Fixed typos in docs (squashed version of #1600)

doc/api/api_changes.rst

@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ Changes in 1.2.x
       projection = kwargs.pop('projection', None)
       if ispolar:
           if projection is not None and projection != 'polar':
-              raise ValuError('polar and projection args are inconsistent')
+              raise ValueError('polar and projection args are inconsistent')
           projection = 'polar'
       ax = projection_factory(projection, self, rect, **kwargs)
       key = self._make_key(*args, **kwargs)
@@ -807,7 +807,7 @@ Changes for 0.91.0
 
 * Changed :func:`cbook.reversed` so it yields a tuple rather than a
   (index, tuple). This agrees with the python reversed builtin,
-  and cbook only defines reversed if python doesnt provide the
+  and cbook only defines reversed if python doesn't provide the
   builtin.
 
 * Made skiprows=1 the default on :func:`csv2rec`
@@ -892,13 +892,13 @@ Changes for 0.90.1
     units.AxisInfo object rather than a tuple.  This will make it
     easier to add axis info functionality (eg I added a default label
     on this iteration) w/o having to change the tuple length and hence
-    the API of the client code everytime new functionality is added.
+    the API of the client code every time new functionality is added.
     Also, units.ConversionInterface.convert_to_value is now simply
     named units.ConversionInterface.convert.
 
     Axes.errorbar uses Axes.vlines and Axes.hlines to draw its error
     limits int he vertical and horizontal direction.  As you'll see
-    in the changes below, these funcs now return a LineCollection
+    in the changes below, these functions now return a LineCollection
     rather than a list of lines.  The new return signature for
     errorbar is  ylins, caplines, errorcollections where
     errorcollections is a xerrcollection, yerrcollection
@@ -983,7 +983,7 @@ Changes for 0.87.7
     markeredgecolor and markerfacecolor cannot be configured in
     matplotlibrc any more. Instead, markers are generally colored
     automatically based on the color of the line, unless marker colors
-    are explicitely set as kwargs - NN
+    are explicitly set as kwargs - NN
 
     Changed default comment character for load to '#' - JDH
 
@@ -1198,7 +1198,7 @@ Changes for 0.82
 
         I see that hist uses the linspace function to create the bins
         and then uses searchsorted to put the values in their correct
-        bin. Thats all good but I am confused over the use of linspace
+        bin. That's all good but I am confused over the use of linspace
         for the bin creation. I wouldn't have thought that it does
         what is needed, to quote the docstring it creates a "Linear
         spaced array from min to max". For it to work correctly
@@ -1394,7 +1394,7 @@ Changes for 0.65.1
 
   removed add_axes and add_subplot from backend_bases.  Use
   figure.add_axes and add_subplot instead.  The figure now manages the
-  current axes with gca and sca for get and set current axe.  If you
+  current axes with gca and sca for get and set current axes.  If you
   have code you are porting which called, eg, figmanager.add_axes, you
   can now simply do figmanager.canvas.figure.add_axes.
 
@@ -1462,7 +1462,7 @@ Changes for 0.61
 
   canvas.connect is now deprecated for event handling.  use
   mpl_connect and mpl_disconnect instead.  The callback signature is
-  func(event) rather than func(widget, evet)
+  func(event) rather than func(widget, event)
 
 Changes for 0.60
 ================
@@ -1626,7 +1626,7 @@ Object constructors
   You no longer pass the bbox, dpi, or transforms to the various
   Artist constructors.  The old way or creating lines and rectangles
   was cumbersome because you had to pass so many attributes to the
-  Line2D and Rectangle classes not related directly to the gemoetry
+  Line2D and Rectangle classes not related directly to the geometry
   and properties of the object.  Now default values are added to the
   object when you call axes.add_line or axes.add_patch, so they are
   hidden from the user.
@@ -1655,18 +1655,18 @@ Transformations
 
   The entire transformation architecture has been rewritten.
   Previously the x and y transformations where stored in the xaxis and
-  yaxis insstances.  The problem with this approach is it only allows
+  yaxis instances.  The problem with this approach is it only allows
   for separable transforms (where the x and y transformations don't
   depend on one another).  But for cases like polar, they do.  Now
   transformations operate on x,y together.  There is a new base class
   matplotlib.transforms.Transformation and two concrete
-  implemetations, matplotlib.transforms.SeparableTransformation and
+  implementations, matplotlib.transforms.SeparableTransformation and
   matplotlib.transforms.Affine.  The SeparableTransformation is
   constructed with the bounding box of the input (this determines the
   rectangular coordinate system of the input, ie the x and y view
-  limits), the bounding box of the display, and possibily nonlinear
+  limits), the bounding box of the display, and possibly nonlinear
   transformations of x and y.  The 2 most frequently used
-  transformations, data cordinates -> display and axes coordinates ->
+  transformations, data coordinates -> display and axes coordinates ->
   display are available as ax.transData and ax.transAxes.  See
   alignment_demo.py which uses axes coords.
 
@@ -1796,7 +1796,7 @@ Changes for 0.42
 
   * backend_bases.AxisTextBase is now text.Text module
 
-  * All the erase and reset functionality removed frmo AxisText - not
+  * All the erase and reset functionality removed from AxisText - not
     needed with double buffered drawing.  Ditto with state change.
     Text instances have a get_prop_tup method that returns a hashable
     tuple of text properties which you can use to see if text props

doc/devel/documenting_mpl.rst

@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ working with Sphinx in general. Here are a few additional things to keep in mind
   ``:file:`` directive.
 
 * Function arguments and keywords should be referred to using the *emphasis*
-  role. This will keep matplotlib's documentation consistant with Python's
+  role. This will keep matplotlib's documentation consistent with Python's
   documentation::
 
     Here is a description of *argument*
@@ -401,7 +401,7 @@ Internal section references
 ===========================
 
 To maximize internal consistency in section labeling and references,
-use hypen separated, descriptive labels for section references, eg::
+use hyphen separated, descriptive labels for section references, eg::
 
     .. _howto-webapp:
 
@@ -411,7 +411,7 @@ and refer to it using  the standard reference syntax::
 
 Keep in mind that we may want to reorganize the contents later, so
 let's avoid top level names in references like ``user`` or ``devel``
-or ``faq`` unless necesssary, because for example the FAQ "what is a
+or ``faq`` unless necessary, because for example the FAQ "what is a
 backend?" could later become part of the users guide, so the label::
 
     .. _what-is-a-backend
@@ -464,7 +464,7 @@ Emacs helpers
 
 There is an emacs mode `rst.el
 <http://docutils.sourceforge.net/tools/editors/emacs/rst.el>`_ which
-automates many important ReST tasks like building and updateing
+automates many important ReST tasks like building and updating
 table-of-contents, and promoting or demoting section headings.  Here
 is the basic ``.emacs`` configuration::
 

doc/devel/release_guide.rst

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 .. _release-guide:
 
 *************************
-Doing a matplolib release
+Doing a matplotlib release
 *************************
 
 A guide for developers who are doing a matplotlib release

doc/faq/howto_faq.rst

@@ -496,7 +496,7 @@ and :ref:`what-is-a-backend`).
    Therefore, multiple calls to ``show`` are now allowed.
 
 Having ``show`` block further execution of the script or the python
-interperator depends on whether matplotlib is set for interactive mode
+interpreter depends on whether matplotlib is set for interactive mode
 or not.  In non-interactive mode (the default setting), execution is paused
 until the last figure window is closed.  In interactive mode, the execution
 is not paused, which allows you to create additional figures (but the script

doc/glossary/index.rst

@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ Glossary
   PS
       Postscript (`PS <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostScript>`_) is a
       vector graphics ASCII text language widely used in printers and
-      publishing.  Postscript was developerd by adobe systems and is
+      publishing.  Postscript was developed by adobe systems and is
       starting to show its age: for example is does not have an alpha
       channel.  PDF was designed in part as a next-generation document
       format to replace postscript
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ Glossary
 
   pyqt
       `pyqt <http://wiki.python.org/moin/PyQt>`_ provides python
-      wrappers for the :term:`Qt` widgets library and is requied by
+      wrappers for the :term:`Qt` widgets library and is required by
       the matplotlib QtAgg and Qt4Agg backends.  Widely used on linux
       and windows; many linux distributions package this as
       'python-qt3' or 'python-qt4'.
@@ -155,4 +155,3 @@ Glossary
       tools library for GTK, MS Windows, and MacOS.  It uses native
       widgets for each operating system, so applications will have the
       look-and-feel that users on that operating system expect.
-

doc/users/annotations_guide.rst

@@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ more control, it supports a few other options.
       annotate("Test", xy=(0.5, 1), xycoords=("data", "axes fraction"))
 
     0.5 is in data coordinate, and 1 is in normalized axes coordinate.
-    You may use an atist or transform as with a tuple. For example,
+    You may use an artist or transform as with a tuple. For example,
 
     .. plot:: users/plotting/examples/annotate_simple_coord02.py
        :include-source:

doc/users/credits.rst

@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ Baptiste Carvello
 
 Jeffrey Whitaker
   at `NOAA <http://www.boulder.noaa.gov>`_ wrote the
-  :ref:`toolkit_basemap` tookit
+  :ref:`toolkit_basemap` toolkit
 
 Sigve Tjoraand, Ted Drain, James Evans
   and colleagues at the `JPL <http://www.jpl.nasa.gov>`_ collaborated
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ Jouni K. Seppänen
   fixes to the code, to tex support and to the get_sample_data handler
 
 Paul Kienzle
-  improved the picking infrastruture for interactive plots, and with
+  improved the picking infrastructure for interactive plots, and with
   Alex Mont contributed fast rendering code for quadrilateral meshes.
 
 Michael Droettboom

doc/users/github_stats.rst

@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ Pull Requests (123):
 * :ghpull:`1074`: Added broadcasting support in some mplot3d methods
 * :ghpull:`1064`: Locator interface
 * :ghpull:`850`: Added tripcolor triangle-centred colour values.
-* :ghpull:`1093`: Exposed the callback id for the default key press handler so that it can be easily diabled. Fixes #215.
+* :ghpull:`1093`: Exposed the callback id for the default key press handler so that it can be easily disabled. Fixes #215.
 * :ghpull:`1065`: fixed conversion from pt to inch in tight_layout
 * :ghpull:`1082`: doc: in pcolormesh docstring, say what it does.
 * :ghpull:`1078`: doc: note that IDLE doesn't work with interactive mode.
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ Pull Requests (123):
 * :ghpull:`1002`: Fixed potential overflow exception in the lines.contains() method
 * :ghpull:`1025`: Timers
 * :ghpull:`989`: Animation subprocess bug
-* :ghpull:`898`: Added warnings for easily confusible subplot/subplots invokations
+* :ghpull:`898`: Added warnings for easily confusable subplot/subplots invocations
 * :ghpull:`963`: Add detection of file extension for file-like objects
 * :ghpull:`973`: Fix sankey.py pep8 and py3 compatibility
 * :ghpull:`972`: Force closing PIL image files
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ Issues (226):
 * :ghissue:`557`: Crash during date axis setup
 * :ghissue:`600`: errorbar(): kwarg 'markevery' not working as expected.
 * :ghissue:`174`: Memory leak in example simple_idle_wx.py
-* :ghissue:`232`: format in plot_direcitive sphinx>=1.0.6 compatible patch
+* :ghissue:`232`: format in plot_directive sphinx>=1.0.6 compatible patch
 * :ghissue:`1162`: FIX nose.tools.assert_is is only supported with python2.7
 * :ghissue:`1165`: tight_layout fails on twinx, twiny
 * :ghissue:`803`: Return arrow collection as 2nd argument of streamplot.
@@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ Issues (226):
 * :ghissue:`850`: Added tripcolor triangle-centred colour values.
 * :ghissue:`1059`: Matplotlib figure window freezes during interactive mode
 * :ghissue:`215`: skipping mpl-axes-interaction during  key_press_event\'s
-* :ghissue:`1093`: Exposed the callback id for the default key press handler so that it can be easily diabled. Fixes #215.
+* :ghissue:`1093`: Exposed the callback id for the default key press handler so that it can be easily disabled. Fixes #215.
 * :ghissue:`909`: Log Formatter for tick labels can't handle non-integer base
 * :ghissue:`1065`: fixed conversion from pt to inch in tight_layout
 * :ghissue:`1086`: Problem with subplot / matplotlib.dates interaction
@@ -403,7 +403,7 @@ Issues (226):
 * :ghissue:`1002`: Fixed potential overflow exception in the lines.contains() method
 * :ghissue:`1025`: Timers
 * :ghissue:`989`: Animation subprocess bug
-* :ghissue:`898`: Added warnings for easily confusible subplot/subplots invokations
+* :ghissue:`898`: Added warnings for easily confusable subplot/subplots invocations
 * :ghissue:`963`: Add detection of file extension for file-like objects
 * :ghissue:`973`: Fix sankey.py pep8 and py3 compatibility
 * :ghissue:`972`: Force closing PIL image files

doc/users/legend_guide.rst

@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ used as text labels. If label attribute is empty string or starts with
 Therefore, plots drawn by some *pyplot* commands are not supported by
 legend.  For example, :func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.fill_between` creates
 :class:`~matplotlib.collections.PolyCollection` that is not
-supported. Also support is limted for some commands that creat
+supported. Also support is limited for some commands that create
 multiple artists. For example, :func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.errorbar`
 creates multiples :class:`~matplotlib.lines.Line2D` instances.
 
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ For each *p_i*, matplotlib
      in the handler_map
 
 
-Unless specified, the defaul handler_map is used. Below is a partial
+Unless specified, the default handler_map is used. Below is a partial
 list of key-handler pairs included in the default handler map.
 
   * Line2D : legend_handler.HandlerLine2D()
@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ instances (p1 and p2). ::
 In the above example, only *p1* will be handled by *my_handler*, while
 others will be handled by default handlers.
 
-The curent default handler_map has handlers for errorbar and bar
+The current default handler_map has handlers for errorbar and bar
 plots. Also, it includes an entry for `tuple` which is mapped to
 `HandlerTuple`. It simply plots over all the handles for items in the
 given tuple. For example,
@@ -310,7 +310,7 @@ Handler can be any callable object with following signature. ::
 
 Where *legend* is the legend itself, *orig_handle* is the original
 plot (*p_i* in the above example), *fontsize* is the fontsize in
-pixles, and *handlebox* is a OffsetBox instance. Within the call, you
+pixels, and *handlebox* is a OffsetBox instance. Within the call, you
 create relevant artists (using relevant properties from the *legend*
 and/or *orig_handle*) and add them into the handlebox. The artists
 needs to be scaled according to the fontsize (note that the size is in

doc/users/mathtext.rst

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ provides a ``usetex`` option for those who do want to call out to TeX
 to generate their text (see :ref:`usetex-tutorial`).
 
 Any text element can use math text.  You should use raw strings
-(preceed the quotes with an ``'r'``), and surround the math text with
+(precede the quotes with an ``'r'``), and surround the math text with
 dollar signs ($), as in TeX.  Regular text and mathtext can be
 interleaved within the same string.  Mathtext can use the Computer
 Modern fonts (from (La)TeX), `STIX <http://www.aip.org/stixfonts/>`_

doc/users/pgf.rst

@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ Rc parameters that control the behavior of the pgf backend:
 
 .. note::
 
-   TeX defines a set of secial characters, such as::
+   TeX defines a set of special characters, such as::
 
      # $ % & ~ _ ^ \ { }
 

doc/users/pyplot_tutorial.rst

@@ -248,8 +248,8 @@ you can write a TeX expression surrounded by dollar signs::
 
     plt.title(r'$\sigma_i=15$')
 
-The ``r`` preceeding the title string is important -- it signifies
-that the string is a *raw* string and not to treate backslashes and
+The ``r`` preceding the title string is important -- it signifies
+that the string is a *raw* string and not to treat backslashes and
 python escapes.  matplotlib has a built-in TeX expression parser and
 layout engine, and ships its own math fonts -- for details see
 :ref:`mathtext-tutorial`.  Thus you can use mathematical text across platforms
@@ -280,4 +280,3 @@ variety of other coordinate systems one can choose -- see
 :ref:`annotations-tutorial` and :ref:`plotting-guide-annotation` for
 details.  More examples can be found in
 :ref:`pylab_examples-annotation_demo`.
-

doc/users/recipes.rst

@@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ the boolean mask is True.  In the example below, we simulate a single
 random walker and compute the analytic mean and standard deviation of
 the population positions.  The population mean is shown as the black
 dashed line, and the plus/minus one sigma deviation from the mean is
-showsn as the yellow filled region.  We use the where mask
+shown as the yellow filled region.  We use the where mask
 ``X>upper_bound`` to find the region where the walker is above the one
 sigma boundary, and shade that region blue.
 
@@ -358,7 +358,7 @@ argument takes a dictionary with keys that are Patch properties.
    textstr = '$\mu=%.2f$\n$\mathrm{median}=%.2f$\n$\sigma=%.2f$'%(mu, median, sigma)
 
    ax.hist(x, 50)
-   # these are matplotlib.patch.Patch properies
+   # these are matplotlib.patch.Patch properties
    props = dict(boxstyle='round', facecolor='wheat', alpha=0.5)
 
    # place a text box in upper left in axes coords

doc/users/screenshots.rst

@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ histograms and will return the bin counts or probabilities
 Path demo
 =========
 
-You can add aribitrary paths in matplotlib as of release 0.98.  See
+You can add arbitrary paths in matplotlib as of release 0.98.  See
 the :mod:`matplotlib.path`.
 
 .. plot:: mpl_examples/api/path_patch_demo.py

doc/users/text_intro.rst

@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ interface
    in the API.
 
 All of these functions create and return a
-:func:`matplotlib.text.Text` instance, which can bew configured with a
+:func:`matplotlib.text.Text` instance, which can be configured with a
 variety of font and other properties.  The example below shows all of
 these commands in action.
 

doc/users/tight_layout_guide.rst

@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ Colorbar
 If you create a colorbar with the :func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.colorbar`
 command, the created colorbar is an instance of Axes, *not* Subplot, so
 tight_layout does not work. With Matplotlib v1.1, you may create a
-colobar as a subplot using the gridspec.
+colorbar as a subplot using the gridspec.
 
 .. plot::
    :include-source: