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.

Note

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"

"πολλα"

accentword("ἀνθρωπος", :RECESSIVE, lg)

# output
#"ἄνθρωπος"

"ἄνθρωπος"