Template:Greek trans/doc

Usage
This template can be used to enter polytonic (accented) Greek words and short phrases using an ordinary English keyboard, together with a tooltip giving transliteration into Latin characters. Each character, or in a few cases a short group, is passed as a separate parameter. Up to 100 parameters can be passed.

The u or y as used will appear in the tooltip. Note that the aspiration marks are coded before the first vowel although in the Greek they are displayed on the second
 * 1 The circumflexed vowel will be used in the tooltip.
 * 2 The capitalisation used is preserved in the tooltip.
 * 3 The use of y for upsilon after a consonant or aspirate is a popular convention: the y option is not supported in aspirated diphthongs (see below).
 * 4 Interpreted according to the next character. In exceptional cases can be used to force,.
 * 5 Diphthongs are,, , , , , and . There is no special code for unaspirated diphthongs: code as if two separate vowels.
 * 6 May be preceded by aspiration and/or accent codes. ê and ô may be coded instead of j and w.

Acknowledgment
The accent coding scheme is derived from that devised by Colin Bell at Project Gutenberg Distributed Proofreaders, with some modifications (i.e. not using "|") to fit in with Template Syntax. Details.