René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"sub/superscripts should be moved further from the baseline following large delimiters","articleBody":"\u003c!--To help us understand and resolve your issue, please fill out the form to the best of your ability.--\u003e\r\n\u003c!--You can feel free to delete the sections that do not apply.--\u003e\r\n\r\n### Bug report\r\n\r\n**Bug summary**\r\n\r\nMatplotlib's mathtext appears not to take the size of the preceding glyph into account when positioning sub/superscripts.\r\n\r\n**Code for reproduction**\r\n\r\n\u003c!--A minimum code snippet required to reproduce the bug.\r\nPlease make sure to minimize the number of dependencies required, and provide\r\nany necessary plotted data.\r\nAvoid using threads, as Matplotlib is (explicitly) not thread-safe.--\u003e\r\n\r\n```python\r\nfrom pylab import *\r\nfigtext(.4, .5, r\"$\\left[\\frac{x}{y}\\right]^2_n$\")\r\nfigtext(.5, .5, r\"$\\left[\\frac{x}{y}\\right]^2_n$\", usetex=True)\r\n```\r\n\r\n**Actual outcome**\r\n\r\n\u003c!--The output produced by the above code, which may be a screenshot, console output, etc.--\u003e\r\n![out](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1322974/88572504-8b7d8e80-d03f-11ea-8dd1-6b733bfbe2a2.png)\r\nNote that the baseline of the `2` is even lower than the baseline of the `x` in the mathtext case.\r\n\r\n**Expected outcome**\r\n\r\nSomething approaching the usetex case.\r\n\r\n**Matplotlib version**\r\n\u003c!--Please specify your platform and versions of the relevant libraries you are using:--\u003e\r\n  * Operating system: linux\r\n  * Matplotlib version: master\r\n  * Matplotlib backend (`print(matplotlib.get_backend())`): qt5agg\r\n  * Python version: 38\r\n  * Jupyter version (if applicable):\r\n  * Other libraries: \r\n\r\n\u003c!--Please tell us how you installed matplotlib and python e.g., from source, pip, conda--\u003e\r\n\u003c!--If you installed from conda, please specify which channel you used if not the default--\u003e\r\n\r\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/anntzer","@type":"Person","name":"anntzer"},"datePublished":"2020-07-27T17:31:09.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":11},"url":"https://github.com/18086/matplotlib/issues/18086"}