Re: Distributions of morphological characters and more

[Michael Mortimer <mickey_mortimer111@msn.com>]

David Marjanovic wrote-

> Fortunately TNT can cope with inapplicable characters...

Exactly how does TNT treat inapplicable characters differently than unknown 
characters?  Shouldn't they be treated the same?

> Why not make a stepmatrix. Order "two -- three -- four -- five -- six --  
> seven", and give the step from each of those to "zero" (or, alternatively, 
> just those from "two" and from "seven" to "zero" -- for example) a cost of 
> 1. PAUP* has no problem with this, plus it spares you the problem of 
> inapplicability with which PAUP* can't cope.

Because step matrices are destroyed everytime I view a matrix in Nexus Data 
Editor. :)

Mickey Mortimer