Metrical notation is used in the original book to mark the length orweight of syllables in scansion. In the e-text, the metrical notationis placed on a separate line above the text and uses the followingUnicode symbols:

When Greek letters are cited as examples in the original book they havean overline printed above them (e.g., λ̅, ν̄), much as in Englishcited 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 acuteand diaeresis (e.g., το̈́ῦτοτε), this e-text uses U+0308 combiningdiaeresis and U+0301 combining acute accent above the omicron.

The following additional character modifications used in the originalbook are represented in the e-text as follows:

Unicode symbols for some of the above cases are currently not wellsupported by standard fonts, and they may be displayed imperfectly ornot at all.

The Greek text of Dionysius and the English translation, whichappear on opposing pages in the original, are displayed in side-by-sidecolumns in the HTML and e-book versions. All common browsers and somehand-held e-readers manage this parallel presentation well, even ona fairly small display. At the time that this e-book was produced,however, many e-readers do not, and the English page may be shownfollowing the Greek instead of parallel to it.