Template:Betacode/doc

Usage
This template decodes a string given as (modified) Beta Code into normal polytonic Greek. This is useful for polytonic Greek input where you do not have an efficient polytonic input method.

The output is wrapped in the standard polytonic template, thus it sets the  attribute as usual (and as is good practice for accessibility).

The syntax is slightly modified to accommodate the Wikicode special characters  and  : these can also be written as   and   respectively.

The order for the marks is: (1) letter, (2) breathing, (3) accent  , (4) iota subscript.

Final sigma (ς) is automatic when  occurs at the end of a word, and can be manually invoked with.