Dionysius of Halicarnassus On Literary Composition / Being the Greek Text of the De Compositione Verborum

Transcriber’s Note
Special Characters
Metrical notation is used in the original book to mark the length or weight of syllables in scansion. In the e-text, the metrical notation is placed on a separate line above the text and uses the following Unicode symbols:
metrical short: ᴗ (U+1D17) metrical long: – (U+2013) metrical short over long: ⏓ (U+23D3) metrical long over short: ⏒ (U+23D2)
When Greek letters are cited as examples in the original book they have an overline printed above them (e.g., λ̅, ν̄), much as in English cited letters are underlined or italicized. A combining macron (U+0304) is used in this e-text above single letters to represent the overline. In cases where the overline extends above more than one letter, combining overline U+0305 is used because it gives a better result (e.g., κ̅δ̅).
Since there is no precomposed Unicode character for omicron with acute and diaeresis (e.g., το̈́ῦτοτε), this e-text uses U+0308 combining diaeresis and U+0301 combining acute accent above the omicron.
The following additional character modifications used in the original book are represented in the e-text as follows:
o with breve above: ο̆ (U+0306) o with macron above: ο̄ (U+0304) θ with inverted breve above: θ̑ (U+0311)
Unicode symbols for some of the above cases are currently not well supported by standard fonts, and they may be displayed imperfectly or not at all.
Parallel Display of Greek and English Pages
The Greek text of Dionysius and the English translation, which appear on opposing pages in the original, are displayed in side-by-side columns in the HTML and e-book versions. All common browsers and some hand-held e-readers manage this parallel presentation well, even on a fairly small display. At the time that this e-book was produced, however, many e-readers do not, and the English page may be shown following the Greek instead of parallel to it.
Page images of a different copy, but the same edition, of the original book can be viewed at The Internet Archive: http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924026465165