mathtext \lim is vertically misaligned #19178

Bug report

Bug summary

All's in the title.

Code for reproduction

from pylab import *
figtext(.5, .5, r"$\lim_{x\to\infty}f(x)$", size=48)

Actual outcome

The \lim is clearly too high.

Expected outcome

Proper vertical alignment.

Likely the same problem affects all operators listed in _overunder_functions.

Matplotlib version

• Operating system: linux
• Matplotlib version: head
• Matplotlib backend (print(matplotlib.get_backend())): qt5agg
• Python version: 38
• Jupyter version (if applicable):
• Other libraries:

@aitikgupta perhaps you may be interested looking at this too? (up to you, of course).