Re: [matplotlib-devel] Capitalization of Matplotlib

[Paul H. <pmh...@gm...>]

Perhaps this is a bit a of tangent, but what is exactly is the distinction
between the project and the software?

Is it as simple as: software = code and project = code + mailing list +
documentation + managing issues on github?

On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 11:04 AM, Matthew Brett <mat...@gm...>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 10:53 AM, Nelle Varoquaux
> <nel...@gm...> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> IMO, never.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Rationale, please?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Consistency: it is never capitalized in matplotlib's documentation.
> >>
> >>
> >> True, and a valid point--but we could easily change that.  Wouldn't it
> make
> >> it bit more readable if sentences always started with a capital letter?
> >> Starting with lower case just looks wrong and artificial.
> >
> > I'm going to give two bad reasons to keep it this way:
> > 1. backward compatibility :p
> > 2. you are used to having sentences start with capital letter, but
> > this is mostly cultural. German People capitalize almost all Words in
> > a Sentence. It just looks weird too… (There is the other extreme:
> > people who don't seem to know where the shift button on their keyboard
> > is when writing an email.)
> >
> > I'm actually fine with changing it, but I think we should try as much
> > as possible to be consistent.
>
> I suppose everyone would agree that <pre>matplotlib</pre> should never
> be capitalized.  I guess also that your (Ben's) typsetters will not
> often be using <pre></pre> formatted matplotlib.  In that case I would
> say Matplotlib is a English proper noun and standard capitalization
> rules apply.   It would probably be confusing to try and distinguish
> between the project and the software with capitalization.
>
> Does it matter that the book and the mpl documentation have a
> different convention?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matthew
>
>
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