carbeck
commented
10 months ago To pick up on this old issue (also to bump it), I've noticed that i + COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER E (U+0364) doesn't lose the dot on the i.
The same holds for other superscripts, though I've only tested it with vowel letters. Same goes for combinations involving j. The non-dotted versions of both i and j seem to provide anchors, but again, the superscripts are too small to be legible.
An issue in Linux Libertine that already bugged me when I wrote my BA thesis in 2013 was that the combining diacritic small letters U+0363 through U+036F are extremely small and are hardly legible—yet needed for faithful transcriptions e.g. of medieval and early-modern texts, at least in German. Here's an example using Libertinus 7.040:
As you can see from the highlighted parts, especially combining small e and o are so tiny, it's hard to tell them apart on the screen, let alone on paper. For comparison, here is the same example in Junicode, which has been my go-to font in recent years for everything medieval:
The diacritics in question are a lot larger here and are well legible in print.
My request is, thus, whether it'd be possible to increase the size of the various combining small letters in Libertinus to improve legibility.