Bug summary

The code below does not place the superscript at the top of the large right square bracket. It works fine if text.usetex in enabled (and the dollar signs are doubled for display mode).

Code for reproduction

from matplotlib import pyplot as plt

import matplotlib
#matplotlib.rcParams["text.usetex"] = True
plt.plot([22,36],[0,1])
plt.text(23,0.8,'${\\left[\\sum_{i=1}^{n}{\\cos 2 k x_{i}}\\right]}^{2}$')
plt.show()

Actual outcome

Expected outcome

Additional information

No response

Operating system

Mac OS

Matplotlib Version

3.7.2

Matplotlib Backend

'module://matplotlib_inline.backend_inline' (but pdf fails the same way)

Python version

Python 3.11.5

Jupyter version

No response

Installation

conda