خالد حسني (Khaled Hosny)

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FYI, there is a bug in the OpenType spec. LuaTeX is following the letter of the spec, which gives better results here (due to bad font data) while XeTeX is...

I think we should not bother with auto-detection and just set the correct `\fontdimen`s with `\setmonofont` and may be provide and option to do the same for other font loading...

HarfBuzz with `--features=-curs`: ![hb-no-curs](https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/assets/93914/d1b7097c-0676-4e65-b1e9-cc79f627fd52)

This is a font and engine issue similar to https://github.com/latex3/unicode-math/issues/592. The font has (excessive) math kerning for P and each engine is applying it differently.

This issue should be closed, see https://github.com/latex3/unicode-math/issues/592#issuecomment-2041224153

> @khaledhosny Actions and other GH systems [are experiencing an outage](https://www.githubstatus.com/); that's why CI hasn't run yet. This is only documentation change, though, so probably there is not much for...

https://github.com/adobe-type-tools/afdko/issues/1652

XeTeX grew an option to handle space shaping since then: there is now [`\XeTeXinterwordspaceshaping`](https://tug.org/pipermail/xetex/2016-February/026398.html).

Or you can kern it wider, I don't think the substitution is necessary, but either should work.

Ruqaa is almost never vocalized, so fixing this issue was not a priority.