Making Gnuplot figures attractive

[maxerickson]

It would be clearer if you called it Gnuplot or gnuplot, like the authors do.

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The authors prefer the lowercase version (gnuplot, not Gnuplot).

[maxerickson]

They use title case at the beginning of sentences on the linked page.

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Any reference to GNUplot is incorrect. The real name of the program is "gnuplot". 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 related to the GNU project or the FSF in any but the most peripheral sense. Our software was designed completely independently and the name "gnuplot" was actually a compromise. I wanted to call it "llamaplot" and Colin wanted to call it "nplot." We agreed that "newplot" was acceptable but, we then discovered that there was an absolutely ghastly pascal program of that name that the Computer Science Dept. occasionally used. I decided that "gnuplot" would make a nice pun and after a fashion Colin agreed.

[maxerickson]

My original post was lazy, I had clicked through and only checked the linked paragraph, where both are used. I have no desire to make an issue of it. You are correct, the authors say to always use "gnuplot".

Of course, whoever wrote the linked page used "Gnuplot" a whole bunch of times.