Kashida problem with most of fonts (except IR series)

[bahman-mirzakhani]

Brief outline of the issue

The letters are separated when Kashida is enable.

Check/indicate

• Relevant to the bidi package
• The bidi package issue tracker has been searched for similar issues?
• The xepersian package issue tracker has been searched for similar issues?
• Links to <tex.stackexchange.com> discussion if appropriate
• Links to <qa.parsilatex.com> discussion if appropriate

Minimal example showing the issue

% !TEX TS-program = XeLaTeX
% !TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[Kashida]{xepersian}
 % problem with series: XB, HM FTX 3.8, HM SX2 3.8, Yas and so on...
\settextfont{XB Zar}

\begin{document}
این یک متن آزمایشی است.
\end{document}

Expected behavior

Log and PDF files

test.log
test.pdf

[vafa-khalighi]

The only fonts I have access to are Adobe Arabic, IRXLotus, Iranian Sans and Apple's shipped Arabic fonts. If you can test using these fonts, it would be wonderful as I do not want to download fonts into my work computer as the fonts you are mentioning may have some legal issues and it could cause me legal headaches at work. Also, these fonts may contain viruses and they could harm my computer.

[bahman-mirzakhani]

There is no problem with Adobe Arabic, IRXLotus (also IR series) and Iranian Sans fonts.

[vafa-khalighi]

I am sorry if my message conveyed that you needed to close the issue. Certainly, the issue has existed for several years. I will reopen this issue and see what I can do to fix it.