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> From: Thanos Apollo <public@thanosapollo.org>
> Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 17:43:14 +0300
> 
> Emacs offers an option to write in Greek/Hellenic using
> set-input-method, but it seems there is no support for the polytonic
> system despite mentions of classical Greek support.
> 
> To use polytonic Greek in GNU Guix System, with Sway, I currently use
> this configuration:
> 
>     input "type:keyboard" {
>           xkb_layout us,gr
>           xkb_options grp:win_space_toggle
>           xkb_variant altgr-intl,polytonic
>     }
> 
> Unless I'm missing something and there is already built in support, I
> would also suggest having a greek-polytonic-mode.  This mode
> automatically changes text written in Greek into polytonic Greek.

AFAIK, there's the greek-polytonic package on GNU ELPA.