Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm forwarding the author's answer back to the mailing list. If anyone
> has some nice idea about possible solutions, let us/him know ...
> I don't remember how I was solving such problems so far, but I know
> that I have always been missing:
>
> % maybe even some external file with extremely long code
> \starttikzpicture{picture name}
> ....
> \stoptikzpicture
>
> \placefigure{some figure}{\usetikzpicture{picture name}}
>
> If that was implemented, maybe \usetikzpicture could be inside an hbox?
>
> Mojca
>
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Till Tantau wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> the problem is caused by the fact that a tikz/pgf picture is a \hbox, but
>> with \leavevmode before it. This turned out to be necessary to ensure that
>> tikzpictures behave the same way for all backend drivers.
>>
>> Certainly the added \hbox is a correct solution to this problem since it
>> gets tex back into the right "mode"...
>>
>> I don't really know how to change this in an elegant manner since existing
>> code will now assume that tikzpictures are always set in horizontal mode, so
>> any change could have desastrous consequences for existing documents.
maybe you can use (in the context variant)
\ifinsidefloat
(true when inside a floating body, so just then put an hbox around it)
(sometimes putting \dontleavehmode in front also helps)
Hans
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