Different font size with pdflatex from pretest

[Frank Mittelbach]

Am 15.02.25 um 00:37 schrieb Karl Berry:
> Hi Sam :),
> 
>      Any idea what might be causing this?
> 
> It's a bug in the pretest pdftex, made in the course of (trying to) fix
> other things. Thanh is looking at it. It'll either get fixed or we'll
> back out the relevant changes, hopefully within a couple of days.
> --thanks, karl.

it would be good if Thanh is able to correct fix for the fake spaces, as 
this is important for proper accessible PDF. But of course if this turns 
out to be problematical then backing out is the only option for now, 
because right now the engine is no longer working correctly as the 
various bug reports show.

frank