René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"[MNT]: document linestyle as an mpltype","articleBody":"### Summary\r\n\r\nThe manual docs for linestyle in #27996 have me thinking of the ideas in #18664 and that we can do a simplified version of this using `:mpltypes`  and `_docstring.interp` that we can then use to have a consistent way to document linestyle across the library. \r\n\r\n### Proposed fix\r\n\r\n1. Make something the following table `linestyle_doc` for _docstyle.interpd:\r\n```rst\r\n              ==========================================  =================\r\n              linestyle                                   description\r\n              ==========================================  =================\r\n              ``'-'``  ``'solid'``                      solid line\r\n              ``'--'`` or  ``'dashed'``                   dashed line\r\n              ``'-.'`` or  ``'dashdot'``                  dash-dotted line\r\n              ``':'`` or ``'dotted'``                     dotted line\r\n              ``'none'``, ``'None'``, ``' '``, or ``''``  draw nothing\r\n              ==========================================  =================\r\n```\r\n\r\n2. Add something like that table to [linestyles reference](https://matplotlib.org/devdocs/gallery/lines_bars_and_markers/linestyles.html) (apparently can't reuse the interp in examples :/)\r\n4. Add linestyles and a link to the linestyles reference to https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/blob/436a12abf2641483a933aabaded8a5df03e6081d/lib/matplotlib/sphinxext/roles.py#L126-L128","author":{"url":"https://github.com/story645","@type":"Person","name":"story645"},"datePublished":"2024-08-22T04:06:15.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":3},"url":"https://github.com/28745/matplotlib/issues/28745"}