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<spanid="developers-guide-index"></span><h1>The Matplotlib Developers' Guide<aclass="headerlink" href="#the-matplotlib-developers-guide" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
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<liclass="toctree-l2"><aclass="reference internal" href="MEP/MEP14.html">MEP14: Text handling</a></li>
<liclass="toctree-l2"><aclass="reference internal" href="MEP/MEP15.html">MEP15 - Fix axis autoscaling when limits are specified for one axis only</a></li>