fixes after tacaswell's review

Hans Dembinski · Hans Dembinski · commit b89baf3f9842 · 2015-05-21T09:20:01.000-04:00
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/axes/_axes.py b/lib/matplotlib/axes/_axes.py
@@ -1860,7 +1860,7 @@ def bar(self, left, height, width=0.8, bottom=None, **kwargs):
             specifies the color of errorbar(s)
             default: None
 
-        capsize : integer, optional
+        capsize : scalar, optional
            determines the length in points of the error bar caps
            default: None, which will take the value from the
            ``errorbar.capsize`` :data:`rcParam<matplotlib.rcParams>`.
@@ -2190,7 +2190,7 @@ def barh(self, bottom, width, height=0.8, left=None, **kwargs):
         ecolor : scalar or array-like, optional, default: None
             specifies the color of errorbar(s)
 
-        capsize : integer, optional
+        capsize : scalar, optional
            determines the length in points of the error bar caps
            default: None, which will take the value from the
            ``errorbar.capsize`` :data:`rcParam<matplotlib.rcParams>`.
@@ -2634,7 +2634,8 @@ def errorbar(self, x, y, yerr=None, xerr=None,
 
           *capsize*: scalar
             The length of the error bar caps in points; if *None*, it will
-            take the value from ``errorbar.capsize`` :data:`rcParam<matplotlib.rcParams>`.
+            take the value from ``errorbar.capsize``
+            :data:`rcParam<matplotlib.rcParams>`.
 
           *capthick*: scalar
             An alias kwarg to *markeredgewidth* (a.k.a. - *mew*). This
