Download or read book DELTA for Beginners written by Charles Oliver Coleman and published by PenSoft Publishers LTD. This book was released on 2010-05-05 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the software package DELTA (DEscription Language for TAxonomy) is given. The contribution consists of step by step instructions into the DELTA Editor and the interactive identification program Intkey. It describes how to record taxonomic character information in a database and maintain these data. Standard output functions are simplified in a new starter database. All used commands are commented and it is marked where changes in the command files are required. The paper explains how to generate text descriptions, interactive identification tools, and how to make keys and species diagnoses.