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DOCX: every table is written without its w:tblGrid #530

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Every table this backend writes is missing its w:tblGrid. POI's XWPFDocument.createTable
does not emit one and DocxSemanticBackend does not add it, so the element CT_Tbl requires
is absent from every .docx the backend has ever produced.

Word is tolerant enough to open the file and infer a grid, which is why nothing has surfaced
it, but the document is not valid against the schema and a stricter consumer is entitled to
reject it. It also leaves the column widths to the reader: DocumentTableColumn specs are
resolved by layout and never reach the file, so a table exports with Word's guess rather than
the widths the author asked for.

Pre-existing and backend-wide — not introduced by #523/#524/#525. Found while reviewing the
table-grid work.

Fixing it means emitting w:tblGrid with one w:gridCol per grid column, which
TableGrid.columnCount already resolves; the widths would come from the column specs, in
twips.

Note this will move the output of every committed .docx preview, so it lands together with a
re-render.

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