G4: capture character styles from selected text

Co-authored-by: Codex <[email protected]>

docs/type-parity.md

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 # Type parity
 
-> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-13 · **Change:** minor (Character styles retain explicit Auto leading, propagate resets and preserve local leading overrides; scores and hours unchanged; Linux font folders from fontconfig, #1529; commands and MCP `add_text` report area type that does not fit its frame, #1471; Tabs panel stop drags, #1458; Fit Headline in a frame one line tall, #1444; frames and paths beyond a billion points hold no text, #1451; scores unchanged; missing glyphs are looked for again after a font rescan, #1376; scores unchanged; Full-name font matching (#1258); Windows font-service QA pending; scores unchanged; Middle Eastern digit types: Character panel menu › Digits, `{digits}`; the font menu's script filter lists Thai fonts; Thai, Lao, Khmer and Myanmar lines break between words; the caret steps over whole clusters such as Thai consonants with their marks; Thai typed in a font without Thai falls back to a font made for Thai; earlier: Proportional Metrics in vertical type, `vpal`, #966) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
+> **Last reviewed:** 2026-10-10 · **Last updated:** 2026-10-13 · **Change:** minor (Character Styles New/Redefine capture the first selected character at run boundaries and end prior typing before capture; boundary and typing-history input tests and full workspace CI pass; scores and hours unchanged; Character styles retain explicit Auto leading, propagate resets and preserve local leading overrides; scores and hours unchanged; Linux font folders from fontconfig, #1529; commands and MCP `add_text` report area type that does not fit its frame, #1471; Tabs panel stop drags, #1458; Fit Headline in a frame one line tall, #1444; frames and paths beyond a billion points hold no text, #1451; scores unchanged; missing glyphs are looked for again after a font rescan, #1376; scores unchanged; Full-name font matching (#1258); Windows font-service QA pending; scores unchanged; Middle Eastern digit types: Character panel menu › Digits, `{digits}`; the font menu's script filter lists Thai fonts; Thai, Lao, Khmer and Myanmar lines break between words; the caret steps over whole clusters such as Thai consonants with their marks; Thai typed in a font without Thai falls back to a font made for Thai; earlier: Proportional Metrics in vertical type, `vpal`, #966) · **Target:** Adobe Illustrator 2026 (30.x)
 
 Type is Illustrator's largest single area by use (weight 13 of 105 across "Type core" and "Type advanced" in
 [target-app-parity.md](target-app-parity.md)). This checklist lists the features one by one. Status is from the
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 | CJK: ruby, manual tate-chu-yoko | missing | #633 |
 | Inline symbols in text | beyond Illustrator | not scored |
 
+Character Styles menu New/Redefine and footer New capture the first selected character of a nonempty Type selection, including exact style-run and UTF-8 boundaries; New adds a definition without applying it. New/Redefine commands accept optional `end` for range capture. Start-only command affinity, existing UI caret/object behavior and paragraph capture at `start` remain unchanged. Pointer regressions assert captured definitions, linked-text updates and local overrides, complete-document Undo/Redo and saved state, with whole-object, collapsed-caret and range-Apply controls. Capture closes prior typing while preserving the Type selection. Live text and Select All regressions exercise menu New/Redefine and footer New, asserting that further typing retains the captured definition and that typing, capture and further typing have separate Undo/Redo steps. Focused engine and egui input tests pass for boundary capture, all three live-typing capture routes and the existing compatibility controls. Full workspace CI passes.
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 ## Revision history
 
 | Date | Change | Summary |
 |---|---|---|
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | Paragraph/Properties alignment buttons show mixed alignment without changing range commands; headless regressions, full integration CI and visual review pass; other mixed paragraph fields, scores and hours unchanged |
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | The font scan on Linux also reads the folders fontconfig's configuration lists, such as TeX fonts under `/usr/share/texmf/fonts` (#1548, fixes #1529; not verified on Linux); scores and hours unchanged |
+| 2026-10-13 | minor | Character Styles range capture samples the first selected character at run boundaries and closes prior typing; boundary and typing-history input tests and full workspace CI pass; lifecycle and range controls retained; scores and hours unchanged |
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | The commands that make or restyle type, and MCP `add_text`, report area type that does not fit its frame, and `add_text` takes Auto Size and Shrink Text to Fit (#1500, fixes #1471); a tab stop in the Tabs panel drags from where the press landed, a stop just added included (#1487, fixes #1458); scores and hours unchanged |
 | 2026-10-13 | minor | Fit Headline no longer pushes the tracking to its ceiling and loses glyphs when the frame holds one line (#1445, fixes #1444); text frames, wrap shapes and type paths with coordinates beyond a billion points hold no text, and layout limits its search for room, instead of hanging (#1451); scores and hours unchanged |
 | 2026-10-12 | minor | Character styles retain explicit Auto leading, propagate resets and preserve local leading overrides; scores and hours unchanged |