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'.

Closes #263.

Also fixup some docstrings for better formatting.

This avoids "sparse efficiency" warnings.

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

Closes gitlab issue #237

Christoph Groth authored 6 years ago and Joseph Weston committed 6 years ago

and without default values.

Co-authored-by: Joseph Weston <joseph@weston.cloud>

So it's no longer necessary to provide the REFNAME environment variable.
Also the link template string format is now more general to support at
least gitlab github and cgit.

'box-forced' is deprecated as of matplotlib 2.2.

Previously 'plotter.density' was not as well factored as
'plotter.current', which made it hard to compose, e.g. for
passing custom parameters to 'plotter.interpolate_density'.