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DOC: Really add an arrow tutorial #11350
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I'm currently struggling with FancyArrowPatch's path parameter, which essentially disables a lot of heavy-lifting done by this class when called with posA & posB. My concrete problem is that shrinkA & shrinkB parameters are not interpreted using path; however I can't reproduce their behavior using NetworkX (the arrow head ends up under the vertex the arrow is pointing to).
Please discuss on discourse.Matplotlib.org. Or if you have a bug, open an issue with a self-contained example.
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In #11219 and #11223 @dstansby headed out to provide an arrow tutorial. Since the scope of this was rather limited, it ended up as an example examples/shapes_and_collections/arrow_guide.py - which is great.
However as mentionned in this PR #11223 there are a lot of other things to consider about arrows. In the end it would be good to have something like a complete "Arrow tutorial". I'm collecting the comments in this thread for them not to get lost, once someone has more time to write this up.
There currently are already the annotation_demo example and the annotations tutorial. So I wonder in how far they are overlapping or not. Independent of that, there should be links in between them.
In addition, the following things should be considered when writing :