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*'''Medium diacritics''': This is the standard used in Ancient Greek polytonic writing with full accents and breathings, excluding macron and vrachy. | *'''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). | *'''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''': | *'''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''': This is a detailed form of transliteration, taking into account accents and breathings. | ||
*'''Transliteration B''': This is a less detailed form of transliteration, without taking into account accents or breathings. | *'''Transliteration B''': This is a less detailed form of transliteration, without taking into account accents or breathings. | ||
*'''Transliteration C''': This is a form typically used in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeklish Greeklish]. | *'''Transliteration C''': This is a form typically used in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeklish Greeklish]. | ||
*'''Beta Code''': This is a format used by scholars so that they can type easily polytonic Greek on a Latin keyboard. More about [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_Code Beta Code] and a [http://www.translatum.gr/converter/beta-code.htm Beta Code to Unicode converter and type tool]. | *'''Beta Code''': This is a format used by scholars so that they can type easily polytonic Greek on a Latin keyboard. More about [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_Code Beta Code] and a [http://www.translatum.gr/converter/beta-code.htm Beta Code to Unicode converter and type tool]. | ||
