Search Help

Currently the site offers the following search types:

basic search: the default type, which allows you to type Greek and viewing it on screen without installing any font or using any virtual keyboard layout, whatever your platform, and adds a selection of metadata filters (initia category and variants inclusion). You can type on the on-screen keyboard shown, or just use your physical keyboard. In the latter case, the on-screen keyboard is still useful as a visual reference for keys mappings (A = alpha, B = beta, and the like); you can select one of the most used European keyboard layouts to let it look more like your physical keyboard. As the on-screen keyboard is built with Silverlight, some very old computers or less-used web browsers like Opera (until now) are not supported. In this case you can switch to the low-tech search page.
advanced search: this search adds to the default one more metadata filters, allowing you to choose initia categories, their initial letters, variants inclusion, and bibliographical sources.
low-tech basic search: a version of the basic search not using the on-screen keyboard to allow for maximum software and hardware compatibility. Here you type Greek letters either using your preferred method for typing Unicode text (e.g. in Windows PCs a Greek keyboard layout) or using Beta code letters (e.g. IEROS for Greek hierós).

In any search type you can use a number of search operators in your text, like wildcards (* = any character, any number of times; only usable at word-end), boolean operators (& = AND, | = OR) or parentheses.

For all the searches you can choose whether to display the results using Unicode text (the default), or have it transliterated into Latin alphabet (either Unicode, or limited to the smaller Win-1252 characters set, which should be readable also in very old computers), according to the settings chosen in the preferences page.

Once you get some results, you can click the lens button button to view some details about any initium: bibliography, eventual variants, and its context (= a number of initia before and after it in alphabetical order).