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Default standard_1020 montage contains realistic, not template positions #7141

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@hekolk

Describe the bug

On the current master (i.e., after #7066) frontal EEG channels are drawn outside of the head in topoplots.

Steps to reproduce

The simplest variant is probably
mne.viz.plot_montage(mne.channels.make_standard_montage('standard_1020'))
Naturally it also occurs in plot_topomap and is particularly suboptimal for outline='head' and extrapolate='head'.

Expected results

I would expect the head circumference to intersect the positions of the outer AF, F, FT, ... PO, O electrodes. This would match previous behavior and common plots (e.g., the 10-05 paper http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.116.7379&rep=rep1&type=pdf or https://github.com/sappelhoff/eeg_positions).

Actual results

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Hence, the head seems to be shifted vertically (T9 and T10 are also not vertically centered with respect to the ears).

Additionally, the comment in the extrapolation snippet https://mne.tools/dev/auto_examples/visualization/plot_evoked_topomap.html suggests that changing the sphere diameter has an influence, but it didn't result in any changes for me.

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