[matplotlib-devel] text with dash problems

[John H. <jd...@gm...>]

Manuel and Michael worked on fixing a bug with TextWithDash, but this
introduced a bug will all tick labels so I reverted the changes.  The
problem is that the text layout code in Text (eg draw,
get_window_extent) is using "get_position" which in TextWithDash is
the dash position, according to the doc string and the original impl.
On the branch, the draw and layout methods of Text use _get_xy_display
which TextWithDash overrides.  That is why it works on the branch and
not the trunk.  The changes of M&M to make set_position and
get_position refer to the x and y locs fixed dash with text for
reasons that are not completely clear t me, but broke tick labels
which are also TextWithDash instances.

I did not write TextWithDash so cannot vouch for its conventions, but
I don't have time to dig deeply enough right now to fix this, so I
wanted to revert the changes so regular plots would work again and
give a head's up here so Manuel, Michael and I would not be doing and
undoing each other's changes w/o some understanding of where the
discerpancy was arising.

Thanks,
JDH