eg (without a comma) to e.g.,

Used:

```bash
find * -type f -exec sed -i 's/\beg\b/e.g.,/g' {} \;
```

doc/README.txt

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ documentation.  All of the documentation is written using sphinx, a
 python documentation system built on top of ReST.  This directory contains
 
 
-* users - the user documentation, eg plotting tutorials, configuration
+* users - the user documentation, e.g., plotting tutorials, configuration
   tips, etc.
 
 * devel - documentation for matplotlib developers

doc/api/api_changes.rst

@@ -1305,7 +1305,7 @@ Changes for 0.90.1
     units.ConversionInterface.tickers renamed to
     units.ConversionInterface.axisinfo and it now returns a
     units.AxisInfo object rather than a tuple.  This will make it
-    easier to add axis info functionality (eg I added a default label
+    easier to add axis info functionality (e.g., I added a default label
     on this iteration) w/o having to change the tuple length and hence
     the API of the client code every time new functionality is added.
     Also, units.ConversionInterface.convert_to_value is now simply
@@ -1790,7 +1790,7 @@ Changes for 0.71
    pylab still imports most of the symbols from Numerix, MLab, fft,
    etc, but is more cautious.  For names that clash with python names
    (min, max, sum), pylab keeps the builtins and provides the numeric
-   versions with an a* prefix, eg (amin, amax, asum)
+   versions with an a* prefix, e.g., (amin, amax, asum)
 
 Changes for 0.70
 ================
@@ -1937,7 +1937,7 @@ pcolor_classic and scatter_classic.
 
 The return value from pcolor is a PolyCollection.  Most of the
 propertes that are available on rectangles or other patches are also
-available on PolyCollections, eg you can say::
+available on PolyCollections, e.g., you can say::
 
   c = scatter(blah, blah)
   c.set_linewidth(1.0)
@@ -1955,7 +1955,7 @@ over the return value of scatter or pcolor to set properties for the
 entire list.
 
 If you want the different elements of a collection to vary on a
-property, eg to have different line widths, see matplotlib.collections
+property, e.g., to have different line widths, see matplotlib.collections
 for a discussion on how to set the properties as a sequence.
 
 For scatter, the size argument is now in points^2 (the area of the
@@ -2215,7 +2215,7 @@ Changes for 0.42
     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
-    have changed, eg by caching a font or layout instance in a dict
+    have changed, e.g., by caching a font or layout instance in a dict
     with the prop tup as a key -- see RendererGTK.get_pango_layout in
     backend_gtk for an example.
 
@@ -2236,7 +2236,7 @@ Changes for 0.42
 
   * matplotlib.matlab._get_current_fig_manager renamed to
     matplotlib.matlab.get_current_fig_manager to allow user access to
-    the GUI window attribute, eg figManager.window for GTK and
+    the GUI window attribute, e.g., figManager.window for GTK and
     figManager.frame for wx
 
 Changes for 0.40

doc/devel/documenting_mpl.rst

@@ -392,7 +392,7 @@ So we can include plots from the examples dir using the symlink::
 
 
 We used to use a symlink for :file:`mpl-data` too, but the distro
-becomes very large on platforms that do not support links (eg the font
+becomes very large on platforms that do not support links (e.g., the font
 files are duplicated and large)
 
 .. _internal-section-refs:
@@ -401,7 +401,7 @@ Internal section references
 ===========================
 
 To maximize internal consistency in section labeling and references,
-use hyphen separated, descriptive labels for section references, eg::
+use hyphen separated, descriptive labels for section references, e.g.,::
 
     .. _howto-webapp:
 
@@ -429,7 +429,7 @@ Section names, etc
 ==================
 
 For everything but top level chapters, please use ``Upper lower`` for
-section titles, eg ``Possible hangups`` rather than ``Possible
+section titles, e.g., ``Possible hangups`` rather than ``Possible
 Hangups``
 
 Inheritance diagrams

doc/devel/license.rst

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ distributing L/GPL code through an separate channel, possibly a
 toolkit.  If you include code, make sure you include a copy of that
 code's license in the license directory if the code's license requires
 you to distribute the license with it.  Non-BSD compatible licenses
-are acceptable in matplotlib toolkits (eg basemap), but make sure you
+are acceptable in matplotlib toolkits (e.g., basemap), but make sure you
 clearly state the licenses you are using.
 
 Why BSD compatible?

doc/devel/release_guide.rst

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Testing
 * Run :file:`unit/memleak_hawaii3.py` and make sure there are no
   memory leaks
 
-* try some GUI examples, eg :file:`simple_plot.py` with GTKAgg, TkAgg, etc...
+* try some GUI examples, e.g., :file:`simple_plot.py` with GTKAgg, TkAgg, etc...
 
 * remove font cache and tex cache from :file:`.matplotlib` and test
   with and without cache on some example script

doc/faq/howto_faq.rst

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Find all objects in a figure of a certain type
 Every matplotlib artist (see :ref:`artist-tutorial`) has a method
 called :meth:`~matplotlib.artist.Artist.findobj` that can be used to
 recursively search the artist for any artists it may contain that meet
-some criteria (eg match all :class:`~matplotlib.lines.Line2D`
+some criteria (e.g., match all :class:`~matplotlib.lines.Line2D`
 instances or match some arbitrary filter function).  For example, the
 following snippet finds every object in the figure which has a
 `set_color` property and makes the object blue::
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ The :meth:`~matplotlib.pyplot.savefig` command has a keyword argument
 backgrounds transparent when saving, but will not affect the displayed
 image on the screen.
 
-If you need finer grained control, eg you do not want full transparency
+If you need finer grained control, e.g., you do not want full transparency
 or you want to affect the screen displayed version as well, you can set
 the alpha properties directly.  The figure has a
 :class:`~matplotlib.patches.Rectangle` instance called *patch*
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ this chicken and egg problem is to wait until the figure is draw by
 connecting
 (:meth:`~matplotlib.backend_bases.FigureCanvasBase.mpl_connect`) to the
 "on_draw" signal (:class:`~matplotlib.backend_bases.DrawEvent`) and
-get the window extent there, and then do something with it, eg move
+get the window extent there, and then do something with it, e.g., move
 the left of the canvas over; see :ref:`event-handling-tutorial`.
 
 Here is an example that gets a bounding box in relative figure coordinates
@@ -252,10 +252,10 @@ setting in the right subplots.
 Skip dates where there is no data
 ---------------------------------
 
-When plotting time series, eg financial time series, one often wants
-to leave out days on which there is no data, eg weekends.  By passing
+When plotting time series, e.g., financial time series, one often wants
+to leave out days on which there is no data, e.g., weekends.  By passing
 in dates on the x-xaxis, you get large horizontal gaps on periods when
-there is not data. The solution is to pass in some proxy x-data, eg
+there is not data. The solution is to pass in some proxy x-data, e.g.,
 evenly sampled indices, and then use a custom formatter to format
 these as dates. The example below shows how to use an 'index formatter'
 to achieve the desired plot::
@@ -559,7 +559,7 @@ at the end of the page in the sidebar (or `here
 The sphinx website is a good resource for learning sphinx, but we have
 put together a cheat-sheet at :ref:`documenting-matplotlib` which
 shows you how to get started, and outlines the matplotlib conventions
-and extensions, eg for including plots directly from external code in
+and extensions, e.g., for including plots directly from external code in
 your documents.
 
 Once your documentation contributions are working (and hopefully

doc/faq/installing_faq.rst

@@ -391,7 +391,7 @@ Standalone binary installers for Windows
 If you have already installed Python and numpy, you can use one of the
 matplotlib binary installers for windows -- you can get these from the
 `download <http://matplotlib.org/downloads.html>`_ site.  Chose the files with
-an ``.exe`` extension that match your version of Python (eg ``py2.7`` if you
+an ``.exe`` extension that match your version of Python (e.g., ``py2.7`` if you
 installed Python 2.7).  If you haven't already installed Python, you can get
 the official version from the `Python web site
 <http://python.org/download/>`_.

doc/faq/usage_faq.rst

@@ -336,7 +336,7 @@ from the canvas (the place where the drawing goes).  The canonical
 renderer for user interfaces is ``Agg`` which uses the `Anti-Grain
 Geometry`_ C++ library to make a raster (pixel) image of the figure.
 All of the user interfaces except ``macosx`` can be used with
-agg rendering, eg
+agg rendering, e.g.,
 ``WXAgg``, ``GTKAgg``, ``QT4Agg``, ``TkAgg``.  In
 addition, some of the user interfaces support other rendering engines.
 For example, with GTK, you can also select GDK rendering (backend

doc/users/artists.rst

@@ -577,7 +577,7 @@ set_major_formatter)
 ======================  =========================================================
 Accessor method         Description
 ======================  =========================================================
-get_scale               The scale of the axis, eg 'log' or 'linear'
+get_scale               The scale of the axis, e.g., 'log' or 'linear'
 get_view_interval       The interval instance of the axis view limits
 get_data_interval       The interval instance of the axis data limits
 get_gridlines           A list of grid lines for the Axis

doc/users/event_handling.rst

@@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ Object picking
 ==============
 
 You can enable picking by setting the ``picker`` property of an
-:class:`~matplotlib.artist.Artist` (eg a matplotlib
+:class:`~matplotlib.artist.Artist` (e.g., a matplotlib
 :class:`~matplotlib.lines.Line2D`, :class:`~matplotlib.text.Text`,
 :class:`~matplotlib.patches.Patch`, :class:`~matplotlib.patches.Polygon`,
 :class:`~matplotlib.patches.AxesImage`, etc...)
@@ -429,7 +429,7 @@ There are a variety of meanings of the ``picker`` property:
 	points and the the artist will fire off an event if its data is
 	within epsilon of the mouse event.  For some artists like lines
 	and patch collections, the artist may provide additional data to
-	the pick event that is generated, eg the indices of the data
+	the pick event that is generated, e.g., the indices of the data
 	within epsilon of the pick event.
 
     ``function``
@@ -457,7 +457,7 @@ your callback is always fired with two attributes:
 
     ``mouseevent`` the mouse event that generate the pick event.  The
 	mouse event in turn has attributes like ``x`` and ``y`` (the
-	coords in display space, eg pixels from left, bottom) and xdata,
+	coords in display space, e.g., pixels from left, bottom) and xdata,
 	ydata (the coords in data space).  Additionally, you can get
 	information about which buttons were pressed, which keys were
 	pressed, which :class:`~matplotlib.axes.Axes` the mouse is over,
@@ -471,7 +471,7 @@ your callback is always fired with two attributes:
 Additionally, certain artists like :class:`~matplotlib.lines.Line2D`
 and :class:`~matplotlib.collections.PatchCollection` may attach
 additional meta data like the indices into the data that meet the
-picker criteria (eg all the points in the line that are within the
+picker criteria (e.g., all the points in the line that are within the
 specified epsilon tolerance)
 
 Simple picking example

doc/users/license.rst

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Matplotlib only uses BSD compatible code, and its license is based on
 the `PSF <http://www.python.org/psf/license>`_ license.  See the Open
 Source Initiative `licenses page
 <http://www.opensource.org/licenses>`_ for details on individual
-licenses. Non-BSD compatible licenses (eg LGPL) are acceptable in
+licenses. Non-BSD compatible licenses (e.g., LGPL) are acceptable in
 matplotlib toolkits.  For a discussion of the motivations behind the
 licencing choice, see :ref:`license-discussion`.
 

doc/users/path_tutorial.rst

@@ -122,14 +122,14 @@ All of the simple patch primitives in matplotlib, Rectangle, Circle,
 Polygon, etc, are implemented with simple path.  Plotting functions
 like :meth:`~matplotlib.axes.Axes.hist` and
 :meth:`~matplotlib.axes.Axes.bar`, which create a number of
-primitives, eg a bunch of Rectangles, can usually be implemented more
+primitives, e.g., a bunch of Rectangles, can usually be implemented more
 efficiently using a compound path.  The reason ``bar`` creates a list
 of rectangles and not a compound path is largely historical: the
 :class:`~matplotlib.path.Path` code is comparatively new and ``bar``
 predates it.  While we could change it now, it would break old code,
 so here we will cover how to create compound paths, replacing the
 functionality in bar, in case you need to do so in your own code for
-efficiency reasons, eg you are creating an animated bar plot.
+efficiency reasons, e.g., you are creating an animated bar plot.
 
 We will make the histogram chart by creating a series of rectangles
 for each histogram bar: the rectangle width is the bin width and the

doc/users/pyplot_tutorial.rst

@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ several ways to set line properties
 
 
 * Use the setter methods of the ``Line2D`` instance.  ``plot`` returns a list
-  of lines; eg ``line1, line2 = plot(x1,y1,x2,y2)``.  Below I have only
+  of lines; e.g., ``line1, line2 = plot(x1,y1,x2,y2)``.  Below I have only
   one line so it is a list of length 1.  I use tuple unpacking in the
   ``line, = plot(x, y, 'o')`` to get the first element of the list::
 

doc/users/recipes.rst

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ figures and overcome some matplotlib warts.
 Sharing axis limits and views
 =============================
 
-It's common to make two or more plots which share an axis, eg two
+It's common to make two or more plots which share an axis, e.g., two
 subplots with time as a common axis.  When you pan and zoom around on
 one, you want the other to move around with you.  To facilitate this,
 matplotlib Axes support a ``sharex`` and ``sharey`` attribute.  When
@@ -126,9 +126,9 @@ you will see that the x tick labels are all squashed together.
 Another annoyance is that if you hover the mouse over the window and
 look in the lower right corner of the matplotlib toolbar
 (:ref:`navigation-toolbar`) at the x and y coordinates, you see that
-the x locations are formatted the same way the tick labels are, eg
+the x locations are formatted the same way the tick labels are, e.g.,
 "Dec 2004".  What we'd like is for the location in the toolbar to have
-a higher degree of precision, eg giving us the exact date out mouse is
+a higher degree of precision, e.g., giving us the exact date out mouse is
 hovering over.  To fix the first problem, we can use
 :func:`matplotlib.figure.Figure.autofmt_xdate` and to fix the second
 problem we can use the ``ax.fmt_xdata`` attribute which can be set to
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ Fill Between and Alpha
 The :meth:`~matplotlib.axes.Axes.fill_between` function generates a
 shaded region between a min and max boundary that is useful for
 illustrating ranges.  It has a very handy ``where`` argument to
-combine filling with logical ranges, eg to just fill in a curve over
+combine filling with logical ranges, e.g., to just fill in a curve over
 some threshold value.
 
 At its most basic level, ``fill_between`` can be use to enhance a

doc/users/text_intro.rst

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Text introduction
 matplotlib has excellent text support, including mathematical
 expressions, truetype support for raster and vector outputs, newline
 separated text with arbitrary rotations, and unicode support.  Because
-we embed the fonts directly in the output documents, eg for postscript
+we embed the fonts directly in the output documents, e.g., for postscript
 or PDF, what you see on the screen is what you get in the hardcopy.
 `freetype2 <http://freetype.sourceforge.net/index2.html>`_ support
 produces very nice, antialiased fonts, that look good even at small

doc/users/text_props.rst

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Text properties and layout
 
 The :class:`matplotlib.text.Text` instances have a variety of
 properties which can be configured via keyword arguments to the text
-commands (eg :func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.title`,
+commands (e.g., :func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.title`,
 :func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.xlabel` and :func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.text`).
 
 ==========================  ==============================================================================
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ name or fontname	    string e.g., [``'Sans'`` | ``'Courier'`` | ``'Helvetica'``
 picker			    [None|float|boolean|callable]
 position		    (x,y)
 rotation		    [ angle in degrees ``'vertical'`` | ``'horizontal'``
-size or fontsize	    [ size in points | relative size eg ``'smaller'``, ``'x-large'`` ]
+size or fontsize	    [ size in points | relative size, e.g., ``'smaller'``, ``'x-large'`` ]
 style or fontstyle	    [ ``'normal'`` | ``'italic'`` | ``'oblique'``]
 text			    string or anything printable with '%s' conversion
 transform		    a matplotlib.transform transformation instance

doc/users/transforms_tutorial.rst

@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ Using offset transforms to create a shadow effect
 =================================================
 
 One use of transformations is to create a new transformation that is
-offset from another transformation, eg to place one object shifted a
+offset from another transformation, e.g., to place one object shifted a
 bit relative to another object.  Typically you want the shift to be in
 some physical dimension, like points or inches rather than in data
 coordinates, so that the shift effect is constant at different zoom

doc/users/whats_new.rst

@@ -1501,7 +1501,7 @@ Here are the 0.98.4 notes from the CHANGELOG::
 
     Some of the changes Michael made to improve the output of the
     property tables in the rest docs broke of made difficult to use
-    some of the interactive doc helpers, eg setp and getp.  Having all
+    some of the interactive doc helpers, e.g., setp and getp.  Having all
     the rest markup in the ipython shell also confused the docstrings.
     I added a new rc param docstring.harcopy, to format the docstrings
     differently for hardcopy and other use.  The ArtistInspector

examples/README.txt

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Probably the most common way people use matplotlib is with the
 procedural interface, which follows the matlab/IDL/mathematica
 approach of using simple procedures like "plot" or "title" to modify
 the current figure.  These examples are included in the "pylab_examples"
-directory.  If you want to write more robust scripts, eg for
+directory.  If you want to write more robust scripts, e.g., for
 production use or in a web application server, you will probably want
 to use the matplotlib API for full control.  These examples are found
 in the "api" directory.  Below is a brief description of the different
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ directories found here:
 
   * units - working with unit data an custom types in matplotlib
 
-  * user_interfaces - using matplotlib in a GUI application, eg
+  * user_interfaces - using matplotlib in a GUI application, e.g.,
     TkInter, WXPython, pygtk, pyqt or FLTK widgets
 
   * widgets - Examples using interactive widgets

examples/api/date_index_formatter.py

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 """
-When plotting time series, eg financial time series, one often wants
+When plotting time series, e.g., financial time series, one often wants
 to leave out days on which there is no data, eh weekends.  The example
 below shows how to use an 'index formatter' to achieve the desired plot
 """

examples/api/font_family_rc.py

@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 """
 You can explicitly set which font family is picked up for a given font
-style (eg 'serif', 'sans-serif', or 'monospace').
+style (e.g., 'serif', 'sans-serif', or 'monospace').
 
 In the example below, we only allow one font family (Tahoma) for the
 san-serif font style.  You the default family with the font.family rc
-param, eg::
+param, e.g.,::
 
   rcParams['font.family'] = 'sans-serif'
 

examples/pylab_examples/accented_text.py

@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
 
 The following accents are provided: \hat, \breve, \grave, \bar,
 \acute, \tilde, \vec, \dot, \ddot.  All of them have the same syntax,
-eg to make an overbar you do \bar{o} or to make an o umlaut you do
-\ddot{o}.  The shortcuts are also provided, eg: \"o \'e \`e \~n \.x
+e.g., to make an overbar you do \bar{o} or to make an o umlaut you do
+\ddot{o}.  The shortcuts are also provided, e.g.,: \"o \'e \`e \~n \.x
 \^y
 
 """