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Making args to get_offset explicit makes everything much more complicated, because now I need to check the signature of self._offset (if it is a callable) to decide whether to pass...

Done (with minor rewordings on top of the proposed docs).

Agreed, is the new title better? :)

Superseded by #23896 and #23907.

Do either of the fixes I suggested in #16580 help?

I can confirm the issue and repro it even more simply with e.g. ```python import matplotlib.pyplot as plt plt.text(.5, .5, r'$$E = mc^2$$', usetex=True) plt.axvline(.5) plt.axhline(.5) plt.show() ``` the basic...

This is the intended behavior. You can instead control the default mathtext going using mathtext.default: https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/blob/2171d95cdf5fdd42dcd0d8d2a4156a32fa1a4ecb/lib/matplotlib/mpl-data/matplotlibrc#L352 One reason is that there are mathtext-only font settings that can only be selected...

Ah, very sorry, I misread the issue. I agree something's strange here.

OK, figured this out: the patch is ```patch diff --git i/lib/matplotlib/font_manager.py w/lib/matplotlib/font_manager.py index a5742ef88f..b3e139397c 100644 --- i/lib/matplotlib/font_manager.py +++ w/lib/matplotlib/font_manager.py @@ -1342,9 +1342,11 @@ class FontManager: # Pass the relevant rcParams...

IIRC it's wx which used that colored rectangle previously. Currently it doesn't draw the white dashes; seems straightforward enough to add that. Looking at other backends, I believe tk and...