Re: Titles break TikZ

[Felix Ingram <f.ingram.lists@gmail.com>]

On 8 February 2012 13:50, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
> On 8-2-2012 12:16, Felix Ingram wrote:
>>
>> On 8 February 2012 10:24, Hans Hagen<pragma@wxs.nl>  wrote:
>>>
>>> On 8-2-2012 10:51, Felix Ingram wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 7 February 2012 13:06, Philipp A.<flying-sheep@web.de>    wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> with some recent beta (sorry for vagueness), tikz stopped working after
>>>>> titles. (i use first-setup.sh to install: these are the betas, not
>>>>> something different, right?)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> what does 'stop working' mean? some message?
>>
>>
>> "Stop Working" means "no longer get positioned where they should be
>> but still get drawn".
>>
>> In my case all graphics are shifted to the right by
>> Some-Unknown-Distance. In Philipp's case the various graphics parts
>> jump about. (I've seen something similar when drawing multiple nodes).
>>
>> I've included my minimal example below again. I wouldn't say that
>> titles are causing the issue, it just seems to be that the first
>> picture will render okay and then all others from then on will be
>> misplaced. In the example that Philipp gave removing the \section line
>> will still demonstrate the issue.
>>
>> Please let me know if there's any more information that I can provide.
>
>
> Interesting is that it matters if one puts colons after words:
>
> one % :
>
> \pic
>
> two:
>
> \pic
>
> Anyhow, the problem is that tikz messes around with cq. assumes nullfont to
> be in a certain state which is asking for troubles.
>
> In font-set.mkvi there is some provision for this (which I don't like), but
> anyhow, one can uncomment the \dorecurse line
>
> \def\font_preloads_reset_nullfont
>  {\dorecurse\plusseven{\fontdimen\recurselevel\nullfont\zeropoint}% keep en
> eye on this as:
>   \ctxcommand{resetnullfont()}% in luatex 0.70 this will also do the
> previous
>   \globallet\font_preloads_reset_nullfont\relax}
>
> maybe tikz should push/pop nullfont dimens to be on the safe side as there
> is no rule against setting nullfont
>
> (btw, this problem has shown up before)

Thanks Hans,

This is working. (Now I just need to remove all of the fudge factors I
added to my template). I've posted a bug report on the PGF/Tikz
tracker, so I will add your suggested fix to that and hopefully it
will get addressed there.

Felix
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