Re: Problem with text floating around tikz picture

From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Till Tantau <tantau@tcs.uni-luebeck.de>
Subject: Re: Problem with text floating around tikz picture
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:29:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48E13AAF.3030007@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6faad9f00809290619t3dc395adj1e009cd59f25594e@mail.gmail.com>

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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