From fb604130bef0775f36bf4a836e114ffcf2d57297 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: hannah <story645@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2022 10:28:01 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] DOC: changed dash reference to public link and added short
 discription

---
 lib/matplotlib/backend_bases.py | 10 ++++++----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/backend_bases.py b/lib/matplotlib/backend_bases.py
index 2617e5a8be05..14721a1d602b 100644
--- a/lib/matplotlib/backend_bases.py
+++ b/lib/matplotlib/backend_bases.py
@@ -908,16 +908,18 @@ def set_dashes(self, dash_offset, dash_list):
         Parameters
         ----------
         dash_offset : float
-            The offset (usually 0).
+            Distance, in points, into the dash pattern at which to
+            start the pattern. It is usually set to 0.
         dash_list : array-like or None
             The on-off sequence as points.  None specifies a solid line. All
             values must otherwise be non-negative (:math:`\\ge 0`).
 
         Notes
         -----
-        See p. 107 of to PostScript `blue book`_ for more info.
-
-        .. _blue book: https://www-cdf.fnal.gov/offline/PostScript/BLUEBOOK.PDF
+        See p. 666 of the PostScript
+        `Language Reference
+        <https://www.adobe.com/jp/print/postscript/pdfs/PLRM.pdf>`_
+        for more info.
         """
         if dash_list is not None:
             dl = np.asarray(dash_list)