Accentuation
Overview: two exported functions allows you to remove accents from a string, or add accent to a "word" (a single lexical token). Words may be accented either with recessive accent, or with persistent accent in the penult, indicated with a second parameter which should be either the symbol :RECESSIVE
or :PENULT
.
Words cannot be accented on the ultima based on orthography alone; that requires further knowledge of the morphological form of the word.
using PolytonicGreek
lg = literaryGreek()
rmaccents("πολλά", lg)
# output
"πολλα"
accentword("ἀνθρωπος", :RECESSIVE, lg)
# output
"ἄνθρωπος"