Interchar spacing support for Arabic et al

Question

This is to announce the immanent support for Arabic and other joining scripts in the next release. You will be able to select between letter spacing in fonts/scripts (well you could before, but it broke your output) and get successful spacing between letters that aren't joined.

Unfortunately, due to the limitations of xetex spacing won't happen between a right joining character and another character if there is a diacritic character between them. This is suboptimal but not a noticeable problem, I hope.

Answer 1

It would be good to hear from any Arabic script users whether this is behaving as you would expect. The update has been available for a couple of weeks, and I am curious as to whether this letter spacing option (on the Fonts tab) helps justified text look smarter. Download the latest version here.