Bug summary

When placing some multiline text where one line includes math mode text and the other does not, then the lines aren't perfectly aligned and there is a slight mismatch (see screenshot).

Code for reproduction

from matplotlib import pyplot as plt

fig, ax = plt.subplots()

txt = "$k$1|\n1|"
ax.text(1, 0.5, txt, ha="right", ma="right", transform=ax.transAxes)

fig.savefig("/tmp/bla.pdf")
fig.savefig("/tmp/bla.png")

Actual outcome

Expected outcome

That the lines are properly aligned as speicified. What I noticed is that when directly comparing the output with and without math mode in the offending line is that the line is actually shifted to the top right a tiny amount.

Additional information

No response

Operating system

Arch linux

Matplotlib Version

3.10.0

Matplotlib Backend

qtagg

Python version

Python 3.13.1

Jupyter version

n/a

Installation

Linux package manager