wordcraft

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A tour

Every screenshot below is WordCraft itself, rendered offscreen by its own UI test harness (cargo run -p wordcraft-ui-egui --example ui_shot).

Why WordCraft

• Familiar. Ribbon tabs, groups, shortcuts and behaviour: Enter continues a list, Tab demotes it, Ctrl/⌘+B bolds the word under the caret, the Styles gallery previews styles live, F4 repeats, F7 checks spelling, F8 extends the selection.
• Your files. Opens and saves .docx (OOXML), and also .odt, .rtf, .html, .md, .tex (LaTeX), .txt; opens legacy 97-2003 .doc; exports PDF with real, selectable text, links and bookmarks.
• Fast. Paragraph layout is cached, so typing in a 188-page document re-lays it out in about 1.4 ms; pages render on demand.
• Everywhere. One Rust codebase for macOS, Windows, Linux, BSD and the web. No Electron, no Tauri: native egui on the GPU.
• Built for agents. Every action is a command with an id. The same 422 commands drive the ribbon, keyboard shortcuts, the command search, a command-line tool, a JSON control channel and an MCP server.
• Private. Spelling, grammar and everything else work offline.
• Open. MIT OR Apache-2.0. Clean-room: built from public specifications and observation, with every asset original or openly licensed.

What works today

Area	Highlights
Writing	Fast typing with IME, smart quotes, AutoCorrect, list autoformat (* , 1. ), dashes; word, sentence, paragraph selection; drag-select; clipboard with formatting; undo/redo; find and replace with regex
Formatting	Fonts, sizes, bold/italic/underline styles, strike, sub/superscript, caps, highlight, colours, character spacing, Format Painter, Change Case, Clear Formatting
Paragraphs	Alignment, indents (draggable on the ruler), spacing, line spacing, tabs with leaders, borders, shading, keep with next, widow/orphan control
Styles	Built-in style set, live gallery, Styles pane, create/modify/update styles, style sets, themes
Lists	Bullets, numbering, multilevel, restart, set value, custom formats
Tables	Insert by grid, merge/split, styles with banded rows, borders, shading, header rows repeated across pages, rows that split across pages, sort, formulas, text ↔ table
Pages	Margins, orientation, size, columns, page/column/section breaks, headers and footers (first page, odd/even), page numbers, watermark, page borders, line numbers, vertical alignment, drop caps, automatic hyphenation
Objects	Pictures (resize, crop, recolour, brightness/contrast, transparency, background removal, picture styles, rotate), shapes, text boxes, floating position with text wrapping (square, top and bottom, behind or in front of text)
References	Table of contents, footnotes and endnotes, citations and bibliography (APA, MLA, Chicago, IEEE), captions, table of figures, cross-references, index, table of authorities
Review	Spelling and grammar with suggestions (English and Polish, by each run's language), thesaurus, word count, comments in margin balloons or a pane, track changes, accept/reject, compare documents, restrict editing, accessibility checker, document inspector
Mailings	Mail merge from CSV, merge fields, address block, greeting line, rules, preview, finish to a document; envelopes and labels
View	Print layout, web layout, draft, read mode, focus, zoom, one/multiple pages, page width, Navigation pane, rulers, gridlines, dark mode; interface in English, 简体中文, 繁體中文, 日本語, Português (Brasil), Español, Українська, Српски / Srpski, Eesti, Türkçe, Русский, Italiano, Deutsch, Polski, Čeština, Magyar, Français, Български, Tiếng Việt, 한국어, Svenska, Hrvatski, Nederlands, Dansk, Română, العربية (mirrored) or Slovenščina (follows the system language by default)

The honest picture, area by area, is in ROADMAP.md, the parity assessment and the generated feature checklist.

Quick start

git clone https://github.com/storytold/wordcraft
cd wordcraft
cargo run --release -p wordcraft -- --sample        # the desktop app with the sample document
cargo run --release -p wordcraft -- report.docx     # open a document

The interface translations and the spelling and hyphenation data come from craft-i18n, an optional build input. To build with them, check it out at the commit in craft-i18n.rev and point CRAFT_I18N_DIR at it (an absolute path); without it WordCraft builds with an English interface, English spelling falls back to an installed Hunspell English or craft-proof's built-in word list, and only Bulgarian, Turkish and Russian hyphenate (by rule):

git clone https://github.com/storytold/craft-i18n ../craft-i18n
git -C ../craft-i18n checkout "$(cat craft-i18n.rev)"
CRAFT_I18N_DIR="$PWD/../craft-i18n" cargo run --release -p wordcraft -- --sample

Command line:

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