Ancient texts may be found on a number of media (papyri, inscribed on rock, on cuneiform tablets, etc.). In order to capture the information for online scholarly texts, one can include a photo in, for example, JPEG image format to show the full document. In the absence of (or in addition to) a photo, scholarly editions often include a version of the texts with the characters written out. The symbols are then transcribed or transliterated into Latin letters, sometimes with diacritics. To manipulate the symbols more fully for data processing, character encoding with Unicode and markup (i.e., according to Text Encoding Initiative) can be used. Markup is used for rulings between lines of text and can be used for editorial commentary on the texts. A proposal for epigraphic materials called "Epidoc" has been put forward. Epidoc captures nearly all the editorial content in markup, including brackets and parentheses. Is such a technique the best (and/or the only) choice for the scholarly community to embrace? This presentation will give examples of epigraphic and papyrological materials currently employed in print editions and will discuss possible approaches for handling these types of materials on the Web. A plain text version with Unicode is recommended beside a full text-encoding scheme, as this would make the text more immediately available to a wider audience.