change all NEST simulators to Simulators

Author: jessica-mitchell

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Contribute to NEST
 
-The NEST simulator is a scientific tool and as such it is never finished and constantly changing to meet the needs of novel neuroscientific endeavors. Here you find the most important information on how you can contribute to NEST. This document is an excerpt from our [Contributing to NEST documentation](https://nest-simulator.readthedocs.io/en/latest/contribute/index.html), which provides more detailed information.
+The NEST Simulator is a scientific tool and as such it is never finished and constantly changing to meet the needs of novel neuroscientific endeavors. Here you find the most important information on how you can contribute to NEST. This document is an excerpt from our [Contributing to NEST documentation](https://nest-simulator.readthedocs.io/en/latest/contribute/index.html), which provides more detailed information.
 
 
 * Make sure you have a [GitHub account](https://github.com/signup/free)

SECURITY.md

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 
 # Security Policy
 
-The NEST simulator is research oriented software and as such is expected to
+The NEST Simulator is research oriented software and as such is expected to
 run mainly in well protected environments. In case it is found that this
 software can be used to violate security mechanisms, developers will try to
 provide patches that mitigate the risk of this misuse.

doc/htmldoc/conf.py

@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@
 }
 
 # General information about the project.
-project = u'NEST simulator user documentation'
+project = u'NEST Simulator user documentation'
 copyright = u'2004, nest-simulator'
 author = u'nest-simulator'
 
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@
 # a list of builtin themes.
 #
 html_theme = 'sphinx_material'
-html_title = 'NEST simulator documentation'
+html_title = 'NEST Simulator Documentation'
 html_logo = str(doc_build_dir / 'static/img/nest_logo.png')
 
 # Theme options are theme-specific and customize the look and feel of a theme
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@
     'master_doc': True,
     # Set the repo location to get a badge with stats
     'repo_url': 'https://github.com/nest/nest-simulator/',
-    'repo_name': 'NEST simulator',
+    'repo_name': 'NEST Simulator',
     # "nav_links": [
     #     {"href": "index", "internal": True, "title": "NEST docs home"}
     #     ],
@@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ def setup(app):
 # One entry per manual page. List of tuples
 # (source start file, name, description, authors, manual section).
 man_pages = [
-    (master_doc, 'nestsimulator', u'NEST simulator Documentation',
+    (master_doc, 'nestsimulator', u'NEST Simulator Documentation',
      [author], 1)
 ]
 
@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ def setup(app):
 # (source start file, target name, title, author,
 #  dir menu entry, description, category)
 texinfo_documents = [
-    (master_doc, 'NESTsimulator', u'NEST simulator Documentation',
+    (master_doc, 'NESTsimulator', u'NEST Simulator Documentation',
      author, 'NESTsimulator', 'One line description of project.',
      'Miscellaneous'),
 ]

doc/htmldoc/developer_space/workflows/documentation_workflow/user_documentation_workflow.rst

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ documentation. To learn more about the syntax, check out this `quick
 reference
 <https://thomas-cokelaer.info/tutorials/sphinx/rest_syntax.html>`_.
 
-The NEST simulator documentation lives alongside its code. It is
+The NEST Simulator documentation lives alongside its code. It is
 contained in the ``doc/htmldoc`` directory within the `NEST source
 code repository <https://github.com/nest/nest-simulator>`_ on GitHub.
 
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ sphinx/rest_syntax.html>`_ files or to create new ones, follow the steps below:
 
 2. If you create a new page, open ``index.rst`` in the ``doc/htmldoc`` directory
    and add the file name under ``.. toctree::``. This will ensure it appears on
-   the NEST simulator documentation's table of contents.
+   the NEST Simulator documentation's table of contents.
 
 3. If you rename or move a file, please make sure you update all the
    corresponding cross-references.
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ Docs.
    import-guide.html#building-your-documentation>`_ your documentation.
 
 This allows you to preview your work on your Read the Docs account. In order
-to see the changes on the official NEST simulator documentation, please submit
+to see the changes on the official NEST Simulator documentation, please submit
 a pull request.
 
 Creating pull request

doc/htmldoc/related_projects.rst

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 Related projects
 ================
 
-NEST simulator is part of a larger network of projects that focus on simulation, analysis, visualization, or modeling of
+NEST Simulator is part of a larger network of projects that focus on simulation, analysis, visualization, or modeling of
 biologically realistic neural networks.
 
 Here you can find further information about some of these projects.

doc/htmldoc/templates/index.html

@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
     <div class="wrapper">
       <div class="row">
         <div class="grid_3">
-          <h1>Welcome to the NEST simulator documentation!</h1>
+          <h1>Welcome to the NEST Simulator documentation!</h1>
         <a href="installation/index.html" class="buttonlink">Install NEST</a>
 
         </div>

doc/htmldoc/tutorials/pynest_tutorial/part_1_neurons_and_simple_neural_networks.rst

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ Networks <pynest_examples>`, or
 have a look at at the source directory of your NEST installation in the
 subdirectory: ``pynest/examples/``.
 
-PyNEST - an interface to the NEST simulator
+PyNEST - an interface to the NEST Simulator
 -------------------------------------------
 
 .. _Python-Interface:
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ PyNEST - an interface to the NEST simulator
 
    Python Interface Figure.
    The Python interpreter imports NEST as a module and
-   dynamically loads the NEST simulator kernel (``pynestkernel.so``).
+   dynamically loads the NEST Simulator kernel (``pynestkernel.so``).
    A simulation script of
    the user (``mysimulation.py``) uses functions defined in this high-level
    API. These functions generate code in SLI (Simulation Language
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ is designed for the simulation of large heterogeneous networks of point
 neurons. It is open source software released under the GPL licence. The
 simulator comes with an interface to Python [2]_. :numref:`Python-Interface`
 illustrates the interaction between the user's simulation script
-(``mysimulation.py``) and the NEST simulator. Eppler et al. [3]_
+(``mysimulation.py``) and the NEST Simulator. Eppler et al. [3]_
 contains a technically detailed description of the implementation of this
 interface and parts of this text are based on this reference. The
 simulation kernel is written in C++ to obtain the highest possible performance
@@ -568,7 +568,7 @@ References
 .. [2] Python Software Foundation. The Python programming language,
    2008. http://www.python.org.
 
-.. [3] Eppler JM et al. 2009 PyNEST: A convenient interface to the NEST simulator.
+.. [3] Eppler JM et al. 2009 PyNEST: A convenient interface to the NEST Simulator.
    2:12. 10.3389/neuro.11.012.2008.
 
 .. [4] Hunter JD. 2007 Matplotlib: A 2d graphics environment.

pynest/README.rst

@@ -36,9 +36,9 @@ References
 ----------
 
 .. [1] Zaytsev YV and Morrison A (2014) CyNEST: a maintainable
-       Cython-based interface for the NEST simulator. Front.
+       Cython-based interface for the NEST Simulator. Front.
        Neuroinform. 8:23. http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fninf.2014.00023
 
 .. [2] Eppler JM, Helias M, Muller E, Diesmann M and Gewaltig M-O PyNEST
-       (2009) A convenient interface to the NEST simulator. Front.
+       (2009) A convenient interface to the NEST Simulator. Front.
        Neuroinform. 2:12. http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/neuro.11.012.2008

pynest/nest/__init__.py

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 # along with NEST.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 
-r"""PyNEST - Python interface for the NEST simulator
+r"""PyNEST - Python interface for the NEST Simulator
 
 * ``nest.helpdesk()`` opens the NEST documentation in your browser.