Hello,
I think there is an unused parameter in matplotlibrc, the text.markup
which defaults to 'plain'. text.markup is not found in rcsetup.py.
Similarly, there is a keyword to ScalarFormatter, useMathText, that is
always set to its default, False, in ticker.py; no other function
accesses or
Pardon me, but I was hasty in sending the diff. The following diff will
put a multiplication symbol in the tick label where large numbers are
expected, but it also removes any possibility of getting a number
written as 1e10, for example, so it definitely is not complete.
Hopefully, this is a
