Harshal Prakash Patankar (pharshalp)

please have a look at https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/16376 before doing anything related to `symlog` scale (the scale seems to be correct and the issue is likely with the symlog norm... please read...

here is a MWE to reproduce the issue I am facing. ```python import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt data = np.arange(25).reshape(5, 5) for backend in ['pdf', 'module://mplcairo.base']: plt.switch_backend(backend)...

I think that the following line is causing the issue. I have created a PR to fix it. (My apologies in advance if I am trivializing the issue but this...

this answer by @mdboom might help... https://stackoverflow.com/a/16345065 > And setting the default body text in TeX does not (by default) change the math font. This is (unfortunately standard TeX behavior)....

I am trying to come up with a good documentation entry for this. Found 3 other issues that have the same root cause (i.e. not knowing that changing text font...

Will work on it in a day or two... looks like I might have to remove some portions of the existing documentation (seems to be inconsistent with the stackoverflow answer......

but then the tick labels won't be rendered using TeX (and other mathematical symbols, numbers will still be using TeX when ``text.usetex=True``) which is inconsistent. When the user sets ``text.usetex...

ahh right... that makes sense. But, this won't solve the issue if you have a mathematical formula in the title (or annotations) since it has to be rendered in math...

there is a package called brokenaxes which might provide some interesting ideas... https://github.com/bendichter/brokenaxes