Funnily they refer to some people wrongly using "Gnuplot" instead of "gnuplot" yet they use "Gnuplot" 23 times in this FAQ.
gnuplot is a command-driven plotting program. It can be used interactively to plot functions and data points in both two- and three-dimensional plots in many different styles and many different output formats. Gnuplot can also be used as a scripting language to automate generation of plots. It is designed primarily for the visual display of scientific data. gnuplot is copyrighted, but freely distributable; you don’t have to pay for it. You are welcome to download the source code.”
If it’s lowercase in title font, it should be lowercase everywhere.
> If it’s lowercase in title font, it should be lowercase everywhere.
If you read closely, you’ll notice that only “x” level headings use title case, “x.y” level headings use sentence case; there is no clear instance of “gnuplot”, capitalized or not, in title case anywhere in the document. The only arguable case is the page header “gnuplot FAQ”, but since it is sui generis there is no way other than inferring from capitalization in the rest of the document of telling whether its titlecase or just the preferred labelling of the product followed by “FAQ” (and the context suggests the latter).
You see people use "Gnuplot" quite a bit because many of us have an aversion to starting a sentence with a lower case letter, even in the case of proper nouns and titles. gnuplot is not […]
Most of us don’t care about forcing the first letter to be always lowercase, and in fact feel it’s a lost cause. But I agree that after such an explicit clarification I would expect to see “gnuplot” everywhere in the official documentation, except for this particular excerpt and when they refer to “GNUplot”. Otherwise it is clearly inconsistent with what they are explaining.
Yes, I also read the body text after the numbered heading in the prior excerpt, which makes two different choices in sentence-starting position in sentence case. But what I was responding to was the inference of a rule bases on usage in “title font” (which seems to be a reference to title case), not a complaint about the inconsistent use in sentence case. Hence, the except you provide here isn't really germane to anything I've said.
The section titles are in sentence case, not title case. You would not expect it to be capitalised unless it were the first word of the title. The inconsistency in that paragraph is in the first sentence.
You can write whatever you want. You can also write "Tis is me bunni and he likes KArRoTs" and have a lot of friends agree with you that's the correct spelling. And it is still generally considered wrong :)
>Iphone is a phone made by Apple
OTOH you would say Apple though, but I guess that avoids some obvious ambiguity
The sentence "Smartphone is a phone made by Apple" (or maybe "A smartphone is a phone made by Apple") would have a very different and wrong meaning though, so that doesn't make much sense to me.
As you mentioned, what the marketing department says about the case of letters in the name does not affect this generic recommendation.
Of course, you'll find a lot of people writing it in accordance with the marketing style, bit typically you'll see media follow the Swedish spelling rules.
iPhone is definitely an example of marketing winning over grammar, but it's not a given. Plenty of style guides indicate "our company name is to be written in all caps", when they want to stand out, which the rest of us happily ignore.
Companies don't get even that assumption for me, sure I'll use "iPhone" because they've won that one and it's the cultural expectation, but the only time I'm using "FREE NOW" is to criticise that decision
Yes?
In my experience, publications and the like do tend to respect the capitalization and other choices of a company/project/etc. with perhaps some exceptions like the ! in Yahoo! and perhaps all caps as in NVIDIA. In the case of Wikipedia, I'd go so far as to say that they're simply wrong if they're ignoring the actual way a company name is officially styled.
Mind you, I'm not necessarily a big fan of case-sensitive everything but here we are.
I think part of it is a general stylistic distaste for having "unnecessary" caps. See also general shift away from "Open Source," "Big Data," and the like.
> Follow standard English text formatting and capitalization practices, even if the trademark owner considers nonstandard formatting "official", as long as this is a style already in widespread use, rather than inventing a new one: (But see exception below under § Trademarks that begin with a lowercase letter.)
> use: Time, Kiss, Asus, Sony Mobile. (Capitalize IKEA, IBM, as acronyms/initialisms.)
> avoid: TIME, KISS, ASUS, SONY Mobile
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Trad...
> Follow standard English text formatting and capitalization practices, even if the trademark owner considers nonstandard formatting "official", as long as this is a style already in widespread use, rather than inventing a new one: (But see exception below under § Trademarks that begin with a lowercase letter.)
> use: Time, Kiss, Asus, Sony Mobile. (Capitalize IKEA, IBM, as acronyms/initialisms.)
> avoid: TIME, KISS, ASUS, SONY Mobile
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Trad...
danah boyd - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danah_boyd
brian d foy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_d_foy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_with_lower_case...
8.4 Why does gnuplot ignore my very small numbers?
For some purposes Gnuplot treats numbers less than 1e-08 as being zero.... The solution is to change gnuplot’s idea of "zero"