The double :: is rst markup, can you please leave those?

Can/should matplotlib be capitalized? There is one instance of it on this page.

There was discussion of this on the mailing list, but I do not thing there was a conclusive answer.

Sounds familiar, and I don't remember the outcome, either. I would say, though, that the lack of capitalization at the start of a sentence looks terrible. Matplotlib certainly should be capitalized there, so the remaining question is whether it should be capitalized everywhere. I think it should be. I don't see any disadvantages. It looks like that is the practice with Python, based on a very quick look at python.org. Same with IPython and Jupyter. Pandas is lower case, but italicized--that only works with styled text, so I don't consider it a good model.

The capitalization discussion was triggered by me for my book. The
conclusion I drew from it was to treat it as a proper noun, which is what I
did in my book. I think what was also acceptable is to treat it just simply
as a regular noun, but to stop doing lower-casing the name if it is the
first word of the sentence.

On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 2:13 PM, Eric Firing [email protected]
wrote:

In README.rst
#6535 (comment):

@@ -2,10 +2,10 @@
matplotlib
##########

-matplotlib is a python 2D plotting library which produces publication
-quality figures in a variety of hardcopy formats and interactive
-environments across platforms. matplotlib can be used in python
-scripts, the python and ipython shell (ala matlab or mathematica), web
+matplotlib is a Python 2D plotting library which produces publication-quality

Sounds familiar, and I don't remember the outcome, either. I would say,
though, that the lack of capitalization at the start of a sentence looks
terrible. Matplotlib certainly should be capitalized there, so the
remaining question is whether it should be capitalized everywhere. I think
it should be. I don't see any disadvantages. It looks like that is the
practice with Python, based on a very quick look at python.org. Same with
IPython and Jupyter. Pandas is lower case, but italicized--that only works
with styled text, so I don't consider it a good model.

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