From f1332e99bafb62dede9112cfead2ba77b549e71b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Antony Lee <anntzer.lee@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 31 May 2019 20:16:08 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Revert "Preserve whitespace in svg output."

This reverts commit 5c5432454915cc6984485ae74994f0f80378f974.
---
 lib/matplotlib/backends/backend_svg.py        |  4 +---
 .../test_backend_svg/white_space_pre.svg      | 24 -------------------
 lib/matplotlib/tests/test_backend_svg.py      |  7 ------
 3 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 34 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 lib/matplotlib/tests/baseline_images/test_backend_svg/white_space_pre.svg

diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/backends/backend_svg.py b/lib/matplotlib/backends/backend_svg.py
index 2fb45a4fd351..62425395aaae 100644
--- a/lib/matplotlib/backends/backend_svg.py
+++ b/lib/matplotlib/backends/backend_svg.py
@@ -317,9 +317,7 @@ def _write_default_style(self):
         writer = self.writer
         default_style = generate_css({
             'stroke-linejoin': 'round',
-            'stroke-linecap': 'butt',
-            'white-space': 'pre',
-        })
+            'stroke-linecap': 'butt'})
         writer.start('defs')
         writer.start('style', type='text/css')
         writer.data('*{%s}\n' % default_style)
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/tests/baseline_images/test_backend_svg/white_space_pre.svg b/lib/matplotlib/tests/baseline_images/test_backend_svg/white_space_pre.svg
deleted file mode 100644
index f9449a0767f8..000000000000
--- a/lib/matplotlib/tests/baseline_images/test_backend_svg/white_space_pre.svg
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?>
-<!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN"
-  "http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd">
-<!-- Created with matplotlib (https://matplotlib.org/) -->
-<svg height="432pt" version="1.1" viewBox="0 0 576 432" width="576pt" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
- <defs>
-  <style type="text/css">
-*{stroke-linecap:butt;stroke-linejoin:round;white-space:pre;}
-  </style>
- </defs>
- <g id="figure_1">
-  <g id="patch_1">
-   <path d="M 0 432 
-L 576 432 
-L 576 0 
-L 0 0 
-z
-" style="fill:#ffffff;"/>
-  </g>
-  <g id="text_1">
-   <text style="font-family:DejaVu Sans;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;text-anchor:start;" transform="rotate(-0, 288, 216)" x="288" y="216">a b   c</text>
-  </g>
- </g>
-</svg>
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/tests/test_backend_svg.py b/lib/matplotlib/tests/test_backend_svg.py
index 0c2267e7db5f..ca3be9eee666 100644
--- a/lib/matplotlib/tests/test_backend_svg.py
+++ b/lib/matplotlib/tests/test_backend_svg.py
@@ -77,13 +77,6 @@ def test_text_urls():
     assert expected in buf
 
 
-@image_comparison(['white_space_pre.svg'])
-def test_white_space_pre():
-    plt.rcParams["svg.fonttype"] = "none"
-    fig = plt.figure()
-    fig.text(.5, .5, "a b   c")
-
-
 @image_comparison(['bold_font_output.svg'])
 def test_bold_font_output():
     fig = plt.figure()