| ifletPlaced::Cell{ rect, .. } = i {Some((rect.x, rect.x + rect.w))}else{None}).collect();
out.sort_by(|a, b| a.0.total_cmp(&b.0));
out
}
Each closure then ends with cell_edges(&d).
Based on learnings, near-identical test code should be shared instead of duplicated. The Case struct in a_table_from_word_2013_ends_its_borders_by_mode_cell_side_and_direction already follows the table-driven pattern.
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Review comment at @crates/layout/src/tests.rs around lines 7118 - 7121:
Extract the repeated first-page cell-edge collection and sorting into a
`cell_edges` helper near `lay`, then replace the duplicate expressions in all
four test closures with calls to `cell_edges(&d)`. Preserve the existing
behavior of collecting each `Placed::Cell` as left and right edges and sorting
by left edge.
Reuse ncols instead of walking the grid a second time.
grid_cols(t) already ran at Line 402 as ncols. Line 416 calls it again as ncols_all. Each call walks every row and charges crate::work::steps. The existing comment in column_content says the same: counting the grid width walks every row, so do it once.
ncols equals ncols_all whenever the first row has a cell. If the first row has no cell, edge_border returns None before it uses either value. layout_table also receives the .max(1) value through TableFrame, so ncols matches the value used for the cell regions and edge flags there.
Remove ncols_all and use ncols in edge_border at Lines 421 and 423.
♻️ Proposed change
- let ncols_all = grid_cols(t);
let edge_border = |row: &wordcraft_doc::Row, ci: usize, end: bool| -> Option<Border> {
Then, at Lines 421 and 423, replace ncols_all with ncols.
As per path instructions, the layout parity guide records that table lookups are linear: "each lookup is indexed or walked once (was a rescan per item)".
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Review comment at @crates/layout/src/table.rs at line 416:
Remove the second grid_cols traversal in the table layout flow and reuse the
existing ncols value in edge_border wherever ncols_all is used. Preserve the
existing behavior when the first row has no cell, where edge_border returns None
before using the column count.
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Nitpick comments:
Review comments at @crates/layout/src/table.rs:
- Line 416: Remove the second grid_cols traversal in the table layout flow and
reuse the existing ncols value in edge_border wherever ncols_all is used.
Preserve the existing behavior when the first row has no cell, where edge_border
returns None before using the column count.
Review comments at @crates/layout/src/tests.rs:
- Around line 7118-7121: Extract the repeated first-page cell-edge collection
and sorting into a `cell_edges` helper near `lay`, then replace the duplicate
expressions in all four test closures with calls to `cell_edges(&d)`. Preserve
the existing behavior of collecting each `Placed::Cell` as left and right edges
and sorting by left edge.
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Review follow-up: the four border tests collect the first page's cell edges
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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
@coderabbitai Both nitpicks are fixed in 0c04448: the four border tests share a cell_edges helper, and table_frame reuses ncols instead of counting the grid again. ncols is grid_cols(t).max(1), which differs from the old value only for a table without cells, and there edge_border returns None before it reads the count.
The right-to-left start offset I mentioned is in #6002 now: Word moves a right-to-left start-aligned table left by half the line between its last two columns. That PR also fixes end-aligned tables in compatibility mode 14, and the lines between columns that table style parts give. It builds on this branch, and only its last commit is new.
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@pakiat Thanks for the fixes. The earlier inspection confirmed that the four tests use cell_edges and that edge_border returns None before using ncols when the first row has no cells.
Thanks for tracking the right-to-left start offset in #6002. I did not run the tests. Please check CI for this revision before merging.
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… the outer borders
The halves of the outer borders came off after taking the share, which only gives Word's width at
100%. Word takes them off first: 50% of 451.3pt with 6pt lines is 222.65pt, not 219.65pt. Measured
in Word for Windows from 25% to 120%, with equal and unequal lines.
Word also centres a left-to-right table's outer edges, its borders' outer halves included, so
unequal lines move its columns off the middle.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The docs said a percentage-width table reaches its width with its outer edges,
which only holds at 100%. Also record the centred table.
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Tables: a percentage-width table from Word 2013 ends its outer borders at its width
Tables: a percentage-width table from Word 2013 takes its share after its outer borders
Nov 9, 2026
I ran into the same rule from the other side (a two-column 100% table in one of our contracts wraps four lines differently from Word) and found this PR before filing anything. I checked it against measurements of my own instead: Word for Windows 16.0.20625, Save As > PDF, compatibility mode 15, A4 with a text width of 496.05 pt (margins at 56.7 and 552.75), a two-column table with cells of 48% and 52% and cell margins of 0.75 pt. Outer edges of the outer borders and the middle of the line between the columns, in points:
table
Word
main (60415e05)
main with this PR
100%, borders 0.5 pt
56.64 to 552.82, middle 294.77
56.70 to 553.25, 295.03
56.70 to 552.75, 294.79
100%, 0.75 pt
56.64 to 552.70, 294.77
56.70 to 553.50, 295.16
56.70 to 552.75, 294.80
100%, 1.5 pt
56.64 to 552.82, 294.89
56.70 to 554.25, 295.53
56.70 to 552.75, 294.81
100%, 3 pt
56.64 to 552.70, 294.83
56.70 to 555.75, 296.28
56.70 to 552.75, 294.84
100%, 6 pt
56.64 to 552.82, 294.89
56.70 to 558.75, 297.78
56.70 to 552.75, 294.90
100%, 3 pt, the borders on the cells only
56.64 to 552.70, 294.83
56.70 to 555.75, 296.28
56.70 to 552.75, 294.84
100%, 3 pt, fixed layout
56.64 to 552.70, 294.83
56.70 to 555.75, 296.28
56.70 to 552.75, 294.84
50%, 0.75 pt
56.64 to 305.09, 175.94
56.70 to 305.47, 176.12
56.70 to 305.10, 175.94
50%, 3 pt
56.64 to 306.17, 176.48
56.70 to 307.72, 177.24
56.70 to 306.23, 176.52
496.05 pt wide (dxa), 3 pt
56.64 to 555.70, 296.27
56.70 to 555.75, 296.28
56.70 to 555.75, 296.28
So the rule holds on a second set of numbers: every percentage case is within 0.1 pt of Word with this PR, and the table with a width in points stays as it was.
On 91 insurance documents filled with made-up data, each word's position compared with Word's PDF:
On main 8 change: 3 get closer to Word, none further, 5 come out even; the words more than 1 pt off sideways go from 17 501 to 17 307 of 437 982.
On top of my other open fixes 8 change: 4 closer, none further, and the other 4 end with every word within 1 pt of Word's. Documents that match Word word for word go from 51 to 55 of 91, and the words more than 1 pt off sideways from 1362 to 1062 of 438 101.
Merging main (60415e05) into the branch conflicts only in ROADMAP.md, docs/gaps.md and docs/layout-parity.md, where both sides added a line at the same place; table.rs and tests.rs merge cleanly, and with both sides' lines kept cargo test -p wordcraft-layout --lib gives 720 passed and the 3 hyphenation tests that fail in my container on main too.
One thing I saw in the same files that is not this PR's: where half the outer border is wider than the cell margin, Word starts the cell's text at the border's inner edge (59.66 with a 3 pt border and a 0.75 pt margin, 62.66 with 6 pt); WordCraft starts it at the edge plus the margin (58.95 and 60.45), inside the border.
Only ROADMAP.md, docs/gaps.md and docs/layout-parity.md conflicted, each where both sides added a line; both kept.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
@Menonro Thank you for measuring this on your own set, and for the document counts. It's good to see the rule hold at every border width, with the cells' own borders and fixed layout too.
I've merged main into the branch (95b31b5). As you found, only ROADMAP.md, docs/gaps.md and docs/layout-parity.md conflicted, and both sides' lines are kept.
The text inside a border wider than twice the cell margin is on my list of known gaps; your numbers (59.66 and 62.66 against our 58.95 and 60.45) give me the rule to check it against, so thank you for those as well. It will be its own PR.
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What was wrong
In compatibility mode 15 (Word 2013 and later) WordCraft moves a table in by half its left border, which matches Word for tables whose width is in points. A percentage-width table kept its full width while moving in, so a bordered 100% table ran half a border past the right margin, and the line between its columns, with the text on either side of it, sat half a border to the right of where Word draws it.
What Word does
Measured in Word for Windows (16.0.20527.20112, Current Channel), exporting to PDF: a two-column table in a compatibility mode 15 document, 3.75 pt cell margins, a single border of width w on every cell side, the text area's edges read from a left-aligned and a right-aligned word in each cell.
So a percentage reaches its width with the outer edges of the outer borders: only the outer edges move in, by half a border each, and the line between the columns stays at the middle. A width in points keeps its columns, and everything moves right by half the left border, which WordCraft already did.
Before this change WordCraft drew the 100% rows as 77.25 · 295.40 | 302.90 · 521.05 (w = 3); now 77.25 · 293.90 | 301.40 · 518.05, the same distance from Word's figures as the borderless table. The points-wide rows were already right and are unchanged.
More cases, same setup (6 pt borders unless said):
w:tblPrEx) turning left and right offSo with unequal outer borders Word scales all the columns (the line between them moves by about half the difference); an end-aligned table puts its end border's outer edge on the margin, whatever its width is given in; and the borders that count are the ones the cells draw.
Other shares (corrects this PR's first version). The figures above are for 100%. Word takes the share of the room left after the outer borders' outer halves: columns = share × (text width − start half − end half). My first version took the share first and the halves after, which gives Word's width only at 100%. Same setup, 25% to 120%, with equal and unequal outer lines (below, the middle of each vertical line, in pt):
A centred left-to-right table centres its outer edges, the borders' outer halves included, so unequal lines move its columns off the middle:
The change
table_frame(crates/layout/src/table.rs), mode 15 only:layout_table's order: the cell's own, the row's exceptions, the table style's conditional parts, the table's), the same halves the start offset uses;Modes 14 and earlier are unchanged.
Tests
tests::a_percentage_table_from_word_2013_ends_its_outer_borders_at_its_width: 0.75, 3 and 6 pt borders; the 100% table's outer cell edges move in by half a border and the line between the columns stays at the middle; the same table 400 pt wide still moves right by half its left border. It fails without the change (0.75: [(72.375, 306.375), (306.375, 540.375)]).tests::a_table_from_word_2013_ends_at_the_borders_its_cells_draw: end-aligned 100% and 400 pt tables, and a row exception turning the outer borders off. It fails without the follow-up commit (100% end-aligned [(78.0, 309.0), (309.0, 540.0)], start-aligned [(75.0, 306.0), (306.0, 537.0)]).tests::a_percentage_table_from_word_2013_takes_its_share_after_its_outer_borders: fails without the change (25%, lines 1.5 and 1.5: columns 115.5, Word 116.625).tests::a_centred_table_from_word_2013_centres_its_outer_edges: also fails without the change.cargo test -p wordcraft-layout: 701 passed.cargo clippy -p wordcraft-layout --all-targets -- -D warningsandcargo fmt --all -- --checkpass.Results. Measured on #6002's branch, which contains this one: 60 of 60 mode 15 top-level probes (25% to 120%; start, end and centred; equal and unequal lines) match Word within 0.3 pt. On two sets of real documents, the count of lines matching Word's PDF is the same as on
main: 4,114 of 8,571 and 4,725 of 6,575.Not covered:
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