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Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 15:07:19 -0700 (PDT)
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To: Mailing List - PhyloCode <phylocode@ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu>
Cc: Mike Taylor <mike@indexdata.com>
Subject: Re: Phylogenetic Notation
--- Mike Taylor <mike@indexdata.com> wrote: > > Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 09:54:06 -0700 (PDT) > > From: "T. Michael Keesey" <mightyodinn@yahoo.com> > >=20 > > I'd like to emphasize that this ASCII-friendly version would only= be > > intended for casual Internet discussion, *not* the actual > > definitions or in papers. >=20 > This seems like a bad idea to me. There should be one and only one > notation. And since Internet chat is a legitimate forum for > phylogenetic discussion, that one true notation should be ASCII-onl= y. > Sorry -- I do see the appeal of using non-ASCII mathematical symbol= s, > but the disadvantages far outweigh the benefits. Using short words > such as "not" is by some way the lesser of the two evils. (All IMH= O, > of course.) ASCII characters do not include italicized letters, but this does not= stop us =66rom discussing clades and species, does it? Furthermore, I have in= corporated the shorthand outline in PhyloCode Note 9.4.1 into the latest version= , so the most commonly used expressions can still be discussed in ASCII withou= t any change from the original (apart from the use of italics). I'd also po= int out that, whatever the ASCII system would be, it would still be identical= to the original system except for the depiction of certain symbols; not a di= fferent system, per se, but a different way of writing it. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D> T. Michael Keesey <http://dino.lm.com/contact> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D> The Dinosauricon <http://dinosauricon.com> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D> Instant Messenger <Ric Blayze> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =09=09 _______________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http://vote.yahoo.com