Bug report

Bug summary

All's in the title.

Code for reproduction

frompylabimport*figtext(.5,.5,r"$\lim_{x\to\infty}f(x)$",size=48)

Actual outcome

The\lim is clearly too high.

Expected outcome

Proper vertical alignment.

Likely the same problem affects all operators listed in_overunder_functions.

Matplotlib version

• Operating system: linux
• Matplotlib version: head
• Matplotlib backend (print(matplotlib.get_backend())): qt5agg
• Python version: 38
• Jupyter version (if applicable):
• Other libraries:

@aitikgupta perhaps you may be interested looking at this too? (up to you, of course).