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Originally Posted by AlexBell
Also, it seems to me that the second Alpha in your post is not the same as what appears in the source text.
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If I understand it correctly, your concern is the difference between:
Ά: GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA WITH TONOS
Ά: GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ALPHA WITH OXIA
Á: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH ACUTE
I think the first is for modern Greek, the second for ancient Greek, the third for Latin scripts. The first two should probably look the same, and I believe the second is not recommended (i.e., use the first for both modern and ancient Greek).
Perhaps the typesetter in your book didn't have the Greek accented character and used the Latin one, or he was following a different convention. This may be relevant:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_...ion_in_letters (note "Diacritics can be found above capital letters in medieval texts")