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<h1>Documentation style guide<aclass="headerlink" href="#documentation-style-guide" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h1>
<p>This guide contains best practices for the language and formatting of Matplotlib
documentation.</p>
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<pclass="admonition-title">See also</p>
<p>For more information about contributing, see the <aclass="reference internal" href="document.html#documenting-matplotlib"><spanclass="std std-ref">Write documentation</span></a>
section.</p>
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<h2>Expository language<aclass="headerlink" href="#expository-language" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h2>
<p>For explanatory writing, the following guidelines are for clear and concise
language use.</p>
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<h3>Terminology<aclass="headerlink" href="#terminology" title="Link to this heading">#</a></h3>
<p>There are several key terms in Matplotlib that are standards for
reliability and consistency in documentation. They are not interchangeable.</p>