[SciPy-user] Docstring standards for NumPy and SciPy

[Travis Oliphant]

Alan G Isaac wrote:

>On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Travis Oliphant apparently wrote: 
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>>Probably something like :OtherParameters: or something 
>>like that.  I prefer white-space as in  :Other Parameters: 
>>if it can be made to work. 
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>While Ed suggested that he can make this work, it would be 
>a deviation from standard reST.  Each time there is such 
>a deviation, it makes it harder for other reST based 
>processors (besides Epydoc) to process the docs.
>So perhaps :OtherParameters: or :Parameters2: would be better.
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>>1) :lm:`foo` for :latex-math:`foo`
>>2) :m:`foo` for :math:`foo` 
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>I must have missed a post: what is the distinction being 
>drawn here?  I do not know what :math: is unless it is 
>:latex-math:.  I can imagine also having, say, :lout-math: 
>but I do not recall this being discussed.
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:math: 

would be an equation that does not necessarily use latex syntax for 
math.  Several markup languages define math so that for example 
:math:`y=f(x)` renders differently. 

:latex-math:

would use latex symbols and commands for math --- something like 
:latex-math:`y=f\right(x\left)` for example.


-Travis