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Q: Can you elaborate on the different transliterations and forms that are displayed on top of each entry?

A: There are 8 different forms.

• Full diacritics: this is the form of the word with the maximum number of diacritics. The only difference betwen this one and Medium diacritics is that this one may also have macron and vrachy marks. A known issue here in the original Perseus data, is that macron and vrachy are often not combined with the accent mark.
• Medium diacritics: This is the standard used in Ancient Greek polytonic writing with full accents and breathings, excluding macron and vrachy.
• Low diacritics: In this format only the acute accent is used and it is the way a word would be written in monotonic Greek (Modern Greek).
• Capitals: Capitalized Greek letters without any diacritics whatsoever. This is the form used in Ancient Greek times and it is also almost identical to Modern Greek capitalization rules.
• Transliteration A: This is a detailed form of transliteration, taking into account accents and breathings. Transliteration A was based on Medium diacritics.
• Transliteration B: This is a less detailed form of transliteration, without taking into account accents or breathings. Transliteration B was based on Medium diacritics.
• Transliteration C: This is a form typically used in Greeklish. Transliteration C was based on Low diacritics.
• Beta Code: This is a format used by scholars so that they can type easily polytonic Greek on a Latin keyboard. Beta Code was based on Medium diacritics. More about Beta Code and a Beta Code to Unicode converter and type tool.