Since this does not seem to justify a new bugfix release of Kwant 1.3,
I apply this commit to the 1.4 stable branch.

When System.parameters was introduced, we thought it would be a good idea to
also use this new attribute.  The plan was to check in hamiltonian_submatrix()
whether any unneeded parameters are provided by the user.  This turned out to
be impossible, so the only check that remained was whether all the necessary
parameters are indeed provided.  However, this check is not necessary, because
the 'hamiltonian' method is in any way obliged to signal an error when it does
not obtain the necessary parameters.

closes #283

'temp' is too short a parameter name, especially for an API,
and could be confused with 'temporary'.

This has a lower chance to give an impression that the substitution
happens in-place.

Closes gitlab issue #237

Previously we used the matplotlib default behavior of setting
the colormap limits (vmin and vmax) to the limits of the plotted
data, if they are not provided by the user. Now we set the
colormap limits to the 2nd and 98th percentile of the input
data, and stretch the limits by 10% on either end in an attempt
to include all the data in the limits. If we cannot do so
we set the limits to the percentiles plus the stretch
and issue a warning.

Also, whenever the data falls outside the colorbar limits
(even when the latter are set by the user) we set the appropriate
ends of the colorbar to be pointy, indicating that the data
extends beyond the colorbar.

Closes #183

Thanks to Tibor Sekera for suggesting this feature.