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What does polytonic mean?

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Adjective
  1. having several tones
    1. of or using the Greek system of diacritics which employs the rough and smooth breathings and the grave, acute, and circumflex accents. Replaced by the monotonic system in 1982.
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The work was written in scriptio continua with neither breathings nor polytonic accents.
Can someone tell me how to make a simple iota subscript using the Greek Polytonic keyboard layout?
Now I do understand it is difficult for publishers to have polytonic Greek on hand, but if that was the problem, why not just transliterate?

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