René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"expand log demo to a tutorial","articleBody":"The behavior of log scales when dealing with non-positive values is a common gotcha issue.\r\n\r\nThis seems to only be documented at\r\n\r\nhttps://matplotlib.org/api/scale_api.html#matplotlib.scale.LogScale and http://matplotlib.org/devdocs/gallery/pylab_examples/log_demo.html\r\n\r\nThe log-demo should be expanded to a tutorial with prose explaining \r\n\r\n - npos clip vs mask behavior (#8623 #8056 and links there in)\r\n - `loglog` vs `semilog` vs `ax.set_scale` vs `plt.xscale`/`plt.yscale`\r\n - changing the base \r\n - how ticking works with log scale (issues around http://matplotlib.org/users/dflt_style_changes.html?highlight=default%20changes#tick-label-formatting and issue around it (#8358 #7200 #8622 #8353 #8419 #8401 #8517 #8307)\r\n  - maybe fold in the symlog demo (https://matplotlib.org/examples/pylab_examples/symlog_demo.html)\r\n\r\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/tacaswell","@type":"Person","name":"tacaswell"},"datePublished":"2017-07-11T15:48:50.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":5},"url":"https://github.com/8863/matplotlib/issues/8863"}