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Fixes #6579.

In a row that splits across pages, a cell aligned to the middle or bottom whose own text goes on to the next page started at the top of the cell on the first page. Word lines it up there by the text it keeps.

Baseline of each cell's first line, pt from the page top (Word for Windows 16.0.20625; the file is the one from #6579: a row cut after 17 lines of 11.5 pt, the first cell keeping all 17 on the first page, the centred and the bottom-aligned cell 15 each):

	Word	main	This branch
first page, cell 1 (top), 17 lines	170.1	170.1	170.1
first page, cell 2 (centre), 15 lines	181.6	170.1	181.6
first page, cell 3 (bottom), 15 lines	193.1	170.1	193.1
second page, all three cells	66.5	66.6	66.6
the paragraph after the table	331.7	331.6	331.6

What changes, in crates/layout/src/table.rs:

• align_in_part also lines up the middle and bottom cells that go on. It already knew how far the text kept on the page reaches in every cell it does not line up whole (kept, the most of them); it now keeps each cell's own reach as well, and moves a cell that goes on down by the difference, half of it when centred. A cell that keeps as much as the tallest does not move, which is the case the code handled until now.
• The rest of the row is as tall as before. split_row_with measured it from the smallest distance any cell's text moves up for the next page; a cell lined up lower moves up that much further, so its lowering is taken off again (lowered). Without this the rest of the row came out shorter by the lowering whenever the lined-up cell had the most text left, and everything below it sat higher.
• layout_table records the alignment of every middle and bottom cell that is not turned (CellPart::align), where it recorded only the cells whose content had moved. A centred cell as tall as its row moves nowhere in the whole row and still has to be lined up in a part of it. For the whole row and for table_flow, which read the distance moved, a distance of zero changes nothing.

Test: layout::tests::a_split_rows_middle_and_bottom_cells_are_lined_up_by_the_text_they_keep. A row of 40 one-line paragraphs beside two cells of twelve three-line paragraphs, pushed down so that 17 lines stay on the first page, in three combinations of top, middle and bottom: the lines kept are 17, 15 and 15, the cells two lines short start one line down in the middle and two at the bottom, also against a centred or bottom-aligned cell's 17 lines, and on the second page every cell goes on at the top. With 30 one-line paragraphs, so that the lined-up cells have the most text left, the paragraph after the table stays where it is without the lining up. Without the change: "top, middle, bottom: cell 1 starts 0 pt below the first on the first page, expected 15.912003"; without the second point alone: "the paragraph after the table is at 391.23996, without the lining up at 407.15198".

The existing tests of split rows pass unchanged, among them a_middle_or_bottom_cell_of_a_split_row_lines_up_on_the_first_page and the two about a space after beside a bottom cell.

Checked:

• cargo fmt --all -- --check
• cargo clippy -p wordcraft-layout --all-targets -- -D warnings
• cargo test -p wordcraft-layout: 715 passed, 3 failed. The three (auto_hyphenation_breaks_long_words, fragmented_hidden_text_lays_out_like_the_visible_text, hyphenation_and_proofing_follow_each_runs_language) fail the same way on main in my container, which has no hyphenation patterns.
• I did not run the other crates' tests or the full cargo xtask ci: the change is inside the layout crate's table code.

Compared with Word's PDFs:

• the file from Tables: a middle or bottom cell of a split row whose text goes on to the next page starts at the top; Word lines it up by the text it keeps #6579 and ten more rows in two files (all three cells aligned, a row over three pages, cells that end on the first or the second page), 1137 marked lines: every one within 0.3 pt of Word's and on Word's page; on main 105 of them are 11.5 or 23 pt high.
• 91 insurance forms filled with made-up data, each word's position compared with Word's PDF. 21 change, the other 70 come out exactly as on main. By the count of words more than 1 pt higher or lower than in Word (23230 before, 23119 after in the 21) 5 are closer and 4 further; the page of every word and the words to the side are unchanged. Together with my other open table fixes and Layout: a hidden end-of-cell mark after a closing line break takes no room #5457 the same change brings 15 forms closer and 7 of them to no difference at all.
• The 4 that get further: their row is cut two lines earlier than in Word (a difference of its own, on main too), so the cells keep other text than in Word and are lined up by that. In one of them the right cell now starts 2.5 pt low where it was in place, and the left one is 7.9 pt high before and after.

After a follow-up (02bc9cb9)

The cells lined up against the most text kept by the cells that run from the top in the part. A cell aligned to the middle or the bottom whose text all stays there was left out of that, so beside one that was the tallest the others stood too high. It counts as text kept now (seven lines in align_in_part).

Measured in Word for Windows 16.0.20625 with lines of 9.2 pt and room for four of them: a top cell that keeps three lines (its fourth and fifth are one paragraph), a cell of four lines that stays whole, a centred cell of two lines, a bottom cell of one line and a centred cell of three. How far the first line of the last three stands below the first line of the top cell, in points:

the four-line cell is	Word	before 02bc9cb9	with it
in the middle	9.24, 27.60, 4.56	4.60, 18.40, 0	9.20, 27.60, 4.60
at the bottom	9.24, 27.60, 4.56	4.60, 18.40, 0	9.20, 27.60, 4.60
at the top	9.24, 27.60, 4.56	9.20, 27.60, 4.60	9.20, 27.60, 4.60

Test: a_split_rows_cells_line_up_against_an_aligned_cell_that_stays_whole (the three rows of the table; without the change "Some(Center): cell 2 starts 0.49999952 lines down, not 1"). cargo test -p wordcraft-layout --lib: 716 passed, the same 3 hyphenation tests fail as on main in my container; cargo fmt --all -- --check and cargo clippy -p wordcraft-layout --all-targets -- -D warnings are clean.

On our 91 insurance documents, on top of my other open fixes, 8 change with this commit: all 8 get closer to Word and none further, and five of them end up word for word where Word has them (69 of the 91 do, from 64).

After a second follow-up (9d303819)

From the review of #6646, whose code this is. A cell that goes on while it keeps a row of a table was lowered by that row's text alone. A nested row ends below its text, at its bottom border, so its area was pushed across the page's bottom and cut there, a row marked Can't Split too. The areas of the rows of tables that end above the limit now count as what the cell keeps (three lines in align_in_part; the cell's own area needs no telling apart, it runs to the row's bottom, past the limit).

Measured in Word for Windows 16.0.20625: a cell that keeps a nested row with 30 pt of cell margin under its one line of 9.2 pt, while the paragraph of three lines after it goes on, beside a cell of ten lines. Baseline of the nested row's line on the first page:

cell, room for the row	Word	02bc9cb9	9d303819
centred, 62 pt	739.3	754.5	739.2
centred, 66 pt	739.9	755.1	739.8
bottom, 62 pt	746.9	777.2	746.7
bottom, 66 pt	752.0	782.4	751.9
centred, 34 pt, no margin under the line	768.5	768.7	768.4
bottom, 34 pt, no margin under the line	777.2	777.6	777.1

In Word the nested row's bottom border ends where the text kept beside it does (bottom) or half way there (centred). In the first four rows 02bc9cb9 also cut the nested table at the page's bottom and started the paragraph after it 1.5 to 29.4 pt low on the next page; 9d303819 does neither.

Test: a_cell_that_goes_on_is_lowered_by_the_nested_row_it_keeps_too; without the change a piece of the nested row 28.8 pt tall goes on to the next page. cargo test -p wordcraft-layout --lib: 717 passed, the same 3 hyphenation tests fail; cargo fmt --all -- --check and cargo clippy -p wordcraft-layout --all-targets -- -D warnings are clean.

One overlap comes with it. #6640 moves a row of a table in a cell on whole when the border its table closes with does not fit under it, and such a row can end above the limit. It is not kept, so it must not count here. Whichever of the two is merged second needs those rows left out of this count; I have the two merged locally that way.

On our 91 insurance documents, merged with my other open fixes, this commit moves no word.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved vertical alignment for middle- and bottom-aligned cells in table rows that span pages. Content remaining on the first page now aligns within that page, while cells start at the top of the continuation page.
  • Preserved the row’s total height and the position of content following a split table.
• Tests
  • Added coverage for alignment across split rows, including text, nested rows, and fully retained cells.
• Documentation
  • Updated the layout behavior reference and checklist for split table rows.

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Split table rows now align continuing middle- and bottom-aligned cells on the first page according to the content retained there. Continuation-page alignment and remaining row height are unchanged. Tests and layout-parity documentation cover the behavior.

Changes: Split-row cell alignment

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Record and apply split-row alignment crates/layout/src/table.rs	The row layout records alignment metadata for middle- and bottom-aligned cells, including cells with zero initial offset. During splitting, continuing cells receive offsets based on their retained content, including nested rows. Continuation-height calculation accounts for those offsets.
Test and document split-row behavior crates/layout/src/tests.rs, docs/layout-parity.md	Tests check retained-content alignment, continuation-page alignment, and the following paragraph’s position. The parity checklist and revision history describe the behavior and measurements.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Suggested reviewers: pakiat, naxvog, finwarman

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 9d303

Continuing middle- or bottom-aligned cells in split table rows are now aligned by the content they keep on the first page. A cell that contains a floating object could be lowered far enough to move that object onto the next page. That open concern should be resolved or explicitly accepted before merge.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title names the main change: a middle or bottom cell of a split row that continues to the next page is aligned by the text it keeps on the current page. The raw summary confirms that align_in_part…
Linked Issues check		Directly linked issue #6579 has three coding requirements in crates/layout/src/table.rs. The whole-PR diff against merge base a4b898f shows the following. (1) Middle and bottom cells that continue on…
Out of Scope Changes check		The whole-PR changes are in three files. crates/layout/src/table.rs holds the alignment, lowering, and recording changes that implement #6579. The nested-row bottom extent added to align_in_part (Plac…
Description Check		Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.

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Explanation

The title names the main change: a middle or bottom cell of a split row that continues to the next page is aligned by the text it keeps on the current page. The raw summary confirms that align_in_part now aligns continuing cells by the content they keep, and the docs and tests match. The title does not cover the nested-row area counting, but that is a secondary detail.

Full details: Linked Issues check

Explanation

Directly linked issue #6579 has three coding requirements in crates/layout/src/table.rs. The whole-PR diff against merge base a4b898f shows the following.
(1) Middle and bottom cells that continue on the next page are lined up on the first page. In align_in_part, the new own value records the reach of each cell's kept content. For a continuing cell with c.align, room = kept - own is applied, halved for Center. A cell that keeps as much as the tallest gets room 0 and stays at the top. The kept value now also counts aligned cells that stay whole, as the follow-up commit describes.
(2) The rest of the row keeps its height. align_in_part returns lowered, and split_row_with subtracts it from the shift when it computes full.
(3) Every middle or bottom cell that is not turned is recorded. finish_table_rows sets aligned = c.valign != Top && c.turned.is_none() and records CellAlign when dy > 0.0 || aligned.
The code matches these requirements. Subsequent pages still start every cell at the top, because the change applies only to the part left on the first page. The regression tests and Word measurements in the PR description are author-reported. I did not open the test file or re-measure against Word. The residual cases that move further from Word in the description come from a different cut position on main, and they do not show an unmet requirement of #6579.

Full details: Out of Scope Changes check

Explanation

The whole-PR changes are in three files. crates/layout/src/table.rs holds the alignment, lowering, and recording changes that implement #6579. The nested-row bottom extent added to align_in_part (Placed::Cell) is used only when computing the kept content of cells that stay in the part. It is part of the same alignment extent and is described in the PR. crates/layout/src/tests.rs holds regression tests for the same behaviour. docs/layout-parity.md records the new split-row alignment behaviour and updates review metadata. None of the table.rs hunks I read changes behaviour outside middle and bottom cells of split rows or the row-height computation that the change needs. I did not read the test file or the docs diff, so the support of those files rests on the summaries.

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Major · Keep floating objects on the page when lowering continuing cells. · table.rs:1230-1231

crates/layout/src/table.rs:1230-1231
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Keep floating objects on the page when lowering continuing cells.

align_in_part ignores Placed::Object when it measures the text a continuing cell keeps (table.rs:1233). The lowering in table.rs:1259 is therefore based on text and picture extents only. shift_content then moves the cell's floating objects by the same amount. The row split sends an object to the next page when its bottom passes the limit (table.rs:1104-1109).

A floating object whose anchor line stays on the first page can therefore be pushed to the next page. For example, retained text in this cell ends at 60, another cell keeps text through 90, and a picture anchored at line 50 has its bottom at 95 with a limit of 100. The 30-point lowering moves the picture's bottom to 125, past the limit. Floats follow their anchor's page, so the lowering must stay within the room that floating objects need.

Cap the lowering at the bottom of the cell's floating objects:

Suggested fix

             // Its text goes on: what it keeps here, against the tallest text kept.
             (None, Some(al)) if own > f32::MIN => {
-                let room = (kept - own).max(0.0);
+                // A floating object in this cell must stay on this page with its anchor.
+                let object_bottom = items.iter().filter_map(|it| match it {
+                    Placed::Object { rect, .. } => Some(rect.bottom()),
+                    _ => None,
+                }).fold(f32::MIN, f32::max);
+                let room = (kept - own).max(0.0).min((limit - object_bottom).max(0.0));
                 *lowered = if al.valign == VAlign::Center { room / 2.0 } else { room };
                 *lowered
             }

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Review comment at @crates/layout/src/table.rs around lines 1230 - 1231:
Update the continuing-cell lowering in align_in_part to account for Placed::Object extents as well as retained text and pictures. Cap the computed lowering so each floating object whose anchor remains on this page stays within the page limit after shift_content moves it; preserve the existing alignment behavior within that cap.

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Review comments at @crates/layout/src/table.rs:
- Around line 1230-1231: Update the continuing-cell lowering in align_in_part to
account for Placed::Object extents as well as retained text and pictures. Cap
the computed lowering so each floating object whose anchor remains on this page
stays within the page limit after shift_content moves it; preserve the existing
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