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Consolidate all the snippets into groups, then do some minor copy-editing. I still need to finish up a few more example plots though.

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Doc failure is #31728

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color values but a new uniform alpha value. This is handy if you want to modify only the
transparency of mapped colors for an Artist.

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I think this should be the first thing in the list.

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I would not put this at the top. While the text overhaul is a major achievment, most of this information is not relevant to the majority of our users. Content falls mostly in two categories: It's something that now "just works" and users will just not have problems (e.g. "mathtext now supports \underline), or it's an expert feature (e.g. font feature flags).

I'm afraid that filling the first third quarter of space with such details that are not interesting for most users, will make people turn away before they get to the stuff that may be relevant for them.

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color values but a new uniform alpha value. This is handy if you want to modify only the
transparency of mapped colors for an Artist.

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I would not put this at the top. While the text overhaul is a major achievment, most of this information is not relevant to the majority of our users. Content falls mostly in two categories: It's something that now "just works" and users will just not have problems (e.g. "mathtext now supports \underline), or it's an expert feature (e.g. font feature flags).

I'm afraid that filling the first third quarter of space with such details that are not interesting for most users, will make people turn away before they get to the stuff that may be relevant for them.

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Okay to self merge on green CI

@QuLogic QuLogic merged commit 2b70655 into matplotlib:v3.11.x Jun 6, 2026
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