DOC: more copy-editing of the SymLogNorm docstring

tacaswell · tacaswell · commit 86c7e6c02a08 · 2020-02-21T09:32:49.000-05:00
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/colors.py b/lib/matplotlib/colors.py
@@ -1218,16 +1218,19 @@ def __init__(self, linthresh, linscale=1.0, vmin=None, vmax=None,
             The range within which the plot is linear (to avoid having the plot
             go to infinity around zero).
         linscale : float, default: 1
-            This allows the linear range (-*linthresh* to *linthresh*) to be
-            stretched relative to the logarithmic range. Its value is the
-            number of powers of *base* (decades for base 10) to use for each
-            half of the linear range. For example, when *linscale* == 1.0
-            (the default), the space used for the positive and negative halves
-            of the linear range will be equal to a decade in the logarithmic
-            range if ``base=10``.
+            This allows the linear range (-*linthresh* to *linthresh*)
+            to be stretched relative to the logarithmic range. Its
+            value is the number of powers of *base* to use for each
+            half of the linear range.
+
+            For example, when *linscale* == 1.0 (the default) and
+            ``base=10``, then space used for the positive and negative
+            halves of the linear range will be equal to a decade in
+            the logarithmic.
+
         base : float, default: None
-            If not given, defaults to ``np.e``, consistent with prior
-            behavior and warns.
+            If not given, defaults to ``np.e`` (consistent with prior
+            behavior) and warns.
 
             In v3.3 the default value will change to 10 to be consistent with
             `.SymLogNorm`.
