Re: [matplotlib-devel] Capitalization of Matplotlib

[Nathaniel S. <nj...@po...>]

On Feb 16, 2015 10:35 AM, "Eric Firing" <ef...@ha...> wrote:
>
> On 2015/02/16 8:16 AM, Benjamin Root wrote:
> > I am in the final rounds of edits for my book and a question has come up
> > between me and the editors. When should the matplotlib be capitalized?
> >
> > 1) never
> > 2) mostly never (even in the beginning of a sentence), except when used
> > in a title
> > 3) usually never, except at the beginning of a sentence and in titles
> > 4) capitalize when referring to the project, not capitalized when
> > referring to the package
> > 5) usually capitalize like a proper noun except in code examples
> >
> > Thoughts?
> > Ben Root
>
> Do numpy and scipy have a consistent policy that could be used as a
> model?

Not that I'm aware of. I tend to write "numpy" in prose (somewhere in the
1-3 range in Ben's terminology) because that's what I write in code. But as
I recently discovered, when writing for a general audience (e.g., "people
reading your job application") it is crucial to write NumPy so that it
doesn't look like it's pronounced nump-ee. :-)

Matplotlib cleverly avoids that particular problem through its surfeit of
stops, but if we want a general cross-project rule then it might be a hint.

-n