Diacritic stacking on top of macrons in polytonic Greek

[mashkioya]

I would like to see Gentium support stacking of polytonic diacritics on top of macrons in Greek. It's not a common requirement, but other fonts (such as Skolar PE, Brill, and SBL Greek) do support it.

Here is a series of blog posts about this issue:
https://jktauber.com/2016/01/28/polytonic-greek-unicode-is-still-not-perfect/
https://jktauber.com/2016/02/09/updated-solution-polytonic-greek-unicodes-problems/
https://jktauber.com/2016/12/04/diacritic-stacking-skolar-pe-fixed/

Here is an illustration of the kind of thing I am wanting to achieve (Brill font):

And the same text as currently rendered in Gentium Plus:

Thanks for your consideration!

[jvgaultney]

Thanks - I'll add this to the list of requests for the next version (v7). I can't guarantee it will make it into that release but I'll try!

[vincentjorgensen]

I would like to add that I would greatly appreciate this feature, too. I adore the Gentium font, but I cannot use it for polytonic Greek. In this example, the macron over upsilon and the acute accent overlap.

This font, Source Serif 4, combines them appropriately.

Thank you again for your consideration.

[jvgaultney]

Thanks - we are actively working on fixing this for the next release