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@corbet Hey, I was reading through https://lwn.net/Articles/1077425 and noticed that the text in the "[f]irst-time contributors per release" chart ( https://static.lwn.net/images/2026/first-timers-7.1.svg ) was not selectable.

Is it a conscious editorial choice to use `svg.fonttype: 'path'` in matplotlib instead of `svg.fonttype: 'none'` so it'll render identically on more reader machines? Or is that just a result of accepting the default setting?

(I'm not poking at something I think should be "fixed", I am just curious.)

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@gnomon The latter — I know matplotlib well enough to crank out some plots, but I am not deeply versed in all of its options. This one I was totally unaware of.
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