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The names and original pattern values are taken over from TikZ in #7087. That somehow got lost in #12586. But I suggest that we keep these relations and possibly also mention that again.

While you're here, can you shrink the figure width to under 7 inches? It is currently being scaled down to fit the page content width, which doesn't look good, and I don't see any reason it needs to be this wide specifically.

Possibly add layout='constrained' and then the whitespace on the right will be trimmed, so it will look a similar size as before.

I don't see any reason it needs to be this wide specifically.

Pydata-sphinx-theme has a smaller main content width than our previous website layout. There may well be a number of figures that don't fit anymore.

So I double checked on a wide image and the width is actually 896px, which at 100 dpi is just under 9 inches, so it shouldn't be too much different with constrained layout on.

I also went through our sphinx gallery results, and we have 76 images over the limit.

I think sometimes it's fine to shrink an image. Usually instead of shrinking all the fonts and linewidths. In this case I'm sure the figure could simply be smaller.

@timhoffm AFAICS the patterns we currently have here still match #7087, but not what is given in that StackExchange answer. I note #7087 is newer than the SE answer, so maybe TikZ changed?

Edit: I found my local file, which seems to match the SE answer.

\tikzset{solid/.style=                   {dash pattern=}}%
\tikzset{dotted/.style=                  {dash pattern=on \pgflinewidth off 2pt}}%
\tikzset{densely dotted/.style=          {dash pattern=on \pgflinewidth off 1pt}}%
\tikzset{loosely dotted/.style=          {dash pattern=on \pgflinewidth off 4pt}}%
\tikzset{dashed/.style=                  {dash pattern=on 3pt off 3pt}}%
\tikzset{densely dashed/.style=          {dash pattern=on 3pt off 2pt}}%
\tikzset{loosely dashed/.style=          {dash pattern=on 3pt off 6pt}}%
\tikzset{dashdotted/.style=              {dash pattern=on 3pt off 2pt on \the\pgflinewidth off 2pt}}%
\tikzset{dash dot/.style=                {dash pattern=on 3pt off 2pt on \the\pgflinewidth off 2pt}}%
\tikzset{densely dashdotted/.style=      {dash pattern=on 3pt off 1pt on \the\pgflinewidth off 1pt}}%
\tikzset{densely dash dot/.style=        {dash pattern=on 3pt off 1pt on \the\pgflinewidth off 1pt}}%
\tikzset{loosely dashdotted/.style=      {dash pattern=on 3pt off 4pt on \the\pgflinewidth off 4pt}}%
\tikzset{loosely dash dot/.style=        {dash pattern=on 3pt off 4pt on \the\pgflinewidth off 4pt}}%
\tikzset{dashdotdotted/.style=           {dash pattern=on 3pt off 2pt on \the\pgflinewidth off 2pt on \the\pgflinewidth off 2pt}}%
\tikzset{densely dashdotdotted/.style=   {dash pattern=on 3pt off 1pt on \the\pgflinewidth off 1pt on \the\pgflinewidth off 1pt}}%
\tikzset{loosely dashdotdotted/.style=   {dash pattern=on 3pt off 4pt on \the\pgflinewidth off 4pt on \the\pgflinewidth off 4pt}}%
\tikzset{dash dot dot/.style=         {dash pattern=on 3pt off 2pt on \the\pgflinewidth off 2pt on \the\pgflinewidth off 2pt}}%
\tikzset{densely dash dot dot/.style=   {dash pattern=on 3pt off 1pt on \the\pgflinewidth off 1pt on \the\pgflinewidth off 1pt}}%
\tikzset{loosely dash dot dot/.style=   {dash pattern=on 3pt off 4pt on \the\pgflinewidth off 4pt on \the\pgflinewidth off 4pt}}%

7 inch version

I find it somewhat confusing that the names under "named line styles" are repeated in the "parametrized linestyles " but have different patterns.Obviously, we cannot change the patterns for the matplotlib names. If they are different to the tikz patterns, we should clearly communicate that the above are Matplotlib named linestyles and that the pattern section are examples to reproduce the tikz linestyles.

As I understand it, we specify our dash lengths in multiples of linewidth whereas Tikz specifies dash length in points (with only "dot" specified as linewidth). So we can only go so far to match the Tikz styles. We could put the Tikz numbers in and say these are "adapted from Tikz styles"?

Edit: though we also have "long dash with offset" which was added more recently and has nothing to do with Tikz.

If the repeated name is the issue, we could also just update the parametrized "dotted" to e.g. "medium dotted".