fix(captions): place captions by anchor and margin, not by an invisible band - #482
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…ts block Adds one optional field to the text payload, `verticalAlign`, threaded through the scene into all three rasterizers. Absent means centred — so annotations, which never emit it, render byte for byte as before. Centring is what made caption placement incoherent: a centred block moves BOTH its edges when it grows, so a caption drifted vertically whenever the text wrapped to another line, and no setting could hold it still. An anchored block keeps its anchored edge exactly where it was put, at any line count. The Linux test asserts precisely that, which is the assertion the old geometry could not express. Option<String> and not an enum, for the same reason as `space`: serde rejects an unknown unit variant, so a future value would cost the whole scene on an older binary rather than one misplaced caption. Windows needed the layout box inset vertically by the plate margin and the draw origin offset to match, or a bottom anchor puts the glyphs flush against the box and the plate's lower margin gets clipped. That arithmetic cancels exactly for the centred case; it is now a pure function with a test pinning it to where it was, because it was the one calculation on the Windows path no test covered. Nothing emits the field yet.
…le band Replaces the whole placement model. Every control now names the edge it measures from, and there is exactly one per axis: anchorV + insetY bottom | top, and a distance from that edge anchorH + insetX left | center | right, and a distance from that edge Deleted: verticalPosition, offsetY, offsetX, width, textAlign — and the machinery that existed only to compensate for the old geometry (the fixed 22% band, the ink-height estimate, the overhang, the reachable-offset range, the preset-vs-slider epsilon). The old model drew every caption inside an invisible fixed-height box and let each rasterizer centre the ink in it, while the only thing on screen — the background plate — hugs the text. So `width` changed nothing visible until the text happened to wrap; the horizontal offset moved a band the text floated inside; text-align fought that offset for the same outcome; wrapping grew a centred block from both edges, which moved the caption vertically when nothing vertical had been touched; and the vertical offset had to be signed and clamped against an estimate, which is where "-7.3%" came from. All five are the same decision, so this replaces the decision rather than the controls. `width` becomes a derived column instead of a control (BBC's line-length table: 68% landscape, 90% vertical). How much text is on screen is already a legible question elsewhere — min/max words per line. The default inset follows the output aspect, because 5% on a 9:16 export is under the platform's own chrome. Migration reproduces the PIXELS, not the fields: the old band's geometry is known, so the drawn block's edges are recoverable, and the nearer one becomes the anchor. A migrated project does not move on screen. Line breaks do change for a project with a non-default width, since that WAS the wrap column. Tests assert the invariant as a property — the anchored edge lands at 100−insetY (or insetY) for every font size, background state and inset — rather than pinning numbers a future change would just have to update.
… open The placement controls are all edge-referenced now, but two of those edges — the column's — are derived from the output aspect rather than chosen, so "why does Left stop there?" had no answer on screen. The anchor line is the better reason: it IS the invariant the distance slider sets, and watching it hold still while a caption grows is the fastest way to understand the model. Mounted as a child of `.previewFrame`, never of `.screenStage`. The latter is the screen rect and shrinks with the padding slider, so a guide mounted there would reproduce #396 inside the guide meant to explain it. Inside `.previewFrame`, frame-percent to CSS-percent is the identity, so there is no letterbox arithmetic and no second geometry to keep in sync — the guide and the compositor read the same function. This does not revive the deleted DOM caption painter: that one drew the same TEXT through a second wrapping engine and the two disagreed on line breaks. A rule and two hairlines have no glyphs to disagree about, and a <div> has no route into buildSceneDescription, so it cannot reach an export. The precedent is AnnotationOverlay — the DOM painter went, the selection chrome stayed. Docs updated: the settings table, and the sections that described the fixed band, the overhang and the preset/epsilon machinery, none of which exists any more.
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 4 included reviews per hour; 3 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughCaption placement changes from preset and offset controls to aspect-aware edge anchors and insets. Caption regions carry vertical alignment metadata through scene serialization into Linux, macOS, and Windows compositors. The editor, translations, tests, and documentation use the new model. ChangesCaption placement
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The change introduces anchor-based caption placement and aspect-aware defaults, but vertical projects can still persist the landscape inset on the first settings write, causing captions to use the wrong default placement until corrected. The PR is otherwise mergeable with explicit owner awareness and follow-up for this bounded correctness issue. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant CaptionsPane
participant CaptionSettings
participant CaptionRegions
participant SceneDescription
participant NativeCompositor
CaptionsPane->>CaptionSettings: update anchor and inset
CaptionSettings->>CaptionRegions: compute aspect-aware caption box
CaptionRegions->>SceneDescription: attach verticalAlign
SceneDescription->>NativeCompositor: serialize text annotation
NativeCompositor->>NativeCompositor: rasterize anchored text and plate
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661-666: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winReplace the removed
captionBandRectreference.Line 664 says that
captionCuesToTextRegionsusescaptionBandRect. The anchoring section at Lines 563-566 documentscaptionBoxRectas the current geometry helper. Update this render-path description and its source reference so the documentation does not describe the removed fixed-band model.Based on learnings, source-code references including file paths and line ranges must point to their intended code.
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In `@crates/compositor/src/text_linux.rs`:
- Around line 207-218: Update the vertical offset calculation in the text layout
path around spec.valign and slack_y to reserve pad_y on the anchored side when
spec.background[3] is greater than zero: adjust bottom/end placement toward the
top and top/start placement toward the bottom using the anchor_pad adjustment.
Preserve the current placement for transparent backgrounds, and apply the
equivalent change in the macOS text implementation while leaving the existing
Windows behavior unchanged.
In `@src/lib/ai-edition/captions/settings.ts`:
- Around line 372-377: Update migrateLegacyPlacement to derive insetX from the
reconstructed horizontal band position instead of always returning 0, preserving
the bandX-based edge placement for left and right anchors while keeping the
existing vertical inset handling unchanged.
- Around line 445-451: The patchCaptionSettings flow must receive the resolved
output aspect on every call. Resolve the aspect in useCaptions and pass it for
set, setLive, and deleteTranslation, while preserving existing stored settings
and applying the correct 9:16 defaults on first write; add a portrait
first-write test covering this behavior.
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In `@technical-documentation/architecture/transcription-and-captions.md`:
- Around line 661-666: Update the “Preview and export” description for
captionCuesToTextRegions to reference the current captionBoxRect geometry helper
instead of the removed captionBandRect, and correct the linked source location
so it points to the intended implementation.
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The Linux anchor test measured the bottom-most inked row and called a 184→199 move a drift. It is not: "Hx" has no descenders and "replier" does, so the ink reaches further down inside an identically-placed line box. What this code pins is the line box — and therefore the plate, which is what the compositor draws and what the viewer sees. Anchoring the box rather than the last glyph pixel is the behaviour every text renderer has. So the assertion moves to `atlas.plate`, which is deterministic and is the actual contract. The ink is still checked, but only for the thing that is true of it: that it stays inside the plate carrying it, with the same `pad_y` tolerance `the_plate_hugs_the_text_instead_of_filling_the_box` already uses for that relationship — a glyph may overshoot its own line box slightly, which is precisely the assumption the first version got wrong. Found by CI: only text_windows.rs compiles on the machine this was written on.
…igrate insetX Two findings from CodeRabbit's review of #482, both real. **The plate lost its margin on the anchored side.** Pinning the TEXT block flush against the box edge left the plate laying all of its padding on the opposite side and none on the anchored one: at the default bottom anchor the background hugged the glyphs' baseline exactly while breathing twice as much above them. What should touch the box edge is the plate — that is what the viewer sees, and what the anchor invariant is stated in terms of. Reserving `pad_y` on the anchored side puts the plate's edge in the same place and makes its padding symmetric again. Conditioned on a plate actually being drawn, on all three backends. Windows was already inset but did it unconditionally, which would have placed its glyphs `pad_y` away from Linux and macOS whenever the background was off; it is now conditional too, so the three agree in both states. **The migration snapped left/right captions to the frame edge.** It returned `insetX: 0` for every document, so a migrated caption whose band sat at 5% moved to 0%. The vertical half already reconstructed the drawn edge exactly; the horizontal half now does the same from the values it had already computed — which is what "reproduce the pixels, not the fields" was supposed to mean.
rustc rejects `///` on a parameter; it has to be a plain `//`. Only text_macos.rs compiles on macOS, so the machine this was written on could not see it — and rustfmt parses the file happily, so a local syntax gate would not have caught it either. CI did.
`patchCaptionSettings` read the document without an aspect, so the write that MATERIALISES the defaults into a project that never had caption settings always wrote the landscape ones. A 9:16 export got `insetY: 5` frozen in, and the stored value then won for good — putting the caption under the platform's own chrome, which is the exact failure the aspect-derived default exists to prevent. `useCaptions` now resolves the aspect once (through `resolveAspectRatioValue`, the same resolver the preview and the scene description use, so all three agree on what a legacy "native" selection means) and hands it to the read and to every write: `set`, `setLive` and the language reset in `deleteTranslation`. Found by CodeRabbit on #482.
The guide existed to satisfy one condition: a max-width control is only acceptable if the user can see the frame it moves. That control is gone — the column is derived from the output aspect and nothing about it is adjustable — so the guide was left drawing two hairlines and a rule over the footage to explain a constraint no one can touch. Green marks on the image, no information. Removes CaptionGuideOverlay, its test, useCaptionGuideBus, the mount in PreviewCanvas and the pane's open/close signal. Nothing else referenced them.
… padding 1.5% from the anchored edge, 10% from the horizontal one. Picked by eye against the editor's default padding rather than from a broadcast spec: the footage sits inset inside the frame, so what reads as "just off the edge" is a much smaller number than the 5% BBC states for a full-bleed broadcast frame. Landscape only — those two values were eyeballed on a 16:9 export. Vertical keeps its 12.5%, which answers a different question: TikTok, Reels and Shorts draw their own chrome over the bottom eighth of a 9:16 video, so 1.5% there would put the caption behind a UI. Nobody has looked at that case, so it stays on the conservative value.
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…igrate insetX Two findings from CodeRabbit's review of #482, both real. **The plate lost its margin on the anchored side.** Pinning the TEXT block flush against the box edge left the plate laying all of its padding on the opposite side and none on the anchored one: at the default bottom anchor the background hugged the glyphs' baseline exactly while breathing twice as much above them. What should touch the box edge is the plate — that is what the viewer sees, and what the anchor invariant is stated in terms of. Reserving `pad_y` on the anchored side puts the plate's edge in the same place and makes its padding symmetric again. Conditioned on a plate actually being drawn, on all three backends. Windows was already inset but did it unconditionally, which would have placed its glyphs `pad_y` away from Linux and macOS whenever the background was off; it is now conditional too, so the three agree in both states. **The migration snapped left/right captions to the frame edge.** It returned `insetX: 0` for every document, so a migrated caption whose band sat at 5% moved to 0%. The vertical half already reconstructed the drawn edge exactly; the horizontal half now does the same from the values it had already computed — which is what "reproduce the pixels, not the fields" was supposed to mean. (cherry picked from commit 18f4d09)
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`patchCaptionSettings` read the document without an aspect, so the write that MATERIALISES the defaults into a project that never had caption settings always wrote the landscape ones. A 9:16 export got `insetY: 5` frozen in, and the stored value then won for good — putting the caption under the platform's own chrome, which is the exact failure the aspect-derived default exists to prevent. `useCaptions` now resolves the aspect once (through `resolveAspectRatioValue`, the same resolver the preview and the scene description use, so all three agree on what a legacy "native" selection means) and hands it to the read and to every write: `set`, `setLive` and the language reset in `deleteTranslation`. Found by CodeRabbit on #482. (cherry picked from commit 096a551)
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…igrate insetX Two findings from CodeRabbit's review of #482, both real. **The plate lost its margin on the anchored side.** Pinning the TEXT block flush against the box edge left the plate laying all of its padding on the opposite side and none on the anchored one: at the default bottom anchor the background hugged the glyphs' baseline exactly while breathing twice as much above them. What should touch the box edge is the plate — that is what the viewer sees, and what the anchor invariant is stated in terms of. Reserving `pad_y` on the anchored side puts the plate's edge in the same place and makes its padding symmetric again. Conditioned on a plate actually being drawn, on all three backends. Windows was already inset but did it unconditionally, which would have placed its glyphs `pad_y` away from Linux and macOS whenever the background was off; it is now conditional too, so the three agree in both states. **The migration snapped left/right captions to the frame edge.** It returned `insetX: 0` for every document, so a migrated caption whose band sat at 5% moved to 0%. The vertical half already reconstructed the drawn edge exactly; the horizontal half now does the same from the values it had already computed — which is what "reproduce the pixels, not the fields" was supposed to mean.
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`patchCaptionSettings` read the document without an aspect, so the write that MATERIALISES the defaults into a project that never had caption settings always wrote the landscape ones. A 9:16 export got `insetY: 5` frozen in, and the stored value then won for good — putting the caption under the platform's own chrome, which is the exact failure the aspect-derived default exists to prevent. `useCaptions` now resolves the aspect once (through `resolveAspectRatioValue`, the same resolver the preview and the scene description use, so all three agree on what a legacy "native" selection means) and hands it to the read and to every write: `set`, `setLive` and the language reset in `deleteTranslation`. Found by CodeRabbit on #482.
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Replaces the caption placement model rejected in #471 (shipped in v1.10.0-rc.2). Targets rc.3.
The root cause
Every caption was drawn inside an invisible fixed-height box (22% of frame) with the ink centred in it, while the only thing visible — the background plate — hugs the text. Every control moved that invisible box; none controlled the visible block. All six complaints follow mechanically:
widthdoes nothing visibletext-alignwidthmoves the caption verticallyThe model
One control per axis, each naming the edge it measures from:
Invariant, asserted as a property test: bottom anchor → the drawn block's bottom edge is at
100 − insetY; top anchor → its top edge is atinsetY. For every font size, background state, word count, wrap outcome and resolution. No height estimate participates in placing anything.Deleted:
verticalPosition,offsetY,offsetX,width,textAlign, plus the compensating machinery (fixed band, ink-height estimate, overhang, reachable-offset range, preset epsilon).widthbecomes a derived column (BBC line-length table: 68% landscape / 90% vertical). The default inset follows the output aspect — 5% on a 9:16 export sits under the platform's own chrome.This is what the formats do, not an invention:
tts:displayAlign="after"(TTML/IMSC, BBC-mandatory per region),\an2+MarginV(ASS),line:auto→−1 (WebVTT), roll-up (CEA-708). Bottom-anchored growth has no counter-example. No format states position as a signed percentage. Deliberately no "middle" anchor — XSL 1.1 definesdisplay-align: centeras keeping both edge distances equal, which is exactly complaint #5.Native contract
One optional field,
verticalAlign, on the text payload — modelled exactly onspacefrom #396.Option<String>with#[serde(default)], key omitted when absent, so annotations render byte-for-byte as before.AnnotationTextStyleis not widened.Export stays iso-preview by construction: one render path (
captionCuesToTextRegions→ scene → native compositor) feeds both, and captions stay 100% native.Perf: the box goes 22% → 20% of frame height at default size (3-line headroom; each cue is already one grouped line), so the per-cue texture gets smaller. Same texture count, same draws, same shader. Windows' layout box shrinks by
2×pad_y— strictly less layout work.Migration
Reproduces the pixels, not the fields: the old band's geometry is known, so the drawn block's edges are recoverable and the nearer one becomes the anchor. A migrated project does not move. Line breaks do change for a project with a non-default
width— that WAS the wrap column; unavoidable and intended.Guide overlay
Draws the anchor line + column edges while the Captions pane is open. Child of
.previewFrame, not.screenStage(which shrinks with padding — that would reproduce #396 inside the guide). Does not revive the deleted DOM caption painter: no glyphs to disagree about, and a<div>has no route intobuildSceneDescription.Test plan
cargo test -p openscreen-compositor— 137 pass on Windows, incl. new tests pinning the anchored edge, the cache-key coverage ofvalign, and that the centred plate is exactly where it was before the anchor landed (the guarantee annotations don't move)npm run test— 182 files / 2164 testsnpx tsc --noEmit+npx tsc -p tsconfig.test.json --noEmit,npm run lint,npm run i18n:check(13 locales),npm run docs:check100−insetY; flipping the anchor keeps the distance and mirrors it; the horizontal slider is absent (not disabled) when centred; no negative value at any setting; no disabled control; guide tracks the column wheninsetXmovestext_windows.rscompiles on this machine, so the new Linux ink-row golden and the macOSblock_layouttest run there first🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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